SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 173, 16 November 1880, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

LONDON. October 23. A fearful gale raged on the Cornwall ! coast on 7th October. Harbor works and ! quays were damaged, and many small yachts and boats destroyed. Worth, the man milliner, has given an opinion that American silk is now superior j to French, and many French ladies are j supplying tlicmseves in the markets of the I United States.

must fall. Yoices cried out, “AsMountmof res fell." A meeting of 500 Orangemen, in Gilford County Down, passed a resolution calling on the (iovcfnment to suspend trial by jury, and declaring that citizens of the United Kingdom, and should he expelled. Mr Parnell addressed a meeting of 10,000 people in Kilkenny. Nine members of Parliament and fifty priests were present. He announced that when sullicient information had been collected, the Laud League would organise in great strength against paying rent on the estate of every renting landlord.

Members of the Landlord’s Association waited on the Lord-Lieutenant, and impressed upon him the necessity for immediate steps to he taken for protection of life and property. The barracks' at Athlonc, Carlow, and Sligo, and other places in the West of Ireland, are to be prepared for the full complement of troops the buildings are capable of accommodating. I'm view of the abortive proceedings against Davitt, Daly, and Keller the Govenment have abandoned proceedings by summons or arrest, and have determined to move in the (jueen’s Bench for a conditional order for a criminal information against members of the Land League. 'The parties proceeded against will lie the members of the local branches who participated in preventing the bidding in sale of farm leases from which tenants bad been ejected. A process server was murdered on the Ist.

The race between Joe Cannon and 1 farhy Thomas, for £IOO a side and a bet of OHIO to L’SO, was rowed on the 4th, over the Thames championship course, lour miles and a quarter. Time, 24min 21seo. It was a tame affair. Hanlon and Triclcett were present.

Lieut. Nehwaka’s discoveries in the Arctic, and Polar matters generally, are yet discussed by the London Press. Among latest contributions to literature on the •subject is a letter from Commander Clieync in reply to an article in the Standard. “It was not the Arctic Regions," lie says, “ that sent Franklin’s men to the next world ; they were murdered by the contrretor who supplied them. The expedition to which I belonged had tins labelled beef and mutton, which contained nothing but offal. ” George Coull, the sailor who steered the Shannon, in action with the Chesapeake, off Boston harbor in LSI 3, has just died, aged !>5. Hu was buried with military honors.

A terrible accident occured on lltli October on the Pennsylvania road, Pittsburg caused by the neglect of the flagman to signal the section train. Nine persons were killed outright, and eleven have since died. The casualties were very numerous, besides the fatal injurious. Word was immediately telephoned to the manager’s office for assistance, and twenty-five policemen, with a full corps of physicians and waggons, wore despatched at once to the scene of the disaster, were they were soon busily employed in alleviating the sufferings of the victims, and cleaving the wreck. The wounded, who were unable to care for themselves, were carried to Soldiers' Hospital, a short distance from the scene of the accident. Three more victims of the disaster died next day. Joe Kmmets, the actor, is dead. October 24. A general strike against rents is threatened. The Land Leaguers and the Fenians have coalesced. The enmity is increasing between Catholic and Protestant, and between North and South. Parnell has issued a circular to the trading and farming classes of Cork, inviting them to a meeting to he held on Saturday next for the purpose of establishing a land league on a new basis, intending to give the new body a wider scope. A correspondent of the Sknuhml states that Sergeant Sherlock, formerly member of Parliament for King's County, lias been retained by the Crown to prosecute the agitators. Mr Dillon, member of Parliament for Tipperary, speaking at Donegal, said that before Christmas there would ho a branch of the Land League in every county of Ulster. ■Steps arc being taken to form an influential committee of Liberals to strengthen the hands of the Government in dealing with the disorders in Ireland, and to urge the necessity for immediate measures for the protection of life and property. The Globe learns, on good authority, that the quantity of firearms imported into Ireland from America and the Continent greatly exceeds the official estimates. The violent resolutions passed by Orange lodges in condemnation of the Land agitators attract much attention. In consequence of the disturbed state of the West of Ireland, a detachment of troops will be sent to Pantry. A gunboat is anchored at Bear Haven, near Castletown.

CONTINENTAL ITEMS. London, October 22. France refuses, under any circumstances, to participate in the occupation of any Turkish ports. The (lOvernment has commenced proceedings against Felix Piatt, journalist, for an article justifying the attempt of l’crezowski, the Pole, to shoot the Emperor of .Russia in 1877. There is dissension in the French Cabinet. Jules Ferry thinks it a paltry thing to direct his efforts to the dispersion of 13,000 unrecognised monks and nuns, when there are 112,000 who cannot be disturbed, being already recognised. The Minister of the Interior, however, regards the dispersion of these 13,000 as an achievement which may dispense with the necessity of any other programme. The Radicals in Paris talk of inviting (larrihaldi to visit that city. Bismark proposes the formation of a State Working Man's Assurance and Mutual Assistance Society, to which laborers and employers will be bound to contribute. The system will he first tried in Prussia. Ihe workmen’s strike is spreading, and now embraces the carpenters, turners, weavers, and other trades. On the fith September, (old style), the marriage of the Czar with the Princess Dalmoroti, was solemnized in the chapel of the Imperial Palace. The Czars family disproving, the Czarowich went to Ilafsal on the east Lorian coast, and the Grand Duke Vladimir went aboard his yacht, in order that they might not witness the ceremony. The Grand Duke Nicholas and the Minister of War were present. The newly married pair are with the bride’s family in Lividia. The Czar has purchased for his consort the palace of the Grand Duchess Catherina, paying upwards of L 200.000 for it. Hartman has telegraphed to Llutvati.shjaent. a full description of the mine which was to have blown up the Grand Duke Constantine on the North-western railway. He explains that this plot failed because an hour before the passage of the train, a carriage came along the line and cut the wire connecting the dynamite with the battery. Hartman says that there are 13,000,000 organised Radicals in Russia.

One of the murderers of Dr. Parsons, the American Missionary in 'Turkey, has been condemned to death, and two others to fifteen years’ penal servitude. The greater part of the village of Y essy (Switzerland) has been destroyed by fire.