SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 165, 19 October 1880, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

The ship Jestoria left Liverpool lately with 150 farmers for Texas. The Anglo-American Cable Company have increased their rates to fifty cents per word, Government messages half rates, press messages twenty-five cents, with deferred rate of twelve and a half cents. William J. Taylor and Co., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, insurance brokers, have failed for 200,000 dob

Blackman, Cannon, and Clasper will contend for the International Regatta on the Thames.

A parcel containing 27 dynamite cartridges, connected with a rubber tube filled with percussion caps and gunpowder, was found under the rails on the. London and Northweston Railway line, sixteen miles from Huston, the London terminus, on Sept. 13th. It is supposed that the express train to Scotland, passing over the rails two hours previous to the discovery shook out the tube, and prevented the explosion. Suspicion points to three or four employes just discharged as the parties in the plot. Mr Parnell, in a recent speech to the farmers at Ernies, declared his policy to be in fact unanimity of action among Irish members for independence of all English political parties, refusal to pay more than what the tenant considers a fair rent, and the social excommunication of any person taking a farm from which another has been evicted for non-payment of rent. Among the disasters at sea reported are the foundering of the steamer Aurora, from Oporto, for Southampton, with the loss of ■SO lives. ’Hie steamer Hardwick, from Odessa, for Bristol, with a cargo of barley, foundered, and all on board with the exception of one fireman, perished. A strike has taken place among 30,000 nail-makers of East Worcestershire and Staffordshire against 20 percent, reduction in their wages, but the strikers being destitute were”compelled to succumb. The probable competitors in the International Rowing Match will be Trickett, Laycock, Ross, Riley, Tcnoyek, Hanlon, Boyd, Elliott, and probably Blackmail. Among the acceptances for the C'z.arewitli are Sanford’s Aristocrat, North’s Elkhorn, and P. Lorrilard’s Wallenstein; and for the Cambridgeshire, Keene’s Spendthrift and Lord Murphy, Sandford’s Aristocrat and Mirth, North’s Llkhorn, and Lorillard’s Mereis and Wallenstein. The Great Yorkshire Handicap at Doncaster was won by Reveller, Roulette second, Schoolboy third. The Champagne Stakes for two-year-olds was won by Balgal, Mazourka and Angelina ran dead head for second place. Hanlon, the Canadian oarsman, requires a month to recover from the effects of his voyage to England. He lost 121b5., which he must gain before going into training, and lie will train at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where lie lias ordered a new boat.

Dean Stanley intends to visit the United States next year for the purpose of investigating church institutions. The Prince and Princess of Wales are fond of visiting the “Mastodon,” American Minstrel show, new at Her Majostoy s Theatre. 'They are frequently scon there with their children.

The failure of Hannay and Dickson, brewers, near Manchester, is reported. Liabilities, .fSO,OOO. William Henry Wells, one of the originators of Punch and ail associate of Charles Dickens, in the establishment of “Household Words,” has died in London, aged

The American (Minister, Mr Lowell, is canvassing English authors as to Jieii views concerning an international copy-

right. The strike among the Lancashire weavers is more extensive than at first supposed, and several families from Burnley have migrated to the Fall River, Mass. The Baroness Burdetfc Coutts, who is said to have set her heart on marrying Mr Ashmead Bartlett, is ill in consequence of her friend’s remonstrances against the macli. There is a prospect of a run on the Coutt s Bank in consequence of the expected with drawal of the Baroness from the concern. The alien clause, in the Duchess of St. Albans will cannot it is now admitted, avail . in the case of Mr Bartlett, as lie is to all in- j tents and purposes an Englishman. _ | Owing to continued depression in the j rish linen trade the Manchester flax spinners will, after October 4th, reduce the working days to four per weeck. An upward movement in raw cotton is threatened. , Sir Clias. Dilke intends to resign the Under Secretaryship of Foreign Affairs on account of ill-health. The Seotcli iron masters have resolved to re light half the furnaces put out during the strike of the miners a short time ago. Su«ar has been unfavorably effected by the prospects of the European beet supply which appears likely to reach 1,000,000 tons, the largest amount on record. The Accrington weavers concluded to strike on the 13th. They will be supported by a levy of 2d. per loom throughout North-East Lancashire. Five thousand operatives will be affected. Philip Callan, M.F. for Limerick, and described as the Paria of the Irish party, made a scene in the House of Commons recently. He was intoxicated when lie took bis seat, and delivered aii incoherentspcech, in the course of which be insulted the Chairman of Committee, ami denounced the members generally as infidels, Scotch Presbyterians, contemptible Noneoni formist, and despicable shopkeepers. His ! colleagues left the House in a body at the | beginning of the speech, and Mr O’Connor Power, oil behalf of the Irish party, apologised for Callan’s conduct, i A Census Bill passed the House on the i 2nd. A motion that the enumeration | should indicate religions persuasion was I energetically opposed by John Bright, and i rejected. The House of Lords passed the Savings 1 Banks Bill, the Hares and Rabbits Bill, and a Bill relating to loading of grain cargoes. The Commons rejected the amendments made in the Lords to the Employers’ Liabilities Bill. Thomas P. O’Conner, Home Rule memi Lev for Galway, introduced a resolution on j the 2nd in the Commons, for the sup--1 pression of the Hcuse of Lords on the ! ground that the people of the country had ( lost confidence in that body. He was j seconded by Mr Laboucherc. The MarI quis of liar ting ton humorously deprecated | the raising of a great constitutional quesI tion at half-past three in the morning, and i the House divided oil the question, which ! resulted in 13 ayes to 17 noes. The minor- ! ity consisted of five Irish members and i Bradlaugh, Briggs, Broadliurst, Ashton, j W. Dilke, Sir Wilfred Lawson, Laboue--1 here, Charles McLaren and Whally. j A public meeting was held at Hyde Park | on Sunday, the loth, at which O’Connor j denounced the House of Lords as “ the ■ most oppressive and disgraceful assembly i existing.” The meeting, however, degeneri ated into tumult, in which the platform ! was torn down, and the crowd was finally 1 dispersed by the police. Parliament was prorogued on the 7th till j November. The two points touched on ; in the Queen’s Speech were that the coni cert of Europe has been steadily maintained in regard to the Eastern question, and the | resumption of hostilities in Afghanistan. The Time * says the prorogation was not too soon, considering Mr Foster’s attack on the House of Lords, and the motions of Mr Parnell. The German papers are alarmed at the Ministerial crisis, and express suspicion and dread of Gambetta, while the French Press almost unanimously charge him with having caused it. On the 22nd the Ferry Cabinet was definitely formed as follows Jules Ferry,

President of Council and Minister of Public Instruction; B. St. Hilaire, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Constant, Minister of Interior and \\ orship ; C'uzot*, Minister of Justice ; Magin, Minister of Finance ; General Farrc, -Minister of Mar; Admiral Clouet, Minister of Marine: Carnot, Minister of Public Works ; Tirard, Minister of Commerce; and Cookery, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs. Waddington has challenged \ on Buckler after requesting the German Government to contradict the hatter’s statement concerning him to the eifect that the constitution of the Austrian-German alliance was due to Prussia’s overture’s to France. \on Buckler explains that what he said was merely a repetition of current reports. A treaty with Tahito, annexing that island to France, was signed last June. The harvest will be a good average one. Lyons newspapers contradict the reports of embarrassments in the silk trade. Colonel Jung, of the \\ ar Office, has challenged A. Van de YYoestyne, a writer for the Uaitloi*, because he accused him of selling military information to the Russians. The Jesuit schools at Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Mountpoillcr, and elsewhere have been evacuated. At Pointers the fathers were ejected with some trouble. A boat belonging to Prince Galitozky foundered off the coast of Finisterre on 3rd Sept. Viscount Flewry, MrsHenucssy, an American lady, and two others were drowned.

A ferry steamer capsized at Bordeaux on the 22nd, drowning six persons.