ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1792, 18 November 1879, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [pee press agenct.l [Via Auckland.] LONDON, October 7. The Liberal members' recess speeohes continue attacking the foreign policy of the Government. Sir V. Harcourt at Liverpool vigorously denounced it. He said the Treaty of Berlin would not arrest the decomposition of Turkey, and that the result of the policy in India would be disastrous to the finances. At a meeting of the anti-Imperialist League in Hyde Park, resolutions condemning the Government policy and demanding an immediate dissolution were passed. The agitation in Ireland continues. Numerous meetings have been held, and threatening letters have been forwarded to prominent persons. A meeting of Irishmen at Boston supported the movement substantially. England has offered her good offices to settle the dispute between Egypt and Abyssinia. The Empress Eugenie has visited the Queen at Balmoral. The ironclads Achilles and Alexandra when manoeiv ing during the voyage from Rhodes to Larnaca, collided. The broadside of the Achilles was damaged. Mr Gladstone has arrived at Venice, and was warmly welcomed. The Empress of Russia is going to Cannes, and the Grand Duke Constantine is at Paris, where he remains for a month. The Prussian elections are very unfavorable to the Liberals. Deadwood, the mining centre of Dacotah, has been burned. 175 building were destroyed and 2,000 persons rendered homeless. Alluding to the Colorado war, General Sherman declared the army to he too email. He urged an increase in its numbers. The American Polar exploring expedition has arrived at Lawrence on the 25th September. It registers a belief that there is a fair prospect of an open winter in the Arctic Sea.

Intelligence received from Constantino, Algiers, states that while the races were being held on October 6th, two stands gave way and seventy persons were injured. Fine autumnal weather was being experienced, but a large acreage of corn was still unharvested. The French vintage is not yet commenced. The iron market is very excited. Large orders continue to arrive from America.

Obituary: The Dean of Worcester, Baron Cleasby, and Henry Padwick.

LATEST. LONDON, October 25th. The political campaign in view of a general election is actively proceeding. The speeches of Lords Salisbury and Hartington, already telegraphed, have been much commented on. Lord Salisbury duly defended the foieign policy of the Government. He declared the advent of the Liberals as synonymous with England's abdication abroad. The speech of Lord Harti agton was moderate, being chiefly remarkable for an appeal for unanimity among the Liberals. He urged that personal opinion should not prevail over party allegiance. The "Times" says that the feeling of the country is at issue with Lord Hartington upon the foreign policy of the Government in Europe and Afghanistan. It is stated that the China squadron will be reinforced.

The Emperor of Germany signed the Austro- German treaty very reluctantly. Prince Bismarck announced his intention to resign if the Emperor refused. Midhat Pacha has resigned the Governorship of Syria, discouraged by the passive obstruction made by the Porte to his reforms. In a private conference at Dublin, Mr Parnell president, it was resolved to form a national league to reduce the rents, to defend the tenants, to reform the land laws,_ to form a class of peasant proprietors to emigrate to America and to aid Irishmen there. The Madrid Commission on the emancipation of slavery in Cuba has drafted a Bill proposing the gradual emancipation of the old slaves, beginning in 1880, and going on . until 1890, when all should be emancipated. The trial of Lord Bosebury for libelling Mrs Oornwallis West is town talk. The trial re Mr and Mrs Langtrey was concluded today. Sentence is deferred to Monday. The action brought by Mr Levi Lawson, editor of the " Daily Telegraph," against Mr Labouohere, proprietor of " Truth," for libel, is still proceeding. It excites great interest. Before bringing the action Mr Lawson assaulted Mr Labouchere. Two thousand strikers at Bristol have accepted a reduction of wages. Skilled joiners are emigrating in numbers to America.

I England requires seventeen million quarters of grain this year. The Irish harvest prospects are improving. j The Miners' Emigrant Association allow £l2 to each man emigrating. Government have refused to discuss the Afghan question with Russia. Five hundred tenants of the Marquis cf S'igo have solemnly declined to pay any rent till a reduction has been granted. A notice was posted at Warren Point, County Down, that anyone coming into the county and paying more than £1 an acre would be shot. At the anti-rent demonstration at Belfast thirteen thousand were present. At a Rent Conference at Dublin thirty counties sent delegates. A league waß formed to secure the reduction of rack rents and give facilities for acquiring ownership of land. Mr Parnell declared that the English were indifferent, though they knew that distress was earning on as bad as the famine of 1847. Major O'Gorman declared before God that Irishmen had more cause for violence than the French before the Revolution. Mr Parnell advocated passive physical resistance, and asserted that so long as Englishmen govern Ireland they will rob and oppress. Boring bands of Ribbonmen ereate disturbances. The military hare been strengthened. Ootton and iion industries are reviving. The mills at Preston have been reopened.

Fire of the City of Glasgow Bank directors' sentences hare expired. They werehooted by a crowd. Meaars Potter and Stronacb. are still in gaol. Bonapartiat* have arrived in London to effect a reconciliation between the Empress Eugenie and Prince Napoleon. Courtenay has iasued a challenge against the scullers of England. Elliott believes he oan beat Han!an. The highest acquatic authorities declare that Hanlon has forfeited his title to be champion of England. Elliott china it. Mr Rosenberg, the publisher of "Town Talk," has been imprisoned for libel, for asserting that Mr Langtry began the divorce case. He made an'abjeot apology. The pardoning of Communists has ceased. The Empress Eugenie is going to Africa to pray on the spot where her eon was killed. Severe frosts have occurred in the wine districts of France.

The fifth part of Eulfa (?), Germany, has been burned, and many were killed. The St. Petersburg " Urimya" says:— "Sooner or later war for life or death with England ia inevitable." The Khan of Merv has sent assistance to defeat the Turcomans. A sanguinary conflict has taken place between the military and the people of the Bnssian town of Kasan. The latter were resisting the arrest of tone students who were members of a Liberal League. By floods in Spain several villages have been laid in ruins, and the crops and railways destroyed. The authorities estimate that two thousand have been drowned. . The distress in Hurga-y through the bad harvest is great. Several deaths have occurred from starvation, The situation in Armenia is serious. The Arabs have joined the Kurds in resisting Midhat's reforms. By a waterspout in Switzerland twe've bridge i were destroyed and numerous vineyards flooded. The famine in Cashmere is nearly over. The American Black Feet Indians of Colorado have surrendered several white women who were captives. The war broke out through white encroachments. In the first battle the troops were defeated. The Hanlon-Courtenay race is believed to have been a gigantic fraud. The general opinion is both principals knew of the sawing of Courtenay's boat, on the understanding that the £6OOO stakes should be shared equally. All bets are declared oS. The stakeholders refused to give Hanlon bis money. Oourlenayraade an affidavit, declaring he was told that! Hanlon must win, as he intended to go to England to row Elliott. All bets would be so largely in his favor that if he could lose he would make enough to retire.