ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1581, 14 March 1879, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE S AN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[By Telegraph.] general7u^ mally great * RUITAtN. Tho Liverpool ' cbrna »7 l8 ‘. volved 60,000 lab which at one time mcol’ covers, seamen, and firemen, has C Aipsed. The sailors continued to ' wf A Die-bodied men from the work. “ Earl ’ freely employed. . jj,/- Beacona'lield is confined to hia residence c- Awenz a • ’ jix thousand weavers are out of employment ? A Macclesfield. Father Newman dec’ined a Cardinal’s hat. In the House of Commons on the 16th, Lord declared that he was not aware of any intention to establish a local residenVle' in Ireland, in view of the appointment of the Duke of Connaught as Viceroy there. In the boat race for tho championship of Great Britain, between Higgins and Eliott, on the Tyne, was won by Eliott, who beat Higgins by three lengths. Pleuro-pneumonia is spreading amongst the tcattle in the north-east of Yorkshire. The supply of American wheat to England is large. _ Mr Gladstone gratefully accepted the invitation of the Liberals of Midlothian, to represent them in Parliament. Three of the largest jute factories in Forfar-,-shire are stopped, owing to depressed trade. Four men, including the captain and mate, -were saved from the ship Vau Diemen, lost by -.collision. Lord Dufferin is appointed Ambassador to Russia, in place of Lord Loftus, recalled. The destitution in Glasgow is decreasing. Thirty thousand persons, however, are still ■ supported by charity. Seven thousand miners are idle in Durham.

Mount Sion Convent, Waterford, was des--troyed by an incendiary. The Rev. Hugh McNeill, Bishop of Ripen, ia dead.

H. M. Stanley announces another African exploration. Hicks and Sons’ lamp ■works, Birmingham, was burned on January 29th, with great destruction of goods. The creditors of the suspended Cornish Bank accepted a compromise of sixteen shillings in the pound. Six hundred agricultural hands left Plymouth for New Zealand, and four hundred locked-out agricultural hands left Kent for Australia on =*he S9th ult. £ J eel, the famous turf man, is dead. . Chatterton, the lessee of Drury Lane Theatre, is bankrupt, with liabilities amounting to J340,(j00. The Theatre Eoyal, London, was destroyed by fire on the 2nd. Ministerial journals intimate that the Governwent will not attempt to pass an University Bill. The programme will be confined to matters of national interest, the principal points being the reform of local government and the Criminal Code. The Privy Council prohibits the importation of American cattle on account of disease. Canada is excepted. Eowell, the Cambridge athlete, left for New York for the purpose of contesting the pedestrian championship with O’Leary. A motion in favor of the assimilation of the Irish borough franchises with those of England and Scotland, introduced by Mr Meldon in the House of Commons, was rejected by 256 to 187. The “Standard” announces that the Government will introduce a Copyright Bill, based on the recommendations of the Copyright Commission. Major-General Crealock has been ordered to the Cape. O’Kelly, the last Fenian prisoner, wa.-. released at Spike Island, on condition of quitting the country. . Steele and Craig, grail, merchants, Glasgow, failed for .£70,000; also Albert Grant, for ,£681,993. The London newspapers congratulate France on her peaceable administration. The trial of the City of Ulasgow Bank directors is over. I ouis Potter, of the shipping firm of Potter, Wilson and Co., and Eoht sumner Stronach, managers of the Bank, were convicted of fraud, theft, and embezzlement. The other directors were found guilty of uttering false abstract sheets. The parties mentioned were sentenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment, and the other directors to eight months. The light sentences caused some surprise. Justice Moncrieff, in passing sentence, said he considered the circumstances, that the prisoners had not falsified the accounts for their own personal benefit but from a mistaken idea that it was for the public good. Eccles cotton mill at Ashton was burned. The loss was Six cotton mills at Preston, running 183,144 spindles, have given notice of reduction of wages from 5 to 10 per cent. Six engineering firms at Huddersfield locked ont their workmen for refusing to consent to an extension of hours of labor. The distress is unequalled since the great strikes in 1814. Blackburn is placarded with incitements to a general strike of weavers. Six thousand colliers and miners in the coalfields between Newcastle-under-Lyne and Crewe started to work at reduced wages. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers has decided to resist the reduction of wages in eighteen establishments which have given notice. Miller and Higginbottom, extensive dyers at Cathcart, have failed, and it is believed the liabilities are large. The British gunboat, Goshawk, left Cork on Saturday to seek an alleged piratical steamer. The Goshawk overhauled many vessels, but learned nothing. Cardinal Manning has had the opportunity offered him of explai ing personally to Lord

i Beaconsfield his action respecting the Catholic f education difficulty in Ireland. The question t will probably be brought forward very prominently next session under the auspices of the Government. Three Catholic Bishops had a conference with the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and informed him that Catholics were wiling to accept any fair compromise on the University education question. The flagship, Duke of Wellington, took fire at Portsmouth. She fired signal guns, and tugs went to her assistance. The fire was extinguished. Cardinal Manning had a long interview with the Pope, who congratulated the cardinal on the progress of Catholicism in Great Britain, and discussed measure i for its extension. Of 142 cotton mills at Bolton, 23 are closed, and 28 working short time, on account of the depressed state of business. A proposal for a colonial exhibition in London was broached at the Royal Institute, and received great support. In the destruction of Birmingham Free Reference Library, the most complete collection of folios, criticisms, translations, and other Shaksperian lore in the world, was destroyed. The library contained 80,COO works, many very rare. The loss is much deplored. The col ection was insured in the Lancashire and Yorkshire office for .224,000. The explosion on H.M.S. Thunderer at Ismid killed Lieuts.DanielandCokerand eight seamen, and wounded thirty-two others. The gun was one of 38 tons. It burst before the trunnion, the muzale blowing overboard and the turret being injured. The gun detachment inside wore all killed. The others received wounds from fragments projected through the roof. The Liverpool trades’ council and laborers’ delegates, after con.-ultation yesterday, advised the men to accept the masters’ offer of arbitration. '(he strike has practically collapsed, and the laborers resumed work in large numbers. The sailors continue to hold out, Co»onel Outburst, Home Ruler, has been elected a member of Parliament for County

Cork by a largo majority. The election was fought on the questions of Home Rule anti the fixity of tenure alone. The strike of iron ami steel founders at Sheffield has terminated, the men accepting the reduction in their wages. The strike ot the engineers is extending to Leeds, Plymouth, Lover, and other points. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT.

Sir Stafford Northcote in the House of C' mons said the expedition to Afgh«nistau ’be said to have accomplished its object. R » satisfactory arrangements for tho prot Jp north-western frontier while dependence of Afghanistan, are ' og |ible. In regard to the present , P . - n England, Sir Stafford NToThJ'«Sa polio/of Itta 1 tta Gov” senorally the extension of tlw touenmg upon the tiveness of fV J FadmA frontier, the imperaand the negl / W o .^ l reforms in Asia Minot, Tho Iri ’ Far-or Irish University education, the Gov' members generally complained of £ or - /ftt.ment’sneglect of Ireland. x Granville criticised the aunexationist q j ttt' official utterances. In regard to the Aouial policy of the Government, ho declared efcat tho Opposition would cordially support fill ('efforts to ‘maintain the honor and safety (if the 1 troops and colonists at the Cape. Lord Carnarvon declared that he, when in I ofS.ee, was aware of the insolence and aggresi siveness of the chief Cetewayo, and suggested that the Government should now send troops f rom India to the Cape. ] , FOREIGN. President McMahon resigned office on January 30th, and M. Jules Grevy, President of the Chamber of Deputies, was eleetpd in Ids place. Tho cause was that McMahon refused to remove Imperialist generals at the request of the Republican Chamber of Deputies. Gambetta assumes tho Premiership. Mousignor jDesprey, Arehbiship of Toulouse and Narbouno, has been created a Cardinal. The deaths of French notable# arc Henry Danmer, caricaturist ; Princess Caroline, widow of Prince Lucien Murat ; Paul Gervaise, naturalist; , Rea'r-Aclmiral Ennoily, Sylvestre De Lacy, journalist and acadamician; and ClairoVille, dramatic author. The heirs of Napoleon the Third have been defeated in an action against the State for recovery of tho Chinese mu-eum and arms at Chateau Pierrefonds, or their value out of the Civil List. Tbs “Marseillaise” has been decreed the National Anthem.

Father Hyacinth has opened a now church in Paris.

Debecquee, director of tile Mint at Bordeaux, has been sentenced to pay a fine of 25,000 francs for embezzlement of silver from the Bank, besides six years’ imprisonment. t Dr. Lesseps is a candidate for the Governorship of Algeria. A Bill has been presented in the French Chambers making primary education obligatory after January, 18K0. Generals Bourbaki, Bataille, and Delastigne have been retired. The manager of the Paris “ Lanterne ” has been heavily fined for libelling Government officials, and “La Revolution Francaise ” was also mulcted in 2000 francs for publishing a communication from the Communists, Vallis ahd Am void.

England has purchased for one million all Turkey’s interest in the Island of Cyprus, except the Sultau’s private estate. The Chinese crew of the Australian vessel Kate Waters, from Hong Kong to Foo Choo, recently mutinied and murdered the officers. Colonel Percy Wyndham, an English soldier of fortune, formerly with Garibaldi, and with the Northern army in the American civil war, was killed at Rangoon in attempting a balloon ascension. Another famine is feared in India.

The black plague is spreading rapidly in Russia. 'I he neighboring Governments are taking the strictest measures against the infected districts on the Volga, which are in a horrible condition. Russia has asked England and Prance to send physicians to report on the epidemic. The Porte has sent Muhktar Pasha instructions specifying the maximum of concessions to he made to Greece. Turkey agrees to m ike an important concession of territory, but none from Albania, because an insurrection would result from tbe surrender of any portion of that territory to Greece. England and Portugal have agreed to joint operations against the slave trade between Mozambique and Madagascar.

About thirty Turkish officials have already gone to Adrianople. The first Russian retrograde movement on a large scale is fixed for the 18th February, A decision has just been reached at the Vatican to create certain new dioceses in the United States.

A despatch from Rome says that cordial letters have been exchanged between the Pope and the German Emperor. Concessions have been made on both sides.

The cardinals oppose the Pope’s acceptance of the civil list. His Holiness decides nevertheless that ecclesiastics mnst obey the law. The Spanish Government will, if necessary, despatch a man-of war to St. Domingo to exact heavy indemnity for the families of two generals taken from a Spanish steamer and shot, and satisfaction for the insult to the Spanish flag. At Vienna a definite cabinet has been constructed with Stremyar as Premier and Count Affe as Minister of the Interior. Prince Auersperg and Herr Anger will secede. The other Ministers will remain.

A Vienna despatch says it is to be regretted that Germany, in consequence of Austria’s consent to the recent treaty concerning North ■chleswig, has undertaken not to interfere with an Austrian .advance upon Salonica. The Bulgarian Assembly consists of 221 notables. r I he Prince will have a civil list of 1,000.000 piastres, and the succession to the tin one will be hereditary. Tbe Ministry will be absolutely responsible to tho National Assembly.

General Kanfmann said Russia had a treaty with England, which prohibited her from interfering with the affairs of Afghanistan. They would respect it. In Paris sixteen soldiers in barracks near the military school died of typhus fever within a few days. A severe storm visited the coast of Galicia yesterday. Two vessels went ashore, and twenty-eight persons were drowned.

The Russian losses in the Turkish war are estimated at 172,400 men, not including those who succumbed in Asia Minor.

The Italian expedition has been despatched to survey the line of railway from Zanzibar to Lake Victoria Nyanza, in Central Africa. The Vatican approves. The new French Cable Company proposes to lay two cables, one from Brest to Cape Cod, and the other through from Landsend to Nova Scotia, both by way of Saint Pierre. The harvest prospects in India are gloomy. A serious famine prevails in Upper Egypt and relief has been forwarded. Anarchy prevails throughout the Empire of Morocco. It is estimated that before next year half of the inhabitants of Morocco will have perished from starvation .and disease. The Saltan suffers from paralysis, and the Governor of Fez had taken refuge from the insurgents in a sanctuary. GERMAN POLICY. The German Reichstag was opened by the Emperor William in person. In his speech from the throne, he said he tnanked members for assisting in the suppression of the Socialist agitation, and hoped they would continue to support the Government as far as was necessary for the cure of the Socialist evil. Ho announced the abolition of Article 5 of the treaty of Prague, and referred with pleasure to the friendly relations with Austria, and the results of the Berlin Congress, He declared the relations between Germany and all other powers are satisfactory, and that she would continue her influence in behalf of European peace. Referring to the Customs policy of the Government, the Emperor said :—" Our commerce has a right to claim that protection which Legislation regarding Customs taxes can afford, and which is afforded perhaps beyond what is necessary in countries with which we trade. My duty is to preserve the Lerman market for articles of homo production. We should revert to the well tried principles which we in our commercial policy since 18G5 have abandoned.” GERMANY.—THE GAO BILL, A Berlin despatch says the Bill, as amended, limits the disciplinary power of the Iteichstasr over its members to their conduct as members. A milder punishment has been introduced in the shape of a first warning, which is in every case an official reprimand. The Wurtemburg Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of twenty-five to twenty-two, passed a resolution expressing the conviction that the Reichstag will be unable „o maintain the freedom of speech of its members. The Socialist members of the Reichstag, recently expelled from Berlin, have returned. A dissolution of the Reichstag is expected within a month, on account of the opposition of the majority to protection. Count Stolberg, in Parliament, presented a declaration th .t a partial state of siege at Berlin was necessary to repress secret Socialist propaganda, _ and to prevent communication between foreign and German Socialists,

The Lower House of the Prussian Diet rejected, by VTiJ to 174, a resolution u.oved by the budget 'Committee expressing opposition to the pure-base of leading railways. Notice has been given in the German Fav|ian’,,>ht of a Dill imposing higher duties upon '■'on. THE PLAGUE. Considerable alarm was caused in Moscow by the arrival there from the plague district of recruits for the Imperial Gr.ard. They were isolated, disinfected, and their clothing burnt. Italy has discontinued the line of steamers to Egypt. Military cordons have b»en established throughout Russia. The plague has appeared in Bessarabia, in Turkey Nearly all the patients died. Six army surgeons and nearly all who came in contact with Min dead have died, although disinfectants were freely used. The mortality in some infected districts of Russia was equal to ono hundred per cent. The reports from Central Russia, couched in the mildest form as .they may be considered, indicate conclusively tnat it is the Black Plagu , the most terrible of scourges known to humanity. The progress of the plague is more rapid by far than noted at the time of its last geacral occurrence, two centuries ago. Groat mortality is reported in Iver, a province midway between Moscow and fcit. Petersburg. The plague has appeir d in a village on the Kieff railway, which runs duo north from Odessa. It has appeared i In two villages of Yarubov and in Riazan, and in close vicinity to MoaCoW. The Greek consul at Kavala, on the rfigean sea, confirms a report of the outbreak of the plague at that place. Reports received indicate a feeling of consternation throughout Europe. THE AFGHAN WAR, News from Afghanistan is to the effect that Yakoob Khan has written to Major Cavanagh declining the English demands, and evincing his determination to hold Cabul in accordance with the orders from his father. He is collecting forces, which are gaining confidence. Wall Mahomed had arrived at Hazapir, and is seeking British support for his claims to the throne. He was sent to Jelalabad. The British troops are in good health and spirits, but beginning to be weary of the monotony and hardships of the campaign. I hey would gladly see it over and return home. The casualties in the Afghan expedition so far amount to 128. Four British officers wore killed, and three wour ded. The hostility shown by the inhabitants has been confined to the Mongols and the people of Khost. A London despatch of February 18th says civil strife has brok n out at Cabul. Mabomed Khan, son of Whati Mahomed, has been imprisoned by Yakoob Khan. Property at Cabul, belonging to Sirdars ' now at Jellalabad, has been plundered by iakoob Khan’s orders. Yakoob Khan has ceased shelling Kizildoch, a portion of Cabul, because of threats of a general uprising. The Ghirzai chiefs are urging Yakoob Kb m to make friends with the British. Afghan deserters confirm the reports of the disorganisation of their army. THE ZULU WAR. The fifty-seventh regiment stationed at Ceylon has been ordered to the Cape of Good Hope. Captain Stafford and Lieutenant Davies of the Natal contingent, who escaped from the disaster at Colonel Glynn’s camp, speak highly of the conduct of all engaged, and the courage and firmness of the Native contingent. The London “Times” commenting on the news from Capetown, says;—“lt is clear the Zulus are even more formidable than our enemies expected them to be. It is well known they arc well drilled, that great numbers are armed with breech-loaders, and that they could fight courageously. We now know but too well how large a force they can mass at one point.”