ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2540, 30 May 1882, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

[.By Tblegbaph.J [Per e.g. City of Sydney, at Auckland.] GENERAL SUMMAEY. . Engineer Melville, of the Jcanette, reports to the American Government that he was the discoverer of De Ling and of his boat'* crew, starved to death and frozen, and that hs found all the papers and books of the ship's boats, partly believed also to have perished. Among tins dead was Jerome O. Collins, the "New York Herald" correspondent. On May 6th the yaoht Cora, belonging to Sir Henry Gore Booth, waff preparing to go to the polar regions to render assistance to the Leigh Smith search expedition. The Corporation of Marseilles has sued the Empress Eugenie for the reoovery of the ohateau they presented her with under the Empire. The Mayor thinks the chateau belongs to the town. Epping Forest has been dedicated to the full use of the public. The formal ceremony took place on the 6th, in the presence of the Queen. It is estimated that a million of persons were present in the forest and along the route of the Royal procession. Reynolds, alias the Bev. Mr Lematire, one | of the parties arrested in oonnecticn with ths Hat o 1 Garden Pott Office robbery, is a native of Chicago.

All extra precautions have been taken at Woolwich in consequence of a letter disclosing the intention to blow up the barracks.

There were 3892 persons evicted in Ireland during the first quarter of 1882. Mr Smyth, M.P. for Tipperary, violently denounced the Land League in the Commons on the 22nd. In answer to a vote of censure passed on him by the priests of Tipperary for not supporting the organisttion, he declared that until "this conspiracy " is demolished root and branoh, Ireland will have no peace. The pew cable connecting Emden with the Anglo-American cable system at Valencia, enabling messages to be transmitted direct between Germany and America, was opened on the 21et by the interchange of courtesies between Emperor William and the President of the United States.

Sir Allen Young has chartered the steamer George Hope to hunt up the .Leigh Smith's Arctic expedition. The fifteen American trotting horses sent from Detroit, Michigan, have been sold in London for the following prices: Bobby Leo, 1085 guineas; Jennie R., £125 ; Hattie and Dick Minniaphee, £l2O each ; German Girl, £115; Grace Darling, £llO, and Little Wonder, £IOO, Renck, Fenwick, and RencV, wholesale liquor merohants of London, have failed, with liabilities of £300,000.

The tide of American travellers to the Old World hes strongly revived. A large number of New*Yorkers are in London, and the chief hotels are crowded.

Among the deaths for the month are Count Franz de Champagney, a French author and member of the Academy; John [Charles Frederick Koellner, the German astronomer, and Frances Marie, the wife of Prince William of Wurtcmburg, and sister of the Duchess of Albany.

In the House of Commons on April 28th, Mr Labouchere complained of the existence of slavery in Hong Kong, on the Gold Coast and in the Malay states of North Borneo. He said the slave market at Hong Kong supplied women to California, Australia, and China.

Tho Under-Secretary denied that Britiih officials sanctioned slavery. Captain Rondaire's proposition to make a great inland sea to the South of Algeria and Tunis by flooding the desert is attracting attention, and has been carefully discussed by the Frenoh Council of Ministers. It would cost about 15,000,000icl to carry out the scheme, and eight years' time at most. The House of Commons has passed a Bill authorising the construction of an electric railway at Charing Cross under tho river to Waterloo station.

The " Nineteenth Century" for May published nearly 500 frech signatures to the protest against the Channel Tunnel, including the names of many amongst the most distinguished peers and military and naval officers. The President of the Board of Trade announced on the Ist May that the Government had concluded to stop the work and await the action of Parliament.

England intends to co-operate with ether nations in establishing a chain of circu.npolar magnetic and meteorological observatories.

The movement among the Bussian and Polish Jews continues. The assembly of Polish Jews has pronounced in favor of immigration to Palestine. Seven hundred families have applied for assistance to proceed thither. As the Bussian foreign corn trade was almost entirely in Jewish bands, tho utmost confusion prevails in that industry. Earthquake shocks have been felt in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, and tromendous snow storms hsve occurred in the Alps. The Simplon route is impassable. Thousands of haads are out of employment at the Midlestron works on account of a strike.

Gabriel Bavel Khoun, tho world-wide known pantomimist, died at Toulon, France, on May Ist, seventy-two years old. The prospectus of the North British Borneo Company has been issued. The capital is £1,000,000 of 100,000 shares. The first istuo will be 65,000 shares. The Indian army haß been reduced to 31 regiments of cavalry and 113 regiments of infantry. The Asiatic plaguo hao broken out in the Persian Kinderstan.

Tho 6tsamßhip Hoeki, of the Guion line, made tho run from New York to Q.ueenstown (arriving on the 2od inst) in six dejs end forty-six minutes, the fastest by several hours yet made. Dr. Lamson was executed on tho 28th ult. at nine o'clock. He had a farewell interview with some of his friends. After a final inl erview with his wifo he wrote to his frier.dn, vhtually admitting his guilt, and attributing his crime to mental derangement. He subsequently wrote a definite confession that he poisoned Percy John, bat he denied that he was concerned in tho death of Herbert John. At the scaffold he was so unwell that he had to be supported by the chaplain and Attwood the executioner. Death was instantaneous. The latest announcement say that Lamsoon, before his execution, confessed his guilt to the ohaplain and acknowledged the justice of his sentence.

The burning of the Newmarket buildings at Aberdeen on the 29. h involved a loo: of £IOO,OOO. Three person« were kilh d. General Ignatieff quitted the Assembly of Ministers in Ist. Petersburgh on the 6th in high dudgeon, when his proposal to accelerate the immigration of Jews from Eusiia was rejected.

The Austrian Reichstag has adopted the proposal which permits the importation of grain duty free into Tyrol, [Groerg.?, Oraduxa, Triente, the district of Adessburg, in Carmola. Dilmatia, and Herzegovina. The King of Greece turned the first cod of the proposed Corinth Canal on May 6th. Tne Nihilist aseassin who shot General Stretnikoff, plundered his apartment and rogainod the pocket list of revolutionists in the General's possession, also the comploto plana he bad of the Nihilistio methods of procedure, and their projects. The loss of these papers is a sovere blow to the authorities. Under cover of illuminating the Kremlin at Moscow with the electrio light a plot to blow up the whole palace duriog the coronation festivities of the Czar has been discovered. AMERICAN SUMMARY. SAN FRANCISCO, May 8. President Arthur has signed the amended Chinese anti-immigration Bill to-day. The time is limited to twelve years. Racine,-.Wisconsin, was partially destroyed by fire on May sth. The loss reached 350,C00d015. Some eighty editors from Texas are on a visit to San Francisco. They are personoily investigating the Chinese question, and the effeot of Coolie emigration on the Pacific ooaat. For the eeventy-two hours ending May Bth nearly 3000 Chinese had arrived in California. Scoville,'late oounsel for Guitesoi, has confessed that he believes his wife (sister of the assassin) is insane. Designing men have prevailed on her to deliver public It ctures rei garding hei brother's easo. Her husband has protested in vain, and his wife now seeks a divorce from him.

2Jkb Emilie Melville, the prima donna, is *' pasMager for the colonies by the steamer. The lady hag just filled a good engagement in the Eastera States,' and has tempting offara for London, bat she prefer* to gratify a long cherished desire to visit Australia, where the was to we ii received and kindly treated before.

The Marquis of Lome and the Prircesi .Louise intend to visit the Pacific Canadian provmoes.

~ A £ f ty year old BrWe had been Elolen from the United States Ssnate Chambsr by relio hunters, but afterwards it was returned.

The United States exploring ship Bodgera has been burned and sunk near Oape Servize, in the arotio regions,. Iho steircer Iroquois, now at Mare Island, will be despatched for the relief of the officers and men. A terrible cyclone occurred in Alabama on •he 24'„h April. Everything in its course was literally blown to pieces. The width of iU course wsb about twelve miles.

The Electric Light Company »f MassachuFred. Grant.president, has collapsed, omng 150,000d01, with no assetev There are chargeß of fraud in the management, and the matter will be brought before the Courts.

The question of Canadian independence was debated in the New Dominion Parliament on the 21st ult. Sir John McDonald, the Premier, contend ad for the present system of government, because if " we make treaties wo would not have power to enforce them, whereas now tho treaties we are interested in are enforced by the power of England." He believed the resolutions pendirig were tad, and really meant independence of and separation from the mother country. It is now charged that East Indian sugar is brought to the United States via the Sandwich Islands, and the duty of three cents a pound thus avoided. An investigation is in. progress.

The Belgian Consul in New York has sent out an attachment against Leon Burtard, believing him to be in the United States, and also accuaed of robbing an Archbishop in Belgium of bonds, money and jewels amounting to over 1,200,000 dols.

The most serious outbreak ever known in Arizona has taken place among the Apaohe Indians. They are robbing and murdering in all directions. Over fifty white persons had been butchered in a few days, and the United States troops are so few as to bo powerless against the savages. The Mayor of Locg Island City, NewYork, has been arrested for the robbery of 114,000 dols. of the municipal funds. Charles Lind, school treasurer of Belleville, Illinois, has disappeared with 12,000 dols.

Scoville has withdrawn from Guiteau, because his client, in hiß opinion, did not receive fair judicial treatment. A horrible caße of trichinosis has occurred at Clyde, K inset, where a whole family has died from eating the flesh of a hog killed a short time before. The movements of triohina in the raw pork oould be observed with the> naked eye. The steamer Ceylon, originally from England, on a trip round the world, arrived at San Francisco on April 26th, the trip taking about ten months. The charge for each, passenger is 2500i015, and they are at liberty to leave the vessel at any port if they wish to return home, the expenses being paid. There were thirty-six tourists on board, and thirteen disembarked at this port, and returned to England via New York. An attempt has been made on the lives of William H. Vanderbelt and Cyrus W. Field, by sending explosive missives to their residences, addressed through the mails. Fortunately the one addressed to Yanderbilt was exploded by a jolt of the mail cart, and when the half-burned mail bag was examined, the Field package was discovered intact, and plunged into water to guard against consequences.

It is claimed by the promoters of tho Atlantic ar.d the Paoifio Interocean Railway Oompany that the time by this route from New York to San Francisco can be made in fire dajs. It is whispered that a new improvement in railroading has been discovered which will revolutionise that service, and put it fifty years ahead of the age.