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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2446, 7 February 1882, Page 3

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I OP TH* 'FRISCO MAIL. TBy TblhgraphJ CPer s.s. City of Sydney, at Auckland.] SAN FBANOISCO, January 16. GENERAL SUMMABY. A movement is on foot for cheapening telegraphio communication with foreign countries. Garibaldi is dangerously ill. The Pope refusing to fill the census papers as required by law, a Monseignor took upon himself to do so. The return shows that 500 persons are living in the Vatica.n, one-third of whom are females. The association of Lynne weavers have bean successful in their strike, and resumed work at 10 per cent, advance. Miss Janie'Lee and 3. P. Barrett leave for the colonies by the February steamer. Miss Loo is the original "Little Jo," whioh she takes with her; also " The Colonel," and possibly Sardou's " De Volcons," with other new plays. Mr Gladstone has again remitted 10 per cent, off the rentals on his Hawarden estate. Bestriding the freedom of the German Press increases daily. The Chicago express train, leaving Albany at 2.40 on the afternoon of the 13th, was run into by the Tarrytown special train, a mile east of Spingten, Dupril Creek, New York. There were many members of the State Legislature aboard the Chicago train, one of whom —Senator Iragoner—is reported killed. Nine other persons are dead. The Tarrytown train was not properly signalled, and was only aware of the Chicago train when within fifty feet of it. The Wagner palaoe cars, Idlewild and Emperor, were telescoped and afterwards burned up. It was in these the deaths occurred. The suffering was horrible. The weather in California is exceptionally cold for the season. Frost has made its appearand*. The case of the Marquis of Huntley was under investigation at the Mansion Houß9 on January 12th. He is oharged with obtaining £2374 from Benjamin Nioholson under false pretences. Huntley has disappeared. The difficulty arose from a raoing affair. The coronation of the Czar Alexander IV. has been postponed till July. Nordenskjold contemplates an Arotio expedition next summer, to prove the possibility of regular commercial communication with Siberia, A Swedish mail steamer was sunk in Calmar Sound on the 13th, while on a mail trip. Fifteen persons were drowned. The Ultramontane deputies in the Spanish Cortes and the Bishops are organising a great pilgrimage to Borne. The Pope has given it his approval. Madame Caroline Lichmond Bernhardt, a professional actress of great eminence, died of smallpox at Biohmond, Virginia, on the 14th. This disease is beooming rapidly epidemio, and emigrating Chinamen are blamed for spreading it. It is now stated by Paris correspondents that the commercial treaty between France and England will after all be certainly signed inside of three weeks. An enormous mass of rook, 3000 ft high, had fallen near the town of Gerans, Switzerland, destroying orchards, woods, and meadows. No lives were lost. An attempt to spread smallpox through the A.S. mails was reported to the Washington postal authorities on January 14th. An undated and unsigned letter, postmarked Cincinnati, was reoeived by a farmer at the Lynn (Virginia) Post-office, and in it were two smallpox scales. The letter read—" I have sent you the smallpox, go home and die." In Tunis General Sogaret has seized several Notables at Sfax as hostages for the payment of the war indemnity exacted by Franoe. Severe measures are threatened if the money be not immediately forthcoming. Several members of the Gallagher branch of the Ladies' Land League, have been committed to prison in Limerick in default of bail. The "New York World's" cablegram (January 16th) says Foster's scheme for planing the disturbed distriots in Ireland under the supervision and control of five stipendiary magistrates, of whom Clifford Lloyd is one, has now been carried out, but there is no falling off in the number of agrarian outrages. The Earl of Shrewsbury, who stopped with Mrs Millar Munday last summer, is before the public again in a discreditable role. Not satisfied with receiving his tenantry with that lady on his arm, when they came to congratulate him in November last on his attaining his majority, he has saddled himself with her graceless brothers, four in number. A fifth, O. A. Palmer Morwood, of Alfredon Hall, Derbyshire, was terribly assaulted by these four on Christmas night and beaten within an inch of his life, because he refused to sign a document conveying to them oertain properties. They then fled, and took refuge with Shrewsbury and their sister, but were arrested and put under £'OCO bail eaoh. The Earl Was their bail. One of these worthies helped to give Shrewsbury a sound thrashing when he was discovered with his sister on the Continent. The revelations in the Lawson case and some other has caused a scare in London about poisoning, and means are to be taken to restmt the sale of poisons. _ Germany intends to participate in the Arctic exploration, and a committee of scientific experts to decide on the best means has been convened in Berlin. Ex-Senator Aaron, a sergeant, has been offered the position of Secretary of Interior in President Arthur's Cabinet. Tidings have been received of the Jeanette from the survivors, who reached St. Petersburg on December 20th. She was caught in the ice in October, 1879, and drifted about in it until last June, when she was abandoned in latitude 77 North, longitude 157 East. The crew embarked in three boats, and were separated by winds and fog. A boat with eleven men, in charge of Engineer Melville, reaohed Northland on September 11th; and boat No. 1, bearing Commander DeLong Deamber and twelve men, reaohed the same point in a pitiable oondition ; No. 3 boat has not been heard of. The discovery of the first boat was made by the natives of Cape Barton, ninety miles north of Cape Bitoff. The Governor Yahoatere ordered supplies and medical assistance for the sufferers, and with reference to the missing boat the captain of a steamboat whaler in Providence Bay said he had seen a boat containing corpses, and also silver spoons marked "Jeanette." The largest steel sailing vessel afloat, 2220 tons, was launched on the 9th at Belfast for Ismil and Co., managers of the White Star Line. The vessel was named the " Garfield," and will be plaoed in the California and Australian trade. The stewards of the Henley regatta oommittee decided to restrict the competition for the Visitors' Cup to the College and schools of the United Kingdom. The Czar has signed an ukase, in accordance with whioh the payments by peasants on account of the lands they received at the time of emancipation will be reduced by 120,000,000 roubles per year. Panly, supposed to be the Hatton Garden Post Office robber, was arrested at B&ngor. Large quantities of Irish potatoes are being exported to the United States. The census ef Paris shows the population to be 2,225,900, against 1,998,900 in 1876. At the banquet in Borne given in honor of the veteran soldiers, the Mayor deolared the people of Rome would rather see the city laid in ashes than again be subjected to Papal domination. Famine is imminent among the French camps in Tunis. London has 'given £IOOO to tho Vienna sufferers. James Gordon Bennett of the " New York Herald " has started for St. Petersburg to oonfer with the Russian Government as to the feasibility of starting another Polar expedition. Queen Viotoria accepted the dedication of Gounod's oratorio " The Redemption." Servants of the Portuguese Royal household have been dismissed on suspicion of attempting to poison the King. Anna Parnell presided at a meeting of the Ladies' Land League in Dublin on New Year's Day without polioe interference. A St. Petersburg paper announces the insolvency of the Grand Bailway Sooiety, and the misappropriation of 25,000,000 roubles of the Government money on the Nicholso line. Mrs Langtry makes her first appearance as 1 a regular member of tho Haymarket Company

on January 18th. She will play Blanche Hay in " Ours." The Bussian military authorities will organise an armed lettlement on the Chinese frontier of Siberia. The Italian Government is determined to guarantee more efficiently the liberty and independence of the Pope in Borne. Mormon proselytising in London is reported to be unsuooesiful, but many converts are made in the provinces, 7500 sinoe August. Emigration from Germany to America is assuming vast proportions, and 1500 tickets have already been taken for vessels leaving Bremen in the spring, and an equal number go from Hamburg. The oasbier of the banking house of Fenzie at Florence, who is seventy years old, has absconded with 2,000.000 lire. Coffee speculations at Havre have resulted in a loss of £1,000,000. Lisbon journals are investigating the treatment of the Azores emigrants to the Sandwich Islands. They demand the interference of the Portuguese Government. The success of Mrs Langtry in her theatrical debut has provoked a terrific outburst of professional jealousy. She is said to receive £SOO a week at the Haymarket Theatre. - An English oompany will take up Lorillard's scheme for a rapid transit between the United States and England. Milford has been chosen as the port by an influential association, headed by the Earl of Dunraven. Becollectioni of the Vienna fire have made theatrical business very slow. In London, during the holiday week, losses to managers were disastrous. Mr Gladstone deolined to interfere with the Mormon missionaries in England. In referring to the matter he said those who go to Utah at their solicitation go, it is presumed, voluntarily. Two Mormon missionaries were mobbed in London. There is a growing distrust of the electric light in London sinoe the Hatfield House affair. Electricians are trying to allay it, and advocates of gas to foster it. The London press disoourage the bribery memorials presented to Sir W. Haroourt. A widespread organisation for plundering the Spanish post offioe was discovered. The post office people are implicated. The proposed exhibition of British manufactures has fallen through, owing to the dispute between Dublin and Belfast regarding the Royal patronage. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius has assumed large proportions. Americans in Paris are buying largely Panama Canal stock. Miss Beynolds, convioted of aiding and abetting a criminal conspiracy to prevent the payment of rent, was committed to Gastleton gaol for one month. The Emperor of Austria will erect a oharitable institution on the site of the burned Bing Theatre, Vienna. . Powell, an English'aeronaut, is supposed to be lost at sea. A broken thermometer from the balloon in whioh be ascended was found at Weymouth, on the Dorsetshire coast. This is considered as indicative of his fate. Erogius and Foxhill are to try conclusions in spring over the Newmarket oourse. The latest form of lawlessness in Ireland is "Land League hunts." In some instances the authorities had no time to interfere. Quantities of game were taken and preserves were destroyed. The Nihilists are reassembling in the Bussian capital, and it is thought they are preparing for fresh deeds of violence. The entire territory of town land in North Tipperary was evicted by the military on January 7th. The Lord Lieutenant has refused permission to Dillon and Parnell to reoeive the certificates of freedom of the city conferred by the Dublin corporation. The reports of attempts made to steal the bodies of Napoleon 111. and the Prinoe Imperial were denied at Paris. Dr. Lawson, accused of poisoning his brother-in-law Peroy Malcolm, student at Blenheim House, Wimbledon, was arraigned at Bow street Polioe Court. Subsequently a verdict of " Wilful murder " was found. The Parnellites will call an Irish meeting in London for the week preceding Parliament, February 16th. A very clever, and partly successful, swindle was reoently discovered. An Havannah telegram, purporting to be forwarded from Madeira through the News Agency s.s. Spencer, was printed in an Havannah paper on December 24th, announcing that ticket 31,754 had drawn the capital prize of 50,000 in the national lottery, Madeira. Four days afterwards the ticket was presented to the house of J. M. Barges and Co. for negotiation. After they had telegraphed to Madrid for confirmation of the dispatch, it turned out that the whole correspondence was forged, and that the job was put up by a lot of smart swindlers. AMEBIOAN SUMMABY. SAN FBANOISOO, January 16. A movement is on foot to bring a colony of Jews from Russia to Canada. The defenceless condition of San Francisco in case of war is attracting the attention of Congress. The reports of the General Post Offioe Department at Washington indicate that smallpox is spreading throughout the country. The Anchor Line steamer Victoria ran ashore in New York harbor on January 7th. She had been twenty-three davs from Liverpool. Nineteen lives were lost by an explosion of kerosene on board the steamer West Point, plying between York river and Baltimore, United States. The gunboat Essex was despatched to settle the difficulties existing among the Liberians in Afrioa. Phillips, Marshall and Co., of London, bought 1,300,000 acres of land from the State of Mississippi. It is said to be the richest ootton and timber land in the South. Their intention is to colonise, improve, and cultivate it. A scarlet fever epidemic prevails in New York and smallpox is increasing in Chicago. Thomas Power O'Connor, the Irish Land League Agitator, has been received with open hands all over America. His lectures were largely attended. Application was made by outside parties to assist Guiteau to take an insuranoe on his life, not exceeding 100,000 dols." Fitzgerald, who is now walking a matoh in New York, has made a record of 582 miles in six days, beating best previous records. The story that Jefferson Davis stole the Confederate treasure chest is now emphatically denied. The railroad from Texas to Brazil, through Mexico and Central America and by the Isthmus of Panama to Bio Janeiro, is projected. It is said that John W. Mackay, the Bonanza capitalist, is to be president, and has promised to devote his best energies and a large part of bis oapital to its completion. Campbell, an anti-Mormon delegate to Congress from Utah, expressed himself astoniihed at the sympathy for Mormonism in Washington, and is of opinion polygamy is not so near its doom as some people imagine. Campbell is a Gentile and monogamist, while Cannon, whose seat he disputes, is a Mormon elder and the husband of four wives. Mrs Fanny Stenhouse, who visited Australia some years ago as a lecturer on the evils of Mormonism, is about to start upon a tour round the world with the same object in view. . Oscar Wilde, the a>3fchetio poet, has arrived in New York. Healy, M.P. for Wexford, arrived in Ban Franoieoo on the 10th. During his trip overland he made speeches at several points in favour of the Irish Land League. The look-out of the crops in California this season is very gloomy, and rain is greatly needed in the southern portions of the State. In the meantime, sheep are dying. Orders were received in Now Orleans from San Francisoo, on the 7tb, to provide freight room in Maroh and April for 180,000 bushels of wheat for Great Britain. This wheat is to be sent from California to New Orleans by the Southern Pacific Bailway, thence by steamer to destination. The is looked forward to with a good deal of interest, as many believe it will have a disastrous effect upon the sea-going commeroe of San Franoisco. Mormon missionareis are aotively proselytising in the State of Pensylvania, and accessions to the ranks of polygamy are rapidly increasing. While Congress is devising ways and means to suppress the practice in far off Utah, the Mormons are carrying it into the heart of the country. Holland's rams, supposed to have been built for Fenians, were sunk at New York by a canal boat. Sir George Morriß, the Arolio explorer, has arrived at New York.