NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1746, 24 September 1879, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRAN CISCO MAIL.

AUCKLAND, September 23. Git EAT BRITAIN. Longman, the last of the original partners of that firm of eminent publishers, died in London has sent Buckstone, the actor and author £SO. Earl Beaconsfield has recommended that a giant of £IOO be made from Eoyal bounty. .„ . , , , . , Hone, the prominent Irish amateur, has taken a team of gentlemen to America. Hone has written a letter proposing that the Irish meet the English players in the States. One thousand cotton operatives struck in ■ Glasgow. The Belfast merchants have asked the appointment of a parliamentary committee to inquire into the effect of the depreciation of silver upon the commercial interests of Great Britain. A British Eoyal Commission, under the presidency of Lord Carnarvon, Colonial Secretary, has been appointed to report upon the defence of the British colonies. . Two fatal cases of cholera have occurred in London. , . The now Brazilian loan was more than twice ■ covered bv the subscriptions. David Martineau and Sons’ sugar refinery in London was burned on August 18th. Joseph Pisto-a, who took part in the mutiny on board the Cast well in 1876, has been hanged in Cork. Sir Charles Tupper has ordered 45,000 tons of steal rails, at 97s 6d per ton, delivered in Montreal, for the Canadian Pacific railway. The builders’ strike in Bristol, which began in 1878, is now ended. The principal failures reported are : —Lorraine and Co., merchants, London and East Indies, for £12,000 ; Simmon Barghein, iron merchant, for £50,000; Thos. Driver, cotton spinner; Black, merchant, for £30,000; Jas. McHenary, London, for £97,000, the money being chiefly lost in the Texas Pacific railway ; Earness Iron and Steel Company of London ; Arthur Kidd and Co., carpet manufacturers, Manchester, for £56,000 ; W. S. and T. Came, iron merchants, Liverpool, for £150,000, losses in American trade. A disturbance occurred at Lurgan between a Home Eule procession and the police, who charged on the mob with fixed bayonets. The mob subsequently wrecked Lord Lnrgan’s lodges and the house of a Protestant. The violence and determination of the rioters was so great that the officers killed one and wounded two before they were brought under control. Mr Albert Peel, formerly chairman of the Central Chamber of Agriculture, and the president of the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, both M.P.’s, have gone to America in connection with the commission to inquire into the causes of the agricultural depression in England. They will take cognisance of the present harvest.

The “Times” says the departure of the United States Minister, Welch, from London is generally regretted, and thinks the demand made by the American Government for 103,000 dels, for damages to fishermen in Fortune Bay may lead to diplomatic complications. The severest storm for many years raged in England on August 4th, daring which hail stones fell measuring five inches in circumference. The damage was great in Bedfordshire, where the hay crop was nearly swept away, and many cattle were drowned in Cambridge, Norfolk, and Leicester. The “ Times ” says the hay and other crops throughout England and Wales are many millions of pounds short of the average values.

The Staffordshire colliers, to the number of 3400, have struck against a reduction. Lord Derby resigned the presidency of the Liverpool Working Men’s Conservative Association in conseqnence of a change in his relations ■with the Conservatives. Vemard de Saintanna, originator of the project for bridging the English Channel, promises to begin operations without delay. Ho estimates it will require seven months for experiments, and a million franca will suffice to pay the preliminary expenses. To raise funds ho has laid the project before the French and Belgian Chambers of Commerce, Eighty-fonr of tl lose have expressed themselves in favor of the project. He will visit England shortly, to lay the matter before the English Government. To span the deep water he has recourse to the tubular system. Some of the Home rulers proposed converting the movement into a regularly elected convention of the Irish nation. The Irish Valuation Bill has been rejected in the House.

A letter from Nordskenjold, dated February, from the Swedish Arctic navigators, states that ho did not expect to be free from ice before June. The report that he had passed Behring Straits was therefore premature. On the 18th, in consequence of heavy rain, traffic was suspended on the railway between Chester and Holyhead. Birkenhead was flooded and the rain so violent at Sheffield, that it washed away the foundation of houses in course of construction All low-lying lands in Derbyshire, on the Trent and Derwent, were overflowed.

The wheat is gradually rotting, and any crops left standing will not pay for catting 1 . In the vale of Dydd, in Wales, thousands of acres of crops are submerged, and hundreds of cattle and sheep are drowned. The injury done to growing crops in many districts is irreparable, Oxford was inundated to a depth that made it navigable for boats. The severity of the rains is further indicated by the fact that they have caused a rise in the Thames which has flooded the Home Park under the walls of Windsor Castle, and interrupted barge traffic. Mr Newman Hall, Congregational pulpit orator, has obtained a decree of divorce from his wife on account of adultery with one ' Eiohardson, stable keeper. The trial excited a great sensation. Ambrose Fortescue and William Bangham, the supposed accomplices of the American • forgers, were committed for trial in London. According to the “ United Service Gazette,” Sir Garnet Wolseley will be the next Com-mander-in-Chief of India. _ An English steamer came into collision with the Spanish steamer. Concord, off Capo Finisterre, on August 11th. The Spaniard was sunk, , and fourteen of the crew drowned. A serious riot took place at Belfast on August 11th. caused by a Catholic procession. Many i persona were injured. Lieut. Carey on his return to England, on August 20th, was met at Plymouth by a committee, who presented an address of welcome, signed by 3000 names, obtained in a day or two. The address represented entire confidence in his valor as a British officer and honor as a gentle, man, and sympathised with him in his present " trying circumstances.” The Queen positively refused the Commander-in-Chief’s request that Carey be dismissed the service. Ho was released from arrest on 21st August. , , The Count de Chambord is on a visit to London. Mr Gladstone and Sir Charles Dilke addressed large meetings in the Liberal interest. England is the only power not invited to send officers to witness the great Sussian military manoeuvres that commenced on the 25th nit. Two hundred colliers embarked at London -on 20th August for New Zealand. Business is improving in Manchester. The “ Guardian” says the demand and supply are about equal. Eighty farmers, dissatisfied with the agricultural prospects in England, left in the steamer Helvetia for Texas, They were mostly from Northern Yorkshire and Durham. Several commanded a capital of ,£SOO to .£6OO, while others entered into partnership, one group having raised a capital of .612,000. In consequence of the active American demand every large iron making district in England is showing unmistakeablo symptoms of revival. Charles E. Qrissel was committed to Newgate ■prison until the prorogation of Parliament, for evading the warrant of the Speaker for his arrest. The U.S. Consul at Manchester, England, says the failure of the crops is much more serious than was generally supposed abroad. The demand in England for meat and grain from the United States will be enormous. At the Mansion House Earl Beaconsfield said the Treaty of Berlin had taken its place among the archives of the capitals of Europe. Its end was to assure general peace, if dangers and difficulties supervene in countries to which the treaty specially related. After insisting that landed property ought to continue ns at present, his lordship concluded amid frantic cheers. Thomas Pairdy, a largo landed proprietor in the county Meath, was shot dead on entering his own door. Lord Chelmsford, Colonels Wood and Butler, arrived at Plymouth. They were cheered on landing. The working men of Sheffield are arranging a system of emigration to the States and elsewhere on a large scale. FKANCE. The steamship Louis Dairo, from Antwerp for Naples, was wrecked during a fog off Ushant. Twenty-seven persons were drowned. Fifteen persons wore killed, thirty-six seriously wounded, and forty slightly injured by a railway accident near Nancy. The rapid decline of Bonapartism is proved by the failure of three Imperialist newspapers in the provinces for want of funds. M. Lesseps starts “for the States in October. Denoneaux, whoso work on the Danube and in Antwerp is well known, will bo his chief engineer in the Panama Canal, if undertaken. Five hundred pilgrims, double the number of last year, have started for Lourdes. A “ Standard ” despatch says some French Catholics and Koyalists, frightened at the Education Bill, determined to emigrate to the Island of Papua, and there found a Catholic colony under the direction of Marquis de Eoyn. Gambetta advocates agitating in favor of the Education Bill.

GERMANY. The leading mine at Fabizo Colliery, Prussia, was flooded. Two corpses wore recovered. There are supposed to be eleven in the pit. A new comet has been discovered by irousna, of the Academy of Science, Vienna. The differences between Bnssia and Germany passed to the stage of diplomatic precaution. It is said the friendly intercourse which existed between the Austrian and Russian Cabinets is almost entirely ceased. Austria will conclude alliance with Germany. The electoral manifesto of the new Conservative party declares th t the State and Catholic Church should meet each other half way, that religious instruction should be left to religious bodies, but that the inalienable rights of the State must bo guaranteed, especially as regards education. , There is estrangement between Princes Bismarck and Gortschakoff, not extending however to the Czar and the Emperor. The value of the railways which the Governmo it is in negotiation to purchase is £75,000,000. SPAIN. . An indemnity is claimed from Mexico tor tne murder of Spanish subjects in that country. Incendiary fires are frequent in the provinces. One involved the loss of thirty-four persons. A Protestant meeting at Gargnella was recently invaded by gendarmes. The pastors wore arrested and the women driven cut, and the names of the men present written in the police book. RUSSIA. Fears are entertained that the Merv force has met with a disaster. The wheat exports diminished enormously. The Government proposes to surrender Kuldji to China, if the Chinese make certain concessions favorable to Russia The treaty for cession will probably be signed during this month. The Chinese have 100,000 men and 1000 guns available in case of war. A great increase in the number of Nihilists is reported. Famine prevails in Siberia, and the Government are distributing corn. An alliance has been formed with Persia. The Volunteer subscription at St. Petersburg has closed. It reached two million roubles. The Nihilist head quarters have been removed to Kief. Lazareffi’s expedition is suffering terribly from dysenteryjand scorbutic ailments. The horses are dying in great numbers, and camels ore very scarce. Traction engines without rails are used on the steppes. Lazareff had died at Schat from carbuncle. TURKEY. Commissioners Sahet and Ali Saib Pasha have been appointed to settle the Greek frontier question. The Porte had rejected the demand for an indemnity for losses caused by the recent invasion of the Servian frontier. The plague has appeared on the Turco-Persian frontier. Short crops expected in Asiatic Turkey. Wheat had risen in Mesopotamia. The Sultan has written to the Pope giving fall liberty to Catholics in his dominions, ITALY, The Pope endorses the Panama canal project. The health and strength of the Pope have visibly declined. He refuses the advice of his physicians* that he should change his residence. He has been warned by an anonymous letter from Baltimore to guard against poison. Lava was flowing from the cone of Vesuvius to the base, but the eruptions temporarily ceased. . The Connless Lambertiu applied to the Court of Appeal for a revocation of the decree in the Cardinal Antonelli case. She has new evidence, revealing her mother’s name. The Czar has written to the Pope declaring his readiness to make peace with the Catholic Church. HOLLAND. The violent attitude of the Belgian Bishops assembled in Malinea has caused trouble at the Vatican. The Archbishop has been summoned to Rome for an explanation. The Jesuits sent the Pope a memorial of entire submission. Its sincerity is questioned at the Vatican. AUSTEO-HUNGAET. Austria is attempting to gain a stronger foothold in Turkey. _ The losses by the Seraglio fire will reach fifty million florins. Two thousand inhabitants and forty-six soldiers were killed, and_ many wounded. The entire trade of the city was rained. Persia. Should a second dry winter occur, Persia wonld bo threatened with a famine as disastrous as that of 1872. MOROCCO. English officers are fortifying Tangiers, and also constructing fort barracks there for the use of British troops coming from India. BULGARIA. The Indian corn crops are a total failure from drought. .. The Ministry is to bo impeached for violating the Constitution. A fire at Sophia caused losses to the extent of £BO.OOO. A great many artillery horses are destroyed. INDIA. The drought in Cashmere continues. The condition of the people is deplorable. Cholera is still prevalent in Cabnl, but has diminished in Kandahar. It has reappeared among the regiment returned to Cabal from Herat and created a panic. EGYPT. The Khedive has informed the English and French Consuls that he will not answer for the consequences of Rivers Wilson’s return to the country. Still he has been informed he must accept Mr Baring, The Khedive consented under protest. . Affairs in Abyssinia look threatening. General Gordon started for Massowah in consequence.® AFRICA. Stanley has steamed direct to Congo, intending to open that river to commerce from the west cost. A steamer from Antwerp, laden with goods, is at his direction. Ho is under the patronage of the King of the Belgians. There has been a revolt of some importance against the "King of New Calabar on the West Coast, and the traffic has been stopped. AMERICA. The rowing match arranged between Courtney and Hanlon for 6000dols aside takes place at Angue Lake next month. . The most exciting event of the month in San Francisco was the attempted assassination of the Btv. Dr. J. D. Kellock, candidate of the working men’s party, for Mayor, by Charles De Young, one of the editors of the “ Chronicle.” Do Young had assailed Kelleck in his paper, abused him shamefully, as well as revived a scandal against his father, who had been dead thirty years. Kellock, in a speech, replied in kind, questioning the respectability of De Young’s mother. Next day after this speech, Chas. De Young drove up in a closed carriage to Kellock’s church, sent a message that a lady desired to see him, and when the minister came in obedience to the message, shot him from behind the curtains of the vehicle, inflicting two wounds, one in the breast, the other in the groin, from which he is yet suffering. De Young was taken to the County prison, where his brother also flsd for protection. The building was surrounded by military, with Gatling guns, for its protection,(and to prevent the prisoner being taken out and lynched. The “New York Herald” prints nearly two solid pages of interviews with prominent men, as to whether General Grant will accept another nomination for Presidency. All believe he will not. Ho prefers the actual presidency of the new Nicaragua Canal Co. . The excess of exports up to August during 1879 is 263.572,989 dels. . Yellow fever is still ravaging Memphis and New Orleans. New cases in the former city are reported at the rate of forty daily. Sitting Bull and his Indians, now numbering nearly 8000, determined to reside on Canadian soil. The rice crop in Louisiana is greatly reduced this year. Captain Webb, the English swimmer, now in New York, having offered to swim a match with any one in America, to be not less than ten miles, for not less than five thousand dollars aside, was taken up by Boynton, the latter to use his life preserving armour. The contest came off at Newport, B. J., on the 22nd ultimo, but Webb fell sick while in the water, and had to he taken out by his friends, leaving the victory to Boynton. The latter was again challenged by Webb. . . European immigrants are arriving at New York by thousands weekly, and mostly go to the Western prairie States. A letter from one of the Arctic explorers gave an interesting account of the Tschadea, a peculiar race inhabiting the north-eastern part of Siberia. They are very like the Greenlanders, are small, with a brownish yellow shin, with coal black eyes and hair, and singularly frozsn expression of face. They live in tents, dress in skins, and feed on salt fish. The women are tatooed in the face. A dictionary has been made of the language, comprising about 1300 words. It will no doubt prove of interest to linguists, as the tongues of Polar races have hitherto been as great a puzzle to philosophers as those of the negroes of tropical Africa. A cloud burst occurred at Bnclonchi, causing the death of two women and children, and levelling eighty houses. . , . .. The Marquis of Lome paid a vice-regal visit to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Bush fires are raging in Bradford and Oldham township. Many farmers are made homeless, Affamily named Parsons is missing. Woodstock has been levelled by a severe gale, and there was great loss of life. , Serious riots occurred between the French and Irish in Quebec. It appears that the Irish ship laborers have been asked to accept a reduction of wages by the French section and refused. Now that the Canadian Parliament is adjourned, without doing anything to further the Canadian Pacific Railway, Ministerial papers are beginning to change their tone. They charge

the mother country with indifference to their interests, and this is coupled with intimations that, if means can ho got in the United States, it may bo necessary to seek assistance in that country, and let Great Britain go South to Central America. The mortality from yellow fever at Havanna is reported at nearly 200 weekly. Another outbreak is expected in Port an Prince, Hayti. The Peruvian war ships Huascar ana Union have visited the Chilian ports, destroying Lsnnebe, and capturing the steamer Eunce, with on entire regiment of cavalry, fully armed and equipped, besides three vessels loaded with coal and copper. Vera Cruz in Mexico is in a state of revolution. Dias, President of Mexico, declines a second term, and has expelled many foreigners for inciting revolution in the country. Serious riots have occurred at Santiago in consequence of popular discontent at the conduct of the war. The populace erected a barricade, and shouted “ Death to the traitor Ministry.” Two persons were killed in the conflict with the troops and several wounded. The Chilian residents fled to Yina Delmar. The Minister !of War has resigned. The Portuguese Consul at Pernambuco has been stabbed to death. The assassin escaped. The Peruvian authorities stopped a Chilian envoy while on his way to Colombia, and seized his instructions, which were to propose an offensive and defensive allimce between Chili and Colombia against Peru. A ship canal is proposed across the Isthmus of Flinde from Odar Keys to the mouth of the St. John river, saving a considerable distance in the water route from New Orleans to Kew York. New York, Boston, and Philadelphia have each sent five lines of exhibits to the Sydney exhibition, San Francisco will not bo fully represented till the Melbourne exposition next year.