NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1958, 3 June 1880, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[PEE FUSES ASSOCIATION SPECIAL WIEE.J The following are further items received by this mail:—

LONDON, May 8. The Duchess of Marlborough has closed her connection with the I ish Famine Fund, handing a balance of £lB 287 to four trustees. Regret was expressed at her retirement. The American frigate Constellation, with supplies, arrived at Queenstown. Captain Hotter and his officers were treated with great consideration in Cork and Dublin. The captain was presented with the freedom of the latter city. W. B. Cartwright, a large colliery proprietor and owner of racing scud, is dead. The Co-operative Stores in Bed ord street, Strand, have been partially burnt The buildings and stock wore insured for £150,000. Mr Ered. Greenwood has resigned the editorship of the “Pall Mall Gazette.” This is in consequence that during the late election the paper passed to a new proprietor. In his valedictory article he made a savage attack on the new administration. He gave his reasons at length, in the “ Standard, v for quitting the “ Gazette.” “ We do not pre p )se,” ho writes, “to allow our Indipendent paper to be extinguished. Its spirit lives in us, and will soon reeppear in a new shupe.” Greenwood, within forty-eight hours after his retirement, had offers exceeding half a million dollars, to establish a new journal. Prince Leopold will be made a duke and peer with the tide of Duka of Albany. He visits Canada shortly. John William Walkden, nineteen years of age, the champion 800 yards shot in England, has challenged any man in the world, to shoot forty shots at a distance of 500 yards at a target four feet in diameter with an eightinch bull’s-eye, or he will give eight points out of eighty shots for £250 a side and a hundred guinea challenge cup. He will give or take £SO for expenses to any part of the world.

The Bill for the re-distribution of Parliamentary seats will not be introduced till the result of the census of 1880 is ascertained.

Wolfe and Co., of Buenos Ayres and Paris, have failed for £200,000.

The Royal Academy banquet was held in April. The Prince of Wales, Mr Gladstone, and Bret Harte were amongst the guests. The Prince, in replying to the toast of the Royal Family, said that the Duke of Edinburgh had been doing good work in Ireland, and he also complimented the people as kindly and generous. Mr Gladstone replied to the toast of “ Her Majesty’s Ministers,” and Bret Hart’s response to that of “ Science and Literature ” was loudly cheered. The King of Siam, being in ill-health, declines his visit to Europe and America. The elections of Scotch peers to represent the Scottish Lords in Parliament resulted in the choice of fourteen Conservatives ttnd one Liberal.

The English Government intends to hold Austria to strict compliance with the Treaty of Berlin, and will require the ultimate evacuation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is believed that Lord Hartington has already reversed Lord Oranbrook’s decision to separate Candahar from Afghanistan. It is announced that a steamer, which touched off Lundy Island at the entrancs of the Bristol Channel, named the Helena, has a cargo of fifteen thousand rifles, four million cartridges, and a torpedo launch. These were to be landed in Crete about the end of May, when a revolution is to break out in various parts of the island. Two passengers are Cretan agents, entrusted with the purchase of arms. This, as some Americas correspondents say, was intended for a raid on Cuba. In the event of the law not allowing Mr Bradlaugh to make an affirmation instead of taking the oath required from the members of the House, a Bill will immediately be introduced to legalise such an affirmation, 8. M. Pitburg, junr., a well-known Bostonian, committed suicide in a moment of insanity in a guillotine of his own devising, constructed with weights and pulleys so as to ensure instant death.

Boyd, of London, is in training for the international regatta at Providence, Rhode Island. Elliott will go to Rochester to train. Tho British navy are to bo supplied with electric lamps by the Cleveland Ohio Telegraph Supply Company, their patent proving the best in a competitive test. Eighty thousand dollars’ worth of electrical apparatus have been ordered.

The hanging and cutting up a colored cadet named Whitaker, at West Point, is still exciting great attention. The investigation has thrown no light on the subject. The white cadets have subscribed 100.000d015., to be used in dispelling the mystery. Hartmann, the Russian Nihilist, is being interviewed by the New York reporters. In a list of distinguished visitors at New York from London is Marwood, successor to the hangman Calcraft. The press seemed disposed to make a lion of him, Sunday law is being enforced in Louisville city. Newspaper offices are shut up, and firemen and telegraph operatives are restrained from active service. The object is to make the enactment odious.

A tornado struck Marshfield, Missouri, and levelled most of the town. The debris immediately took fire in several places, and the flames could be seen at half a dozen points by passengers on the trains. Forty dead bodies hud been taken out, and many more are supposed to be buried in the ruins or burned. There are also masy living still imprisoned by the fallen buildings. All the doctors were killed except two, and there was a great need of their services to attend the wounded, of whom there were 200. A relief train, with twenty doctors and nurses, and full supplies, was sent from Springfield. All bars in Now Brunswick have been closed by the Temperance Act. The German Princess Pauline, of Wartemborg, is to be married to a young physician. Her father gave his consent, but insisted that he should take the name of Yon Kerchbeok.

The marriage of the Princess of Hanover to her father’s secretary caused a great sensation in high circles. Hartman, a Socialist journeyman shoemaker, has been elected to the Reichstag. A Berlin correspondent says that the discontent in Germany may be judged by the tide of emigration. It is estimated that during the past three years two and a half millions of people emigrated. Edmond De Prissence, a Protestant divine in Paris, has been appointed Secretary of the Legation of Washington. Wheat has declined so much in price that American speculators are in peril. Great tranquillity prevails in Prance. The taxes, although enormous, are cheerfully paid. Some gambling rooms at Monte Caalo were destroyed by dynamite placed on the mantelpiece. The place was crowded with visitors, but no one was hurt.

Signor Feeronoza, the author of a work entitled “Garibaldi: the Ungrateful, ” was assassinated at Leghorn on the 20th. Several attempts had been made on his life before. The Island of Jamaica is suffering from drought. Water is sold at 3d per gallon, and has to bo carried for miles on the heads of the purchasers. An epidemic is raging among the cattle on the estates, and many have died, while a succession of fires destroyed the cornfields and grass lands. Callao was blockaded on April 18th by six Chilian war ships, and the place was afterwards bombarded ineffectually. The Peruvians have disembarked a cargo of arms at Chera, near Molda, and captured a Chilian steam launch. Further advices say that the transport Uraga has just returned from Callao, after repeating the exploits of La Union. She passed the Chilian fleet, visited Tokopoto, and destroyed some launches and captured a small steamer. At one time she was fighting the enemy from one side and discharging munitions at the same time from the other. It was considered a very brilliant affair. Capero, the new Bolivian President, had arrived, making the allied army of Peru and Bolivia 23,000 strong. The Peruvian admiral, Montero, was anxious to escape from Tacna, as he was threatened by the Chilians. The inhabitants are fleeing in dismay. The land conference of Dublin hue been a failure.

The London “World,” says the Queen’s health and spirits are most unsatisfactory. She suffers from constant headache. A man named Miller alias Maxwell, was arrested at Liverpool on two charges of forgery on the Bank of England and other banks. He is said to be wanted for forgeries committed in America.

The Earl of Scarborough was fatally injured on April 19th, being thrown from his drag. AMr Bright, recently elected for Parliament for Nottingham, fell dead at an educational meeting at Birmingham. His death is a considerable loss to the Liberal interests.