THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4590, 6 December 1875, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

ARRIVAL OF : THE MACGREGOR AT AUCKLAND. I Auckland, Sunday. The s.s. Macgregor , has arrived with the mail. She left San Francisco on November 9, and reached port at half-past five o'clock this afternoon. She brings the largest mail ever -brought to New Zealand, namely, 272 bags, containing 35,000 letters and 77,000 ne\vs r papers for New Zealand. Passengers for New Zealand:—Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Fraser, and fifteen in the steerage; sixty-two for Australia. ' ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SUMMARY. _ London, November 8. : The Turkish Government ■ offer Mr. W|. Gladstone £50,000 per annum to take charge of the Turkish finances. ' The Admiralty exonerate Sir W. Tattleton and Captain Hickey from responsibility in the sinking of the Vanguard. The Chinese trouble with England has been satisfactorily settled. | , ' Spain and the Pope have come to an understanding. ' Disastrous-, floods .have occurred in India'. 20,000 people were rendered homeless. Nine hundred workmen w;ere fatally injured by an overflow of inolten metal at Walsam Iron Works. Tripoli has apologised .to the United States for the insult to her Consul. i '; It.is offigfedlycannounced, that Don Carloi has dismissed from his service Generals Dorj regary, Velivsco,jand Magrango.. :'• The Pandora arrived at Portsmouth to-day from the Arctic'Seas.! ] , : <. .;.;"! . ; , '■:■■! The plot to'place ex Queen Isabella on the Spanish throne has failed. .' . : : • The explorers on board the Pandora discovered the graves of three of Sir John Franklin's men on Beachy Island. ! ; i The Russian Government has" published an edict compelling all Polish proprietors in the provinces of Wilna, Grodur, Koonss, Minsel, and Vilcpsk, to sell to their Russian tenants the farms now rented by the" latter. Davis and wife, of Toronto, the abortionists, have been sentenced to be" hung. Cardinal Nobli Vitelli Schir is dead. i The Bmpgror Williani, and Victor Emanuel reviewed 200,000 troops at Milan. The Crown Prince of. Germany is to visit the centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. A German squadron will form an escort. , At Munich a royal decree introduces compulsory civil marriages. ■■■','.'■".' Sixty tons of small arms and ammunition for the Chinese have been' shipped at London as merchandise. The Government is after the shippers. \ I Turkey wants more money. The Bonapartist,"J.". Ronker, has. madS another violent attack on the Government, and declares publicly for the Bonapartists. ; Toronto is in the hands of a gang of ruffians; who are committing; I depreciations in every direction. Montreal is again greatly, excited over the Goubard affair. ■ Von Arnim's i sentence has been confirmed: His family are asking for his pardon. The Times reports- that a Manchester firm have had to import calico from the United States. . ;;' < Recent storms on the English coast have been terribly destructive. Seven thousand Spanish troops are under orders for Cuba. ."-,..: ' L Russia limits her exhibits at Philadelphia to specialties unknown out of ltussia. Stanley has been very successful in his explorations in Central Africri.' ' The Servian Skuilickina has declared war against Turkey. The Albatross has been ordered to Panama to protect British interests there. Russia insists that steps must be taken by the Christian nations! to protect Christians in Turkey. ] The loss by cattle disease in England is over one million dollars. ■■ It ia rumored that General Daircgary has been shot by order of Don Carlos. The King of Greece decorated all the Prince of Wales' party during their visit t* Greece. ■.•:'.,■.' Mrs. Black, the original of Byron's " Maid of Athens," died in Greece, aged seventy-six. \ The King and Queen of Denmark and Princess Thyra intend' visiting England shortly. ; ■ : The latest mail advices from England con-! tain gloomy reports of the recent floods in the Midland- counties. At Nottingham : thirteen persons were drowned, and more than 3000 houses were inundated. - Fifty factories have stopped work. Near Oxford the rails on the lines were all inundated' with water, 1 and the village of Bathring was entirely flooded. At ; Burton-on-Trent six' persons were drowned, and at Derby the water is still several feet, deep in the streets.":' Above Gainerboro, the Trent has burst its banks, and all the surrounding country is flooded. The! loss of property is' enormous. The line of the 1 . Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire railroad is washed away.' All traffic was stopped! for a time. ■,„;■■■■ I 1 The' British expedition to punish the Congo River pirates has been very successful. ! ; uver 1 200 sailors were lost during the recent; gales iu the North Sea.- , ... ' Sciehtific'observation "stations are to be es-i tablished in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans.' The French ironclad Magenta has been de-; stroyed by fire. ........ England snubs Russia for interfering in' Turkish matters. . , , . . ' '■■ Emile 'Oliver"will be"a candidate for the' French Assembly at the next elections. • The German arsenal at Rendersburgh has been totally destroyed by fire. ' ■An English commission has been organised to settle the Alasca boundaries. I •' The Cbiigregationalist Church, to the disgust of the world, are about to renew the Beecher, l scandal'by a saeredotal inquiry. I Rousberg, the great Russian contractor, has failed. .';The,.Duke'd'Audiffret Pasquier has been elected President of the French Assembly. The Queen of Holland is seriously ill with ' fever. Robert Von' Maber, statesman and political economist, is dead. ■ Colonel Cowen, of New York, has been asked by tlie British Government to undertake the work of raising the Vanguard. ■ AMERICAN SUMMARY. - .; San Fuancisco, November 8. ' The great Roman wrestle at , the Grand Opera House, New York, was won by Miller, the Australian champion. • Ohio, lowa," and Nebraska return overwhelming majorities on the Republican ticket. This is a heavy blow to the inflation of the currency, the pet, scheme of the democrats. A large 1 number of heavy failures are reported in New York. • _ j Serious charges are preferred against Governor Tilden, of Now York, in connection with the St. Louis, Alton, and Tlte 'Hute railway. Frederick Hudson, New York journalist, for fifteen years connected with the Herald, is dead. Taltnado's Church is crowded daily to hear Messrs.. Moody and Sankey. Thoy have secured Gilmore's Concert Gardens in New York Grant's visit to Utah has determined him upon a strict policy with the Mormons.

Hog cholera is taking off thousands of pigs in Indiana. ; ' , V Howard Glover, the well-known composer, is dead. A great Fenian demonstration is to take place in New York on the 23rd November, in honor of the Fenian prisoners hanged at Manchester. Indictments .have been sustained against the great jirm ,of H. B. Clafiin and Co., of New York, charged with smuggling. The steamship Pacific, of Goodall, Nelson, and Perkins' line, was lost fOrty miles south of Cape Flattery, with the-loss of all on board except one. On the 4th of November Henry Frederick Jelley, the survivor, states that he took'his passage on board at Victoria, British Columbia for San Francisco, with about 200 oh board. Between 8 and 9 o'clock she came into collision with a vessel, and shortly after sank. Lashing himself to a piece of wreck, he floated for some days, when he was picked up by the ship Messenger, and landed at Port Townsend. The general impression is that Jelley labors under a delusion in stating that the Pacific came into collision with a vessel. It is more likely she struck on a sunken rook. The cargo was worth 25,000 and the vessel 100,000 dols. There are but faint hopes of any other survivors. A steamer has been dispatched for inquiry, and to search. Jelley when picked up was in a very low state, with his limbs terribly bruised from buffeting on the sea while on the raft for .thirty-six hours. The Pacific was built.at New York in 1851, and until a year ago was owned by the Pacific Mail Company. She was 876 tons register. Captain J. Howell, Commander, was thirty-five' years old, and for several years master. GENERAL NEWS. An accident "occurred at the Ludgate Hill terminus of the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, London. Thirty persons were more or less injured. Letters have been received from Henry Mi Stanley, exceedingly interesting. They are dated at. Ulgalla,.in Ugunda, and give elaborate and picturesque accounts of the continuation and conclusion of his examination of the shores of , Victoria' Nyanza. They confirm Speke's. : views, that the great lake is one large body of water, and not a series of small lakes, "as held,by Livingstone. Stanley's observations and reports on this point of African geography are to be made 'the subject of a discussion before 'the Royal' Geographical Society. . . i'Mrs. Moulton's written charges against Beecher have been referred to the examination of a commission of the Plymouth Church, to be acted on as the commission see fit. There has ' arisen : "considerable speculation among Beecher's congregation, and the general opinion is strengthening that the whole scandal will be revived. It will be several weeks before the commission begins the work of investigation, and it is learned that they havebeen directed to review all the evidence in the case, both that which was presented in court and' that which was excluded. This labor will certainly involve considerable timej and it may be many months, therefore, before anything like a report is reached. One report says they will inquire whether Beecher's relations to his own church are such as other members of the association bear to their churches. Another statement is that the committee will investigate other scandal matters. The Leader, indicted for perjury in" the Beecher case, has made a motion by counsel in the Court of Sessions that a commission be appointed to go to New Jersey, and take the testimony of Joseph Richards and his wife for use on the trial. The Judge reserved his decision. A motion to ! quash the indictment wasdenied. ' COMMERCIAL. > I New Yobk. Sales: 150 bales New Zealand wool sold at 45c j market active. Boston markets "active ; prices well ! susained. Crude sperm oil, Idol. 50c. ; whale' oil nominal; hide 3, Jc. lower; case petroleum steady and active ; hops, 13c. to 20c. ; large purchases for export to England. ,"' San Francisco, November 9. ' Wheat..—Liverpool telegram advises a decline of a penny to twopence. Local rates : Flour (extra), 6dols, to 6dols. 37c; barley (best). Idol. 27c; oats, Idol. 90c; Oregon salmon (1-lb.), Idol. 25c. to Idol. 30c.