NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1770, 22 October 1879, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[By Teleqeaeh.] AUCKLAND, October 21. A fifth million of Australian gold has been purchased in London for America. Wages have been reduced 10 per cent, in all the Staffordshire potteries. A rise in the corn market is predicted, owing to deficient harvest in various countries. Many Bradford engineers are leaving for America. The shipwrights of Dundee struck against a reduction. There is great failure in the Irish potatos crop. Three thousand persons in Middleborough are penniless. The Home Secretary, replying to an application for relief, said the Government had no funds. The King of Abyssinia has written to the Queen charging the Egyptians with poisoning an English general bearing an Abyssinian memorial to the British Government. The Lancashire coal miners’ wages have advanced. The Barnsley operatives have formed an emigration association. Meetings in Ireland demand reductions of rent, with radical reform in the landlords’ power. It was urged that the alternative before the Government was the settlement of the agitation or rebellion. A tenants’ meeting called attention to the distressed condition of the people, and urged a State relief system. The distress in the thickly populated towns in the north-eastern portion of England is intense. Strikes have increased the distress. Lord Hartington said that all laws tending to aggregate vast properties in the hands of a few people should be carefully reviewed. Thera is a further emigration of farmers to America in progress. The Home Rulers propose appealing to Irishmen everywhere to aid the creating a class of peasant farmers. Elliot challenged Hanlon to row on the Thames for the Sportsman’s Cup. Hanlon is said to purpose surrendering the cup unoontested, and has also postponed Courtney’s match. The last communists from Now Caledonia were in fearful destitution, and suffering from ophthalmia. Gorman workmen have been arrested for distributing Communist papers. The grass crop was bad in quality and deficient in quantity. Scobeloorf, commander of the Khivan expedition, and eighty-six young Russians, have been exiled for politioa loffences.

The attendance of students at the Eusaian Universities is decreasing, owing to prosecutions. The Busaian harvest was unfavorable. _ Siberian Cossacks will colonise the Chinese frontier. "Works have been commenced to connect the Black and Caspian seas. . . Bussia complains that Turkey is doing nothing to avert collisions between the Christiana and Muesulmen in Boumelia. A rupture between Turkey and Greece is threatened. Both are arming. Bussia proposed to surrender part of the war indemnity and the Asiatic provinces for Turkish alliance. Persia co-operates with Bussia in the Merv expedition. The Eussian press violently attack Gor-

many. The Archbishop of Posen has been imprisoned for unlawfully excommunicating a priest. Prince Bismarck sent a memorial to the Emperor, urging an alliance with Austria against Bussia. Mahommedan revolutionary conspiracies have been discovered in Boumelia.

A famine is threatened in Hungary. Deadwood, the chief town in Dakota, was burned. Two thousand persons were rendered homeless. General Grant was received with enthusiasm. Kierney, who threatened to burn him in effigy, was compelled to recall his threat.

The Peruvians defeated the Chilian army near Golonia. There are rumours of peace. The iron trade continues to revive. Other branches of trade are still at a standstill.

The Netherlands Chambers were opened on September 15th, The King’s speech dwelt upon the distress in industry, commerce, and navigation. The probable decrease in some imports would necessitate strengthening the resources of the Treasury. The Government would maintain the principles of free-trade, and propose measures for the improvement of means of communication. Count Toronoo, Spanish Minister for Public Works, has had under consideration a design suggested by a Erenoh architect named Colbert, for the International Exhibition in Madrid in 1881.

Eight hundred persons suspected of being Federal Republicans were arrested in Catalonia. Arms and important documents were found, including a scheme for the establishment of a Federal Republic. It is expected that the negotiations between Egypt and Abyssinia will have a favorable issue.

Immediately after arrival at Massowah, Gordon Pasha proceeded to meet Ring John, who consented to receive him. The Abyssinian troops have been withdrwn from the Egyptian frontier 18th September. As the Sultan of Turkey was going to celebrate the feast ofßairim, a Greek, believed to bo insane, tried to force his way into the kiosk. He was arrested after wounding three police officials. The health of the Empress of Russia is stated to be unsatisfactory. It is reported that General Kaufman is preparing to return to Turkistan. The St. Petersburg journals state that the Russian Government have not received any confirmation of the Sinla news announcing the defeat of the vanguard of the Russian expedition against the Turkomans. The Chinese embassy left St. Petersburgh on 23rd for Livonia in order to exchange ratification of the Kulinga treaty. It is intended to establish a permanent Chinese embassy at St. Petersburg. A severe fight occurred between the Cuban insurgents and the Spanish troops.