THE GLOBE. TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1880. NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2004, 27 July 1880, Page 2

THE GLOBE. TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1880. NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[By Telbgbaph.] [Per City of Sydney.] Numerous important additions are to be made to the torpedo fleet. A statue to Raikes is to be erected on the Thames Embankment. A great uproar occurred at the Protestant Reform Society’s meeting at Exeter Hall, held to protest against the Catholic appointments. Home grown wheat shows a shilling decline in price. The steamer Humholt, at Liverpool, from New York, took Are. Every bale of cotton was thrown overboard. A strike of Lancashire cotton hands is threatened. In Dublin a bloody riot occurred between the people and the police. Several persons were seriously injured. Mr Redpath, the “New York Herald” correspondent, condemns Irishmen for their indifference to their distressed countrymen. He says while Australia and New Zealand subscribed .£55,570, America £5658, Canada £3348, India £3750, England £IO,OOO, there was no Irish subscription whatever. Mr Parnell’s Bill proposes to take £200,000 from the Irish Church Fund. Mr Forster said bo must oppose it as doing more harm than good. The Government Irish Land Bill is strongly opposed by the Conservatives and condemned by the Press, which denounces it as confiscation. In France the execution of the decrees against the Jesuits and unauthorised religions bodies led to most exciting scenes, and the Jesuits’ chapels in the provinces were thronged. Meetings were held to protest against the decrees, and a riotous condition of affairs prevailed in and around the buildings. The mob hooted the priests, and the Rue de Sevres priests looked themselves in the cells, which the police broke open. Thirty-nine establishments, with 451 members, were broken up. The Archbishop of Avignon offered hospitality to a number of expelled Jesuits, hut received a peremptory telegram from the minister of worship, which caused him to request the Jesuits to leave without delay. The Spanish Government granted numerous applications to establish Jesuit Colleges in Madrid. All the Judges and public prosecutors of Versailles resigned rather than give effect to these decrees. Some of the expelled have purchased the old Neverall estate in England. Several duels have occurred, chiefly between journalists. French firms are filling orders for China, Six thousand Communists have returned to Paris. A general amnesty is expected. The German Church Bill passed by 206 to 202. Bismarck said the Bill was drawn by himself, and he would not permit its mutilation. He avows his intention to leave Parliamentary fighting and devote his attention to foreign affairs. The general opinion is that the Vatican have got the best of the Chancellor in this church fight. Twenty persons were killed by a fire in a mine at Darmstadt; sixty-three were killed by a storm and waterspont at Dresden; and a rain tornado at Breslau killed fifty-six and destroyed one hundred and five houses.

The Austrian village of Harmena, in Hungary, was destroyed by fire. Many persona perished. Famine has ranged in the district since the beginning of the year, and the misery is indescribable. One thousand and eleven houses have been burnt in Hungary since May. The leading Austrian journals express their belief that the end of Turkey is at hand, and advise Austria to take as much Turkish territory as possible. It is believed that the Czar intends a morganic marriage with the Princess, by whom he has had thirteen children.

Russia is disgusted with Colonel Gordon’s visit to China-

The Russian floating battery Kremlin, going to the Pacific, collided with a Danish steamer and was so crippled that it had to put into Helingsford for repairs. Admiral Seasoki has been appointed chief commander of the Pacific Volunteer cruiser the Russia, and, with 1276 men, has gone to Vladisvoatock, which has been placed in a state of siege. The clerical party was triumphant in the Italian municipal and provincial elections. Garibaldi was beaten by Prince Chingo, Marsha' of the Conclave.

In reply to an address of Mr Qoschen, the Sultan expressed a desire for the completion of all reforms.

Lloyd's agency at Salonioa was blown clou a and the director and officials severely wounded.

The Sultan refused to allow the Harem of the ex-Khedive of Egypt to land at Constantinople. Pirates are ravaging the coasts of Asia Minor.

An attempt on the life of the new Grand Sheriff of Mecca failed.

The Sultan, alarmed at the secret designs of the Powers, proposes to render the Dardanelles impregnable by torpedoes and forts. A despatch of 3rd July says the Porte has proclaimed a state of siege throughout all the provinces on the Greek frontier. The new territory to be ceded to Greece is estimated at 390 square miles, containing 400,000 inhabitants. The St Gothard tunnel is threatened. Landslips are disintegrating the masonry, and the engineers think the only way out of the difficulty is a modified line. On account of the new educational laws, diplomatic relations between Belgium and Vatican have ceased. The rupture was fomented greatly by the Bishop of Tournay, who is now in complete disagreement with the Papal See. Chaliu Pasha, formerly Egyptian Minister of War and Marine, has obtained his naturalisation ns an Italian subject without permission of Egypt or the Porte, thus placing himself under the protection of the Italian Government, as also his immense property, which is generally supposed really belongs to the ex-Khedive. The Khedive has issued a decree ordering his degradation and dismissing him from his appointment in the Egyptian army. Earl Kimberley has instructed the High Commissioner in South Africa to avoid extending British jurisdiction there. The ox-Empress Eugenie is on her way homo. The Calcutta Chamber of Commerce takes a desponding view of the future of the export trade. The Indian Government makes a clear gain of ten lacs of rupees by the allotment of the new 41- per cent. loan. Late news from China says that Spain, Portugal, and Pern are quarrelling with the Chinese authorities for interfering with oooly immigration. Spain threatens to occupy the ports in Formosa with troops from Manilla and blockade the Chinese coast. Portugal asserts her right to Macao. Ching How’s treaty with Russ.a has been published, accompanied by a memorial denouncing himself and the document. Russia had the advantage in all the negotiations. She was to be paid 5,000.000 roubles, and her merchants were to enjoy special privileges and use convenient routes to travel by. For these considerations China was to receive back only a portion of her territory. Cholera has appeared in Japan.