ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2401, 15 December 1881, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

■o I Br Telbsbaph.l [Per i.e. City of New York, at Auckland.] genebal" bummaby. On November 16th over 50,000 applications were before the Irish Land Commission, in fact, there is not a county in Ireland but has sent applications. Among the later arrivals is a pile from Parnell's own county, Wicklow.

The Postmasters and Post Office servants in Ireland have been warned by the Post-master-General not to join the Land Leagne, whioh has been declared an illegal organisation.

Lieut. Schwatka's relics of the Franklin expedition has been placed in the Museum at Greenwich Hospital. The winnings of American horses in England and France this year amount to £30,000. Kelly, of Dublin, refused to allow the ladies branch league to meet any longer on his premises, as he was threatened with arrest.

It is whisperod in the London clubs that the Government intend to sell Gibraltar to Spain. The police prevented the branoh land leagne meeting in London. Mr Gladstone has allowed his hand to be outlined for a book concerning the hands of distinguished men, which is about to be published.

Professor Mahnffy is utilising Oscar Wilde, tbe aesthetic, to illustrate a proposition that a stupid boy gains more than the brilliant one from a university training. Effigies of Mr Gladstone, Parnell, Biggar, and others were burned in the poorer districts of London on November sth, according as English or Irish sentiment predominated. At Lewes one of Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield was consumed.

Despite the suppression of the Land League several local branches continue to meet secretly. The police have been instructed to be more aofcive in reporting participants. At an influential meeting of the Central Chamber of Agriculture, held in London, a motion in favor of free trade was rejected. O'Connor, M.P., and a prominent Land Leaguer, is addressing a large audiences in the United States at 25 cents per head. Para? 11 has written to the members of the Wioklow Hunt, enclosing his subscription, and hoping that hunting will not be stopped. The Princess Beatrice has given £2OOO out of the proceeds of the sale of her Christmas book for the support of the Belgrave Hospital for children. The new Cunarder Servia on her trial trip attained a speed of 20& miles an hour with 2500 tons dead weight on board. The polioe at Frankfort-on-Maine seized and confiscated all the posters and bills which gave information to those intending to emigrate to America. A Garfield memorial service was held by the municipality at Berlin. Lucerne, the sculptor, was instructed to produce a colossal bust of the late president.

Arthur O'Connor, T. P. O'Connor, and Justin MoOarthy are in Paris. All the other influential leaders of the Land League are now in gaol. In Ireland the Leaguers are still hesitating whether or not to transfer their headquarters to Paris. There are shrewd suspicions that the French Government will not allow it.

Alexander McDonald, M.P. |for Stafford, and secretary to the Miners' Association for Scotland, is dead.

The speculators, Surcook and Debbas, who failed in Paris for five million franos, have disappeared. The complete annihilation of the village of Elm, Canton of Glarus, appears to be only a question of time and bad weather. The summit of the peak nearest the village is moving. The Ministers of Agriculture and Commerce have been separated in the new French Cabinet.

A large meeting of tenants on the estate of Sir J. finnis Athlone, unanimously resolved to demand an abatement of rents, and in the event of refusal to apply to the Land Court. The landlords view the great reductions in rent made with alarm, and numbers are ruined.

It is believed that the principle of the Commission adopted in Belfast in fixing the rent will hold out a premium to indolent and inoompetent farmers to visit indulgent landlords with penalties. The movement for English land reform may be represented thus far as a movement with oonspiouous leadership and well defined purpose, but nobody supposes that the programme of the Farmers' Alliance will be taken up by any political party. Lord Hartinglon's speech on the night of November sth extinguished the hopes expressed in some quarters that he might put himself at the head of an agitation based upon the principles of the Irish Land Act. The landlords are voluntarily making tenants a reduction equal to the amount that will probably be enforoed on the Irish landlords. The New York " Tribune's " London diepatch speaks of the deep feeling ef grateful sympathy felt by English people on account of the management of the Yorktown affair, and the salute given to the British flag at the olose of the regular programme. The St. Petersburg "Novae Vremya," in a bitter article concerning the salute, refuses to believe the token of unity to be sincere. Parnell's gaoler at Eilmainham was suspended direotly after the publication of the prisoner's letter deprecating the formation of a tenants' defence association for evading the Government anti-Land League proclamation. The new Dean of Westminster, the Bev. Geo. Granville Bradley, in his inaugural sermon at Westminster Abbey, claimed that Americans have a common interest in the Abbey with Englishmen, could they forget their divided counsels and|unhappy memories. America had twice this year, he said, been drawn to the mother country by their oommon griefs. The London Press discussing the proposed increase in the American navy, and tho " Pall Mall Gazette advises the British constructors to study the improvements that may be made apparent. - Lord Lome arrived at Liverpool from Canada on the 14th, and was met by Prinoaes Louise, and with her proceeded to Eton Hill, the seat of the Duke of Westminster. He was oheered by the people at Birkenhead. Gambetta was banquetted at Havre. In the course of his speech he said that he had gone to Germany to study the means by whioh Bremen, Hamburg, Stetten, and Lubeck had attained their present greatness. Baron James Bothsohild has died in Paris.

A telegram has been reoeiTed by the Foreign Missionary Sooiety in Paris, stating tbat by a terrible typhoon in Western Tonguea 200 churches, thirty-four parsonages, 200 houses were destroyed. Three thousand Christians were ruined. AMERICAN NEWS. Great efforts are being made to induce immigration to California, but they are considered useless in face of present and increasing Chinese competition with white labor in the State. The proposed Garfield memorial hospital has been abandoned. The subscriptions amounted to lOOOdols. The Sunday law dosing saloons and stopping all kinds of secular occupation on Sundays has beon pronounced constitutional by the Supreme Court of California, and will be rigidly enforced. Colonel Watson B. Smith, clerk of the United States Government at Omaha, was found murdorod at his office door. Deceased was a prominent temperance man, and had taken an active part in enforcing the Slocum liquor law for compelling saloons to pay lOOOdols license and to olose on Sunday. He is supposed to be the viotim to someone incenßed by his course. The liquor dealers of the union offared rewards of GOOdole, the Good Templars 200dola, and the Government 200dols for the discovery of the murderer. Many threatening letters were found on the person of deceased. P. Pickering, United States Commissioner at the Melbourne exposition, has arrived at Washington, and has rooms in the State Department. He will distribute_ the prizes and diplomas to American exhibitors who won them.

Ah Kim, a Chinese missionary student, killed himself at Mariotta, Ohio, because he was disappointed in love with a white servant girl. The New York "Times" sets its face against further Arctic exploration at the expense of the Government, as rewards offered to ambitious whalemen would accomplish much more than the united efforts of England and America,

Lady puffin Hardy's book of travels is just published. In a Tery rose-colored account of her traveli in the United States ehe finds nothing to oondemn in the country except the Chinese in California, and the fury of expectoration by tobacco chewers on the Pacific slope. The American National Bifle Association hare under consideration the sending of a National Guard team to Wimbledon in July. The United States steamship Badgers has returned to San Francisco from her arctio voyage in search of the Jeannette. She brings no news of the missing vessel. One important discovery made is Wrangel Land, an island bat sixty-five miles in length by half as wide, which was circumnavigated by the Bodgers. Hanlan and Plaisted, rowers, are in San Francisco, to give exhibitions in soulling. A curious state of things exists in Brooklyn, L 1., where, on account of a dispute between the Mayor and the Fire D ipartment, a.fire was allowed to rage uncheoked, and 500,000 dols. damage done. Henry W. Genit, the last of the Tweed ring of municipal thieves in New York, has been released from the penitentiary at Biaokwell's Inland.

An elaborate attempt was made to black" mail Jay Gould, the railroad millionaire, to the effect that the writer had been commissioned to kill him, and giving him three days to put his affairs in order. Tbe detectives were employed, and the anonymous writer turned out to be Colonel J. Howard Willis, of the Fifth Avenue.

Mary Francis M. Vieker. wife of Edwin Booth, the aotor, died at New York. Mrs Booth had been mentally disturbed for months previous to her death.

The conviction is growing that Gaiteatz may escape on a legal technicality, and as a consequence there is a daily growing crowd around the Courthouse and gaol. The prisoner is _ hailed with shouts and yells of derision, mingled with imprecations. Many in the crowd are armed, and Guiteau is thoroughly frightened, and bounds into the prison van as though pursued. The Mechanics' Bank in Newark, one of the oldest and supposed strongest in New Jersey, has closed its doors, owing to the defalcations of the cashier, Osoar Baldwin, who had fraudulently used 2,000,000d01s of the Bank's funds.

It is said that a subsidy will be asked from Congress by Mallard and others in aid of a line of steamers on the Paoifio competing with the Paoifio Mail Company between California and Panama, and with the Paoifio Navigation Company between Panama, Callao, and Valparaiso. Hanlan demands of Triokett 2000dols. as a condition for rowing him for lOOOdole. a side at St. Louis. It is regarded as a bluff. The course is in magnificent eondition, and Trickott is anxious to row.

It is intimated that at the approaching session of the Union Parliament members will take the sense of the Assembly as to the desirability of Canadian independence and the election of the Chief Magistrate or GovernorGeneral.

The " Irish Nation," a newspaper for Ireland, has been started in New York, by John Devoy. The testimony taken by the British consul at St. Paul, Minnesota, shows that Mrs Mary Grace is heiress to £95,000 from the estate o£ Patrick O. Buckley, Melbourne. Panama advices say that the State Government has increased the taxes on merchants, native and foreign, 25 per cent. The canal laborers are striking, and the polioe have to proteot the superintendent. The native laborers do sot like the French overseer, and say that an American could get 33 per cent, more work out of them.

" Champion" and other varieties of potatoes grown in the North of Ireland, have been offered for sale in the New York market. Beans and cabbage have also been imported with success.