NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISOO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2150, 15 January 1881, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISOO MAIL.

[By Tblbqbaph.] [Per City of New York at Auckland.] 0 GENERAL SUMMARY. 1 Sir Alexander Oockburn, the Chief Justice, 1 Queen’s Bench, died suddenly on November 20th. The Royal Family _ attended the B funeral. Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of j Common Pleas, has been appointed to fill the , vacancy. j The “ Times,” discussing the high price of i Consols, says that the possibility of a comi pulsery conversion of the 3 per cents, to 2£ is E fairly in view during the next few years. Sir Theodore Martin, biographer of Prince Albert, has been elected Lord Rector of St. Andrew’s University. 1 There are rumors touching changes in the Diplomatic Service. Sir Edwd. Thornton ( will be raised to the rank of Ambassador, and sent to succeed Bari Dufferin at St, Petersburg. Francis Claive will be promoted and sent to Washington to succeed Mr Thornton. Earl Beaconsfield’s new novel “Bndymion,” is a great success. The Royal Geographical Society are considering a plan for a new Arctic Expedition by way of Joseph’s Land. The Hon. Mr Brand, the Speaker of the House of Commons, in a speech at Lewes on December 15th, said that tho prediction that American farmers would crush out the English farmer, would never be fulfilled, as Americans were as heavily taxed as Englishmen. The Princess of Wales had a narrow escape from severe injury, if not death, on December 14th, while following the hounds at Norfolk. Her horse shied and almost threw her, but Sir Dighton Proby fortunately caught her Royal Highness before she could fall. The Revs. Dale and Enwright, ritualists, have been released from gaol on the understanding that they will not do anything contrary to Lord Penzance’s monitions. The situation in Ireland is causing much anxiety, and it is feared that a bloody collision between Leaguers and tho Government forces may ensue at any moment. Tbe Government are largely reinforcing the troops in Ireland, which are now estimated at 30,000. Many Irish refugees are flocking to London, many of whom are in destitute circumstances. Families which were well off a few months ago are in total poverty. An immense anti-leaguers’ meeting was held at Monaghan, on December 16th, Lord Bossmore presiding. Resolutions were passed declaring that an equitable settlement of the land question was absolutely necessary, a settlement giving landlords a fair rent, and tenants protection from back rents and capricious eviotment. “Boycotting” is inflexibly imposed in disaffected districts, and is driving even well meaning people and many Protestants into open affiliation with the Leaguers. Numerous instances are given when with police protection prescribed -individuals could obtain nothing in the way of labor, food or lodging from the inhabitants. In Dublin the merchants and other citizens declare that they will not serve on juries in State trials for fear of injury to their business or murder. The local attorneys refuse to serve eviction papers, and in one instance where one did serve papers he narrowly escaped with his life, although he apologised and promised not to repeat the action. Winter has set in with severity, and much suffering exists among laborers on account of tbe scarcity of work, the League taking care of only those who are ordered to quit employment as marked men. In some cases the League ordered landlords to put on men to improve their property, which in some cases has been done. The Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench, Dublin, denounced the Irish anarchy in unmeasured terms, intimating very plainly that ho would enforce the law with the utmost rigor possible. For this language, the Chief Justice has been set upon with the utmost fury by the Leaguers in Ireland and sympathisers in England. One man at Armagh, County Tyrone, has been sentenced to twenty years for shooting at a landlord’s bailiff. A man named Mulholland was shot dead by a Leaguer named Graham, near Clonmel, when serving a writ. Graham escaped through being aided by the neighbors, but was afterwards arrested. On December X4th, Baron Doures, presiding at tbe Connaught Assizes, read a threatening letter dooming him to death should he convict any of the Leaguers. Several other Judges have received letters of a similar purport. On December 16th, the Land Leaguers issued an address condemning the ontrages and lending threatening letters. The Leaguers themselves have received threatening letters, and Parnell got one telling him he would be shot if he attended a certain meeting on December 15th. Urgent orders have been issued to tho troops in Dublin to hold themselves in readiness for service, and furloughs have been cancelled. The Scots Guards will reinforce the troops there, and a regiment from Gibraltar for England has been ordered to land at Cork. Magazines and depots are being established throughout the disaffected districts, with detachments of soldiers and constabulary to guard them, and for other services. At a meeting of the Land League at Dublin on December 15th, a manifesto was adopted which stated that when the outlines of the promised Land Bill are made public by the Government, a special meeting of the League will be held for the purpose of discussing the measure, and pronouncing as to its worth.

Captain Boycott has applied to Mr Gladstone for compensation for his losses, whioh the Premier would not promise to give. On December 10th, explosions occurred in the Pen-y-Grigg, a new colliery in Bhonda Valley, by which nearly 100 miners were killed. The pit is about a mile from the place where tho great explosion happened in Dinas Colliery on January 13th, 1878, when some sixty parsons perished. On November 30th tho Italian Chamber of Deputies passed a vote of confidence in the Ministry. The Pope has issued an encyclical letter exhorting the Bishops of the Church to exhort their flocks to work, and contribute to tho work of apostolic foreign missions. The Nihilists a-e again active at St. Petersburg, and their peculiar placards are often found on the walls of houses. Tho city bills proclaim the beginning of a new and stronger revolutionary movement, and that tho Czar will not live another year. A strict watch by the police fails to find where tho placards come from or who puts them up. The expedition against the Kurds has so far made no progress. The differences with the Vatican are to be settled in Bt. Petersburg, the Pope having selected a delegate to represent the Church there. Tho Baroness de Friedland, a Bonapartist and personal friend of the ex-Bmpress Eugenie in Paris, has been charged with forging to the amount of 181,000 francs. Tho flow of gold to the United States is exciting interest in the Chamber of Deputies. In answering a question on the subject, the Minister of Finance said that the result was according to the laws of trade, but that tho Government would endeavor to prevent matters from becoming serious. The newspaper war between M. Gambetta and M. Rochefort continues,, the personalities exchanged being very bitter. Madame Thiers, wife of the late ex-Presi-dont, died in Paris on December 12th, and was buried on tho 16th. A fight occurred at an island near Meava between a Revenue boat and some opium smugglers. Pour of the Revenue men were killed and wounded. Ex-Queen Isabella has ordered her bankers to invest largely in Panama Canal shares. Tho ice in the Volga broke at Niji Novogorod, doing great damage. A Nihilist establishment has been discovered at Oharkoff by tho police. Several printing presses and some arms were found. Secretary Thomson, of President Hayes’ Cabinet, has resigned his portfolio to accept the position of manager of the American branch of the Panama Canal Company. De Leasops says that the work will be begun in (ho near future, and pushed forward with all reasonable rapidity, as he has all tho money required. The United States will not interfere in the affair, as it is purely a matter of private enterprise. Tho anti-Jewish crusade in Germany is increasing in strength. A Bill to restrict the privileges of Jews in the empire was debated in the Lower House, but a vote was not reached. The movement is strongest in the larger towns, where tho people have combined into an organization pledged to do no business with the Jews. In a speech at Strasbourg, General Manteufeul said that tho union of Alsace and Lorraine with Germany was complete and

final, and anyone attempting to disturb the existing relations would be severely punished. The deficit in the Greek Budget will be covered by a loan. The Prince of Miridites has been arrested in North Albania and taken to Constantinople. The charge is not stated. The tribes in North Oaahmore are in revolt. A small force of Sikhs is contending against the rebels, but without success. Admiral Lessoffsky, Commander-in-Chief of the Land and Sea Forces, is shortly expected at Yokohama with twelve ships of war.

The Japan Government is making inquiry as to the terms on which it can obtain a foreign loan. It is stated that the differences between the Mikado and China on the Loo Oboo question have been settled upon the basis suggested by Grant, which comprises a cession to China of Midcocbina, a group at the north end of Formosa, and the recognition by China of the Mikado's government at Loo Choo proper.

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 21. Congress met on the 6th Last., when President Hayes submitted his annual message. He is in favour of an arrangement being made with Great Britain to enable both British and American fishermen to have equal privileges on all Atlantic fishing grounds, and thinks that the matter could be arranged. He is loud in his praises of the way persons were treated at the Sydney Exhibition, and commends the Exhibition at Melbourne. He notifies Congress that two treaties have been arranged with China, one of a commercial character and the other modifying the former treaty, so as to check the immigration of Chinese. The President took strong ground against De Lesseps and the Panama canal, mainly because it is not owned nor controlled by the United States. He advocates subsidies for steam postal services on the ocean, and points to Great Britain as a country whose prosperity has been greatly enhanced by such policy. The national finances, he says, are in a very flourishing condition. The receipts last financial year were 333,526,610d015.. being 90,000,000d015. more than the expenditure. He advises Congress to pass a law making the silver dollar contain a gold dollar’s worth of silver.

Joe Winrow, the celebrated British pugilist, died at San Francisco. One Cota, a Mexican, was arrested in San Francisco on a requisition from the President of Mexico, for alleged crimes in Sinaloa. He was put on board a Mexican war vessel. A writ of habeas corpus was issued out for him, but the commander of the vessel refused to obey the order of the court, and ejected the sheriff of San Francisco from his vessel. Subsequently, however, Cota was surrendered to the sheriff. The case is now before the Federal courts.

Small-pox still continues in San Francisco, though the number of oases is decreasing. It is of mild shape, the deaths not exceeding 8 per cent, of the cases. The Southern Pacific Railway is now within forty miles of the junction with Atchison road.

At El Faso a rain storm set in on Deo. 15th, and has continued with slight intervals since, and extended all through California. It is of the utmost benefit to farmers.

An Englishman, styling himself Lord Courtney, and a nephew of Lord Durham, has been roaming through the country for two years, living on the fat of the land, and being entertained by the best society wherever he went, and victimising people everywhere. He came to grief in New York city, and is now in gaol. Business depression exists in the large Eastern cities. Several heavy failures have occurred in New York and Philadelphia lately. Two of the largest coffee houses in the country have failed in New York city —one for a million, and the other for a million and a half.

The total number of votes for the presidential election in November was 9,192,945.

The total arrivals of gold at New York from Europe between August 2nd and December 11th amounted to 52,387,500 dole. The Chilian advance on Lima has begun. On November 29tn nineteen war ships and transports appeared off Pisco, and after a desperate resistance from 1200 Peruvians they landed a force of 10,000 men. Pisco is 125 miles from Lima, and most of the way lies through a level valley. The Peruvians are concentrating armies of double that number along the line of the Chilians’ advance, but for the most part they are poorly armed, and have little discipline. Before leaving Pisco the Peruvians burnt the rolling stock and bridges on the Pisco railway, which is a serious loss to the English owners.