ARRIVAL of the ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 194, 15 November 1872, Page 3

ARRIVAL of the ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

The, p.s. Nebraska arrived in harbor on Friday last, after a splendid passage of 16 days from Honolulu. GIIEAT BRITI.VN AND IKELA.ND The London costermongers are starving, in consequence of the failure of the fruit crop. Great distress exists in the country districts since the harvest ended. The dcfiViem-y of the wheat crop in England is estimated at thirty million bushels. ,A lerr.nV explosion took plaee ; i l a coal mine at Miuley. Forty personswere killed, and others are missing. A Birmingham firm has contracted to furnish the Prussian Government" with L5 ! ),000 [another telegram says 100,000] rifles of an improved pattern. The Princess Beatrice has been betrothed to the Marquis of Stafford [eldest sou of the Duke of Sutherland]. Agrarian violence is rife in Ireland, and several landlords have been shot. 60,000 emigrants have left England for America. A collision occurred between the Edinburgh train and another one at Kirtle Bridge. Great loss of lifd was occasioned. The station master has been arrested. CONTINENTAL NEWS. . An official statement has been made of the to the inhabitants of Strasbourg. It shows that in the new German Provinces of Alsace and Lorraine 164,633 persons' declared in favour ,of retaining their French citizenship.' Of this number '33,00'J declarations became valid through the emigration of the declarators to Fiance, and in addition 12,000 domiciled Frenchmen left the Provinces. The Prussian Government are about to conotruct a canal from the Black Sea to the Baltic. Another attack has been made on tlie life of the King of Spain by two men. They were pursued by the police, but escaped. The King was unhurt. The occurrence caused great excitement in Madrid, and the shopkeepers in that city assaulted the police with clubs and stones.

The Spanish army has been reorganised, and the conscription abolished. The Cuban insurrection is to be promptly quelled, and troops have been sent to compel it to submit to justice.

The monastery of the Eseurial and the mausoleum of the Kings of Spain, has been burned. THE EAST. Indian despatches «tate that "Russian troops are marching on Khiva (Central Asia). . AMERICAN NEWS. The papers consider General Grants return as President to be certain Greeley is said to, be disgusted. Great political excitement prevails. A railroad war is impending, and the people are alarmed. The Georgia Railroad has been seized by the Government. Laura D. Fair, who some months ago in her first trial was convicted of murder and sentenced to bs hanged, was, on her second trial, acquitted by a" know nothing" jury. Intense excitement prevails in San Francisco on the subject, and threats of lynching her have been uttered. ~ Mr. Webb's steamer Dacotah leaves Kraneisco for Auckland on Nov. 6rh, and is expected to reach -Auck-' land December 2nd. She will be followed by the Santiago de Cuba. Small pox prevails in Utah. In the southern part of the Territory the Indians have been stealing stock and murdering people. A conspiracy has been discovered in New York among the police and detectives to fasten the murder'of Nathan 5 on one Forrester, who, iiowever, has proved an alibi. The reason for the conspiracy was the desire to obtain the reward'of 50,000 dols. offered for the conviction of the murderer. SAN PBANCISCO. October Bth. "Wheat is steady at 1 dot 60 cents. Oats are at the same figure, and flour (extra quality) at 5 dols. Tallow is at 8| dols. - NEW YORK. Wool is dull. Australian and New

Zealand wools are. in light demand at 52 cents to 55 cents.