ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2375, 12 November 1881, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

GENERAL SUMMARY. SAN FRANOIBCO, October 22. The British ship Fernglen, Captain Bubb, from Wellington, went ashore on Clatsop Spit, outside the Columbia river, Oregon, on Sunday, the 16th, and became a total wreck. The captain and crew weie taken off and brought to Victoria. Professor King, the aeronaut who reoently made an ascent from Chicago turned up at the Ohippera Falls. The British ship Friedberg, while unloading railroad material &t Oakland wharf, opposite San Francisco, sunk at her moorings through a steel rail slipping from the slings, and knocking a hole through the bottom, of the vessel. She was owned by Tomlinson and Hadgett, of Liverpool. The centennial celebration of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown, commenced on the 19th. The military were present from all parts of the Union. There were military delegations from France and Germany, and the display was very imposing. A monument will be erected to mark the event, and the corner stone was laid with a full masonic ceremony. The English cricket team who leave by the Australia to-day, played a scratch game previous to the steamer's sailing. Rafalle Monte, the celebrated Italian sculptor, has died in Lrradon. An organisation against the tobacco monopoly by the German Government has been formed in Berlin,

Captain Adams, a whaler in the Arctic region, visited the scene of the loss of the Erebus and Terror, and found the house and store of provisions near Franklin in a wretched condition. In the Fury and Hecla Straits the Esquimaux gave him particulars which appear to clear up the fate of the Eranklin expedition. After the loss of the ship seven* teen of the men started overland, hoping to reach Hudson's Bay, but only three survived the journey to the house of the narrators. One of these, supposed to be Lieutenant Orozier, died first, and the death of the others followed. Pilgrims in Borne are being assaulted by mobe, who cry " Death to the Pope, and down with the Vatican." Terrible riots have ocourrod in Limerick and Dublin. In the latter oity, the Irish " Times " and " Mail " newspaper offices were mobbed. The Keely motor has again been teste 3, and again pronounced a failure. The Press oharges the would-be inventor with deception. A few Buesian Jews of the advanoe guard of the Mighty Host that have been driven from the Czar's domains have arrived at Chicago. They look like well-to-do tradespeople. It is whispered concerning the celebration at Yorktown that the French delegation have shown marked symptoms of jealousy, because of the attentions paid to the Germans. They claim that in the fight one hundred years ago, France was represented as a nation, while Baron von Stenken was present only as a soldier of fortune.

The Great Eastern was offered by auction in London on the 19th, and bought in for £30,000. Preparations are making in Moscow for the coronation of Alexander 111. The Russian Imperial Palace at Galsohina and the approaches are now illuminated by electrioity to guard against the Nihilists. The steamer Thingoalla, which left Copenhagen on the 7ih for New York with 500 emigrants, is missing. The Press generally considers the manifesto of the Irish .Land League as a direot tive to civil war. The *' Times," however, says that there is a hollowness and insincerity in its ring that amounts to self-oonfeßsed defeat. Sooville Guiteau's lawyer has made an appeal to the people of the United States_ for his client in the interest of "patriotism, juatioe, humanity, and meroy." He believes the assassin to have been insane, but is muoh discouraged that he cannot secure first-class legal talent, and witnesses everywhere refuse to testify. Arobibald Forbes writes to the New York " Tribune" concerning the Yorktown oelebration that President Arthur gave them the key-note of the feeling towards England at the very commencement by the singularly graceful and tasteful observance with which he inaugurated the proceedings. The British flag was saluted at the close of the ceremonial. The military review was a success, 95,000 militia men being in line. George Roberto, an Englishman, was robbed of 1260 dollars in a sleeping-car between Maranapolis and Litchfield. The British ship Geraldine Paget, from Hongkong to Portland, Oregon, was reported on Ootober 21st a* ashore on the Prataa Shoal, and is a total wreck.