ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2281, 25 July 1881, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

[By Xblugbaph.] [Per a.s. Australia, at Auckland ] GENERAL SUMMARY. Mr Gladstone hopes to prorogue Parliament the first week in August. In Spain, the free traders and protectionists are holding large meetings. The former oite with approval the example of America. Baron Magnus, re-called to Berlin from Copenhagen for attending a banquet given to Sarah Bernhardt, has become insane. The master shipbuilders in London have yielded to the demands of the men, and the strike is averted. Thirty thousand Staffordshire nailmakers have struck for 30 per cent, more wages. Earl Granville's despatch to the British Minister at Washington, regarding the Fenians in New 1 ork, will not be completed before July 16th. Mr Galling, the well-known correspondent of the " Times," left England on the 16th for the purpose of penetrating Siberia and describing the condition of the exiles there. The health of the EmpreßS of Germany is improving. Earl Granville has sent a despatoh through Sir Edward Thornton, expressing the concern of tho Government for the attempt on President Garfield's lire. The American Consuls throughout Ireland have been instructed to report carefully to "Washington concerning the character and extent of tho disaffection, particularly relative to the prevalence and conduct of the Irish of the Irish-American element. Ex-Alderman Clancy, of Ottawa, Caneda, exhibited a flying machine on the 20th. At an average height of 12ft he made a flight of a quarter of a mile. The maohine h the result of thirty years' thought and labor. A man named Arthur Lefroy was found in one of the Brighton railway carriages on Juno 27th, wounded on the head and bleeding. He reported that his fellow travellers were countrymen and an eld gentleman, and that shortly after parsing Croydon he heard a shot, and was stunned. The police found several bulleta embedded in the carriage, and in Calcolbe Tunnel they found the corpse of T. J. Gold, a retired business man, who had been in London to collect dividends, with his throat cut. He was stabbed in various places, and only a pooket-book containing cards was found on his person. Lafi'oy, after haviDg his wounds dressed, started for London. He is a newspaper reporter, aged twenty-two, and hiss been arrested for the murder. The London "Times," commenting on the monetary conference at Paris, advises the withdrawals of British representatives in that body, as there is no expectation in any case of England agreeing to anything which will affeot her adhesion to single gold standard views. The presence of English delegates in the Congress is most unfortunate, and calculated to injure tho reputation of the English Govornment. Ireland is quiet. Sexton, the manager of the League, took the stump on Sunday, the 27th, in County Kings, but in a sweeping indictment against the Government meie no attack on the Land Bill. Meetings hare also been held at Cork, Watorford, and Mayo, but they dealt almost exclusively with tho Coercion Act, and assailed Mr Forster. The agrarian agitation is nearly extinct. The hey crop ju3t harvested is tfce best Ireland has had since before the great famine. The potato crop promises to be extraordidarily abundant. The fisheries wera never more profitable in Kinsale, and cartloads of fish are usod for manure. Tho landlords have withdrawn ejectment writs in hundreds of cases, and for the sake of peace and quietness are taking Griffith's valuation. A boat's crew of Carnell (American) College has arranged to row in Vienna on August 13th.

Bismarck ia ill again, and confined to his residence at Berlin. A despatch announces tho doith of Jules Arland and Stanislaus Do Fiiure. Russia will endeavor to re-open negotiations with the American Government, looking to restricting the right of Asylum. Tremendoua atorms ravaged Eaat and Weatern American States, and was particularly severe in Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, and Now Hampshire. Horses and men are reported killed by lightning, and the wires are everywhere prostrated. In the Monotary Conference, the Austrian delegates aro instructed to maintain a friendly interest towards bi-mettallism, but not to depart from the reserve hitherto displayed. The disturbances by French and Italians at Marseilles and in other parts of France, and also in Italy, aro likely to lead to national complications. An article in tho "Libertao" (Borne), says that France is anxious to retrieve the shame of her deteat in 1870, and being convinced that sho is not sufficiently strong to measure herself with Germany, seeks inVvery way> pretext for picking quarrels with Italy. The writer says it must be for Italy to choose tho occasion of going to war with France, and not leave the latter to force a war when she finds it most convenient.

' A cor.tnijious mat ad y like leprosy has appeared in T. a ouso in Franca. Parnell's visit to the United States in the autumn will have the two-fold objoct to "pass the hat" and induce a more moderate tone aoiong the Irish Americana. O'Donovau Rosea and others of the same i!k in New York are, by violence of their utterances, making P.iraell's position exceedingly uncomfortable A process server, named McCauliffe, was phot dead at his home, nour Castle Ireland, Kerry, on the night of the 28th. WASHINGTON July 3.

j The "New York Herald's " London special I gives the following particulars of the murder on tho London and Brighton railway roferred to elsewhere. The Act was committed on one of tho most frequented roads loading out of tho metropolis, and excites the keenest interest everywhere Lefroy, the suspected party, 6old a strange story to the railway official how, after lo".ving Croydon, ho heard a shot fired and folt a blow on his head, upon which he became insensible, and only recovered consciousness on reaching Preston He siid he found himself the only occupant of tho compartment, with a pool of blood at his feet. He could not tell who fired tho shot. Lefroy was taken to tho police station at Brighton, whero he gave tho above particulars, and had his wounds dressed at tho county hospital, when'he was permitted to leave for his homo. His real name is Henry Mapleton, and he claims to bo tho author of the play " Pin* and Needles " now beiug performed in the United States, nnd also author ' of sevorol burlesques and operas bouffe now beiiJg played in Melbourne and other parts of Australia. The murdered man Gold was in the habit of travelling on the train in question. Sc:mo articles were found on tho person of Lefroy which it ia thought wiii implicate him.

Tho San Francisco 3rd July telegram from Washington conveys the shocking intelligence that a probably successful >ittempt had been made to assassinate the IV.aidenl, yesterday at 9.30 a.m., while waiting for tho train at the Baltimore and Pottmac railway depot. Mr Garfield was twice shot by one Charles Guntean, a disappointed office seeker, who is presumably domented. Oi:e ball passed through tho arm, the ether took effect in the back adjoining the kidneys. At first accounts tho President was gradually sinking, and his physicians expressed but little hope of recovery. The occurrence profoundly moved the nation hero as elsewhere.

The reeu't of tho consultation of tho physicians is that symptoms are mora favorable thon at any time since the shooting; pulse 116. No attempt was made to get at the bullet, as the physicians think it has lodged where it will not necessarily interfere with tho ultimato recovery of the Preßidont. The wheat crop in the United States for 18S1 is estimated at 460 000,000 bushels.