SAN FRANOISOO MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 89, 2 July 1880, Page 2

SAN FRANOISOO MAIL NEWS.

♦ ■■ SAN FRANCI3CO. June 7. Adelaide Neilson, supported by Edward Cowpton, haa commenced an engagement at Baldwin Theatre, in this city. She will probably visit the colonies by next steamer. The Duke of Edinburgh is gone to St. Petersburg, to attend the funeral of the Czarina. Tli? German ironclads Molcke, Von Stoch, and Hestba, are ordered to China, to reinforce the German squadnn. •*>ir Garnet Wolseley has arrived in England, and proceeds to Balmoral to receive the thanks of the Queen for hit services at the Cape. It is stated he >v ill receive the insignia of the highest class of the Order of tho Bath. Thu Electoral Franchise in NW York State is to be extended to women. Tho revenue cutter Corwin h%n been despntchud from San Francisco in search of the Bennett Arctic exploring vessel Joanette, uud also to relieve ice bound whalers. Hanlon rowed Courtney near Washington on the 19th ult., and gained an easy victory ; in fact, so far as Courtney was concerned, tho race wus a farce. Ho said he was ill, but his atte idant proclaims bin sickness a barefaced sham throughout, and he is thoroughly convinced the race was sold before it was rowed. Hanlon won in 36tnin. 19 3 -tenth seconds, and is now the champion oarsm-in of America. Courtney gave up the struggle about one-eighth of a mile from the start, und when someone in the referee's boat shouted to him "Pull, pull," ho uhook his liend and replied " It's not in inc." Hanlon netted 6000 dollars. A nice between Uanlon and Riley afterwards took placo in tho Potomac, near WashuMtou. Hunion won easily in 36min. Riley 'iphin. behind. Q-U BAT BRITAIN. June 7. The Foreign Offioe is considering a proposition tluit England shall co-operate in the contemplated international Polar expedition. A match has been arranged between America und the United Kingdom, under the auspices of the Royal liiflo Association, to take place on the last day of the Wini bledon meeting, at 800, 900, and 1000 yards, 15 shots each. BrotHarte's sp ech at the Royal Academy dinner is pronounced a failure. The Times was tho only paper that gave it a notice, but very brief. The speaker was imperfectly heard, and he read from a MSS. One paper said Harte made some humorous remarks. Harvest prospects nrc good throughout Ireland, and an immense urea has been planted with potatoes, which, as new seed has been extensively used, "came up well. Tie Irish Home Relief Fund Cotrmittee report on hand £23,000, but v will not last three weeks. Earl Cowper, who, with his countess, made a state entry iuto Dublin on the 27th ult , gave £500 to tho committee Tho Chief Secretary for Ireland believes that measures tnken for relief are sufficient, but intent!* to introduce a Bill to provide another throe quarters of a million or a million and a half from the Surplus Church Fund^ 500 men of the Cork militia stoned a train from Kerry for Mallow, and in arrival beat iutonding emigrants for America unmercifully, and ousted them from their seats. The Government of India has for the present abandoned the idea of raising three now regiments. The cost of the Afghan war is stated at upwards of £13,000,000, and it will probably be more. California merchants are urging the licensing of commercial travellers. Ovor 4000 people attended musical festival at Cincinatti on 20:h ult. Miss Amy Shorwin, formerly of Hobartown, Tasmania, was oue of the leading soloists. A contractor publicly charged that a Pacific Railway Company recently paid a United States Senator 90,000 dollars in money, and 100,000 dollars were distributed amongst members of tho House of Representatives. The chargo has created a sensation. All the school* in New Orleaus are closed on account of a lack of funds to meet ox~ penses. A Chinose deputy-shoritf, the first Celestial to hold office in tho United States, has been appointed in Now York. Tho land sown in wheat in tho Uuited States this season is 15 per cent greater than last year, and thu crop is reported in fino condition. Oats will be short, but muizo is up to the average. The town of Milton, Pennsylvania, has been reduced to ashes, and the loss is estimated at 6,000,000 dollars. The United States has voted 15,000 dollars for machinery to experiment in manufacture of sugar from sorghum, cornstalks, Sro. CANADA. A new politico commercial movement has manifested itself in Montreal The prominent features of she platform are commercial union with the Unitod States, and all rights and privileges of office, and an independent nation. Mass meetings havo been hold, and resolutions in favor of the movement passed. Archbishop Taxterarn has issued a pastoral condemning trades unions, and threatening to excommunicate any Catholio who may attack a pergon because he chooses to work at any price he may think fit. There is a great demand for American Oftttle at present. 8380 wore shipped from

I New York in ode week, besides ■herp, hones, &c. Orders are now iv oourse for 16,000 extra head of bullocks. The New York London writes that the country is bewildered by Ministerial irroHolution. l here is only a alight show of any improvement in the tone of feeling among; the Liberals below the gangway toward the Grorornmt>nt, and fresh occasions for discontent are daily oocuring. Gladstone appears determined to continue Sir Bartlu Frere, Governor of the Capu of G-»orl Hope, in his place, notwithfl'anding the clamors of the advanced Liberal press. A report Las been revived that in this mttter he is subject at much to. Boyal influence as his predecessor. A large Conservative gathering was held at Bridgewater House on Maj 19. The assemblage, included Lords Salisbury and Carnanron, Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr Cross, Lord Beaconsfield,and Sir Bobert Pool, who addressed the meeting, 'ihe «• x Premier declared that the country is eminently Conservative, that Radicalism is o:i ? ' .; id mporary force, and he intimated thit thn present Administration might break np sooner than was gensrally oxpected. FRANCE. Ttie Carthusian monks, manufacturers of the famous Chartreuso liquor, have refused to submit to religious decrees. They propose to retire to England, and deprive France of a million of francs in taxes per year, and ita poor of the five millions yearly by them distributed. A Bill has become law authorising monks and other members of religious communities to open schools, and to diaponse with Stato certificates. Forty thousand acregof vines have been added to the total amount lost in France by ravages of the phylloxera. The case of the vine producers in becoming desperate. GERMANY. Bismarck has been offered 180,000 dollars a ye:tr by an American newspaper man to write in his paper one article a week. The offer has been declined with thanks. The Ultramontanes have resolved to recommence war against Bismafk, and to afcir up the Catholic population against the Government. The first important meeting has been held at Dortmund, and there were 20,000 Catholics present, including many noblemen and influential loaders* The Catholic Press has also joined in the crusade. Hundreds of parishes are without priests, and no new onus can be nominated until the bishops are willing to submit the names of candidates to the Government. Jt is therefore believed, in best informed circles, that the Pope is inclined to giro in, as ho fears the power of the Papacy in Europe iuigh t , be shaken by any longer delay. His policy, however, will be opposed by the Jesuits. The total strength of the reorganised German urmy will be 2,000,000 men of all kinds. RUSSIA. It is proposed to liberate two hundred political prisoners in St. Petersburg, and four thousand throughout the empire, and relieve eleven thousand from surveillance. The ironclad Peter the Great will be added to tho Russian fleet in the Pacific Ocean. General Skobeloff will, it is thought, be appointed Coniuiander-iii-Chief of tbo liuSßo-Chine.se coast. General Melikoff recently submitted a proposal to tho Czar for the establishment of two Houses of Assembly. The Czar ' appreciated the suggestion, and said be left further reform iv 'he h mds of the Czarewiteh after his death. ' ITALY. Garibaldi and Crispi are among those 1 elected to the Chamber of Deputies. Farini , has accepted tho Presidency. The Pope has recently undergone a painful operation successfully. He would much like to spend the summer in Perugio, but is ■ not prepared to face the slorm of opposition, i reproach, and imuiice he would encounter ■ if he did so. It is meanwhile no secret to his uudLul advisers that to remain in Home i all the summer is porhaps to shorten his • hfe. AU3TRO HUNGARY. Famine in North Hungary is on the > increase F<">urtoen hundrod persons at Szmua, Committant, and Zemplion, have ao other food but grass, nottles, and mush--1 rooms. Emigrants are leaving the country > by thousands, although the polico by urrest ■ and. otherwise aro endeavoring to provent ■ them. } TURKEY. ; Franco and England proposed to take t financial control of the empire out of the I Sultan's hands, and to devoto Customs, port dues, tributes, and all that cau bo iru- [ mediately controlled, to a nominal administ tiutive expenditure, thus saving it from the , hands of the pashas. Angry notos had , passed between the British Embassy at Constantinople and tho I'orte.rolntiveto stippres- , sion of the Levant Herald, And subsequent sentenco of the editor, >fr Whitaker, to ! seventeen mouths' imprisonment. The , Embassy maintains that the decree against [ Whitaker ivua informal, and he must be tried before being punished. The Porte i is indisposed to do this, as it does not wish tho contumacious lauguago used by Wliit- . alier against the rand Vizer to have publicity. It insists on the right to inflict ; summary punishment, In the meantime , Whitaker has left the city, and the Embassy refuses to assist in enforcement of the decree , against him. Forty thousand persons at Mossul, in Asiatic Turkoy, arc suffering from famine , and in their misery Ireland's most destitute distress forms no comparison.