ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 151, 27 June 1881, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Monday. The City of Sydney with the English mails arrived at 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. San Fkanoisco, June 4, The Brazilian Commissioners are in New York to get SOOO Coolies for the planters of that country. The United States Polar expedition will be despatched from St. Johni, Newfoundland, on July 4th for Lady Franklin's Sound, and also to find the whereabouts of the Arctic exploring yacht Jeanette Some well-known Scotch farmers are making a tour through the States to obtain information regarding agriculture and immigration. It is reported that gold in paying quantities has been discovered at Cape Comerill, British Columbia. An attempt was made to kill Judge Gildersleeve in New York by a man named Von Der Wetler. The attempt grew onfc of corruption in the judicial office. Commodore Sheepeldt, U. S. navy, has gone to China ostensibly to notify the Chinese treaties, but the real mission ia said to be to attempt to open, if possible, the port of Corea to the world. Earthquake shocks hare been felt in New Hampshire. Stupendous frauds have been unearthed in the letting of contracts for the mail routes. The Government have been plundered to the tune of millions. The competition between the Atlantic Cable Compapies promises to reduce the tariff to one penny per, word. The Californian wires ate rapidly driving the French from the American market. Railroads are being built in every direction in Mexico, and it is not improbable that within 2 years the city of Mexico will be connected by rail with every part of the United States, a new transcontinental line will be opened for traflte.

The Lillip: 'inn Ccromodore Nutt died cf j Bri gbt'B dire ntie on May 26. j T»e Puke 'of • Sutherland haa arrived in | San Francitco. An entirely revised New Testament wns •published in t hi. New York VY«ie«und 7'ribunt on May 22. Tho work lias met with general favor uinong the clergy ; only a few condemned it. The Duke of Athol is on his way to California. Tne excursion steamer Vicl oria collapsed on the river Thames, near Ontario, on May 24th Nearly 2000 persona were drowned, many leading citizeus of the town of London were lost. The excursion was in honor of tho Queen's Birthday, Tho disaster was so sudden that but two-thirds of those on board the over-crowded boat had a chance of escape. She collapsed almost in a minute like an eggshell and became a total wreck, level to the>ater'a edge. The Victoria was an old boat but her machin- ry had been repaired and on a tiial trip every thing appeared to work satisfactorily. Tne trip on the 24i.h May was her first busineis one for the season and she had Gt;OO passengers on board. The accident is said to h»ve bsen due to the fact thit when she heeled a little on leaving her landing place the passengers grew alarmed and rushed to one side and so broke her up, At the official enquiry into the cause of the riiaister, a man testified that he helped to iflbaild the Victoria aad noticed joints in her upper planking not oaulked. He considered that when she collapsed Bhe was full of water from leakage. London, June 4. 1,600 oases of smallpox aro now in the London Hospital, and the epidemic is increasing rapidly. Dempsey, the farmer who took land from which a tenant was evicted, in Galway, was killed from behind a hedge. Prince Leopold, by the conferment of the Dukedom of Albany, will take a Beat in the H.use of Lords. It is understood that he intends to take an active part in the debates The conviction of Herr Most, the editor of the Freihit, was based expressly on bis distinct recommendation that the present Emperors of Russia and Germany should be assassinated. The London Drily News a&ya the condition of Ireland gives cause for greater anxiety from day to day. "We seem," it says, "to be coming nearer and nearer insurrectionary outbreaks and seriou.3 collisions between soldiers and people. Tbe Conservative hatred of Ireland is so great that they openly express a wiah for war, so that Ihe Irish may be bnyonetted into submission." According to the recent census, the population of London is 3.815,571. Shocks of earthquake have been felt at Mount Vesuvius, followed by strong eruptions, streams of lava flowing down the north-east side of the mountain. The Spanish Anti-slave Trade Society demands the abolition of capital punishment and the immediate liberation of all slaves in Antilles, America. The actor Booth baa dived with the Prince of Wales. The Lord Chancellor expresses an opinion that tbe revised testament cannot be read in the Eoglisb Cburch until it has been recommended cr authorised by some sufficient public authority. Thirty houses and some schools have been burned in the east end of London. Letters from Algiers state that, the remnants of Col. Flaker's Sahara expedition were finally driven to take refuge in a cave where they were starving aud resorted to cannibalism. Fifteen were eaten, including a sub-officer named Pobeguim. Bismatck'a annexation designs have been successfully resisted by Hamburg, and the city is lefc in possession of its coveted free porfc privileges. Midhat Pasha declares the Btory 'of the murder of Abdul Aziz to be a falsehood. He says Abdul committed suicide. The persecution of the Jews in Russia continues. Railway workmen have pillaged their houses. The Turkish Budget showß a deficiency of £4,000,000. Lesseps has a (Concession from the Greek Government to cut a canal through the Isthmus of Corinth. A Turkish frigate with ]nnn trnnpo hoc left Rnba I3aj- cor Tripoli with a ransom of 45,000 dollars to pay the brigands for the release of the Englishman Suter. Immigration from the south of Ireland has decreased 25 per cent. Henry Yatea Thomson, who ha* beeD elected to Parliament for Preston, is the pro prietor of the " Pall Mall Gazette." Though a Conservative he received the whole of the Iriih votes. Earl Shrewsbury, it is said, will marry Mrs Muuday, with whom he eloped recently. A Bill has passed tbe Houee of Commons to protect newspapers from wanton libel ; actions in the exercise of their public functions. > John Bright recently spoke in favor of wholesale immigration to the United States. He thinks if a free passage were offered probably all or certainly half the population would find its way to America, and it would be a deliverance from poverty and suffering. Cabinet rumors are to the effect that Mr Gladstone retires to the House of Lords at the end of the session with tbe title of Earl of Oxford, and that during the preaent lesßion Mr Childers will become the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Marquis of Lome proposes to resign the Governor Generalship of Canada. -* The survivors from the Bloop-of-war Dott fir ill disaster have arrived in England. No explanation is given as to the cause of tbe explosion. The Standard Bays that the success of Linoquois in the Derby did not seem to be popular, and all the cheering was for the jockey Archer. There was great excitement.