San Francisco Mail News.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 250, 27 June 1881, Page 2

San Francisco Mail News.

[From Our Own Correspondent]. LONDON. June 4. The health of Dillon, the Irish agitator, is suffering by-confinement. The participators in the Marseilles demonstration, favoring the pardon of Hussy Helfman, the Nihilist, have been sentenced to imprisonment and fined. Cardinal Wiseman is sitting for his portrait to Millais. In London, 1600 cases of small pox are now in the London hospital, and the epidemic is increasing rapidly. • Dempsey, a fanner, who took land from which a tenant had been evicted in Galway, was killed from behind a hedge. Prince Leopold, by the conferment of the Dukedom of Albany, will take a seat in the House of Lords. It is understood he intends to take an active part in the debates. Shocks of earthquake at Mount Vesuvius have been followed by strong eruptions, and streams of lava are flowing down the northcast side of the mountain. All the cattle by the steamer Phoenician ately arrived at Glasgow from Boston were ound to be affected by the foot an 1 mouth disease. They were all slaughtered, and the carcases bciled down. The French Government admitted officially that the searching of a British schooner at Tunis was the result of a misunderstanding, and such a thing would not occur again.

Cabinet rumors are to the effect that Mr Gladstone retires to the House of Lords at the end of the session, with the title of Karl of Oxford ; lie would prefer Earl Liverpool, had not a predecessor in the Premiership borne it during the present session. Mr Childers will become Chancellor. Tlie .Marquis of Lome proposes to resign the Governor-Generalship of Canada. The survivors from the sloop-of-war Dotterel disaster, have arrived in England. No explanation is given as to the cause of the exploion. The Government asks for a grant to meet the deficiency in the revenue of Cyprus, and at the same time decline entirely to enter upon the question of obtaining the sovereignty of the island. FRANCK. Vice Admiral Rouciere de Nowry is dead. Paris reports sav that Colonel Finders case of the Trans-Sahara Mission will be taken up, and the murder of the Colonel and his followers avenged. The new expedition will consist of 700 men, mounted on camels. Letters from Algiers state that the remnants of Colonel Fladers Sahara Expedition were finally driven to take refuge in a cave, where they were starving ami resorted to canibalism. Fifteen were eaten, including a suboflicer named Pobeguim. Van llaall a Dutch diamond merchant, has failed with 3,000,000 dollars, theaeceptances were mostly hell by Paris debenture holders, who bought them without the guarantee of endorsers.

GENERAL CONTINENTAL ITEMS. Midhat Pasha dccla es the story of the murder of Abdul Aziz to be a falsehood. He says Abdul committed suicide. American machinery will in future be admitted into France at the six-franc tariff the same as the English. A large quantity is at Havre awaiting entry under the arrangement. The persecution of the Jews in Russia continues, particularly at Odessa and Ovel, and railway workmen have pillaged their houses. Bismarck favors the extension of Spanish authority in Morocco. T'ae Turkish budget shows a deficiency of L 4,000.000. M. Lcsseps has a concession from the Greek Government to cut a canal through the Isthmus of Corinth. Princess Stephanie, recently married to Prince Rudolph of Austria, is so ill that the public entry into Prague had to be dispensed with. M. Tequin, correspondent of the Paris 'Ti’lfjrc/ilt, has been killed by Arabs in Sija Algeria. The murderers have been arrested and shot. Tlie Sultan is conciliating Midhat Pasha with presents ; he also provides him with bis meals.

AM ERICA. The Lionelelssolm Qaintelle Club of five accomplished musician s will visit New Zealand and Australia by this steamer. The United States Polar Expedition will be despatched from St. John’s, Newfoundland, on July 4, for Lady Franklin’s Sound, also to find the whereabouts of the Arctic xploring yacht Jeanette, r Josephine Donne, at one time a cclebra cd jtrimu donna, died suddenly in San Francisco, on June the Ist. Some well-known Scotch farmers are m aki ng a tour of the United Stat s, to obtain information regarding agriculture and immigration. It is reported that gold in paying quantities has been discovered at Cape Cromwell in British Columbia. An attempt lias been made to kill Judge Gilderslceve, of New York, by a man named Van der Wcttan. It grew out of corruption in the judicial oflice. Colonel Tom Scott, the great railroad proprietor, is dead. The Lilliputian Commodore Nutt died of Bright’s disease on May l(i. The American barque Arcadia is seized and held bv the authorities at the Port of Mevida, Mexico, and a man of war has been sent to investigate the case. The United States war steamer Alliance has been ordered to cruise in search of the Arctic exploring vessel Jeanette, between Greenland, Iceland, and the Coast of Norway. The Duke of Sutherland has arrived in San Francisco.