ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2327, 19 September 1881, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

[By Telegraph.] [Per b.B. Zealandia, at Auckland.] GENERAL SUMMARY. Mr Herbert Gladstone has been ra elected for Leeds after his appointment as Junior Lord of the Treasury. The Bill for the Belief of Contumacious Prisoners, intended to effect the release of the Bev. Green, Bitualist, who was imprisoned at Lancaster, was lost this session. A new company will shortly be formed, with a capital of four millions, to reclaim the waste lands of Ireland. The dynamite scare in England is increasing. All sorts of rumors are circulated, among them that the Duke of Edinburgh has been specially marked out for assassination. Mr Bradlaugh is suffering from erysipelas from the wounds caused in ejecting him from the House of Commons.

The subscriptions to tho Land League for the year amount to £10,700. Nearly all the money came from America, only £Bl being collected in Britain and £162 in Ireland.

A mob smashed the windows of the rectory and of other respectable inhabitants in Tipperary who did not illuminate their houses in honor of Mr Dillon’s release.

The Supremo Council of the Fenian Brotherhood have split on the dynamite question, some favoring and others opposing the proposals. Oolclough, who distributed stamps for the Irish Law Courts, and who defrauded the Government of £IO,OOO by forging stamps, has been sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude.

Dutch is the official language determined on for the Transvaal.

The new American cable will he in operation on November Ist.

A serious conflict took place between soldiers and civilians at Newrosa.

The latest phase of Boycotting is at Ternplemore, Tipperary. Mrs Lalor evicted a tenant, and the people of the district have placed evicted men for the lost two Sundays in Mrs Lalor’s pew in the parish ohapel built by herself. Tennyson is preparing another drama. Stanley, the explorer, is lying dangerously ill in Central Africa, and is not expected to recover.

The anti-clerical feeling waxes fiercer in Rome.

One of the brigands who captured Sutter, has bean arrested in Athens with 11,000 francs in his possession.

Herbert, the Liberal leader of Austria, in a debate in the Reichstag, dec'ared that Europe was suffering from militarism, which is leading to a constant increase of emigration, and the predominance of the United States. A Polar Conference is being held at St. Petersburg, to arrange for expeditions to investigate the magnetic and meteorological condition of the Polar regions. Delegates are in attendance from the leading continental countries.

Forty thousand Scotch volunteers were present at the Royal review at Edinburgh. Tho elections in Spain resulted in the return of two-third Liberals. -

Two sanguinary engagements occurred between the army corps sent from Bagdad and the Arabs. The latter wero defeated and their leader killed. They are now suing for peace. John Skilt and Co., London, oil merchants, recently failed, and the business passed into tho hands of the present sole proprietor, who has absconded to Spain after putting into circulation £20,000 of forged bills. The “ Daily News” says it has become evident that English tenants mean to bestir themselves to obtain redress for their legitimate grievances. Various agencies are cooperating to bring about legislation regarding the English land laws. Mr Gladstone recently expressed his opinion favorable to such legislation. In Berlin, at a conference of orthodox Evangelical clergy, Herr Platt, Inspector of Missions, said that the Jews, aiming at absolute predominance, wero not satisfied to enjoy equal rights with Christians. Special measures to breok a jealous autocracy should be taken. An anti - Jewish agitator, Herr Rappel, addressed a Conservative meeting, which broke up in disorder. He was obliged to fly for his life.

The London “Times” of August 25th cays:—“lt is the opinion in the best informed quarters that the American gold drain will continue, atid if it does there can bo but little doubt of a further rise in rates for money.” The landlords in South Ireland have permanently reduced the rents 25 per cent. Harvest prospects in Great Britain grow more desperate. The grain out is turning black or sprouting, and standing wheat is being threshed out by heavy rain. The rape crops in some districts in Ireland are under water, and seriously damaged. Farmers everywhere are disheartened. The Universal Jewish Society of New York are bringing oppressed Jews from Russia and settling them in the United States.

Marriott and McKinnon, file makers, Sheffield, have failed for £BO,OOO,

AMERICAN NEWS. At the time of the sailing of the steamer (August 28th), the President exhibited all the signs of blood poisoning. His glands are swollen, and the incisions showed an accumulation of pus in many cells. He is unable to take nourishment. The physicians notified to Mrs Q-arfield that nothing but a miracle could save her husband. She replied, “Then that miracle will occur. My husband will recover; he must.” The assassin Quiteau is in a state of abject terror, and is sleepless. It is reported that an organisation has been formed to kill him, and the authorities have taken precautions. The latest news from Chili and Peru reports the formation of a considerable Peruvian force in the neighborhood of Lima, threatening the capital. The Chilians have greatly reduced the army of occupation. The American Press is agitating for the annexation of Sandwich Islands, Arizona, &c. Now Mexican advices report murders and outrages among white desperadoes in those territories and the Indians. A camp of seven Americans near the boundary was killed by Mexicans, and reprisals threatened. Large bodies of men are forming to carry the war into Moxioo.

The Nicaragua Canal scheme has been revived, and application will bo made to Congress for a charter. The mortality from the heat in New York is excessive.

By a fire at San Domingo 250 lives were lost.

The Frenchmen employed on the Panama Canal are dying rapidly from yellow fever. The Dnke of Argyle, Earl of Airlie, and his son (Lord Ogilvic), and Mr John Walter, proprietor of the London “Times,” will make a tour of America this season.

The British Consulate at Philadelphia has telegraphed to the Home Government the substance of the address of the so-called Irish revolutionary convention, which has been holding secret sessions in that city. The address, without the slightest qualification, proclaims the intention to destroy British vessels whereever they can be found, and declares that it is just as well to begin the work which is the most easy of accomplishment, and by the time a few English merchant vessels are destroyed, the world may witness the beneficent sight of all the shipping merchants and insurance companies of England presenting a petition to Mr Gladstone to reconsider the Irish question. Mr Johnson, of Kanturk, founder and secretary of the Irish Laborers’ League, will contest Tyrone in the interest of the Irish labor movement.

In Tunis the beat is excessive, and the French hospitals at Galetta and Manouba are crowded with sick soldiers.

Alaska has applied for representation in the Congress aa an organised territory of the United States, and an election will take place in September. M. Olemenoeau has left Paris for Marseilles to fight a duel with the editor of a paper there who insulted him. The health of the Bmperor William is bad.

France has decided to send over one or two war vessels with troops to take part in the Yorktown centennial celebration at Baltimore in October. Twenty guests from the French Government will also be present. “ Josephite,” a branch of the Mormon Church, held a convention, at which they repudiated as a slander the report that the Mormons generally rejoiced in the misfortune to President Garfield. They passed a resolution of sympathy and condolence with h lm - The Chief Executive of Germany has fi a . dined to purchase the north-eastern coast of Borneo for colonisation.

Betherall of Dublin will be appointed Solicitor of the Land Court. The residence of John A. Kimball, Utah, was destroyed by fire, and with it his five children. The cause was the explosion of a kerosene lamp. The village of St. Jean the Baptiste, near Montreal, has been destroyed by fire. Mr Gladstone is said to be contemplating the offer of knighthood to the publisher, Mr Alexander Macmillan.

Miss Braddon's proposition to publish a penny edition of Scott’s' novels raised a howl of indignation. Crowe of Peoria, the “infernal” machine man, will, it is said, go to Ireland as agent for an American dynamite firm in Limerick.

Offers for Mr Bradlaugh’s torn coat are said to be numerous. One person offers £2O, another £lO, while a third suggests that it be raffled for. The owner replies loftily—“ We are conscious of the very kindly feeling which prompts these offers, out the coat is not for sale. Payment will be made by and by by my foes, and until that payment is exacted, the coat has a very special value as a reminder.” General Leslie Coombs, the great horseman of Kentucky, is dead. He was the most celebrated trainer end turfman in the United States.

Tho heat in Athene is excessive, and continues day and night blowing from tbs Libyan desert. The deaths from typhoid amount to ten a day. Thera has been a great exodus of families to the country and adjacent isles. The Eighty-five Hours’ Walking Match at Buffalo is ended. O’Leary covered 271 miles and Harriman 267.

It is reported from London that Jas. Gordon Bennett has invited the Hon. Francis Lawley, brother of the late uncle of tho present Lord Wentock, to go out to New York and take charge of the ‘‘Herald ” newspaper, and that he has accepted the invitation. Lawley was the London “ Times’ ” correspondent at Richmond during tho Confederate war, but did not visit the North.

Captain Lowgate, U 3,, at one time prominent in his efforts to promote Arctic exploration, has been arrested fer the embezzlement of 40 OOOdols.

It is now openly charged that Shinkel, a member of the Cornell crew, who fainted at Vienna (by which the race is alleged to have been lost), was in collusion with a betting ring in America to throw off on all races made by tho crow in Europe. “ Ithica,” a Now York journal, says it has documentary evidence of hie treachery. Ho wrote to Casey from London before leaving for Vienna, “ Bet Cornell’s will lose Vienna race.”

Jules Bevant Tichborre, a mining agent, has turned up in Buffalo. He verifies the story of the Californian claimant, and says he will give corroborative testimony. Ho knows all the marks Sir Roger had on his body, and can identify him at once. He says he had good reasons for keeping quiet during Orton’s trial.

Thomas Pottitt, of Boston, won the championship in the international court tennis match with Henay Soaker, of Quebec, champion of Canada. Typhoid fever, resulting from bad drainage and impure water, prevails at Tom Hughes’ colony, Rugby, Tennessee. D. and J. Saddler, the great Catholic publishers of New York, have failed for 150,000 dollars. A Canadian commission lias arrived in San Francisco, en route to inspect the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in British Columbia.

Tho prohibition of intoxicating drinks was defeated in Alabama by an overwhelming vote of the people. William Gale, the English pedestrian, com pleted the great feat of covering 600 quartermiles in 600 hours in Now York.

Orville Grant, brother of General Grant, is dead. He had been insane for some time

The convention of Irishmen at Chicago got into trouble over the discovery, as was alleged, of a paid British spy in their midst, one George J. West, who acted as secretary. West had to take pairs to prove that he was an American born in Providence.

A now lino of sailing Teasels has been established between Portland, Oregon, and Chinese porta, owned by the Oregon and Chinese Mercantile Company. A telegram from Shanghai states that there are great preparations in Japan for the reception of the Royal Princes and the detached squadron. At the weekly meeting of the Land League in Dublin, on the 9th August, a subscription of £2759 was announced, the whole amount being from America and New Zealand. At Shooburynees the Canadian team won the prizes given by the Marquis of Lome for a detachment that could urmount and remount cannon in the least time. The Canadians defeated eleven iesms of British Artillery volunteers.

A Protectionist meeting was held at Exeter Hall, and a resolution adopted for a tax of Is per quarter on corn, and forwarded to the Government.

Parnell is agitating for tbs protection of Irish manufactures.

Trelawney, a friend of Byron and Shelley, has died in London.

Much indignation has been expressed through the press at the conduct ox some fifty wc-ll built, well dressed men who stood around a basin in Kensington Garden* while a girl four years old drowned in two feet of water. The coroner said he was utterly ashamed of their inhumanity and cc.wardiee,

The Cunard steamer Catalonia, which left Liverpool on the 6th August, had on hoard a heavy mail for the United States, also for Australia via San Francisco. She became* disabled through the breaking of a shaft, and at last accounts her captain had not decided whether he would continue under sail for New York, or return to the nearest British port. The Catalonia is the last Canarder built. The mails arrived and were despatched from San Francisco in time.

The International Exhibition of Ekc’ricity has been opened in Paris. President Grevy and other notables were present. The agent of Edison seized the Maxini lights under injunction. The Maxini representatives resisted the seizure and made an appeal for protection, but without success.

A despatch from London on August 21st says that M. Libira Hoff has determined after all not to send the steamer Norcenskijold to the assistance of the Oscar, Dickson and Thorland, frozen up last wi; ter in the Gulf of Obi. He is making arrangements for their relief from Obdorek, on the river Obi, and bus despatched a large number of reindeer, with the coal and oil required to enable the vessels to leave the Gulf,