NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2218, 5 April 1881, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRAN CISCO MAIL.

[By Tblbqbaph.] [Per b.s. Australia, at Auckland.] GENERAL SUMMARY. It is denied that Mr Henry Labouchero has become connected by purchase with the ” Pall Mall Gazette.”

Tho University boat race takes place on April Bth. The Waterloo Cup has been won by Princess Dagmar. Constable, tho noted jockey, is dead. A cartridge manufactory, with American machinery, turning out 300,000 cartridges per day, has just been put into operation in Constantinople. The Royal Spanish Academy has decided to open a poetical competition in London, to celebrate the forthcoming second centennial anniversary of the poet Calderon Delabarca. Contributions are to be in the English language. The Archbishop of Dublin and James Russell Lowell are appointed jurors, and the successful competitor will receive a gold medal of the Academy and a diploma. A collapse in the silver market in London on March Bth was produced by the announcement that the India Office would offer the following day £50,000 more than the usual amount in Council bills.

Le Printeps, a great drapery establishment on tho|Boulevard Haussmann has been burned and several lives lost. The total losses to the insurance companies are 7,000,000 francs. Twenty-six persons were injured during the fire.

Whole villages in Posen, Prussia Proper, and Schleswig are represented as deserted, the residents having emigrated to America. The Government is doing all in its power to check emigration agents from the United States, but in vain.

The Boers, by order of Joubert, have dispossessed all the inhabitants of Utrecht loyal to the British, and ordered their homesteads to to be burned.

Queen Caroline, widow of Ring Christian XIII. of Sweden, is dead. Sir Henry Jackson, lately appointed Judge of the High Court of Justice, is dead. Portugal has adopted the Marquez treaty with England, which gives tho latter country the right of way for military and commercial purposes, but makes no concession of territory. It is reported that the oldest private bank in Marseilles has suspended payment. An attempt to hold a Home Rule meeting at Coventry, under the auspices of Messrs Arthur O’Connor and Finigan, led to a free fight. A blockade has been established on the French side of Andorra, the inhabitants re fusing to listen to either France or Spain. The Archbishop of Dublin assails the Land League in his Lenten pastoral, and also the ladies who are associated in the movement. The ladies intend to reply. Lord Beaoonsfield offered to cancel his “ Endymion” contract with Messrs Longman, and instead of £IO,OOO to take half of the profits. The offer was declined. The loss is now £3OOO, but this is expected to be made up by the cheap edition. Lord Derby denies that he is to enter the Ministry. Mahomet Jan, the Afghan leader, has been murdered.

It is rumored in Paris that Herbert Von Bismarck, son of the Chancellor, has eloped to Italy with a German Princess, tho wife of a high dignitary at the Court of Berlin. Mr Asbmead Bartlett, the husband of Baroness Burdett Coutts, is threatened with a breach of promise suit, Lord Rosebery has given an order to Boehm to execute a statue of Carlyle in marble.

Mr Eaton (Conservative) has been elected to Parliament for Coventry. A Fenian lodge has been discovered in Lancashire, and arms were found secreted. In the Lenten pastoral issued by the Irish Catholic bishops the people are earnestly warned against forming illegal secret combinations. The strongest sympathy is expressed for their trials.

An additional French man-of-war will be sent to Chinese waters, and a war vessel will be detached to watch the Tahite Islands. 2,500,000 francs is asked by the Government to suppress piracy in Tonquin. Edmund Yates is about to start a new daily afternoon newspaper in London. • The Hon. George B. Berkeley, brother of the Earl of Berkeley, and a well-known author, is dead. Lord Odo Russell has been raised to the peerage with the title of Baron Empthill.

James Lyall and 00., East India merchants, of London, have failed. In the House of Commons, Mr Mundella, Vice-President of the Council, said that the Government did not at present intend to prohibit the Importation of pork from the United States. He added that the yearly importation of pork, bacon, and hams from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Denmark was more than 201bs weight per head for the whole population of the United Kingdom, and its value exceeded £9,500,000, exclusive of live swine. To cut off this enormous supply of food would inflict great hardship on the poor. American smuggling vessels, chiefly from San Francisco, have become so numerous on the coast of Eastern Siberia that the Governor-General asks for a Bussian Naval force to suppress them. President Garfield’s inaugural address was telegraphed verbatim to the London Press, and produced an exultant impression. Both English and Americans alike admired it for its style and wise moderation of tone. The journals praise liberally the new President’s political good sense, and augur a prosperous administration.

The veto of the Funding Bill by President Hayes has provoked extraordinary activity ia American securities in England. The French Government has embargoed at Dunkirk the munitions of war intended for Greece.

General Ney, Duo De Blohinger, grandson of Marshal Ney, committed suicide at Chalillon by shooting himself through the head.

General Do Cissy has been acquitted of all charges against him. According to a vote of 12 to 6 in the Court of Inquiry, he is not guilty of treason or corruption, nor of irregularities prejudicial to the State. Mr Froude’s “ Beminiscences of Carlyle” contain many more autobiographical details than was expected. Several characteristic allusions to early contemporaries and brief sketches of many persons are given, including Leigh Hunt, Para de Quincy, Chalmers, Disraeli, Murray, Hallet, and a dozen of what Carlyle calls “ thin celebrities.” He nicknames Beaconsfield “ Demosthenes Disraeli.” Over 4000 copies of the book have been token in advance. Mr Froude before publishing it sailed for Madeira in ill health. Beports from Borne state that a terrible earthquake took place at Onscamaccia, island of Ischia, on Friday, March 4th. The first shock occurred at 1.30 in the afternoon, and the second an hour later. The whole of the upper part of the town is destroyed, and two thermal establishments seriously damaged. The probable loss of life will reach 300, and the damage to houses and property will amount to 100,000 francs. Thirty thousand people were deprived of shelter. The shocks were accompanied by a noise like subterranean thunder, and then came the crash of falling houses mingling with the shrieks of the victims. Many deeds of heroism were performed by the soldiery. The scenes wore harrowing. Mothers, wives, and children were striving to snatch the dead from the biers on which the soldiers were carrying them away. Further details say that 300 detached limbs and fragments of bodies were dug from the ruins. An incident is recorded of a handkerchief fluttering from an upper storey of a building, on seeing which Col. Parodie mounted a ladder and entering a window reappeared with a woman unhurt, but insane.

AMEBIOA. Steps are being taken by the New York Municipal Council to put a stop to walking matches in the city, several having been denounced as frauds.

French Canadian operatives are emigrating in large numbers to the United States. Scarlet fever and diphtheria have become epidemic in parts of Canada. The entries for the pigeon shooting match in London for the championship of the world and challenge cup include so far Dr. Carver and Messrs Paine and Scott.

Mr John W. Mackey, the Bonanza Prince, has made a bid for the collection of pictures belonging to Prince Fortonia, of Rome. A mass meeting in sympathy with the Boers has been held in Chicago. There are 9000 Dutchmen in that city. The policy of educating the young Indians instead of fighting the old ones is now proposed by the United States Government.

A case of poisoning from eating canned salmon occurred in Chicago, ending fatally. Corrosion of tho can caused the poisoning. Cholera is raging in Chicago, and is attributed to the general use of butterino or oleomargarine. On the return from England of Edward Hanlan, the champion oarsman, he was tho guest of the Atlanta Boat Club at New York. On March 3rd, a dinner was given in his honor, at which Major Grace, the Key. Henry Ward Beecher, and other distinguished persons were present. It is thought that the Union Pacific (oyer* land) Kailway will go on the London market for a loan of £40,000,000 with which to pay the United States the whole sum due it for forming the road.

A 50,000 dollar relief fund for Michael Davitt has been started in San Francisco, Contributions are limited to 25 cents.

A prohibitory duty of 11s 3d per ton has been imposed on English coal in Callao, while coal from Chili is admitted free.

Tho steam whaler Mary and Helen has been purchased by the United States Government, and will be fitted out to go in search of tho missing Arctic exploring vessel Jeannette.

Harry Genet, one of the old New York Tweed ring, has been convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for six months, also to pay a fine of 9604 dollars. The International “ Tramp ” in Now York came to an end on March I2th, O’Leary retired with 450 miles, and Faughan withdrew when he had completed 461 miles. The affair was almost neglected by the public. I he scare about American pork has reduced the rate in England to almost nothing. The same clique of speculators who caused the mischief are now attacking American canned meats.

The world’s fair, which was to be held in New York in 1883, will probably be abandoned, as no subscriptions are coming in. Captain Eaad’s Tehuantepec ship and railway scheme died hard in Congress. The Hawaiian Islands are being devastated by small pox, recently imported in the brig Cassandra from Canton. The white inhabitants are flying in dismay. The roads and paths leading out of Honolulu are closely guarded, but the mail steamers will not take anything on board except the mails, remaining outside the reef to receive them, ” Mongolians are arriving in large numbers, and appropriating the native women, and the affairs of the island are far from satisfactory. The Canadian railroad is being pushed on with the utmost rapidity. In the glass ball match Dr. Carver shot for three days, ending March 11th, hitting 2882, and Scott 2883 balls.

The Lingards are engaged at Baldwin’s Theatre, San Francisco. The trial of Isaac Kallooh for shooting Charles Da Young is now in its thirty-seventh day. The testimony is conflicting. President Garfield's inauguration, notwithstanding the stormy weather, was a brilliant affair. Nearly 50,000 people were massed in front of the capitol at Washington, and the address is pronounced one of the most careful and statesmanlike documents ever delivered there. General W. S. Hancock, the defeated democratic candidate, was present at the head of bis brilliant staff, and by the attentions paid him, seemed to divide the honors ef the day with bis successful rival. A terrible blow up of an explosive manufactory occurred at West Berkley, near San Francisco, on March 4th. The buildings were reduced to kindling wood, and three Chinamen and two white men were torn to pieces. The Assembly of the State of Maine has indefinitely postponed the resolution expressing sympathy with the people of Ireland. Disease has appeared among the horses in New York. A committee of New York residents with Dutch ancestry, formed to assist the Boers in the Transvaal, has disbanded, finding no sympathy or encouragement. The Porte has ordered 30,000,000 cartridges from the United States, to be delivered in three months from February. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company at San Francisco is at present engaged in an active competition with the China Merchants’ Steamship Company for tho China trade. The second vessel of tho latter line, the Mee Foo, was in port in February, and out down fares and freights below living rates. Some of the papers see in this contest retributive justice, as the Pacific Mail Company have been the means of inundating California with thousands of Chinese, who have reduced the remuneration for white labor in nearly every branch of business.

Many of the sugar plantations of Honolulu are heavily mortgaged, and some of them will have to go to tho wall. The Chinese are already maturing plans for the purchase of these estates, and a Chinese landed proprietary is not an unlikely possibility of the future.

Bogues, the amnestied Communist, has been elected a deputy from Bt. Denis. The people of the Southern States did not expect to be represented in General Garfield’s Cabinet, but the leaders are of opinion that he will fully consider the needs of the South in his executive capacity. Wealthy men from San Francisco are buying real estates largely in New York. L. O Mills, of the Bank of California, recently paid 1,250,000 dollars for property on Wall and Broad streets and Exchange Place, The Catholic Orphanage at Hyde Park, Scranton, Pa., was burned, and seventeen children wore lost, fourteen boys and three girls. The Chinese have been refused naturalisation as American citizens in the United States Circuit Court. The action of the Court has been denounced by the press. Jesse B. Grant, brother of the ex-President, has gone to Europe to start a mining exchange. An immense corporation has been organised in St. Louis, the purpose of which is to forward grain in bulk and all kinds of produce and merchandise from St. Louis to Liverpool and other foreign ports. The State of Delaware has passed a prohibitory liquor law. W. ;D. Howell, editor of the “ Atlantic Monthly,” has been offered the post of Minister to Switzerland, Politicians complain of the President’s partiality for literary men.

General Grant positively refused an invitation to attend the Garfield inauguration at Washington on the 4th of March. American capitalists, principally the firm of Shrpmhn, Barlow, and McFarlane, who have projected the underground railway in New York, will send General McLellon to London to place the shares on the English market.

Lieut. Bohawtka, U.8.N., has offered to place at the disposal of H. M. Government the Franklin relics recently discovered. Mr Beecher has cancelled all lecture engagements, and will devote himself exclusively to church duties in future. His congregation bad become dissatisfied, and an effort was being made to compel his resignation as pastor. An American citizen, after some litigation, has come into possession of Fernando de Nergula Islands off the coast of Brazil. He claimed by right of discovery. On this and Bolas and Atrotbos islands a ro 9,000,000 tons of valuable phosphate.