THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5720, 30 July 1879, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

BY TELEGRAPH. (PER PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Tuesday. The bu-iness of the late Baron Rothschild will be carried on by his three sons. Thirty-one men were killed in an explosion at Blantyre in a coal-pit, and four were burnt alive. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, the American sensational preacher, held forth at the Islington Presbyterian Church, and afterwards at the Agricultural Hall in June. Much curiosity was aroused, and the streets leading to. the church were blockaded. The enthusiasm was tremendous. Half a mile from the church the carriage in which the preacher was seated was lifted bodily from the ground, and carried to its destination. The Parliamentary Committee reported that the electric lighting system is sufficiently perfected to allowWff its being economically used for the public, but not for domestic purposes. The names of the notable people dead for the month are :—Charles Culvert, actor, London ; Bishop of Amiens, Paris ; Professor John Carl Frederick Rosenkranz, philosopher, Koenigsberg ; Cardinal Carafa Di Fraetto, at Rome ; Prince Pierre Bonaparte, at Versailles ; the Acheen chief who negotiated the war against the Dutch ; and Reynolds, the novelist, London. The following business failures have occurred :—Jambers and Co., cemmission banking agents, Bombay, £250,000 ; Samuel Johnston and Cobradlin, merchants, Liverpool, £300,000 ; Preenup and Co,, merchants, Manchester, trading with the Baliva Colliery Company, Wakefield, liabilities £67,000 ; Matthew Dickie, trading as Bowles and Co, cotton spinners, Stockport, £64,000 ; George Pleubly, dealer pn the Stock Exchange, London, £20,000 ; Threwnley and Go., cotton spinners, Stockport, caused by the death of the senior partner ; Westray, iron merchants, Middlesborough, East Riding, Yorkshire, £BO,OOO ; Jackson, builder, London, £50,700. “It is obvious,” says the London Times, “ that on all sides there are signs of the approach of a great electoral struggle. The great qmestion of the foreign policy, which has occupied the mind of the country for the last few years, is rapidly approaching solution, for when the time comes for the English people to say how Ministers have discharged their trust, they will not be found to bear in mind the difficulties which the Government has had to encounter, as well as the method of dealing with them. It is premature, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer intimated, to form a final judgment of the whole cause ; but it is also evident, from his speech, that the moment for pronouncing such judgment is not far off.” M. de Lesseps says that the inter-oceanic canal, to pierce through the Isthmus of Panama, will be commenced on New Year’s Day, and that 40,000 navvies will be engaged. A novel feature at the Bank of England on the 24th June was the receipt of £120,000 from the United States, remitted in payment of called American bonds, returned to New York for redemption. The amount of bullion in the Bank of England on the 27th June was £60,143,525 —the largest amount on record. There is good reason for believing that Prince Leopold will pay a visit to Australia as the representative of the Queen at the International Exhibition. Although such a visit is probable it will still depend upon the state of his Royal Highness’s health.

On being interviewed by a newspaper representative, Lord Loftus stated that the Nihilist movement in Russia is very much exaggerated. It certainly is understood, so far as regards the dynasty, that the Nihilist party can be almost counted on the fingers of one hand. They are but a part of the population, and the peasants are not among them, as the latter are loyal to the Emperor. The Nihilists are what may be called- literary writers, students, and the other classes who are possessed of a fair degree of education. These people are opposed to the present system of government. There are also a great many persons of the other classes who are dissatisfied with the present system of bribery and corruption which exists in every department of the Government. While these persons are not Nihilists, they would not be sorry if Nihilism should bring about a change of system. Some people talk of an insurrection, but that is impossible so long as the army remains loyal. The Nihilists exercise a system of terrorism, and in that very fact they show that they are weak.

Three employees in the Government book department in Poonah, confessed that they caused the recent fires to destroy evidences of their defalcations. Two were sentenced to life-long transportation, and the other to ten years. Copious rains are reported from nearly all the districts of Bengal and Assam. The famine in Cashmere is taking its course, and the people are reported dying by hundreds. Reports have reached the Indian Government from Mandalay of fresh massacres of the Royal Princes, which have been prompted by the King of Burmah. A despatch from Rangoon reports that cholera exists among the British troops at Thayetio, and several have died. Major Cavagnari has started for Cabnl, and is expected to reach Kuram on the 16th, and Cabul on the 31st instant. He bears letters from the Viceroy to the Ameer announcing his appointment as Plenipotentiary. His escort consists of twenty-six horse and five hundred foot soldiers. The Chinese have retaken Cashora. A portion of the Mussulmen fled, but many of the people were massacred, and a large body of the citizens are shut up in the citadel. The inhabitants of Riejdag have determined to fly it the province is restored to China by the Russians. Upon hearing of the death of the Prince Imperial, the Empress Eugenie's grief was un-

controlled. She swooned, but rallied somewhat, and again relapsed. Her private secretary telegraphed to Sutherland that she still remained in a semi-conscious condition, and that it was imperatively necessary to do something to rouse her. A London special of the 24th of June says that notwithstanding the temporary alleviation of her distress, which the Empress Eugenie experienced yesterday, a relapse took place last night, and very seii ms apprehensions are now entertained with regard to her life. Luring the visit of the Queen yesterday, she persuaded the Empress to partake of some food. This gave temporary hope of recovery ; but today the paroxysms of grief which she undergoes not only continued, but became more frequent, and a severe gloom hangs over the house. The Gaulois publishes the codicil to the will of the Prince Imperial, which says : —“ The duty which our House owes to our country will not lapse by my dt-ath. The arduous aud glorious task of continuing the work of the first Napoleon will depend, in the event of my death, upon the oldest son of Prince Jerome Napoleon,who,by thelawsof succession of onr House, is my heir. I trust that my beloved mother will second him in the discharge of the responsibilities and duties which, in the event of my death, will devolve upon him.” The death of the Prince Imperial has thrown the Bonapartists into confusion. The clericals have seceded from the party, and the Bonapartists have accepted Prince Jerome as their head ; whilst he has declared a renewal of his adherence to the Republic, and says that he will not be a candidate for the French throne. He calls on the Bonapartists to stand by the Republic. The President, M. Grevy, sent a message of condolence to the Empress Eugenie. A requiem mass fur the Prince Imperial took place at the Church of St. Augustine, Paris, on June 16th. There was an immense attendance, bub the working classes were only meagrely represented.

On the occasion of the distribution of the new colors to the French army, the Government will require all generals to take the oath of allegiance to the Republic. In a hurricane on the River Dubois, a steamer with 30 passengers was sunk, and only five persons were saved, ITALY. The waters of the Po and the Adda are still rising. Vesuvius is in eruption, but Mount Etna is entirely quiet. In the district of Cavania rioters are resisting the collection of taxes. Continued shocks of earthquake had caused much damage. In the neighborhood of Messina, eighteen persona were killed in a recent riot. The reason why Garibaldi sought to annul the marriage with Madame Rannodi is that the pension of 50,000 francs annually, which has been granted to his heirs, would otherwise go to her children though he is not their father, while his own children would be all illegitimate, and would get nothing. The wheat crop in the north is reported to he in a deplorable state, but in Central Italy it promised better. In the south-west and Sicily it is expected to be better, and m the south-east and Sardinia the yield is anticipated excellent. The Court of Cassation has rejected the appeal of the Countess Larnbertini against the mother of the late Cardinal Automelli. AUSTRO-HUNGARY. The retirement of Count Andrassy is probable, owing to the embarraament caused by the terms of the Austro-Turkish Convention. Fresh inundations have occurred in Gallican Silesia, in Hungary, and half the town of Poroffas, in Austrian Silesia, is submerged. The Liberals generally have been defeated in the late elections. GERMANY. The steamer Orpheus, bound to Koeningsberg, lying in the harbor of Stelling, burst her boilers, killing and wounding many persons. The bodies have been recovered. Berlin was in holiday attire on June 10, in honor of the Emperor’s golden wedding. The proceedings on the following day were in the nature of universal festival, and newspapers of every shade united in expressing love and allegiance to the Kaiser. The amnesty proclaimed on the occasion did not include recalcitrant priest?, and the Catholics are greatly disappointed in consequence. A Berlin despatch says Dr. Falk resigns, because he is convinced that it is not possible to effect a reconciliation with the Vatican, and is therefore patriotically resolved not to remain as an obstacle to that earnestly desired coaaumation. BELGIUM. Placards have been posted in Brussels threatening the King with death if he ratifies the Bill passed by the Belgian Parliament for depriving the clergy of the control of elementary education. SPAIN. The Insurgent-General Contreves has been pardoned. Zorilla refuses a pardon, aud continues to conspire against the Kingdom. The Budget will show that the expenses will bo balanced by the receipts. The inferior state of the wheat crop led the Government to make a reduction in the transportation rates on grain. The incendiarism in the provinces of Xerez and Arcos is attributed to internationalists.

Havana letters say that the Cuban Government proposes asking the Madrid Government to distribute about 40,000 troops on the island as field hands among the sugar plantations, wages to be paid by the planters, under the supervision of their officers. This measure is expected to secure tranquillity, and protect the estates during the period of gradual emancipation of the slaves. The soldiery will thus get accustomed to field work, and form a nucleus for free labor on the day that slavery ceases. PORTUGAL. The Cortes has ratified the treaty with Great Britain, establishing Customs union between British and Portuguese East Indies, and Custom houses between the two will be abolished. The Portuguese will adopt the British Indies tariff, excise, money, weights and measures, and extradition regulations. The British salt monopoly will be extended to Portuguese territory in consideration of the indemnity to the latter of four lacks of rupees. Two cases of yellow fever had occurred near Lisbon. SWITZERLAND. The St. Gothard tunnel will be completed by the end of November. Higher duties have been imposed on tobacco and alcohol. In the Canton of Berne the Romans have outnumbered the Old Catholics by thirty-five, and have elected all the officials and Synodal Council for the next four years. TURKEY. The Russian commander of Eastern Roumelia was ordered to delay the completion of the evacuation till the end of July. A Ministerial crisis is imminent. The report of the escape of the ex-Sultan Murad from Constantinople was corroborated. Russia has presented Bulgaria with a portion of her flotilla on the Danube. Servia has ceded the disputed frontier districts to Bulgaria, and Russian troops have assisted the Bulgarian authorities to take possession. The inhabitants are angry and dissatisfied. ALGERIA. The Arabs of the Province of Constantine were in a state of revolution, and had attacked the military post of Radon. The inhabitants were fleeing for their lives. Six hundred insurgents defended a defile in the Youba Hills. The trouble, however, is not regarded as of much importance. EGYPT. The Sultan has signed a firman, deposing the Khedive of Egypt in favor of his son Prince Nohiraed Tewhk. Previous to this the Khedive had signified bis compliance with the demand of the Powers. Tewfik was proclaimed Viceroy on the 26th ultimo. The exKhedive has left for Naples, where ho will receive a pension of £SOOO per annum. A Cairo correspondent learns from official sources that the expenditure of the country had been reduced £2,000,000 since the departure of the Khedive. The European Ministers that the new Khedive is appointing are excellent advisers. He has relinquished half his civil lists. AMERICAN SUMMARY. Seventeen persons were poisoned at a picnic in St. Paul’s, Minnesota, by tartar emetic in lemonade. A negro at Galveston, Texas, who had outraged a white girl named Edmonds, was literally chopped to pieces by the mob. A duel i« on the tapis between. Henry Watson, editor of the Louisville Courier, and Painter, the Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Enquirer. The yacht Jeanette, Captain Delong, will

depart from San Francisco for her circump dar voyage on July S. James U'rl-n 11-nm-tt, pioprtefcor of the A T ew lor/; \ proj-.cted the enterprise, and pays a 1 exp-ms _ Parts of Dakota, lowa, and Minn > t .fa were visited by tornadoes on Julv 3, and the reports aie that the devastation is t-.-rrP'b*. flailstones fell as lig as hens' eng-\ A gr- at many p.-rsons were killed. Henry Ward Beecher has u d . d a ? pbUHpic agaiu.-t what he terms . ; !• ul -xv. In the course of it he says:—"lf t-m w-.rks of the devil were anywhere in ex;* -i An it was the external developments M the C/nAtLui Church. The worst kind of a—.wdnati..u today was committed by men who pray in order that they may stab. For the sake of orthodoxy men destroyed religion. For the sake of all that is pure they did all that is mean and nasty.” Legal proceedings have been taken to break up the Oneida community at Syracuse, New York. They are instigated by i>:>bop Huntington and others, who claim that .-ome uf the practices by th’ members of the community arc worse than those of the polygamists of Utah. A great advance has taken place in the price of raw silk, owing to shortness of supply in Europe. Japan next in grade has advanced from £5 to £7 per lb. John Dymon, the famous shipbuilder, of New York, is dead. Troops have been seat into Breathela, county of Kentucky, to overawe a gang of desperadoes who have inaugurated a n igu of terror. Governor McCary, who made the requisition for the force*, has been n *tit'u d by letter that they will bo annihilated if they interfere with the operations of the lawless gang. Unofficial troops are to bo disarmed by law in Chicago after July 1. This ? s in: nded to meet the case of Socialists and working men, who are aiming and drilling in large numbers in the West.

The working men of New York have organised a series of meetings «m the San Francisco Sand Lot plan. The papers have become alarmed, aud call for police inter-

ference. Mrs. Holland, of Liege, Belgium, while at Niagara on her wedding tour, was swept over the Horseshoe Fall in*sight of her husband. She bad stooped for a drink, loss her balance, aud fell into the swiftly running water. John Keuuler, a German, residing at Springfield, Ma*s., recently killed his three daughters aged respectively one, four, and six years. He gave as his reason, when arrested, that he was born poor, and he was afraid his children when grown up might enter houses of prostitution.

Minnie Walton, wife of "Fred Tester, died in San Francisco on June 30th, after a long and painful illness. Deceased was a native of Sydney, aged 27 years. A Bolivian seaport has been bombarded, and there has also been au indecisive engagement between the Peruvian ironclad Shasboroa and a Chilian ironclad.

Patagonia has beenfeeded by Chili to the Argentine Republic, and war thereby prevented.

Spain has blockaded the coast of Santo Domingo to force compliance with her demands for satisfaction in case of two officials having been murdered while under the protection of the Spanish representatives. The New York Times says the American Government, in the Inter oceanic Canal project, has been outwitted by a junta of clever Frenchmen. The Government of the United States has expended much money in an elaborate survey of the routes, and American citizens have wou renown and applause for their heroic and thorough work; but after all the pet scheme of llatazzi-Wyse has been adopted. The cost and the labors of the Government have been for nothing, and the great enterprise is set on foot in such a way that the United States cannot consistently accept its share in any more influential way than that which might be assigned to the smallest kingdom in Europe. Mr. G. W. Eosvelt, ex-consul at Auckland, but now in New York, says that trade between New Zealand and the United States is very small, and colonists are very anxious to cultivate commercial relations, because they believe American manufactures to be better and cheaper than those of the mother country. New Zealand merchants had adeed him to induce American merchants to send goods there on the basis of dealing common on the Islands —that is, on four month. l :’ credit. This credit system is so established that no other manner of dealing, in his opinion, would .succeed. During his residence there he had not heard of such a thing as a beggar or a tramp, and had formed a very high opinion of the honesty of New Zealand tradesmen. There will be only two-thirds of a crop of wheat this season in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The boat Uncle Sam, in which a man named Goldsmith and his wife started from Gloucester, Massachusetts, for a trip round the world, has been spoken at sea. Edward Parr, who murdered his daughter in Philadelphia, poisoned himself iu the dock, and died while the sentence of judicial death was being pronounced. A cyclone in Sandravilla, Georgia, has blown down the Catholic Church, besides many trees and fencing. The exodus 4 of blacks from Louisiana and other Southern States has ceased.

It is rumored that the Chilians are preparing, with an army of 10,000 or 15,000, to attack Callao and Lima.

Another insurection in Port an Prince, Hayti, has been suppressed after some bard fighting.

There was a serious disturbance at Rio Janeiro, which looked at one time like a revolution. It grew out of the dismissal by Don Pedro of the Minister of the Interior. At the request of the Premier the troops finally dispersed the rioters, not before many persons had been wounded.

The Emperor of Brazil has sent a Commissioner to Loudon to negotiate with the Chinese Embassy for the introduction of coolies. Costa Rica has been visited by severe earthquakes, and in San Jose the cathedral was partly destroyed. Slight shocks had also been felt on the Isthmus of Panama, The exports of Argentine wheat to Europe takes the lead both of wool and h'-’es, which were formerly the chief exports. General Goby has seized upon the G j/eminent of Paraguay. General Negiel, commanding the Mexican army, has pronounced against Diaz, and ieft the city of Mexico, but he afterwards submitted. Tranquillity has been restored on the Isthmus of Panama, COMMERCIAL. Boston, .Tune 7. Wool. —The demand continues active, and prices are quite firm. All available lots are taken by manufacturers as fast as received, California spring wool meets with ready sale, and transactions indicate that this wool is a favorite with manufacturers. The total amount of sales is 1,270,0001b5., at 19.52 c. for spring and 11c. to 17c. for fall. The sales included large lines of choice Northern spring at 30c. to S2c, San Francisco, June 7. Plour, superfine, 3dol. 40c. to 4do'.; wheat, milling. Idol. 35c. to 2dul. 70o.; barley, feed, 62Jc. to 70c.; oats, Idol. 50. to Idol. 20c., and Idol. 40c, to Idol. 50c. for choice lots ; hops, 3c. to 7c.; salmon, pound tins. Idol. 10c. to Idol 12c.