ARRIVAL OF THE FRISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2423, 11 January 1882, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE FRISCO MAIL.

(By Thlbsbath.l [Per s.s, Zealandia at Anckland.3 GENEBALSUMMABT. The Neifew, the first of the regular line of steamers under the Chinese flag, arrived in the Thames on the 6th inst., with 3000 tons of tea. f Captain Brownrigg, of the man-of-war London, who was recently killed near the Island of Kemba while overhauling a trade slave dhow flying French colors, was on a tour of inspection only. The crew of the dhow, seeing that the men in the London’s pinnace were unprepared, fired a volley into them and boarded, wounding some, and driving the remainder overboard. They closed on Captain Brownrigg, who, after a gallant resistance, during which he received twenty-one wounds, fell shot through the heart. A boat from the London afterwards ciptured the Arab dhow, which was empty.

A collision occurred at Cancnbury, on the North London railway, on the 10th inst., by which seven persons were killed and sixty severely injured. Astlay House, Wiltshire, belonging to the sporting baronet, Sir John Astley, was burned. The loss on the pictures, furniture, and plate is large. The London police believe that the Hatton Garden Post Office robbers were Americans. The Burdett Ooutts litigation has been averted by the Baroness resigning her halfshare in the Bank and receiving a small annual allowance as compensation. All the Council considered that she had violated the terms of the Duchess of St. Albans will by her marriage. Lord Cowper takes a gloomy view of the situation in Ireland. At a banquet at Belfast he reiterated his intention to retire, and spoke of the deep seated ill feeling and dissatisfaction in the country. The storm which passed over Glasgow and other parts of Scotland on the 22nd inst., was the fiercest experienced for thirty years. The Bishop of Manchester is preaching in opposition to Moody and Sankey’s mission. The oarsman Boyd has accepted the challenge of Hanlan to row a race over the Thames’ championship course for the championship and a stake of £25 to £IOOO a side. Adam MoColi, leader of the Livingstone mission to Congo, died at Madeira. Maloney, a wealthy Irish merchant, and a member of the Land League, has been arrested on a charge of intimidating a tenant for paying rents, and circulating the no-rents manifesto. Parliament meets on February 7th for the dispatch of business. Maiming and killing the cattle belonging to landlords in Ireland is increasing, and 200 were mutilated at Oorrongill. Lord Dorraill’s entire flock of sheep were battered to death. He discharged all the laborers owing to the non-discovery of the perpetrators. Government has decided to withdraw the warships from Tunisian waters. Three thousand pounds reward has been offered for the discovery of the murderer of Bailiff Button,

The Duke of Marlborough’s library has been sold. Twenty-fire thousand dollars was offered by an American agent previous to the auction.

The Queen has requested Millais to paint the portrait of Princess Mary, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh. Sir Jas. Paget, tbe eminent surgeon, is in serious danger from blood poisoning, which is attributed to vaccination. The “ Times ” remarks of the details of Guiteau’s trial, and tbe judicial style of the American court of justice, that it shocks and astonishes English readers. Gambettahas established an evening paper at Marseilles, called “ La Mirabeau,” to increase his influence.

The Land Leaguers in Paris are striving to promote an anti-English feeling. De Frequet declined the Governorship of Algiers,

Prince Buonaparte received a large sum for his interest in the Monaco gambling tables. Forty millions of francs have been expended in extending a breakwater at Cherbourg. Trains are now running on the Caspian Bail way to within five days’ march of Merv. General Ignatieff, whom the assassin Sampkousky really intended to kill, has resigned. Prince Sokerwazohiag, who was found guilty of wounding a merchant, has been sentenced to exile at Archangel. Bismarck is uneasy at the cordial relations between France and England re the Egyptian Government, and is arranging to have the Transatlantic steamers converted into cruisers.

Two thousand lives were lost by diphtheria in Nova Scotia last year. The Montreal Orangemen appeal from the decision of the Supreme Court in the case involving a question of walking in procession. The friends of the Missouri train robbers propose abducting the governor's daughters to compel their release by the authorities. American business men propose reprisals against the French authorities for preventing the importation of American pork. O’Donovan Bossa recently told a newspaper interviewer that the Irish organisation for destructive purposes in New 'fork was more perfect than that of the Nihilists in Bussia. Two emissaries, he claims, recently fired the town of Woodstock, N. 8., and cost the English insurance companies £200,000. Henry Muslard, the mainspring of the Northern Pacific Bailroad enterprise, has purchased the entire interest of the Pacific Steamship Company in the line of steamers between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon. The suspension of the Bank at Caldwell, Kansas, so excited and enraged the debtors that a committee arrested Dan Ford, the owner, and Smith, the cashier, and compelled them to make their deposits good by collateral security. The steamer Collimar, which arrived at San Francisco on the 29th, brought fifty-three shipwrecked sailors from various ports between this and Panama. The wrecks are, the British ship Lara, Captain Currie, burned in the South Pacific, and the British barque Almada Castle, Captain Kelly. Victoria Woodhnll is in New York with her daughter, who was falsely reported as engaged to Lord Colin Campbell. The interference of Secretary Blaine in the affairs of.the Spanish American Bepublics, is exciting great attention in Europe. The money order system, recently agreed to between the States and New Zealand and New South Wales, is expected largely to increase the trade between the countries concerned.

There is a smallpox epidemic in Chicago. Mrs Garfield sent President Garfield’s portrait to the Queen at Her Majesty’s request. The committee of Congress recommended the Government to build thirty-eight unarmored cruising vessels, five steel rams, and five torpedo boats, for coast and harbor defence.

The public debt of the States decreased by 7,000,000d01. in November. Jacob Lorillard is at the head of the now Atlantic Ocean Steamship enterprise. Passengers are to be carried, not freight, and speed, combined with safety, is the chief aim. The line is to be called the American Press Line, and is to come into operation in the spring of 1882, The Oincinatti pork curing trade showed a a decline of 1,000,000d01. Some Italian beans, the first importation of the kind, are being landed in Now York. Five hundred bags were received on the Ist. A sweeping revolution in ocean steamship building is contemplated by some influential Massachusetts capitalists. Vessels are to be constructed without masts, and there will be literally nothing whatever about the deck except the top of the pilot house and the funnels. One of the projectors, being interviewed, said, “We have stepped forward to solve the problem, by doming our vessels, covering them as with a shell from stem to stern. This will place ns above all danger, as rough seas sweeping over with what force they may can do no damage. No spars are out, no freight goes overboard, no lives are lost, everythiog is safe beneath the roof.” The cost of the larger vessels will range from 550,000 to 650,000, at least one-third less than ordinary vessels of the same size. John Hillyard, President of the Ohannes Bank, Jersey City, convicted of conspiracy to defraud, has been eent to the State Prison for eighteen mouths. The sentence was applauded by the people in the Court room. His wife by his side fainted. In Flushing, New York, George Wigin blew his brains out, rather than marry as directed by tt.o Court, before which a woman had cited him. Jno, W. McKay, one of the "Bonanza

ting*,” on being interviewed in New York, taid he wa* going to Europe, a* there wan nothing for him to do on this tide of the water, and (in effect) that the Oometook lines of mine* -were nearly played out. The firm Flood, McKay and Fair had lost nearly 4,000,000 dollar* daring last year. The frank - nes* of McKay in this remark ha* given a blaok eye to the California stock market. A new Mormon Oharch has been organised in Salt Lake. The members claim that Brigham Yonng, Taylor, and Kimball introduced the doctrine of polygamy and blood atonement, contrary to the original belief. Many polygamist* are renouncing their polygamy, and joining this Church. The Mormon authorities raided the stock of the liquor saloons at Salt Lake, and the goods were stowed in the city hall. The difficulty arose out of disputed licenses. The President’s message is congratulatory in tone. He stated that the Chinese treaty was ratified, and bespoke for China courteous consideration. He deplores the depopulation of the Hawaiian Islands. The relations with them are friendly, and their integrity and prosperity are vital to the interests of the United States.

Beports from Panama re the construction of the canal are encouraging Owing to the nature of the soil, the expense in excavation has been lessened. The isthmus is to be attacked at three points simultaneously. It is said that Vanderbilt is about to retire from the active management of his properties, leaving their administration in the hands of Messrs Batter and Cornelias Vanderbilt. The Lord Chamberlain has enjoined on London managers precaution against fire in theatres. The circular was called out by the recent Vienna disaster. The political situation in Germany is darker than ever. The controversy between Bismarck and Windh&urst has put an end to all hopes of a parliamentary coalition of the Conservatives and the clericals. Paul Bert, French Minister of Public Instruction, has warned the prelates that they must not absent themselves from their dioceses without first obtaining the permission of the Government.

In a moment of fury an Italian gardener in Ban Frawoisoo named Gallans killed his brother, his cousin, and attempted to murder his sister and mother. The cousin was stabbed twenty-four times. General Johnstosa, a Confederate General, has baldly charged Jefferson Davis with appropriating to his own use nearly 2,600,006 dollars, intended to pay the Confederate troops. The money was in specie, and made nearly a cart load, A cast of Guitesu’g head ha* been taken by Theodore Mills the sculptor. McQuard, Boman Catholic Bishop of Chicago, has made a savage attack on the Irish nationality in his sermon on Sunday, the 18th, and warned his hearers against listening to a few priests with loose consciences on the "no rent ” proposition. Daniel Hale Haskell, founder of the famous Adam Express Company and Banking bouse in San Francisco, and at one time a man of great wealth and unbounded influence, died in the alms house of that city on the 16th inst. Ex-senator Dawn, a sergeant of California, will probably be called to the Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior. The tea farm, sustained up to date by the Government, in South Carolina, has proved a failure.

One of the Q-uiteau jurors haring lost his wife, the trial is postponed till the twentyfirst. The lawyers think that this will giro the prisoner a new trial in case the jury convict.

The English press are criticising Blaine’s despatch to Minister Lowell very freely. The general verdict is that it breathes a hostile spirit to England, that it is undignified in its tone, and crnde and undiplomatic in language. The document is gratuitous, moreover, as the question of the Panama Canal which called it forth has yet to be solved. George D. Giddon won the bicycling championship of America on the 19th, making 56 miles in Bhrs. ISmin. and Sl.seos. By an explosion on the 18th in the Aerial Fit, Lancashire, belonging to the Abram Company, forty lives were lost. A heavy seizure of arms and several arrests have been made at a house in Erabason row, Dublin. Tbe parties concerned got into a drunken row, and the police were informed. It is reported that 400 people were drowned by the bursting of a dam at Pergoip, Algiers. A party of young men from Nova Scotia, engaged to work mines in New Mexico, have been so badly treated by the contractors that an appeal has been made to the GovernorGeneral of Canada for redress. It is rumored that a new line of steamers, built by capitalists in Canada, will be placed on the ronte between San Francisco, Japan, and China, calling at Victoria, British Columbia, as an intermediate point.

United States Postmaster- General Jnenes resigns his position, to take effect on the Ist January next. George Sooville, Gniteau’s counsel and brother in-law, lectured in Washington on the 14th. In his opinion the assassin was exposed to sudden death, but he would like to see order prevail and the criminal receive a fair trial. He believes that Guiteau is insane and irresponsible for his actions. It is reported that the new steamship City of Borne, built for the Indian Company, is a failure, and the company had refused to accept her from the builders.

The Glasgow and Liverpool authorities are taking extra precautions against firs in. theatres.

A gentleman in Vienna has contributed 62,500 dollars to the sufferers by the Bing fire.

Fourteen persons were drowned on the 15th by the upsetting of a boat between the coast of Galway and the Arran Islands. Lord Dufferin would not allow the Constantinople authorities to search a British vessel for explosives. Lord Lome intends to remain in Canada bis full term of three years longer. Dr. Carver, the American sharpshooter, beat Messrs Gordon and Hobson on the 16th under peculiar conditions. All were standing. Carver at thirty-two and Gordon and Hobson at twenty-four yards, and both the latter used only one hand in the match. A young American tourist is reported missing in Paris. Circular notes with the original name expunged, and exchanged by some swindlers, have given rise to a suspicion of foul play. The missing man had purchased a largo number of bonds just before his disappearance. A typhoon in China around Harfong and Tremoy had carried the waters of tho sea four miles inland, washing away one town, with 3000 inhabitants.

The Dublin “United Ireland ” newspaper has been suppressed, and the clerks Barton and O'Keefe arrested. The paper contained a cartoon reflecting on the Secretary for State. Mrs Langtry, the Jersey lily, has made her first appearance on the stage at the Haymarket as Mrs Hardcastle in “ She Stoops to Conquer. ” The “ Times ” seys that the lady was eminently successful in the personation j that her voice has refinement in every tone, and the performance was a moot interesting and successful experiment. It is understood that the Quean will open Parliament in person. Several people have come to the front who have sworn to kill Guiteau, and relieve the jury of all responsibility. A package sent to him on the 16th contained a piece of rope, Fowler’s steam plough works at Leeds have been burned, involving a loss of £60,000. An American circus rider was ordered out of St. Petersburg recently because she was a Jewess. France is exciting Kurcpo by its preparations for war. TbeHotekkiss works at St. Denis have been doubled, and 900 new cannons have been oast, and heavy appropriations for ordnance have passed the Chambers. The Germans are also making cannon at Madeaburg. The official report on the King Theatre disaster at Vienna says that the chief engineer asked two policemen at the main entrance of the building if anybody was inside, and was told that all were out of the building. The fire brigade subsequently made their way to the galleries, but the air was suffocating, and it was impossible to penetrate the passages, as the torches went out for want of oxygen. The firemen were unable to breathe. The report expresses the conviction that the audience died speedily from suffocation .

The Theatre Francisco and Theatre Dejazat, Paris, will have to be closed to make new guards against fire. The latter will be entirely reconstructed. Twelve hundred pounds have been offered for the conviction of the thieves who stolethe registered letters at the Hatton Garden, post-office. The Queen contributed £2200 to the relist of Irish labourers.