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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4358, 9 March 1875, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

ARRIVAL OF THE CYPHRENES. , rPßit Press Agency.] Auckland, Monday. The. Cyphrenes,' with the English mail of ~"—"ffieTSSth oi January, via San Francisco, arrived ""■*- here Hh& afternoon. She left San Francisco on the 7th of. February, at eleven o'clock a.m., and the voyage across the Pacific was uneventful. Mr. Andrews is mail-agent. For_ New Zealand there are fourteen passengers in the .steerage. The Cyphrenea brings the following ' summary of news: — ... ENGLISH. - , London, February 6. Archbishop If anning has issued a pamphlet replying to Mr. Gladstone. He contradicts the statement that the decrees of the Vatican have estranged the civil allegiance of the Catholics. He says the (Ecumenical Council did not touch the relations of the Church and State, as the decrees were merely on matters of faith and the spiritual authority of "the Church. As to the supposition that the Pope might attempt to depose Queen Victoria, he says that the Queen is wholly withdrawn from the Catholic Church, and every condition is absent which would render her deposition justifiable. He declares that the European Powers have entered into a conspiracy against the Church, to their own perdition. Six thousand shipwrights are on strike in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The coal miners lock-out in South "Wales has began. One hundred and twenty thousand men are idle. A British steamer, on the voyage from Alexandra to Hull, has been lost. Twenty of the crew and passengers were drowned. A tremendous gas explosion has taken place at Birmingham. It is believed that the sinkin" of the earth, caused by leakage of the water mains, led to the tearing away of the service-pipe from the Birmingham and Staffordshire gas mains. The gas collected in a cavity in a sewer, and, being ignited by a match or fusee thrown in, exploded, and left a chasm twenty-five feet long by eight feet deep in the street. Other explosions followed. The principal one did great damage. Many houses and shops were severely shaken, and four or five persons injured. The Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath has been offered to Thomas Carlyle. Tennyson is to be made a baronet. FOREIGN. A committee of relief has been formed at Constantinople for the famine-stricken people in Asia-Minor. They request the English and American Press to let it be known that their funds are exhausted, and that the distress is increasing. They state that it will be necessary to aid some hundreds of thousands of persons until next June. The news from Madrid is to the effect that Kino- Alfonso assumes the command of the army of the north. Efforts are being made for the relief of Pampeluna. The King declares in favor of religious liberty. The merchants of Madrid have presented a beautiful crown to Alfonso. The Carlists deny that the Gustave was fired upon. ...■—-. It is believed that steps will be taken by Germany which will lead to vigorous action on the part of the Spanish navy against the Carlist3' position on the northern coast. Negotiations between Berlin and Madrid have not been progressing favorably. The German Admiralty has ordered three corvettes and three gun-boats to the Carlist part of the Spanish Coast. This makes eight ships of the German fleet in the Bay of Biscay. The Spanish Government has paid the money indemnity. It is still feared that a collision will take , place between Turkey and Montenegro. , Russia and Austria have both warned the Hospodar of Montenegro that if he declares war he does so on his own responsibility. , The Journal de St. Petersburg has an article favoring Montenegro against Turkey. > Russia has recognised Alfonso as King of Spain. _ i The Spanish, army of the north continues \ advancing. It has taken Montreal and Lerge. The relief of Pampeluna 13 considered certain. The imprisonment of Dr. Pigott, an En- ( glishman, at Aspinwall, has caused a disturb- . ance. A man-of-war has been ordered thither ( to support the British Consul, who has been , assaulted. The New York World gives some res\ilts of j the calculations based on the observations of , the Transit of,Venus, from which it seems , that the distance now estimated of Venu3 from , the sun, is eighty-eight millions four hundred and ; forty-three thousand sevenhundred and twentysix miles; which means that Venus is now ': three or four millions of miles closer to the . sun than the last computation showed.' At the same ratio, in fourteen hundred and forty years • the earth would fall into the sun. A£ Frankfort-on-the-Maine the police have closed all the social Democratic workmen's societies and trades' unions. Nine new cardinals will be appointed at Rome. It is expected, that Archbishop Manning will be one,: There will be two or three Americans also. • Despatches received at Madrid in the beginning of February state that eight battalions of Carlists met and charged Alfonso's troops at Orleana, and were repulsed with great loss. The Carlists deny holding any negotiations with Don Alfonso.

..News from Paris: (states that Colombet, a Legitimist, intends introducing an amendment, making members of the Koyal and Imperial dynasties ineligible for the Presidency. A son of Prince Kung has been proclaimed Emperor of China. The wife of the late Emperor committed suicide. , In Paris an Act has been drafted, authorising the Government to make a- concession for the construction of a submarine tunnel between Prance and England. Copies of the Act have been distributed among the members of the Assembly. AMERICAN NEWS. San Fkanoisco, February 7. _ A tremendous fall has occurred in Californian mining stocks, which had been unduly inflated. Thousands have been ruined, including many women who had mortgaged their homesteads in order to invest in mines. Heartrending scenes occurred in up-country cities as telegrams announcing the fall in the prices of stocks were received. Great floods have occurred at Maryville. The water reached the roofs of the houses. There was a serious destruction of property, though but few lives were lost. Heavy snow storms have occurred in various parts of the States, doing damage. In Canada, an avalanche at Quebec fell on a house, burying six persons. A large rock fell on another house. Eight persons were taken out of the ruins. Two railway accidents are reported, with slight loss of life, but many were wounded. An armed mob attacked a Protestant church in the City of Mexico. The minister escaped on board an American man-of-war. The Commandant of the castle charged the mob. Pour Mexicans and one American were killed. Da Leaseps. writes favoring an inter-ocean canal by the Nicaragua route. The Becehor case is going on at great length in the American Courts. The magnificent steamship Rayta, 2000 tons register, ban been wrecked by striking on a v sunken rock in.Nananta harbor. All the paswere saved. v The insane asylum at Beaufort, Canada, was burned. The bodies of eight lunatics were fotmd among the rains. The American ship St. Nicholas, coal laden, reached Callao after the fire had been burning for seven days. The ship was scuttled to extinguish the flames. . COMMERCIAL. San Feancisco, Feb. 7. "Wheat is quiet. It is estimated that 275,000 tons of wheat will be raised in the State. Sales of inferior at $1 30c, to $1 40c. per lOOlbs. Liverpool quotations, on 6th, were 9s. 2d. to 9s. sd. for average wheat per cental. Oats in San Francisco, steady ; feed, §1 70c. to $1 80c. per cental; barley (feed), .$1 50c.

••' New York, February 6. Hides quiet. 23£1b5.,.5l 24c. ; wool, steady, spring fine, 30c. to 3Sc. ; burry, 22c. to 27c. ; pulled, 38c. to 44c. Oil.—Whale, fair demand at 65c. to 70c.; sperm, SI 74e. to $1 75c. The Mark Lane Express of 2nd February says that late floods and shipwrecks have done great damage. Dry samples of wheat are unusually scarce. The downward tendency is less marked, though heavy. Arrivals prevent a rise in prices.