ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2353, 18 October 1881, Page 4

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

[Br Tbleqeaph.] [Per s.s. City of Sydney, at Auckland/)

GENERAL NEW 3. Kettle has issued his address from Kilmainham Gaol, as a Land League candidate for Parliament, for County Monaghan. Thomas Dlokson has been returned to Parliament from County Tyrono to fill the vacancy caused by C. Lytton's appointment as Commissioner under the Land Aot. A herdsman in the employ of Captain O'Callaghan, Tulla, County Clare, died on September 7th, having been shot a fortnight before. The vindictiveness of the persons concerned in the murder was shown by their posting notices warning people against attending the funoral. Lieutenant Boyd, the Arctio explorer, has gone to Patagonia to examine that region. Count Jourville, son of one of the oldest families of the Frenoh Legitimist nobility, has been arrested for stealing carriages and horses in Spain and Belgium, selling thorn, and leaving the country. A new Russian paper, the " Fre World," published in German, has made its appearanoe. It advocates constitutional measures, and is equally opposed to revolution and reaotion. The Nihilist organ, " Will of the People," has reappeared at St. Petersburg. The numbers issued contain various notices, warning spies of their fate ; a list of donations to the revolutionary fund, amounting to 6000 roubles ; a list of 400 Nihilists arrested since November ; and an article condemning the Czar's polioy, and threatening to deal the enemy a final blow. Baron Boronoff, Prefect of Poliee, waited on the Ozar on September sth to warn him that a movement would be made by the Nihilists in two or three months. He was snubbed. " Your successor, Kasloff," replied the Czar, " has energy and I have wit enough to triumph over them." He then turned his back on Boronoff.

One hundred Jews, escaped from Russia, have arrived in America. The attention of the Government has been called to the possibility of a famine in Algeria. The military occupation of the city of Tunis and some other points has become a necessity. M. Roustin recommends that the foroe in the regency be raised to 120,000. Sixty-one persons were burned to death recently by Algerian forest fires, and many were wounded ; 682 dwellings were burnt. Count Herbert Bismarck has been appointed Minister at Washington, personal and family affairs making his employment beyond the sea expedient. The muoh talked of meeting of the Kaiser and the Ozar at Dantzio appears to have brought about an entente cordiale between the two Sovereigns. Nihilism v Socialism were discussed by the two Sovereigns and their Premiere, and the usual oraoular reports are promulgated; but as no papers were signed it is evident the importance of the meeting was magnified. A comprehensive oonspiraoy was recently disclosed. The French Island of St. Pierre, situated at the entrance of Fortune Bay, near St. John's, Newfoundland, is used as a penal settlement by the Fronoh Government, and has a population of 5200 persons. Sooial and State offenders are known as disciplinaires, and a batch at present undergoing purgation are of unparelleled turpitude. Among them are several representatives of the aristocratic order of France. Their purpose was to burn the oity, murder the officers and everyone in the way, seize the vessels in the port, and escape. The plan was well arranged, and might have been successful had it not been discovered before its full maturity.

AMERICAN. The State of Miohigan has been visited by forest fires of such extent that the destruction is terrible. In the northern and north-eastern part of the State the ruin is especially widespread. The villages of Anderson, Richmond Yale, and Charleston and Santellao County have been wiped out, and parts of Hope, Tyre, Yerona Mills and Oadar, in Huron County, have wholly or partially shared the aamo fate. Many lives were lost, and much stock. Relief is asked for the destitute communities ; they are made up principally of reoently arrived Canadians. The oountry from Saginaw to St. Clair is a desert. It is believed that nearly 1000 persons perished in the flames. The fires were cheoked by welcome rains. An American paper says Dr. Tanner is not dead, and has not been to Amsterdam, where he is circumstantially supposed to have met his death under curiously dramatic ciroumstances. The dootor has never been out of the United States, and is said to be in training for another starvation feat, whioh he promises shall last over ninety days. The Presbyterians of San Franoisoo have found Mrs Cooper, sister of Colonel Robert Ingersoll, guilty of heresy. The trial and its termination created great excitement in religious circles and contempt amongst the unorthodox. A bush fire in Warin County, California, has burned over twenty-five square miles. William Pixley, who started it to burn out poison oak thicket, lost his life. A Mexioan boy has been scourged to death in Husechera on the complaint of a white girl to her father that he had insulted her. Afterwards the girl confessed that Bhe had only told the story "for fun," and now the white men justly fear Mexican retaliation. A tragedy occurred at Arizona, White Mountains, on September Ist, which caused much exoitement. It appears that General Eugene Oarr, in command of Apaohes, left that place with seven officers and 110 men, to punish the savages for depredations committed in that region, when the Command arrived at O'Bion Creek that Apache scouts treaoherously turned on the Command with well-directed volleys, and other Indians lurking in the vicinity joined with them. They massaored Captain Hentig and ten of the soldiers, and General Oarr and the remainder of the foroe retreated to Fort Apache. A "medioine man," it is said, was the cause of this bloody affair. He was arrested by Lieut. Canse, when an Indian remarking " You shall not arrest my brother," immediately shot the officer. This was the signal for slaughter. Another account says the " medicine man " had promised the Apaohes that at the gathering of the oorn harvest he would resurrect all their dead chiefs, and by their aid the white man should be driven from the country. The Apaches were afraid he could not carry out his purpose if he was arrested, and there is great dread of a general war, and all troops in the forts and garrisons around San Francisco are being hurried to the scene of hostilities. It is estimated that the Indiuna can muster 7000 fighting men.