ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2306, 25 August 1881, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

fßr TEI.BSBAPH.] [Per 8,9. City of New York, at Auckland.] GENERAL SUMMARY. Bight hundred inhabit ante of Northampton have petitioned that Mr Bradlaugh be not admitted to Parliament. King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands, has been the lion of the month in London. He behaved himself very well, excepting that he drank too much at dinner. In the House of Commons, Mr Gladstone announced that Government had abandoned Bills for dealing with corrupt practices, for amending the Ballot Act, and for regulating Irish county Government, but hoped to pass the Bankruptcy Bill. The Queen reviewed 50,000 troops at Windsor, the largest review ever held there. The Duke of Cambridge commanded and the Prince of Wales marched at the head of the Honorable Artillery Company of London. The Duke of Connaught commanded the divisions of the second army corps. 10,000 spectators were present. The race on July 14th for the Thames Challenge Cup was won by the London crew, a Thames crew second, Cowell (American College) third. The race was won by three lengths, with a length between the Thames und'Oowell boats.

The Orange anniversary passed off quietly in Ireland.

The shooting match between a team of six Canadians and a team of six British riflemen at Wimbledon resulted England, 1222; Canada, 1105.

Lefroy will be tried at Lewes during the November assizes. The Newcastle “ Chronicle” published a letter from accused, written in April, alleging that he was a contributor to several American journals. Lefroy’s relatives are highly respectable, but disowned him for some time, and the Crown will have to provide counsel for his defence. The defence will probably be insanity, as prisoner’s grandfather died in a mad-house at Malta. His relatives and his associates on the “Era ’’and other journals for which he was a penny-a-liner, look upon Lefroy as more of a rogue than fool.

It is estimated that ten millions to forty millions of francs in false gold hare been shipped from Geneva to Egypt within a few years, and disposed of by organised Bank swindlers, comprising men of prominence in Geneva, Marseilles, and Alexandra.

The Italian Minister has left Paris and no successor, it is said, will be appointed. France is making treaties in Senegal for the exclusive right to found stations and a road to the Niger. Segoa is to be placed under a French protectorate, and a French resident is to be stationed there. It is intended to build a railway up the Yalley of Senegal, towards Braniakoo, on the Niger, in order to establish communication with Upper Soudan. The Nihilists held a great and solemn meeting of the executive committee in Paris. Several exiles came from Genoa. The meeting resolved to warn the Czar once more, and then if he and his advisers do not heed it, the treaty will perish. Statistics published by the Hamburg police show that the number of German emigrants which passed through Hamburg alone to America from January let to June 30th amounted to 74,633, being twice the number for the same period in the year following the late war. Reckoning other departures it is said that it will be found that Germany has lost so far in 1881 a quarter of a million of her best subjects. The great landslip near Segriswell, canton of Berne, is steadily moving towards Lake Thun. It makes three metres daily. The course is three miles wide, and of unknown depth. The cities are out of danger, but the farm houses are deserted.

The British claim for damages during the bombardment of Sfax amounts to 60.000,000 francs, and the claims of other nations amount to 26,000,000 francs. The Sultan is still sending contingents of troops to Tunis, in spite of the promise to the contrary given to the French Charge d’Affairs. The relations between Franca and Turkey arc strained to the utmost. The Sultan declared that he would never again receive M. Lissot, the French Ambassador, at Constantinople. M. Lissot, in reply, says that the Sultan may soon learn what it costs to insult a great nation in the person ®f its Ambassador. Later accounts say that the relations between France and Turkey are considered excellent, the Porte having satisfactorily explained the dispatch of troops to Tripoli. Smallpox is raging in Santa Domingo to a fearful extent. Parties are daily organised to bury the victims. AMERICAN NEWS. A party of Americans, travelling from Paso del Norte to Ohilhahua, in Mexico, discovered twelve dead bodies, all Americans, and portion of the surveying expedition of the Mexican Central Railroad, who had been murdered by the Apaches. Mormon converts in thousands are arriving in New York, from Europe, en route to Salt Lake. The British barque Beatrice, oil-laden, was struck by lightning off Beady Island, near Philadelphia, and burned to the water’s edge. The electric fluid ran down the mast into the hold and fired the cargo. It is reported that the Tichbome Claimant’s daughter, Jennie Ogdon Terris, writes to the “ New York Star ” that her father is playing a game of deception on the Californian people, and that he admitted to her in Brooklyn that he intended to personate the lost Sir Roger. Indian outrages continue in New and Old Mexico. In the latter the Apaches have tortured and killed a great many mining prospectors and others, ex-Governor Pugh’s son among the rest. Grisoomo, an imitator of Dr. Tanner, has completed a forty-five days’ fast in Chicago. News has been received of the missing whalers Mount Wollaston and Yigilant. Both were lost in ice in the Arctic Sea, and all on board perished. The Esquimaux described to Captain Millard, of the whaler Thomas Pope, who brought the news, the unhanpy particulars very minutely. They said that the bodies of the dead crew had swollen and then burst open. They had evidently been frozen to death during the winter of 1870-80, and been acted on by the heat of the succeeding summer. Nothing has been heard of Bennett’o Arctic exploring yacht, Jeannette. A railroad train was recently boarded by some thirteen desperadoes at a point in New Mexico, and thoroughly sacked. The conductor was shot, also a storeman, one of the passengers, who tried to defend him. Edison is preparing to light a district in Now York by electricity. The houses will probably bo lighted by October Ist. The editor of the “ Times ” at Little Rock, Arkansas, has been assassinated because his paper did not please certain outlaws. A terrible riot occurred among the Montreal long-shore men on the 9th July. They turned out 700 strong, and cleared the wharves. The Magistrate read tbe Riot Act, but was interrupted by shouts af “To with the Queen, and you too.’’ The police charged the rioters, and three were seriously wounded and several hurt. Five officers were injured. George Hazel, champion of England, defeated Charles Price, the ex-champion, in a ton mile race at the Pole grounds, Now York. Hazel ran ten miles in 53min. 23i-scc.