NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2099, 15 November 1880, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Per s.O. City of Sydney, at Auckland.] GREAT BRITAIN. Sir Charles Dilke takes the place of the Bight Hon. W. P. Adam in the Board of Public Works, and Mr Leonard Courtney, M.P. for Liskeard, takes Sir 0. Dilko’s place in the Foreign Office. . . Henry Brittain, jun., doing business in Birmingham, Bombay, and Calcutta, has failed. Liabilities, £150,000. Archbishop McCabe, of Dublin, has written a pastoral letter, deploring the silence of Irish loaders, in whose presence threats of violence to landlords have been made. A fearfuTgale raped on tho Cornwall coast on October 7th. Harbor works and quays were damaged, and small yachts and boats destroyed. . . . Worthman Miller has given his opinion that American silk is now superior to French, and many French ladies are supplying themselves in tho markets of tho United States. Arms are being largely imported into Ireland, and freely bought in many places. The manager of an establishment in Dublin boasts of having sold 1400 in a short period. In Belfast breech loaders are advertised at 15», and there is a brisk trade in rifles in all tho small country towns. The Parnell demonstration at Cork on tho 3rd was an imposing affair. The Mayor and Corporation presented an address to tho agitator, while the city and shipping were covered with bunting. 50,000 of the public were present. Mr Parnell declared that landlordism had been created for maintaining English rule in Ireland, and must fall. Voices cried out —“ As Lord Mountmorris fell.” . . ,

A meeting of 500 Orangemen at Gilford, County Down, passed a resolution calling on the Government to suspend trial by jury, and declaring that the citizens of the United States and foreigners who were abusing the hospitality of the country by denouncing the institutions of the United Kingdom should bo expelled. On the sth of October Mr Parnell addressed a meeting of 10,000 people in Kilkenny. Nine members of Parliament and fifty priests were present. He announced that when sufficient information had been collected, a Land League would be organised of great strength against paying rent on tho estate of every renting landlord. The members of the Landlords’ Association waited on tho Lord Lieutenant, and impressed on him the necessity that immediate steps should be taken for the protection of life and property. The barrack at Athlono, Carlow and Sligo and other places in the West of Ireland are to be prepared for the full complement of troops they are capable of accommodating. John M, Harvey, one of the principal members of Boss Tweed’s Now York municipal ring, died in London. The race between Joe Cannon and Harry Thomas for £IOO a side and a bet of £IOO to £BO, was rowed on the 4th over the Thames championship course of four miles, and a quarter. The time was 24min 21aecs, and it was a tame affair. Hanlan and Triokett were present. Lieut. S. Ohawkas’ discoveries in Arctic and Polar matters generally are yet discussed by tho London Press. Among the latest contributions to the literature on the subject is a letter from Commissioner Oheyne in reply to an article in the “ Standard.” It was not the Arctic regions, he says, that sent Franklin’s men to the next world. They wore murdered by the contractor who supplied the expedition to which he belonged, and tins labelled “ beef and mutton” contained nothing but offal.

Goorgo Coull, sailor, who steered the Shannon'in the action with the Chesapeake off Boston Harbor in 1813, is dead, aged ninetyfive. He was buried with military honors. The imports of Great Britain for September were £6,500,000 greater than last year, and the exports greater by £250,000 for the came time.

The ship Cambrian Monarch, from Sydney to San Francisco, was boarded by a boat’s crew from Pitcairn Island. They sent letters and sketches to persons in England and America. The islanders are reported to be in a flourishing condition.

FRANCE. The Vatican threatens to recall the Papal nuncio from Paris if the Jesuit decrees are enforced. The authorities refused to allow William Blanqui [Parfalt and M, Rochefort to speak at a political meeting on Sunday. Thirty meetings were called to protest against the intervention of the Government. The Government excuse was that the subject would lead to unnecessary excitement among the people. German Franciscans have been evicted, and English Passionists are threatened with the same fate. France refuses under any ■circumstances to participate in the occupation of any Turkish port. The Government has commenced proceedings against Felix Pratt, journalist, for an article justifying the attempt of Perezouski, a Pole, to shoot the Emperor of Russia in 1867. The Carmelites have been expelled from France, and all the Italian monks have been ordered to quit instantly. Fourteen Jesuit professors have been ejected from the College of Toulouse. There is dissension in the French Cabinet. M. Jules Ferry thinks it a paltry thing to direct his efforts to the dispersion of 13,000 unrecognised monks and nuns when there are 112,000 who cannot be disturbed, being already recognised. Two editors have been imprisoned for libel on President Grevy. GERMANY. Prince Bismarck proposes the formation of a State Working-Man’s Assurance and Mutual Assistance Society, to which laborers and employers will be bound to contribute. The system will be first tried in Prussia. The workmen’s strike is spreading, and now embraces carpenters, turners, weavers and other trades. On the 9th, the marriage of tho Czar with thePrincessDalgourouki was solemnised in the Chapel of the Imperial Palace. The Czar’s family disapproved, and the Ozarowitoh went to Texel, on North Holland coast, while the Grand Duke of Valdimar went aboard, in order that they might not witness the ceremony. The marriage was very private. The Grand Duke Nicholas and the Minister for War were present. Tho newly married pair are with the bride’s family [in Livadia. Tho Czar has purchased for his consort the palace of tho Grand Duchess Catharine, paying 200,000 roubles. Hartmann has telegraphed to the “ Internationalist ” a full description of the mine which was to have blown up the Imperial Palace of Alexander. Ho explains that the railway plot failed because an hour before the passage of the train a carriage came along the line, and cut the wire which connected the dynamite with the battery. Hartmann eays that there are 1,300,000 organised Radicals in Russia.

ITALY. On account of the number of French Jesuits taking refuge in Italy, that country intends to revive the measure hostile to the order, passed in 1876, but allowed to fall into disuse. The Paris Radicals talk of inviting Garibaldi to visit that city. TURKEY. One of the murderers of Dr Parsons, the American missionary, has been condemned to death, and two others to fifteen years’penal servitude. SWEDEN AND NORWAY. The Press (of these countries are engaged in a hot discussion over tho question of the repeal of tho act of union and the establishment of a Norwegian republic. The Swedish journals maintain that the honor of Sweden is involved, and strong measures should he employed if necessary. The relations between the king and the Norwegians are very strained, and a large majority havo denied the king’s right to an official vote. SWITZERLAND. The greater part of the village of Vesey has been destroyed by fire. Colonel Incol Ronwalla, President of the Court of Assizes, Canton of Ticino, has been murdered by peasants near Lugano. A Socialist congress will be held in Zurich in 1881. AMERICA. The Stevens floating battery has been sold to the Columbian Government and will be immediately put in commission. The battery cost 2,000,000d015, and was sold for 55,000d01a.

A frightful accident occurred on the Pennsylvanian Central Railroad, By a collision between two trains twenty-four passengers wore killed and thirty or forty wounded. A mistake in the signal was the cause of the disaster. The Chicagoniaus celebrated the ninth anniversary of their great fire by a grand military parade, A passenger train on the ladianopolis and St. Louis road recently ran through on open switch at Nokomis, Illinois, and collided with a freight train. The former caught fire and was entirely consumed. The passengers escaped safely. A special train of oars, with the supplementary Australian mail, chased the regular train and caught it at Omaha, gaining twentyfour hours and enabling connection with the steamer at New York to be made. The mail will reach England in forty days from Sydney. Captain Foreman, of the British ship Dido, at San Francisco, from Newcastle, N.S.W., October 9th reports thot on September 15th he passed Christmas Island, said to be uninhabited, and from the deck he discovered the wreck of a vessel well up on the sand, in the South-east bay. Close to the wreck he made out a small boat, but there were no indications of life about it. Owing to the very rough weather he was unable to visit the wreck, and so it remains a mystery. The “ Journal of Trade” for October 9ih estimates from wheat growing returns to September 25th that this year’s total returns of American wheat will not exceed 465,691,000 bushels, and will probably prove 10,000,090 bushels lees. The Californian and Oregon yield is estimated at 38,000,000 bushels. The requirement for home consumption from this season’s crop is placed at 261,000,000 bushels, leaving 184,000,000 bushels surplus. California and Oregon are credited with 28,000,000 surplus for export. California is importing Normandy stallions valued at 1600 to 2000 dole, a-pieoe. Californian salmon eggs are being exported to Europe in large quantities, Es-Senator PeligSprague, of Massaohussets, is dead. Jay Gould has purchased the “New York World,” paying 400,000d015. Tho secretary of the National Woollen Growers’ Association,W. J. Markham, has, in obedience to an order, shipped two rams and t»o ewes to Australia. They were sent by the London route to avoid frequent charges in the railroad trip to San Francisco. Mr Markham sent three car loads of sheep some time ago to Japan, where the Government are striving to develops the beat wool and carcase producing animal. The Admiral of the British fleet in Pacific waters has been ordered to proceed to Callao, Peru, and protect British interests there. Moody and Sankey, the Revivalists, are in San Francisco, holding religious meetings. A colony of Catholic peasants has been settled by Father Nugent in Minnesota. Each family has 160 acres, a horse and cow. Many of tho colonists loft Ireland last spring shoeless.

A mercantile convocation has been held in New York. Among other matters discussed was the revision of the navigation laws, and the adoption of some plan for the improvement of tho neglected shipping interests of the United States. While drinking in a saloon in San Francisco a sudden madness seized a man named Barrington, who his friend McDonald on the spot, shooting him three times. Both men were connected with respectable business houses. Tho Gulnari, of the Horogate Arctic exploring expedition, had returned to St. John’s, New York, having lost one boat and all her deck-load in a gale. 11l feeling is growing between the members of the Chinese Embassy and the people of New York. The Chinese treat those brought in contact with them as inferior, and they in turn ridicule tho drees and manners of the Celestial diplomats when occasion serves. They are also frequently assaulted. The statue of Hobart Burns in the hall of tho Central Park, New York, opposite that of Sir Walter Scott, was unveiled on October 2nd. The horse distemper is raging in Now York, Brooklyn, and Jersey city. There are about 8000 animals invalided. Tho disease has also appeared in Chicago. General Neal Dow attributes tho Republican defeat in tho main to its leaders catering to their own selfish interest, and the Republic officials neglecting to enforce prohibitory law, Theodore Glow, of the Santa Barbara (California) press, was shot on October Ist by Clarence Gray and killed, for stating in his paper that Gray was was unfit for an office to which he had been nominated.

The professional four-oared race which took place at Lake Manuata, Maine, on Oot. 29fch, three miles with a turn, was won by the Unions of Portland. Time, 19min. 40secs. Tho professional scullers’ race over the same course was won by J. Gandour, of Toronto, in 22mins. and 30aecs., defeating Plaisted, Lee, and Teneyok. The professional doublesculling race, over the same course, was won by Teneyck and Kennedy, defeating Ross and Davis and Lee and Gandour. The time of the winners was 20mins, the fastest time on record for double sculls. Work on the great Santivo tunnel, Virginia, Nevada, has been suspended, if not abandoned. James Thomas Evans, of Sydney, recently in the employ of tho Government of New South Wales, and whose duty was to draw cheques for the payment of Government officials, was charged on warrant for forgery and taken from the ship Cambrian Monarch immediately on the arrival of that steamer in port on September 7th. The detective had anticipated tho arrival of the ship by taking passage in the R.M.S.S. Zealandia from Sydney on August 12th. As soon as the fugitive saw tho detective he recognised him, and submitted quietly to arrest by the San Francisco officers, who turned over the balance, about £SO, of the proceeds of the forgery. Ho was taken before Judge Ferral, where application was made for his return to the colony under the Extradition Act of 1842.

News from the Jeannette, the Bennet Arctic Expedition vessel, has been received up to August 29th, 1879, and published in tho “ New York Herald.” Tho letter was dated from Cape Scrudezaman, and came officially through the charge d’affaires. It was written when tho vessel was on the point of sailing for Archangel, and tho officers and men were all well.

The Panama canal syndicate has not yet been perfected, and no definite progress has been made towards that work.

By the election of John Taylor, as first president of tho Mormon church, vice Brigham Young, control is given to English saints. Governor Murray, of the territory, in his report to the Secretary for Interior, advises the abolition of all anti-Mormon laws, or else their immediate and rigid enforcement, ae the present policy has brought the Government into contempt.

Cole’s American Circus and Menagerie, which sailed by the City of Sydney, is tho largest of the kind that has ever visited the colonies. The outfit embraces fifty thoroughbred horses and performing animals, twentyfive cages of animals, elephants, camels and zoological wonders. The company numbers seventy people. A troupe of American Indians also accompany it. In the Presbyterian Assembly at Philadelphia, on tho afternoon of the 27th ult., the Prince Paikinrosa read a paper on the condition of religion in New South Wales. He stated that of the total population of that colony, about 700,000, not a tenth are Presbyterians, and not a third attend a place of public worship. Mike Meckollo, the heavy weight champion of America, has been drowned by falling from a Mississippi river steamer. CANADA. Sir John McDonald stated on October 27th, in reply to an address of welcome, that a syndicate had bound itself to complete tho Canada Pacific railroad in ten years, and bad given money security also to work it for ten years after its completion. Tho syndicate was bound to place the land in the market at once, and carry out a systematic scheme of immigration. Tho road would not cost the old province of Canada a cent. He was enthusiastic of German capitalists aiding in directing a stream of immigration to Canada. The English capitalists are in a fever to buy land in the North-West, and he had accepted tho offer of Mr Thomas Brassey, M.P., for 64,000 acres near tho base of the Rocky Mountains,

An Order in Council, published on October 9th, elates that from and after September 14th, 1880, all British territories and possessions of North America not already included within the dominion of Canada, and all islands adjacent thereto, ohall, with the exception of Newfoundland and its dependencies, became part of the. Canadian Dominion,