NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2196, 10 March 1881, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[By Tbm&baph.] [Per s.s. City of Sydney, at Auckland.] GENERAL SUMMARY. Vast injury to property and innumerable casualties on sea and land are reported on aocount of heavy gales. Twelve inches of snow fell in London, and business was interrupted. Despite all precautions taken at the Portsmouth Barracks against Fenians, the brass connections belonging to the fire hose were cut out and stolen. Twenty thousand miners attended a meeting of the League in Lancashire. They afterwards repaired to Atherton Collieries, where a desperate riot ensued. The Hussars, infantry and police were on the ground, and after reading the Riot Act the cavalry oharged the mob. Several miners and policemen were injured. Fearing a Fenian attack, the police guard Mr Gladstone's residence, and attend him at a distance. A vessel has arrived at Plymouth with the figure-head of the lost training ship, Atlanta.

Strict precautions are being taken in every port of the United Kingdom on account of the Fenian agitation. Remarkable vigilance is used at the Houses of Parliament, the troops even in London being confined to their barrack;.

An infernal machine containing a pound of gunpowder has been found in a London square. Three policemen were shot in Edinburgh, one seriously, in making the arrest of two men who were lurking about the Custom House. One of the arrested parties committed suicide. The Roman Oatholio Bishops in Ireland have been convoked by the Archbishop to consider the new Land Bill.

The claims of the Boers are to be inquired into by a Royal Commission. A Dutch Rifle Corps has been formed at the Hague to assist the Boers. Hereditary Prinoe Leopold Hohenzollern, who was recently ohosen heir to the Roumanian throne, has been forcibly abducted by threo men and taken across the Rhine. He subsequently escaped. 18,000 oattle have been lost by floods in Servia.

Prussian finance is in such a favorable condition that the proposed reiuction of 140,000 marks in taxation for the present year is mode perpetual. Bret Harte, Consul at Glasgow, has been disabled by a shot in the hand while hunting. Baroness Burdett Ooutts and Mr Ashmead Bartlett were married at Christ Church, London, on February 12th. None but their nearust relations and intimate friends were present. Reed, Leiprand, and Co., coffee merchants, Frankfort, with branches in London, have failed. The coffee trade generally is disorganised. Leopold de Rothschild, youngest son of the late Baron Lionel do Rothschild, and Misß Perugia, of Trieste, were married in the Portland street Synagogue, London. The Prinoe of Wales, Lord and Lady Roseberry, and other persona of rank were present. Thomas Oorlyle was unconsoious for. many hours before his death. Ho suffered no pain. Professors Tyndall, Froude and Leckie attended the funeral. The North German Lloyd's steamer Kron Prenz Frederic Wilhelm sunk a steamer by a collision off Oothaden. Six lives were lost. The ship Bremen has been wrecked at Shetland Isles. Thirteen were drowned and seven saved.

Twelve men were imprisoned, and probably perished by a colliery explosion in Whitfield, near Ohall, Staffordshire, on February 7th. Two ships were damaged and eighteen railway trucks and twelve grain laden barges destroyed by fire at the Victoria Docks, London, on February Bth. The steamer Bohemian, Captain Grundy,

from Boston for Liverpool, went ashore in Dunlop Bay, on tho Irish Coast, during a dreadful storm. Thirty-two persons were drowned. Twenty-one of the crew, including the second officer, were saved.

Michael Davitt, the land league agitator, was arrested on 3rd February under his ticket of leave. He was taken to Milbank Penitentiary, and immediately clothed as a conviol:. The arrest was made in Dublin. It is said that the real cause of Davitt's arrest was his connection with a new movement to look to the employment of physical force in solving the Irish question. The London "Times " says that the Bank of Franco has tried to cure the gold drain by issuing notes. This hag failed, as predioted. The proprietor of the " Marsellaise " has been sentenced to a fine of 1000 francs for defaming the army and eulogising a regicide ; the manager of the same paper to a year's imprisonment and 2000 francs, and General Olusaret, the editor, to two years' imprisonment and 3000 francs,

8,000,000 francs worth of redeemable 3 per cent, rentes, to complete military material and great public works, will not be issued until July. Prince Bismarck proposes to combat social democracy by remedial measures, and not by repressive decrees. Bismarck has introduced a proposition into the Bundsrath for triennial imperial budgets. There was great opposition, and the Finance Minister threatens *o resign. At Dublin, on February 9th, at a meeting I of the Land League, Mr Dillon urged the continuance of agitation even after the passage ' of the Coercion Bill; and advised tenant! to

resist landlords in every way short of physical I force, for which prepared. A re *°" i lution was passed declaring that in view of the importance of securing the sympathy of America and of the Irish in America, Mr Parnell is requested to proceed to that country immediately. Brennan will also go to America, and Walsh goes to Australia. It is stated that the holding of a national convention in Dublin will be prohibited. Dillon advised its postponement till Parnell, Davitt and Brennan can be present. Patrick Egan, treasurer of the Land League, has the league funds in Paris to avoid possible confiscation now the Coercion Bill is passed. He sends strorg appeals to America for material aid.

Orders have been given to treat Davitt with all possible indulgence. He occupies a room with bedding, and is kept apart from the other convicts. He will not be subject to ordinary prison labor, but must wear the convict dress.

The Home Secretary says there was grave and just cause for cancelling Davitt's ticket-of-leave, but it is not desirable to state the reasons. Davitt is in good health and satisfied with arrangements made for him at Portland.

Arthur O'Connor denounced the published statement to tho effect that the Irish members of the House received an allowance from the Land League fund as an atrocious calumny. Tho Home Rulers had decided to carry the agitation against coercion into the great towns of England and Scotland. A murder, growing out of the land disputes, is reported at Derry Lee. A serious encounter with the police had taken place at Kilkeelly, also at Bally Hauris. The mob stoned the police, and were charged at the point of the bayonet. AMERICAN NEWS. Two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars have been subscribed for ex-President Grant. Gould, Vanderbilt, M'Kay, and E. D. Morgan gave 25,000 dollars each. King Kalakaw of the Sandwich Islands has arrived in San Francisco. He proposes to visit the different Asiatic and European nations, with a view of finding out the most feasible means of attracting a desirable class of emigrants to the islands. A new organisation, the National AntiMonopoly League, has been started in New York with branches over the country. Its object is to proteot citizens against the aggressions of corporations, and to advocate and defend the rights of the many against the privileges of the few. Moody and Sankey continue their revival efforts in San Francisco, but do not make as great impression as expected. The meetings in favor of the Irish Land League held in San Francisco were largely attended by the citizens. The feeling is very enthusiastic.

Professor Proctor, who has returned from Australia, is drawing thousands to hear his lectures on astronomy. Captain Chevalier, of the Zealandia, writes to the San Francisco Press to correct erroneous reports regarding his crew. He says the Chinese are not mutinous, and the number of whites employed on board is double that of the Chinese.

An important statement is made that Californian wheat is deteriorating, whioh is attributed to impoverißhing the land by growing year after year tho same kind of crops without fertilizers.

Gerald Paget, with his wife, is hunting in the Wyoming and Montana territories. General Grant starts for Mexico to attend to railway matters, in whioh he is interested. It is said that he has subscribed 400.000 dols. to the stock of a new enterprise. While in Mexico, he will probably visit the mines. A wholesale discharge of miners has been made from the Comstock, the ore bodies of tho Bonanza mines having been worked as long as the ore extracted would pay for mining and milling. Jay Gould says he has purchased the Montreal telegraph system. This, with the system now organising for Mexico, makes him the autocrat of the wires.

Seven hundred of Sitting Bull's land Indians have surrendered to the United States authorities, and their power is now broken.

The connecting point joining Atchinson to Peha and Santa Fe with the Southern Pacific

line is fixed at a point eleven miles west of Denningtew, Mexico. The connection of the two roads forming the second trans-conti-nental track will be made on March 10th.

A Select Committee of Congress has agreed to report favorably on the rails interoceanic transit scheme, carrying vessels by ship railroad across the isthmus.

The New York Legislature refused to pass a resolution of sympathy with the Irish people and regret at the course of the British Government.

The Irish National Land League at Boston appealed to the American people for aid and sympathy for Ireland, and denounced England.

Two barrels of nitroglycerine cartridges were reoently shipped aboad a Sound steamer at New York with a view to blow up the vessel. The carriers acting suspiciously caused an examination, and the explosive was at once thrown overboard.

George Darrell is playing " Baok from the Grave" at Baldwin's Theatre, San Francisco, with moderate success.

A monster indignation meeting concerning the imprisonment of Davitt is proposed. In San Francisco the movement for the world's fair at New York in 1883 is very strong. General Grant heads in the railroads expected to contribute with 100,000dols. President and Mrs Hayes have abandoned the idea of going abroad after leaving the White House.

Chief-Justice Comejoya, of Kelmington, Delaware, called the attention of the Grand Jury to the recent address delivered by Col. Robert G. Ingorsoll, the eloquentj infidel, in that city, as being blasphemous, and asks that the law be brought to bear on him. Soldiers are enforcing writs of judgment against delinquent taxpayers in Ottawa, Ontario.

The tide of emigration to the United States has inoreased enormously. Some papers hint that it might be stayed if Canada ceased to be a British colony. The Railroad Bill has finally passed. The Canadian Parliament generally considers the figures "cooked" on which_ the awards were made in the late fishery arbitration between Canada and the United States, the latter being the sufferer. The Chineso treaty with the United States excites alarm in English quarters on account of the opium clause. It is found that China intends to reuew her attempt to prohibit tho importation of opium altogether. Jay Gould has ordered 15,000 tons of steel rails in England, at 60dols pur ton. The walking match at New York was won by Hughes, who made 568 J miles. He has entered for the Astley belt since in London. A heavy storm, with thirty-six hours' continuous rain, caused great damage through California and Oregon. Ten Chinese lumbermen were killed.

The Press east and west hare fully discussed the late immigration treaty between the United States and China. The result is that the question of Chinese immigration to that oountry is substantially placed for control in the hands of Congress. Ex Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, has filed a petition for divorce from his wife, formerly Mi»a Kate Chase, a daughter of the former Secretary to the Treasury. It is proposed to send the Government vessel Oarwin in search of Bennett's Arctic exploring yacht Jeanette. The crew of the British barque Souvenir, from New York for Queenstown, mutinied, and taking command of the vessel from the captain and mate, returned to port. The New York " Commercial " puts forth two "points" as likely. First, the Government will take the telegraphs and incorporate them in the postal system ; and, second, will buy a controlling interest in De Loaseps' Panama Canal. American forgers have been arrested in Florence, Turin, and Milan. Papers found in their luggage showed that their operations extended throughout the United States, Canada, England, France, Belgium, and Italy. . ~ Representative Newberry has received from Canada a large amount of documentary information showing that falsifications and corruptions were used in securing the Halifax fisheries award.

John W. Dwynle, a leading lawyer of San Francisco, has been accidentally drowned.. Archbishop Purcell, Cincinnati, the most celebrated Catholic Prelate in the United States, is paralysed. An extraordinary instance of cruelty at Newark, Ohio, has come to light. John Gumming, a laborer, forbad his eight-year-old son coasting on an adjacent mill, and crucified him for disobedience. A Cremating Association has been formed in New York.

It bai been disoovered that a class of men in New York, calling themselves undertakers, trade in corpses of children. They agree with parents to bury their dead offspring for a small sum and then sell the bodies to the dissecting rooms. . Lovell, the U.B. Minister in England, is tired of the position and will resign. New Mexioo is harassed by Indians. The Nasajoes band attacked a settlement, killing the inhabitants. Some inexperienced burglars, attempting to got into the money yault of E. Palme and Oo.'s paoer warehouse, at New Orleans, reoently blew the whole front of the building out. Madame Anna Bijhop has re-appeared on the lyric stage at New York, singing to the third generation. New Orleans has been yisited by a severe storm, which flooded part of the city. A persistent effort to abolish hydraulio mining is being made in California. Not 1000 men are employed in all the mines. Ten million tons of debris are annually sent down by them, to the great dotriment of agricultural lands and navigable streams. English stockholders are, for the most part, tho only persons immediately benefited by the proceeds of the miners' question, now before t'ao State legislature The House Committee for Foreign Affairs has adopted resolutions declaring the polioy of the United States in referenoe to the interoceanic canal to bo a re-affirmation of the Monroe doctrine. The resolutions insist that the work shall not be under tho control of any European Government or Power, but free to the commerce of the world upon equal terms.

Caleb J. Pay, a San Franoisoo merchant, is addressing meetings of merchants in the principal eastern cities to bring pressure on Congress with a view to tho distribution of the Geneva award, and to find the actual sufferers without delay. Gold in great quantity, chiefly in the form of nuggets, has been discovered Id the onoe abandoned mines of Lefu, near Caveties, Chili.

The United States Government has agreed to an Inter-national Monetary Conference this year at Paris, and negotiations would be conducted on a basis of whether to admit a double standard of gold and silver. In consequence of the United States Government's acceptance of this invitation, France will invite the powers. Consul-General Walker will act for the American Government. Italy and Germany are said to be anxious for thia conference, Bismarck having said that if the United States accepted a return of the bimetallic system, he would support the representation of Germany in the convention. In reference to the recent consolidation of the telegraphio system in the United States, Jay Gould says to an interviewer —" My idea of a telegraphic system is to supply everybody who wishes oontrol of telegraphio facilities with these facilities, giving private business house, a wire of their own whenever they require them, and doing the same thing for newspaper exohanges, and the railway, and in short all intoreste. The new oompany now has under control through a new cable company organised at Albany, New York, two oables between this country and England, which are to be laid early in the coming summer. A cable will be laid from Cuba, whore they will connect with our present system to the other West Indian Islands, to Brazil, and the other harbors of South America, as well as from San Francisco to China, Japan, Oceania, and Australia, with a northern line by way of Paget Sound to Alaska andJNorthern Asia, oonnected at Earnschalka with the Russian system. So that at no distant day St. Petersburgh will be in direct communication with New York by way of Asia as well as Europe, while England will reach her Australian provinces through New York, and by our American lines cheaper and more expeditiously than on English wires through the Bed Sea and by woy of India. We contemplate a general cable and telegraphio systom round the world. Under the new order of things 1200 superfluous offices will be closed, which it is olaimed will effect a saving of about £2,000,000 a-year."