ARRIVAL OF THE ’FRISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2352, 17 October 1881, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ’FRISCO MAIL.

rßr Tblbqbaph.] [Per s.s. City of Sydney, at Auckland.] GENERAL”SUMMARY, Russia is constructing telegraphs in China, by permission of the Chinese. A conspiracy has been discovered at the French penal island at Piers to murder the officers, burn the town, and seize a vessel to escape. The Duke of Marlborough, needing funds, is selling his famous Sunderland library. Mr Gladstone has replied to the charges of despotism brought by the Tories. There has been a fearful cyclone at Shanghai, driving many vessels ashore and destroying £600,000 worth of tea. The Trades Union Congress at London condemned any return to protection. By a railway collision at Patrick’s Well, \ Limerick, on September 14th, fifty persons were injured. The Methodist (Ecumenical Council have adopted a resolution against the opium traffic, calling upon the Government to suppress it. Lefroy, the Brighton murderer, is writing his obituary. An extraordinary Commission has been appointed to inquire into the cause of the antiJewish feeling in Russia, The German colony at Odessa proposed to levy a penalty of fifty roubles on anyone letting lodgings to Jews.

The King of Wurtemburg has been converted to Catholicism.

At Tinberourry, Ireland, tho police who were stoned by the people fired on the latter, wounding several. The authorities at Copenhagen have been advised that infernal machines have been sent there from America by Nihilists and Fenians for re-shipment to Russia and England. A surveillance of resident lodgers and hotel guests has been established at St. Petersburgh. The Belgian Court has gone into mourning out of respect to President Garfield. Stanley* the African explorer, has been heard from, by letter, dated Congo River, July 4th. He had been so seriously ill in May as to have been prepared for death, but the crisis passed, and be was strong and hearty at the time of writing. The “ Times” of 24th September says that there is no sign of improvement in the affairs of Ireland. It calls upon the Government to defeat by any means the leaguers, and says if the Land Act is insufficient let it be supplemented with other legislation. The Porte has returned a favorable answer to the request for a piece of land in Syria for the persecuted Jews of Russia and Germany. Ring Ralakau denies wishing to flood the Sandwich Islands with Chinese. The tenant farmers in County Down express satisfaction at the Land Bill. Bonfires were lighted in a large portion of the North of Ireland as a mark of gratitude to Mr Gladstone for the Land Act. Gambetta, in a speech, said that if virtue, patriotism, independence and disdain for material enjoyments more largely prevailed Sedan would have been wiped out. Prince Jerome Napoleon leaves France for Constantinople. He is preparing a manifesto renouncing his claims in favor of his son, Victor. A meeting of deputies representing all the principal Jewish communities in Russia will be held to consider their apparently hopeless condition. French officers intending to purchase horses in Italy found their purpose thwarted. The Press urges the Government to prohibit the exportation of horses. Count Henrico Oamello, arch priest of Basilica, St. Peter’s, has publicly abjured Catholicism, and entered the Methodist Church. At a Geographical Congress at Venice, De Leeseps spoke on the certainty of the Panama canal, and a resolution was adopted in favour of the Corinth oanal. The festivities in honour of Victor Emmanuel’s entry into Rome were a great success. Crowds of pilgrims came to Victor Emmanuel’s tomb. Tho 11 Time* ” has given great prominence to two letters from Earl Grey, in which he argues powerfully against the renewal of the Anglo-French Treaty of 1860, which he says was obtained at a heavy price, as it involved the departure from sound principles and really injured the cause of free trade. Earl Grey advocates a return to the position from which England departed in 1860. England, he says, should regulate her tariff with a sole regard to her own wants without reference to the tariff of other countries.

The affray at Limerick on the 4th instant was of a serious character, and showed the lawless spirit of the mob and their dangerous animosity towards the military. The police and a number of Hussars arrived at Limerick by an excursion train and quarrelled with some civilians. Towards evening the row was renewed on the railway platform, and stones were thrown at the soldiers through the carriage windows. A private of the Soots Guards remained on the platform, and was assailed by a furious mob, who would have murdered him, but some civilians protected him. The disturbance gradually extended until a reinforcement of soldiers and police arrived. They were violently attacked with stone* by the populace. After vainly endeavoring to disperse them by charging, the police fired, wounding thirty, several mortally. A great fire occurred at Oheapside and destroyed the premises of Messrs Foster and Co., wine merchants, and other premises. The fire spread furiously, and caused the greatest alarm. The firemen, however, succeeded in preventing it spreading to the adjoining extensive premises of Oopestake, Moore and 00. The total damage is estimated at £500,000.

Colonel Whitmore is rapidly recovering from the painful surgical operation performed on him about a month ago by Professor H. E. Smith, Ring’s College. The Conference at Westmeath, called by the National Land League, aud intended as a demonstration in favour of “free trade” principles, was very thinly attended. The Methodist -Ecumenical Council is in session in London. The farmers are threshing and the results are poor, and in Ireland the potatoes are seriously damaged. Dean Stanley left £84,000 behind him, and the text of the will is just published. He gives sums of money to between thirty and forty persons, as well as £3OOO to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, a portion of which is to be applied to the abolition of the fees now charged for visiting the Abbey, and £SOO to the Westminster Nurses’ Home. Lord Ohadderboye, Lord Dufferin’s son, has just beaten Byron and Leander’s swim from Sesto* to Abydoa. He swam across from Therapia to Blekes in little more than an hour A dispatch from Calcutta to the London “ Times ” says the Tea Syndicate established in 1880 for the purpose of opening up the Australian and American markets to India, report that the operation has been successful. The agent of the Syndicate in America reports that the prospects of building up a trade with India are most promising. The Land League have unanimously adopted resolutions calling upon the farmers to prove their sympathy for the laborers by erecting dwellings for them, and enabling them to live in something like comfort and decency. Be. solutions were also adopted, empowering the branches to adopt measures to encourage native industry. Mr Johnstone, the founder and secretary of the Irish Laborers’ League, spoke, saying the laborers would show the world they could beat attain their ends by joining hands with Mr Parnell. He said all efforts to separate them would prove futile. A resolution was adopted, adding to the Land League’s present title the words, 11 and Labor and Industrial Union.” Mr Parnell’s speech, in which he said they proposed to test the Act and not to use it, was a surprise. The country continues very unsettled and the system of intimidation remains in force, and serious outrages on property are reported. There is a very bitter feeling between the police and the people, and a conflict has taken place in Dublin between the police and the public, caused by some soldiers making insulting remarks about the Pope. Fifteen persons were wounded. AMERICAN NEWS. Messages from all the Governments of Europe and from the Australian Parliaments have been received regarding President Garfield’s death. The aflliotion is deeply felt in England. The Queen has had placed at President Garfield’s bier a magnificent floral tribute

inscribed, “ Qnecn Victoria to the memory of the late President Garfield, as an expression of her sorrow and sympathy with Mrs Garfield and the American nation.” President

Arthur was again sworn in at the Oapitol by Chief Justice Waite, on September 22nd. He made a brief address, referring to tho circumstances of the preceding occasion, and eulogising his predecessor. The address was quieting in tone, and promises no present change. There is no doubt that Congress will soon be convened by request of the Senators, although President Arthur would prefer to await the regular session. The result of the autopsy upon the late President promises to furnish material for a bitter discussion between the medical men in the case. The assassin Guitean is in mortal dread of popular vengeance, and appears to look for but slight panishment by the Courts. The widow Garfield fund is rapidly approaching 300,000 dollars. Congress will vote tho salary for the rest of Garfield’s term. A national monument, to be built by 25 cent subscriptions, has been started. Ariz ma advices indicate that the Apache question will either be settled or a war result in e few days. The news thence is meagre, and mostly concerning pawpaws with the Indians. The Utes are murdering the settlers on the White River, near Cheyenne forestFires around Georgian Bay, Mistkaha, and' the French river, Ontario, have caused great destruction. As expected, President Arthur issued a. proclamation convening the Senate in extraordinary session, and the Democrats will organise it by electing a President pro tern. and Secretary, probably giving minor offices to the Republicans. A railroad train in Arkansas was boarded and robbed of 30,000 dollars. A tornado at Quincy, Illinois, killed four people, and did damage amounting to one hundred thousand dollars.

Washington telegrams say that Blaine is tosucceed Minister Lowell. Grant can be Secretary of War if he desires The Cabinet will be almost entirely remodelled. The opinion is general that Ber.astt’a yacht Jeanette has been caught in the ice, and that the crew have perished. Speakman and Sons, stockbrokers, of Manchester, have failed for £BO,OOO. Captain Howgate’s embezzlement in the American Signal Service amounts to 170,00(1 dollars.. He absconded with his mistress. Several Atlantic steamers have been withdrawn from Boston, owing to the dullness of trade, and transferred to New York. An Indian war is threatened, owing to the massacre of officers and men of General Carr’s command. The troops in the garrisons are being hurried to the scene of hostilities in Arizona. The Indians muster TOGO fightingmen. A band of brigands attacked the overland train on the Central Pacific Railway near Cape Horn. Twelve thousand dollars reward has been offered for their capture. Forest fires have swept a large portion of' the States, and swept several villages away,, inhabited chiefly by recently-arrived Canadians. A thousand lives have been lost. The fires were checked by rain. Mason, tho warder who attempted to shoot Guitean, was tried by court martial. The guards bad drawn lots. Sherman, referring to the affair, says the law must take it* course. The air ship, Great North-West, containing five journalists and a member of Signal Service, Professor Ring, was launched in Minnapolis. It it believed that the attempt to erase the Atlantic will fail. A National Convention of ProteetionisU meet at New York in September. 600 delegates are expected. General Burnside is dead. The crop reports to the Bureau at Washington show a decline in cotton equal to ft- per cent. less than last year, and corn 31 per cent, decrease. The drought caused cariousdamage. A German Commissioner has arrived at Toronto to report on the capabilities of Canada for large German immigration. The success of the Australian frozen meat is generally admitted in America. Personsengaged in the frozen meat trade are watching it closely. The oity of Lima has petitioned the Brazilian Congress to propose an armistice for tbs withdrawal of the Chilian army.