NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 1028, 17 January 1880, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

.[united press association.] . London, December 20. Lord Napier, of Magdala, is coming to England to participate in the final deliberations of the Army Commission. General Grant received a magnificent popular reception, at Philadelphia. A Committee of Congress has been appointed to examine the' projected inter-oceanic canal. Russia is desirous of Conciliating the Poles. It is reported that municipal liberties will bo allowed in .the , chief town in Poland,' • The Turcomans have beCn aggressive since the Russian defeat, making a successful raid on the Russian settlements along .the Caspian Sea. A train on the Great Eastern Railway'ran off the track, killing the,driver, the stoker, and injuring a number of passengers. Intelligence has been received at Singapore that Prapeceha, the son-in-law of Thomas Knox, the late British political agent and Consul-General at Bangkok, was barbarously beheaded at Pechivi in Siam, and that Prapeceha’s father and brothers were imprisoned in Pavaina.

At .an Irish anti-rent meeting at Castlereagh, Mr Martin T.. M'Connell presided, and asked the crowd in the name of God not to let the O’Cpnor Don represent then again in Parliament. Great stress was laid on this point bv all the speakers. During the chairman’s speech, Reilly, a Fenian from Ballagh, cried out to the Crowd : “Shove those reporters away; shut them up.” There was a yell in response, followed by a rush. The constables raised their guns, levelling them at the crowd, who fell back in confusion. Mr -Parnell tried to quell the disturbance. Yells of “ Cursed spies; kill the Saxon - bastards ! ” were heard. Patrick Egan, in an effective speech, claimed the rents which the landlords got for the past year or two.

One luggage van was blown to pieces in an attempt to kill the Czai* of Russia. Nobody was injured. The explosion occurred on the passage of the train, half an hour after the Emperor had passed the house whence the mine was exploded. As soon as the attempt was discovered deputations congratulated him and cheered him loudly on hearing of his escape. The Czar, in replying, said that the sedition in Russia must V>e extirpated, and ho appealed to all right-minded . people to aid him in the eradication of an evil which had taken root in Russia, and he urged parents to train up their children ia paths calculated to make them good, useful citizens.. T'he house from which the mine was exploded was bought recently‘ln a lining man professing to be a ci'ize;. o! /:ia ..-.im .H« had 'dug a’ passageway from the cellar in which the train of powder was laid, connecting with the’mine under the railway.