NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 1390, 16 March 1881, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

GENERAL SUMMARY. Bret Ilavte, consul at Glasgow, has been disabled by a shot in the hand while hunting. Baroness Burdett Coutts and Mr Asbinoad Bartlett were married at Christ Church, London, on February 12ih. None but their nearest relations and intimate friends were present. Ilcid Loiprancl, and Co., coffee merchant:.!, Frankfort, with branches in London, have failed. The coffee trade generally is disorganised. Leopold do Botlisehikl, youngest son of the late Baron Lionel de Rothschild, and Miss Perugia, of Trieste, were married in Portland Street Synagogue, London. The Prince of Wales, Lord and Lady Boseberry, and other persons of rank were present. Thomas Carlyle was unconscious for many hours before his death. He suffered no pain. Professors Tyndall, Fronde, and Leckie attended the funeral. The North German Lloyd’s steamer Kran Pivnz Frederic Wilhelm sunk a steamer by a collision off Cothaden. Six lives were lost. The ship BreMen has been wrecked at Shetland Isles. Thirteen were drowned and seven saved. Twelve men were imprisoned, and probably perished by a colliery explosion in Whitfield, near Chall, Staffordshire, on February 7th. Two ships were damaged, and eighteeen railway tracks and twelve grain laden barges destroyed by fire at the Victoria Docks, London, on February 8 th. The steamer Bohemian, Captain Grundy, from Boston to Liverpool, went ashore in Dunlop Ba>, on the Irish Coast, during a dreadful storm. Thirty-two persons were drowned. Twenty-one of the crew, including the second officer was saved. Michael Davitt, the land league agitator, was arrested on 3rd February under his ticket of leave. He was taken to Milbank Penitentiary, and immediately clothed as a convict. The arrest was made in Dublin. It is said that the real cause of Davitt’s arrest was his connection with a new movement to look to the employment of physical force in solving the Irish question. The London Times says that the Bunk of France has tried to cure the gold drain by issuing notes. This has failed, as predicted. The proprietor of the Marsellaise has been sentenced (o a fine of 1000 francs for defaming the army and eulogising a regicide; the manager of the same paper to a year’s imprisonment and 2000 francs, and General Clusaret, the editor, to two years’ imprisonment and 3000 francs. 8,000,000 francs worth of redeemable 3 per cent, rentes, to complete military material and great public works, will not be issued until July. Prince Bismark proposes to combat social democracy by remedial measures and not by repressive decrees. Bismark has introduced a proposition into Tie Bundsrath for trieninl imperial budgets. Til ere was great opposition, and the Finance Ministers threaten to resign. At Dublin, on Februaty Oth at a meeting of the Land League, Mr Dillon urged the continuance of agitation even a. ter the passage of the Coercion Bill; ana auviocti tenants to resist landlords in every way short of physical force, for which they were prepared. A resolution was passed declaring that in view of the importance of securing the sympathy of America, and of the Irish in America, Mr Parnell is requested to proceed to that country immediately. Brennan will also go to America, and Walsh goes to Australia. It is stated that the holding of a national convention in Dublin will be prohibited. Dillon advised its postponement till Parnell Davitt, and Brennan can bo present. Patrick Egan, treasurer of the Land League, has the league funds in Paris to avoid possible confiscation now the Coercion Biil is passed. Ho sends

strong appeals to America for material aid. Orders have been given to treat Davitt with all possUdU£>dulgence. He occupies a room and is kept apart from the oth»* convicts. Ho will not be subject to ordinary prison labor, but must wear the convict dress. The Horae Secret ary says there was grave and just cause for cancelling Davitt’s ticket-of-leave, but it is net desirable to state the reasons. Davitt is in good health and satisfied with arrangements made for him at Portland. Arthur O’Oonnor denounced the published statement to the effect that the Irish members of the House received an allowance from the Land League fund as an atrocious calumny. The Home Rulers had decided to cany the agitation against coercion into the great towns of England and Scotland. A murder, growing out of the land disputes, is reported at Derry Lee. A serious encounter with the police had taken place at Kilkeelly, also at Bally Hauris. The mob stoued the police, and were charged at the point of the bayonet.