ARRIVAL OF THE ’FRISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2231, 31 May 1881, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ’FRISCO MAIL.

[By Tblbsbath.] [Per e.s. Zealandia, at Auckland.J GENERAL SUMMARY. An abortive attempt was made by the Nihilists to rescue Hessy Helfmann, Rochefort organised a monster indignation meeting in France to protest against the barbarity of her treatment. It is intended to abolish public executions in St. Petersburg. The Earl of Fingal is dead. General Louis Von Benedick is dead. He was born in 1804, and is the last of the tacticians of the old school.

The Catholic Congress, to be held in October at Madrid, will be attended by Catholic notables from every part of the world.

A steamer got aground in the Suez Canal on May 22nd and stopped the traffic. Hughenden Church is to be decorated as a memorial to Earl Beaconsfleld.

Hr Bradlaugh is about to appeal to the people against his treatment in the House of Commons.

War between Japan and China is probable.

A terrible epidemic of typhus is making great havoc among the horses in Paris. The Paris Omnibus Company lost 75,000 francs. The telegraph is at last to be introduced in China between Shanghai and Tien Tsi:-:. The Grand Duke Nicholas is imprisoned in the fortress at Dnnaburg. There was a very effecting scene when the mother of the royal criminal took leave of him for ever.

The greater part of Krasnoyarsk, the second mast important city in Siberia, has been destroyed by fire. The letter for which an apology has been made by Archbishop Croke, was by no means respectful to His Grace of Dublin in its tone. More than this, it contained some passages which admitted the construction that there was a disposition not to acquiesce in the authority of the Vatican itself, in cate that authority should be cast against (he land reform in Ireland, This open collision between high ecclesiastical dignitaries is very naturally regarded in Catholic circles as a flagrant scandal. A letter from the Rev. Thos. W. Croke, Archbishop of Cashel, is published, in which he says—“ I cannot approve of the action which the Irish party ore said to contemplate to exhibit their sense of loyalty to Dillon, and reprehension for his arrest. An overwhelming majority of the Irish people are in favor of giving the Government a fair chance of passing the Land Bill.” Mr Gladstone has refused to give Mr Dillon the Ohiltern Hundreds.

A manifesto from the National Land League of Great Britain, touching the arrest of Mr Dillon, has been issued. It is signed by Mr Justin McCarthy, and urges the Irishmen of Great Britain to evict their landlords as they themselves have been evicted, and to wreak vengeance at the polls on apostates from liberalism, whom they helped to raise to power. In the House of Commons last night a motion was agreed to that something should be done to improve the dwellings of laborers in Ireland. Mr Forster, Chief Secretary of Ireland, stated that if the Government could see any way of proposing anything to effect that object in the Land Bill it would gladly do so.

A. M. Sullivan had a long interview with Mr Parnell, but declined to abstain from voting on the Land Bill, which he and Messrs O’Connor and Power support. Probably forty Homo Rulers will vote on the second reading of the Bill, and twenty-five will abstain. It is denied that Sullivan has written to Parnell, declining longer to acknowledge the latter’s authority. A report from Tunis that the principal Arabs resolved to unfurl the Standard of the Prophet, and have proclaimed a holy war against the infidels, is confirmed. The Bey’s police discovered the plot, and made several arrests, and domiciliary visits resulted in a large quantity of bullets and powder being discovered. The French’troops who landed in Bagarta will operate in conjunction with General Dogeret, thus completely surrounding the Kronmir country. Eli Bey, the Tunisian commander, removed his camp to South Beja. Pour French ironclads took Bizaratu on May Ist, and the same day a light column sent to re-assure one of the tribes was fired at by two other tribes and by Kroumirs, but the enemy were defeated with a loss of forty. English politicians continue to watch anxiously the French operations in Tunis, and the British fleet is assembling at Malta. It is rumoured that Abd el Kadir has written a warning to the French to prepare for a serious uprising in Algiers. Battles are frequent between the Kroumirs and the French, with the advantage on the side of the latter.

All the Nihilists, except the woman Helfmann, condemned to death for their connection with the Czar’s assassination, namely, Bousakoff, Michaeloff, Kililloohitiskt, Jellaboff and Sophie Pieoffsky, were hanged on the morning of April the 15tb, Michaeloff’s rope broke twice. The appeals of Ronaakoff and Michaeloff were submitted to the Czar, but he replied that the sentence of the Court must be carried out. All the prisoners received ministrations and kissed the cross and each other, and they were firm, except Ronsakoff, who fainted at the last moment. Public order was not disturbed, and many thousands of people passed the night at the place of execution in order to get a good view of the executioner, a reprieved convict. The prisoners were conveyed from the fortress in two carts, with their backs to the horses and boards tied to bands on their breast, bearing the word “ Regicide ” in large characters. A Berlin despatch says that the Czar still resides in a diminutive chateau at Galsohine, guarded by six cordons of soldiery. His Majesty has never seen the outside of the inner circle. His town mansion is entrusted to the guardianship of 300 men of the Paulowski guard. A Nihilist manifesto announcing the approaching death of Alexander 111. has been received by the Russian Minister and the Court officials. Ever since the assassination of the Czar, the Empress has been suffering from severe hysteric attacks, and she has been threatened with death of the most horrible description should Sophia Piooffski and Hessy Helfmann, the two women implicated in the assassination, be executed. She made most strenuous efforts to obtain their pardon, and received a promise. She did not discover the deceptive character of the promise until after the execution of Pieoffski, and the discovery threw her into violent paroxysms. On Easter Day a revolutionary proclamation from the Land and Liberty party was found enclosed in Easter eggs distributed in the streets of Moscow. The proclamation urges the peasantry to seize the lands, and refuse to pay taxes or servo in the army. Four persons, formerly servants in the Imperial Palace at Constantinople, have been arrested and charged with the assassination of the late Sultan Abdul Aziz. They confessed that they suffocated him, after which they opened the veins in his arms to make it appear that ho committed suicide. Two expolice officials and an ex-War Minister are stated to bo implicated. It will be remembered that the treasure which Abdul Aziz had amassed mysteriously disappeared after his decease, and then the Ministry gave out that it had been used for war expenditure. The present inquiry tends to show that a considerable part was appropriated by high officials and others connected with the Palace. Pashas Nowry and Mahomed incriminate each other. Nowry accuses Mahomed of having caused a slave to be disembowled to discover whether she had swallowed a valuable diamond, which was missing from the Treasury. During the examination of Fabra Bey, Chamberlain to Abdul Aziz, who is accused of an active share in the murder, although his victim had formerly conferred great benefits on him, the Sultan became excited, and declared that he could hardly refrain from taking vengeance on him with his own hands. The Sultan’s two brothers, Eulam Mahomed Pasha and Nowry Pasha, are under arrest. They are both suspected to be implicated. AMERICAN NEWS. Sara Bernhardt made 150,000d01. by her American tour. A new sect has sprung into existence in California, which believes in the literal construction of the Bible language. It is leading to trouble. Thomas Gardner, late of New Zealand, is about to start a journal in Tombstone, Arizona, to be called the “ Daily Union.”

Another attempt will bo made to revive the World’s Fair scheme in New York, by associating wealthy men in the enterprise. Owing to the scarcity and high price of sailon, merchant vessels are leaving San Francisco for European ports shipping Coolie seamen. Several Americans are in Mexico seeking railroad concessions. The Lousiana sectional dry dock sunk out of sight in 30ft. of water, and is given up as lost. It is reported that Governor Overton has been killed in a scrimmage with j"oow boys ” and desperadoes in Mexico. A strong feeling has sprung up among the masses against railroads, and serious trouble is anticipated. The Rev. Smith, superintendent of the Methodist missions, and head of the Church in British Columbia, has declared his disbelief in the doctrine of eternal punishment, and will bo no longer bound by the close standard of the Church. He will be followed in secession by a number of Methodists, and an independent church will be formed. Paul Boynton, the swimmer, has returned to America from South America, where he was in the Peruvian service, and had been captured by the Chilians. A New York black-mailing journal called “ Truth ” has been mulcted in 2500d015. for libel on a gentleman named W. F. G. Shanks. The suit was for 250,000d015. J. W. Hatnble, a young Englishman, committed suicide in Chicago. He arrived from London with considerable wealth, all of which, excepting 2500d015,, he lost in grain speculation. The fur seal fishery at Qneen Charlotte Island and the West Coast of Vancouver is a failure. John Minturn, of the long established firm of Grinned, Minturn and Co,, New York, shot himself dead in his private office during a fit of temporary insanity. It is understood that the new line of steamers between San Francisco and China, put on by the China Merchant Steam Navigation Company, is really run by the Chinese Government. 40,000,000 taels (4,500,000 dole.) was loaned to the company, and no part has been paid. The Viceroy of Tien Tsin is the actual head of the company. A bloody affair occurred at San Francisco between two brothers in-law—Thomas Cunningham, commission merchant, and John A. Chandler, grandson of Senator Chandler, of Michigan. The affair grow out of family difficulties, and as the result Cunningham was shot, and died shortly after. Chandler had his arm broken by a ball from his adversary’s pistol. The rumours in circulation about General Grant’s proposed conquest of Mexico by an armed force are ridiculed and denied by Congressman elect, Allan, whose name was connected with the scheme. He says that the only way to conquer Mexico is by railroads and commerce.

An organised band of buccaneers is said to exist on the Louisiana and Mississippi coast,and the Governor of the latter State has offered 500dols, for the capture of Denham, the chief of the band.

The consular reports to Washington showing the extent to which adulterated wines are imported in France are unquestioned. The evidence of the deficiency in the home produce is supplied by the millions of gallons of wine made in Spain, Italy, Hungary, Turkey, Algiers, and brought into Fiance and mixed and “ doctored ” until it assumes the appearance and taste of the product of the French vineyards. Joaquin Miller, the poet, has published a now book called “ The Shadows of Shasta,” designed to expose the hideous outrages perpetrated by the United States Government upon the Western Indians. The New York “ Tribune,” in endorsing it, says it is an “ineffaceable disgrace to the Government, which makes its army the instrument for oppressing and pillaging the weak, and the tool of pimps and thieves.”

Professor Chandler, of New York, who was appointed to investigate the subject, has reported that oleomargarine is not only innocuous, but superior in all respects to the lower grades of dairy butter now in the market. In regard to it there is no need for legislation to protect the public health. John A. Macdonald retires from the Canadian premiership on account of ill health. He will be succeeded by Sir Alexander Galt. The Mexican Chamber of Deputies approve of Eade's ship railway contract. The steamship Wyoming brought to New York 200 Mormon immigrants. There are 11,000 converts in Europe awaiting transport. Thirty-five missionaries have been despatched to propagate the faith in the profitable fields of Europe. The Mormons have adopted a plan of not conducting polygamous marriages openly, and avoiding reference to them to avoid prosecution. President Garfield is further incensed by Mormon activity, and meditates repressive legislation. Phe San Francisco Board of Health has the steamer Alaska, with 912 Chinese on board, in rigid quarantine for smallpox. The Oceanic also arrived in an infected condition.