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ARRIVAL OF THE FRISCO MAIL.

TBy TBLBaRAPH.] [Per s.s. Australia at Auckland.} GENERAL SUMMARY. In consequence of the action of the local Land League, Captain Hurteps, master of the Kilkenny hounds, in Ireland, has discharged his servants and left for fingland. This ertftil" a loss to the town of £IOO,OOO. Lord Waterford alao intends to olose up his establishment. Lord Rosse's tenants are in revolt, not one of 500 or more on his property appjariujT on the 9th to pay ront. A number of farm houses that he has on his lands hove heen burned. The secretary of tho Oldham Cotton Spinners' Association has written to the United States consul at Manchester, declaring that a thousand tons of sand are paid for as cotton every season, in consequence of fraudulent packing. The secretory suggests that the names of tho planter and packer be placed on the side of each bale of cotton. In view of Mr Gladstone's appeal for aupport, the Local Irish Land League in county Meoth, resolved not to permit hunting this season. It will be remembered that the Empress of Austria had intended to hunt in this county this winter.

In announcing Parnell's arrest at Guildhall, London, Mr Gladstone said, " I hove been informed that the first step has been taken towards the vindication of law and order, the rights of property, and the first elements of civilisation, by the arrest of the man who, entirely from motives which I do not challenge or examine, has made himself prominent in an attompt to destroy the authority of the law. We are not at i/sue with the people of Ireland. I firmly believe that the majority of tenants earnestly desire a trial of the Land Act. The power with which we are struggling ia that which endeavors to soy how far people shall obey the law. We have no fear of the people of Ireland, but do fear leßt many more ehall become demoralised or intimidated." The now Assistants Lord Commissioners for Ireland are—Professor Baldwin, superintendent governor of the model farm; Lieut.Colonel Bagley, agent for Lord Carisford in Wicklow; Garland, a well-known authority on land in North Connaught, and the son of a merchant and a practical farmer ; O'Keara, assistant professor of chemistry in Queen's College, Cork; O'Shannassy, a well-known Galway farmer ; G. Prioe, formerly minister to the Duke of Richmond's Agricultural Commissioner, and Ross, a Presbyterian farmer and trader. Bagley, Houghton, and Boss are Protestants, the rest Catholics. All are Liberals except Bagley. " Freeman's Journal" and the "Irish Times" favor the appointments. An unsuccessful attempt has been made in the southern districts of London to imitate the American crusade against liquor selling by prayer meetings held opposite public houseß. The Chamber of Commerce at Yokohama telegraphs to London that the silk business in Japan is suspended, owing to new and oppressive conditions on its sale imposed by the Japanese guild, which foreigners resist. The Czar takes comprehensive measures for the protection of his favorite residence in St. Petersburg, Anintokkoff Palace. A subterranean passage has been constructed all around it, which can be patrolled by sentinels, and if necessary immediately filled with water. The Czar is negotiating for the purchase of the various houses surrounding the

palace. The Nihilist head-quarters have been discovered at St. Petersburg, and sixty arrests made. Eight students of the Military Academy at Moscow, and two at St. Petersburg, were arrosted as Nihilists. The " New York Herald's" speoial despatches say that the ooming meeting of the Esaperors of Austria and Bussia has in view the dissolution of European-Turkey into its natural elements, and their absorption by the two great empires that lie nearest to it. The "Pall Mall Gazette " sketches a draft Land Bill for England, whioh has finally been considered by the special committee of the Farmers' Alliance. The Bill aims at establishing complete security for the capital of farmers and immunity from capricious eviction ; the rightsjol; a tenant to sell his improvements in the open market with a provision that the landlord must accept the tenant for seven years at the same rent as the outgoing tenant. The " Gazette " thinks tho Bill suggestive, and says that the day when Parliament must vote urgency for an English Land Bill is not far off.

The Cotton Spinning Association in England is trying to have speculation! in future absolutely prohibited. Sir Garnet Wolseley'expresses a hope that the Channel tunnel will never be constructed. He considers it probable to be a lasting source of danger to England. Alderman John Whittaker Ellis has been elected Lord Mayor of London. The Soottish Chamber of Agriculture have drafted a Land Bill for Scotland to be presented in Parliament. The "Times " says it is one of the most feasible yet submitted, and it makes the strictest provisions relative to compensation for improvements. Father Conway, of Clanbur, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labor, at the suit of Lord Ardingoun, for assaulting a bailiff. He will appeal. The Liverpool Cotton Corner netted from a quarter to half million sterling. It is proposed that a duplioate of Brnce Jones' statue of Mr Gladstone, now ready for casting, shall be made and presented to the United States, to be erected in Washington, to commemorate the kindly sympathy expressed from the highest to the lowest with the United States in their national sorrow. An Irish farmer, named Leath, living near Bathbane, on Lord Konmare's property, was killed by a band of armed men on October 6th, for paying his rent. The same day a man carting Boyootted oats in the parish of Door, county Tipperary, was mortally wounded. A Bingham landlord was fired at while riding near Errif, by a man disguised in woman's clothing. A girl with him in the cart was wounded. In Staffordshire the pottery workmen have demanded an advance of wages, to take place in November. King Alfonso, who has been invested with the Order of the Garter in Madrid, said that be had received marks of sympathy from Queen Yiotoria, but none more agreeable than this high distinction. At the suit of Houston against Bochfort the charges that the Tunisian expedition was arranged for stock jobbing purposes by Gambetta and others, will be searohingly investigated. Tho daughter of President Grevy will be married to Wilson, Under-Secretary of Finance.

Sixteen persons, ohiafly workmen, have been put on trial at Leipsio for disseminating revolutionary writings.

The ex Empress Eugenie made her will on a recent visit to Paris, leaving all her fortune to Prince Victor, and declaring him head of the Bonapartiat party. A clause in the document says that the young Prince is to devote all his mind to the service of the cause of the Empire. Tho United Kingdom has been visited bv a terrible hurricane. A dispatch of the 16th mentions it as one of the moat] disastrous for years. There was much damage done to the shipping in the Mersey, and many boate were aground. In the Thames steamboat traffic was suspended. The London parks were strewn with fallen timber. The gale damaged property all over the country, unroofing and wrecking hundreds of houses in Ireland and Scotland, and killing many people. Forty-five fishermen are reported lost at Barnmouth and Eymouth, Scotland, and fifty belonging to Berwickshire at sea during the gale are given up rb lost. Seventy Dunbar fishermen are reported drowned, also three pilots in the Tyne. At Stockton-on-Teea, five persons were killed by falling of roofs. The steamer Oypridan, from Liverpool to Genoa, was wrecked on the Welsh ooast, and 122 Uvea were lost. Eightyfive vessels in all were lost. The approximate value of the property destroyed is £8,000,000. The wires were down in every direction, and communication was unoertain. Most of the land wires connecting with England and the Continent were broken. Tho arrest of Parnell in Dublin caused groat exoitement. The warrant was signed by Secretary Forster, and oharged the agitator with inciting the people and intimidation of others from paying Ihelr just rents, and with intimidating tenants from taking the benefit of the Land Act. The Cabinet was unanimous on the subject of the arrest. Mr Gladstone vai informed of it at Guildht.ll, and his announcement of the fact was reooived with uproarious cheering by the whole of a large assemblage, the guests rising and waving hats and handkerchiefs,

Mormon missionaries ore swarming over Europe. Darwin, the philosopher, has fallen heir to £30,000 by the will o£ Erasmus Darwin, his brother. AMERICAN NEWS. Edwin Booth, the actor, and his wife have separated. Troubles arose from certain business connections in the family. The latest news from the Arotic regions, wherothe Rosinais searching for the Jeannette, contain no tidings of the vessel. Reports from the whaling fleet advise the catoh of 130 whales and 70,0001bs of bone. Tho catoh is expeoted to equal that of 1880. Guiteau, the assassin, was arraigned on October 14lh, and pleaded "Not guilty" to the charge of murdering James A. G-arfield. He seemed broken down in health and uncared for in person, being shabbily dressed. The line of defence will be (1) hereditary insanity, and (2) malpraotioe on the part of the physicians in attendance on tho murdered man. The trial is fixed for the 7th of November. While Q-uiteau was in court, a man named Bertheau, evidently intoxicated, sought to borrow a pistol to shoot him. Some attention is elicited in finanoial and commercial oircles of San Francisco by the amount of treasure received from Australia and New Zealand. It ia said that the steamship Australia, which arrived from Sydney on tho 3rd inst., brought the largest amount of specie ever received from tho colonies. It was consigned as follows : Anglo-Californian Bank, 417,603 dollars; Bank of British Columbia, 24 333 dollars; Oomptoir Descomptis de Paris, 484,200 dollars. Total, 926,134 dollars. Since Piesident Garfield's death, tho Secretary of State, Mr Blaine, has with renewed vigor set himself to work for the Republican nomination for the Presidency in 1884. He had abandoned all ambition in the matter till the events of the last two or three months led him to see his way open again. Dr. John Buchanan has been sentenoed to one year's imprisonment by the Philadelphia Court, and a fine of 1000 dollars, for selling bogus medical diplomas. Eranklin J. Mose, formerly Governor of South Carolina, is in gaol in Now York on a charge of swindling. King Kalakaula has invested in two Kentucky blood horses. He purposes introducing them into the Hawaii Islands. The German ship Hugo was burned in the South Pacific Her long boat, with the captain, carpenter, oDd seven men, arrived at Chili, having made 800 miles in eight days. The Hugo was 1372 tons burthen, and was bound from Newcastle to San Francisco.

Hanlan will row Ross for lOOOdols a-side in Canada, on November 15th. It is rumored that Lord Lome will return to .England after Parliament closes, and be called to the House of Lords.

Mrs Garfield requested Dr. Boyneson to withhold the statement he has prepared relative to the autopsy and the general treatment, as she is satisfied that the President's wound was mortal, and does not desire to have the controversy further prolonged._ Guiteau, the assassin, was victimised by a Btenoarapher, to whom he gave notes of his life to be published in pamphlet form, tbe proceeds to defray the expenses of his defence. Instead of doing this, the stenographer sold the notes to tho '"New York Herald," and pooketed the money received. Edward Thompson, arrested for stealing a mule at Hernando, Wisoonsin, proves to be a son of the late Admiral Thompson, K. 08., and grandson of the Admiral who led p9rt of the fleet under Kelson at Trafalgar. He is said to have lived a tramp's life for several years. It is proposed to establish a National Garfield Memorial Hospital in the oity of Washington. The whole country and all foreign nations will be invited to contribute to the fund. Work on tho Panama Oanal is advancing rapidly. One thousand two hundred men are at present employed in excavating. 2,100,000d0l have already been expended. _ The facts in regard to the infernal machines found on board the British steamers recently havo been ferretted out by the secret service agents of the United States, and are now made public. The soheme was a clev«r plot, and showod that an Irishman named Foyle, a saloon keeper in Philadelphia, oaused the manufacture of the infernal machines by Patrick Crowe, of Bond, and then turned them over to O'Donovan Bossa. When the time was ripe Foyle began negociations with the British Consul at New York, and received 100,000dols, for information leading to the discovery made on the docks at Liverpool. He haß fled from the United States, and no one knows his whereabouts. Crowe and Bossa were ostracised from the Irish Nationalist Company. General Fremont has resigcod the Governorship of Arizona. The British barque Edith Loone, from Hobart Town, for Portland, Oregon, went ashore on Clatsop Spit, outside the Columbia Eiver bar, and it is feared will prove a total wreok.

President Arthur is called the silent President. A despatch says that he is so reserved and silent that the days of Grant were garrulous compared with these. A statement is made that the death of Lord Airlie in the Western States was preceded by the ghostly beating of a drum at his mansion in Scotland, the usual sign, according to report, of the speedy death of a member of the family. Lady Airlie heard the sound, and was much prostrated. Over one million dollars worth of confederate bonds were bought and sold in Richmond on the 20th, and the business continued brisk.

The Southern Paoific as well the Topika and Santa Fe railroads are so troubled by washouts caused by cloud bursts and heavy rains that the working of the roads has become an expensive and difficult matter. Great frauds have come to light in the Washington pension office. Hundreds of persons not entitled to them have been receiving pensions, and those and other peculations will, it is said, reach millions. Tho steamer Achariso ran down a small vessel unknown in the dark, and all on board were drowned notwithstanding the exertions to Bave them. The steamer is of the Anchor line plying between Glasgow and New York. The Apache trouble in Arizona promises to blow over. Many hostile tribes have surrendered, and war is not now anticipated. Wade has promised to introduce into Congress a Bill prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers. Subscriptions for a Garfield monument in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, are in progress. A serious fire occurred in New York. By the destruction of large stables 200 horses were consumed, and of a storage warehouse 1,000,000d01. worth of valuable artioles, among whioh was a picture owned by W. H. Yanderbilt, valued at 50,000d01. General Hancock, who was defeated in 1880, in said to be "laying pipe" for the democratic nomination for President in 1884. Miss Jennie McGraw Fiske, the richest woman in the United States, is dear l . She was called the Burdett Ooutts of America, and was reported to be worth 12,000,000d01. At Hunnewell (Kansas), three cow boys raided the town, and promiscuous shooting occurred, during which a man named Carter was killed, and two cow boys shot. All three were subsequently gaoled. A Portland telegram gives the statement of Captain Bubb, of tho wrecked barque Fernglen : —" Left Wellington, New Zealand, on August 22nd ; made Hancock light at 2 a.m. Sunday, October 16th. Arrived off Columbia river bar at 4 a.m. Was puzzled with the lights ; knew nothing of a light being on Filmook Bock, or of a change of light at Point Adams. Saw red lights where I expeoted to find a red and white flash. Took the bearings of the lights at 4 a.m. Thought I was quite far enough to windward. Wore ship to stand off for daylight, believing that I was in a good position for making tho bar and picking up a pilot there for the ship. After wearing, at about 6 a.m. I found the ship striking, with a very strong tide, of which I was not aware, setting her right in. Set all tho canvas to lay her over and force her over the ground forward, but found that the strong tide and set of the sea were still driving her over ground against the falls. At 9 a.m. on Tuesday the vessel shifted her ballast and heeled over, and tho orew had to abandon her, saving nothing." The Fernglen was owned by Perrott and Co., of Sundrland. Land leaguers Dillon, Eagan, Thos. P. O'Connor and James Bedpath have arrived in New York. It is likely that the racers Foxhall and Iroquois will meet soon on the Chicago Driving Park. 30,000 dollars are offered to the owners as an inducement. The Grand Jury, district of Columbia, found an indiotment against Guiteau, the assassin. It is drawn with great minuteness, and embraces eleven count*.

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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2376, 14 November 1881, Page 4

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ARRIVAL OF THE FRISCO MAIL. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2376, 14 November 1881, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE FRISCO MAIL. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2376, 14 November 1881, Page 4

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