NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1887, 11 March 1880, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[Br Telegraph ] (Per s.s. Zealandia via Auckland.) GENE RAL~SUMMARY. Sir Stafford Northcote announced in the House of Commons that the Government weuld advance Ireland three-quarters instead of half a million. Fever has appeared in Tipperary and West Cork. English residents have presented a congratulatory address to the Czar on the 15th anniversary of his accession. The Turkish troops revolted, hut returned to duty on receiving their arrears of pay. It is reported that Princess Louise has returned to Canada against her will. Civil war is impending in Abyssinia. Russell charges the British troops in Afghanistan with excesses. Instructions have been sent to Candahar for the army to advance early in March. Germany proposes a treaty with the Hawaian Government.

An alliance is expected between England, G-ermany, and Austria. In opening the Beichstag, the Emperor justified the military armaments and defensive measures Bills, and announced the prolonging of the law against Socialism and the forming of commercial treaties with South Sea Islands.

The North German " Gazette " says that the French army estimates for the present year exceed those of 1870 by four million francs. Her army is numerically etronger than German. The Bussian army also has considerably increased. The Japanese Government is making extensive war preparation, and the Chinese are equally active Extensive fires in Japan have occurred. 10,430 houses and 35,950 persons were rendered homeless.

10,366 persons died of cholera there last year. Sir Stafford Northcote, in the House of Commons, admitted that the cession of Herat to Persia was considered, but no agreement was made.

The House of Commons passed a Bill authorising relieving officers to grant seed potatoes to the distressed Irish. Germany proposes to largely increase the garrisons in Alsace and Lorraine, and the artillery at Metz and other fortresses. Two trains collided at Olichy, in France. Seven persons were killed and forty injured. High military officers in Russia are said to sympathise with the Nihilists. A railway is proposed to Candahar. A Buesian transport vessel has been lost in the Caspian Sea, and 20C3 troops perished. Montenegro is preparing for war, and has 4,CC0,C00 cartridges from American manufacturers.

Holland and Greece have recognised the independence of Roumelia. An explosion occurred at the Lycell colliery, Newcastle en Tyne. Fifty bodies were recovered.

Mr Bright proposes that the Government should advance three-fourths of the purchase money of farms in Ireland, the principal and interest to be repayable in thirty-five years. Large belies of Chinese troops are reported on the Kuldja frontier. The inhabitants protest to Russia against their cession to China.

Mr Stanley has established a Belgian trading station at Congo. The Duilo steamed fourteen miles an hour at its trial.

Exertions are being made to abolish the 1C0,C33d0l charge for conveying the Australian mails across America.

The Duke of Edinburgh haa been ordered on coast guardfservic? in Ireland, and to take charge of relief stores. San Francisco wheat, best, is 2dols ; barley, brewing, 95 ; salmon, Idol 35 cents. At Newca3tle-on-Tyne on February 9th Boyd gained an easy vi.-toryover Elliott in 22min. 47sec. to 23min. Boyd declines to row Hanlon, alleging other engagements. The American demand for iron cause unprecedented activity in the British trade. It is ,"m- ossiblejto overdraw the situation in Ireland, so rapidly do matters become worse. Three hundred thousand people are slowly starving, and can only he kept alive by superhuman efforts on the part of their fellow creatures. Some are living on one meal a day of turnips or meal, thousands more are consuming their last potatoes. At Clonmel a demonstration of unemployed was made demanding work or break. The Liberal demonstration at Birmingham was on a grand scale. Messrs Bright, Chamberlain, and Vernon Harcourt were the principal speakers. Vernon Harcourt repudiated the pretensions of fossilised Whigs and disguised Tories to acquire the leadership. Bright denounced the Government war policy saying—" If the country sustains it, let us abandon all claim to be christians. I say take down yoar ten commandments from the inside of your churches. I say no longer you believe in the sermon on the Mount. Abandon your Christian pretensions or abandon your heathen practices." In France damaging disclosures concerning Napoleon 111. have been made in two recent volumes. General Changarnier accuses him of cowardice, and says he found him hiding in abject terror under a carriage at Strasbourg, and that at Boulogne he landed while drunk. He was never under fire at Magenta or Solferino. Extraordinary accounts are given from other authorities of his corrupt supporters, and they confirm the worst previous accusations.

The Q-eiman Government will impose a tax on all person? exempt from military service.

Bismarck resumes his functions with all hia old energy. There is a complete understanding on both the home and foreign policy between him and the Emperor. The conditions of a peiee between the Church and State will probably be the consent of the Vatican to recognise the State's right to control education and the nomination of Catholic priests. The Russian army will be increased by 150,000 men. One archbishop and two bishops (old believers) were found imprisoned in the fortress of Gusdal, a province of Valedimir. The archbishop had been there twentytwo years and the bishops twentyi»o and seventeen years respectively. For suggesting that the unfortunate, clerics had been forgotten by the Governra>nt,*the Golos was deprived of the right o£ advertising foi one month. .

The Queen opened Parliament in person. The ceremony lasted fifteen minutes. Lords Beaconefield and Salisbury were not present. The Queen's reception by the House was most enthusiastic. The address in reply to the Queen's speech was moved in the House of Lords by the Earl of Onslow, and seconded by Earl Boßse, and in the House of Commons by Mr John Robert Mowbray, and seconded by Mr Corry. Mr Chamberlain (Liberal) moved an amendment to the Addresß, to show his sympathy with the Irish who were suffering from the land system. He did not believe that the Government had spent £IO,OOO on relief; they were in no way alive to the gravity of the situation. The amendment was voted down by 216 to 66, and the Address agreed

to. . ~ Mr O'Donnoll, M P. for Dungarvan, in the Hou«e of Commons stigmatised the abuse practised by the Government as worse than treason. He became much excited, and wept when describing Mr Parnell's services to his country. Mr Plimsoll, M.P., will introduce a Bui with the object of diminishing loss in life and property from shifting cargoes, by loading grain in sacks. The Irish National Land League have resolved to thank the United States Congress for according the privileges of the floor to Mr Parnell. The " National Zeitung" reviews Mr Parnell's tour to America, and considers it disgraceful for Home Eulers to make political capital out of their country's troubles. It was announced at a meeting of the Dublin Mansion House committee on January 31sl, that £33,000 had been received at date, and £15,000 distributed. Complaints were made of attacks on the managers by agitators in America, and letters from Roman Catholic Bishops ia Ireland testified to its impartial distribution. The receipt of £2,000 additional from New South Wales was announced, making a total from the Australian colonies of £21,000. The Government intend making a grant for seed for the Irish small farmors.

The loss by the failure of last year's potato crop is estimated at £462,400. For the week ending January 20th three deaths from starvation are reported near Parson Town, County Louth. The Right Hon. Jos. Lowther, Chief Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant, denies this. The Irish and English landlord question increases in importance. Mr Bright's colleagues accept substantially his scheme to aid tenants in buying farms by Treasury loans. The Lord Mayor of Dublin writes that the English people fail to realise the gravity of the Irish crisis, and except prompt assistance be forthcoming tens of thousands of Irish people must die of starvation. He complains thtt England has contributed less to the Mansion House fund than Melbourne. Baroness Burdott Coutts has sent £SOO to Ireland by a special agent to ensure its proper distribution. Q.uarrels have arisen in the management of the various relief funds, and it is hoped that means will be devised for concentrating the charities under one head.

David, Dily and Killen will be tried in March. In the meantime the former will be sent to the Continent to enlist sympathy and material assistance for the Irish sufferers.

Subscriptions have been opened in Bombay. One Native banker gave £IOOO.

The French Bishops have appealed to the Cures to collect fundß for a similar purpose. Jas. Keene, of New York, proposes to send a ship load of wheat to Ireland as his donation. Under the Presidency of the Archbishop of Paris, an Irish relief committee has been formed. A petroleum basin, said to be as extensive and prolifio as that of Pennsylvania, has been discovered in Hanover. One well yields about 400 cwt. ef oil per day.

The increase of the German army surpasses the Russian, and is opposed by the Bavarian Parliament.

Germany recognises Roumanian independence. Mr Archibald Forbes attacks Lord Chelmsford in the " Nineteenth Century." It is eemi-officially asserted that Lord Lytton has not decided to leave India. Mr J. Russell Lowell's appointment as American Minister in England gives general satisfaction. AMERICAN SUMMARY. A Bill, making it a misdemeanor for females to engage in walking matches, is before the New York Senate. The Clearing House statistics show a docrease of exports of 10.3 per cent, in San Francisco in January, 1880. The delegates from the Pensylvanian State Convention (Republican) have been instructed to vote for General Grant at the National Convention by the Pennsylvanian State. Exertions are being made to abolish the charge of 100,000dols. for carrying the Australian mail across the Continent. Succesß is expected, as the Government are now considering the matter. Mr Bowie, ex Secretary of the Navy, is dead. The New York Chamber of Commerce has adopted a resolution favoring a return by the Government of an overplus of indemnity expected from Japan. Eleven Chinese were burnt to death in a San Francisco foundry. At Londonderry a lad named Dettingham, arrested for shooting his aunt, confessed that he outraged her afterwards. The victim died. D. Stanton, an Englishman, has wpn the bicycle race for a purse and the championship of America. He made fifty miles in three hours six minutes one and a half seconds. At Springfields, Mass., Mr Parnell attacked the veracity and condemned the origin of Lord Alfred Churchill, who, by cable, denied Parnell's statement that Queen Victoria contributed nothing to the Irish famine fund in 1847, and also restrained the Sultan of Turkey from giving. . The French Government officially denies any responsibility for Baron De Leßsep's inter oceanic canal scheme, as no political significance is attached to the plan. These declarations avert any pretext for international complications which before were considered probable. At Racoon Strait, in San Francisco Bay, Daniel Peakey beat Hoyte in the single scull race of February Ist, making the best time on record, five miles in 34min. 30secs. Mr Parnell addressed the United States Congress at an informal meeting on the present condition of Ireland. He stated that he believed that the force of American publio opinion would bring about the desired reforms.

The County Hospital of Milwaukee was burnt on February .3rd, and two lives lost. There was a heavy storm along the Atlantic sea-board on February 3rd, but few disasters are reported. The new invention called the multiplex telegraph is said to be humbug. Jay Gould's purchase of the Central Pacific railroad stock excites attention, and his main object is surmised to be to secure control of all roads having California routes in their charters. He will next turn to the St. Louis and San Francisco, and Iron Mountain roads, the only ones he fears as rivals. The Pacific railroad and Pacific Mail Company are in open rupture, and a fierce competition ia Pacific slope freights is anticipated. Lewis Kearney, the agitator, has returned to California from his Eastern tour.

Colonel H. Ingersoll, in Chicago, lectured on Thos. Paine, whom he extolled for his freedom from religious belief and American patriotism. The " New York Commercial Bulletin," in an elaborate article, showsthat Do Lesseps' Canal Scheme is chimerica), and the tonnage passing through it at 4f301s per ton as proposed would fail by G,6oo,ooodo]s to meet the annual interest and charges, to say nothing of working expenses. The calculation is baaed on an estimated cost of 260,000,000d01e, and the tonnage passing through yearly at from two and a-half to three millions.

A Bill is before Congress to create the territory of Pembina out of the Northern half of Dakotah.

Congress is considering a Bill for tho complete reorganisation of the Navy. The Rev. Adolf Bultozer, Pre»ident of the Gorman Evangelistic Synod of North America, died near Marthaviile on January 29th. Ho was a classmate of Prince Bismarck.

The Mormons seek to have Utah united as a State, which would enable them to expel their opponents by taxation. They are also making overtures to several Indian tribes for an alliance.

McVicker's Theatre, Chicago, is illumi-, sated by electric light, a local electrician

having anticipated Edison and overcome the difficulty of dividing the current. Maokay, the Bonanza magnate, gives 10,000 dollars to the Irish relief fund, and the Nevada Bank, of San Francisco, 2500 dollars. There is great distress among the poorer fishermen in Canada, and efforts are being made for their relief. The heavy cannons in the Dominion are being converted into rifle guns. At Ottawa a small pox victim was rescued alive from a coffin after the gravedigger had partially covered it with earth. He heard a noise, and, enquiring into the cause, succeeded in saving the unfortunate. Mr Parnell refused to visit Montreal on account of the strong feeling against him. Princess Louise has returned from England. Captain William Power, of the barque Brothers' Pride, has been arrested at St. John's, charged with scuttling the vessel at sea in order to defraud the insurance companies of 72,000 dollars. The people of Luoan, Ontario, suspecting a family named Donnelly of numerous acts of incendiarism and other offences, formed a vigilance committee, attacked Donnelly's house, murderod all five inmateß, fired the building and consumed the bodies at the same time. It was a horrible affair and caused great excitomont. Four arreßts have been made, one of them a constable at Ottawa. The Governor-General's carriage was run away with by the horses, and danger was imminent till an aide-de-camp sprang into the roadway and stopped the team after being dragged one hundred yards. The Princess Louise quicfely recovered from the shock.