THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4327, 1 February 1875, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

ARRIVAL OF THE MIKADO. Auckland, Sunday. The Mikado arrived at midnight on Saturday, having left San Francisco at noon on the ' t 6th, San Francisco time, or the 7th according to New Zealand time. She arrived at Honolulu on the 14th, leaving next morning. Saloon passengers : Hugh Craig, Charles Overton, James Osgood (for Wellington) ; and' eleven in the steerage. She has a cargoof flour, sugar, preserved salmon, &c., chiefly for Auckland. The mails have been sent South in the Ladybird. The Mikado proceeds to Sydney at midnight. LONDON TELEGRAMS TO JAN. 5. The news of the burning of the Cospatrick was received in Loudon on December 23, by a telegram from Madeira, stating that three of the crew of the unfortunate vessel had arrived at St. Helena. The Cospatrick was burned on November 17, in latitude 37 S., longitude 12, E. When the vessel was discovered to bo on fire eighty persons, mostly women, rushed into one boat, which capsized, and all were drowned. Soon afterwards the masts fell, killing many passengers who had crowded together on the deck. An explosion subsequently occurred, and the vessel sank. The second mate and two seamen were picked up by the ship British Sceptre, after subsisting on the bodies of their companions."

A conflagration in the city of Tokio, in Japan, destroyed 1180 houses. Paris news indicates the certainty of the dissolution of the Assembly after the holidays. Archbishop Manning will be made a Cardinal.

By a railway accident near London, several persons were killed. A colliery explosion in the north of Staffordshire, killed twenty miners. News comes from the Khedive of Egypt of 1 the' Nile exploring party sent to survey the country west of Lake Nyanza to Lenaoa. It states that the expeditionary force was attacked by 400 natives in canoes. The expedition defeated the assailants, killing thirtytwo.

The war against the slave traders was proceeding vigorously. Many slavers had been captured with cargoes. Duchesne Paacelet has signed a letter to the Drench Archbishop, offering to 101 l Bismarck for 12,000 francs. He now asserts that the alleged conspiracy was a joke, and that he signed the letter while intoxicated. The Grand Duke Nicholas, nephew of the Emperor of Russia, who had been convicted of. stealing his mother’s diamonds, has been declared insane.

Count Arnim has appealed from the late sentence passed upon him. The Formosa difficulty is settled, China paying Japan 500,000 taels compensation. The Archbishop of Cologne has again been fined 30,000 thalers, and probably will be again imprisoned.

An explosion of fire-damp at a coal-mine near Rotherham, in Yorkshire, killed eighty persons according to one despatch, and ninety persons according to another telegram. A Spanish fleet, consisting of three ironclads, has proceeded to Marseilles to escort King Alphonso to Barcelona. AMERICAN NEWS. Rich yields are being obtained from the Comstock silver lodes, and are creating great excitement and wild mining speculation at San Francisco. Several hostile Indian tribes have surrendered unconditionally to the agencies around St. Louis. A reciprocity treaty with Hawaii has been submitted by the President to Congress. King Kalukali is at Washington relative to the treaty, and to arrange a million dollar loan, giving as security the pearls in the water, and the harbor to be a perpetual naval station in the Pacific for the United States. Two expeditions have left New York to survey an inter-ocean canal across Central America. The Army and Navy Committee of Congress has recommended that the standing army b e only 25,000 men, at a cost of 27,701,500 dollars. The cotton crop exceeds that of last year by 55,000 bales.

Serious complications have arisen with Spain on the Virginius affair. The American Govern, meut has made a peremptory demand since the establishment of the Spanish Monarchy for a settlement of American claims in the same manner as the British claims were met. The steamship Japan has been burned off the coast of Japan. She was insured for 150,000 dollars. Peruvian advices state that the Government troops, after two days’ hard fighting, forced Pierola, the leader of the revolutionary army, to abandon his stronghold on the heights of Torrato. Pierola and the principal officers escaped into Bolivia, while his troops scattered in all directions. In Louisiana the difficulty between the rival Governor's of the State creates great excitement. General Sheridan and two thousand troops, despatched by the President, are upholding Governor Kellog’s administration and the matter has been referred to Congress. The Beecher-Tilton suit is proceeding at New York. The ship Hereford, from Lyttelton, is loading at San Francisco 1700 tons of grain for Liverpool. COMMERCIAL. San Francisco, January 6. The wheat market is firm, and prices are hardening. Milling wheat $1 621 c. Flour, extra, $5 to §5 25c. Barley advancing, §1 40c. to $1 55c. Oats, $1 70c. to $1 Ssc. New York, January 5. Wool steady, fine, 30c. to 35c.; pulled 38c. to lie. Whale-oil, 62c. to 67c.; sperm, §1 65c. Petroleum, firm.