THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1087, 17 September 1883, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

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AUCKLAND, This day.

The Australia arrived at three o'clock this morning. Passengers for Auckland Messrs Strand, Ormond, Saxi, McLean, Miss Jane Harper, Dr and Mrs Harrison- and child, Captain McPetrie, Mr '■ arid Mrs Schriden, Messrs Morrison, Platts, England, Foster, •15 steerage. Mail Summary. SAN FRANCISCO, August 26. In the House of Commons ori Arigusl 22nd, the Under-Secretary for India presented the : Indian Budget. ■ The surplus for 1884 is estimated at £457,000. Sir S. Northcote attacked the ! Whole policy of. the Government 5 bn the 21st, and accused it of keeping back 11 in Madagascaraffairs.Mr in reply, praised the working of theDijmd Act and . Earl Spencer’s vigorbus government of Ireland". In relation- to Madagascar, lie declared that nothing had ? occurred to disturb the Cordial fbirtions of;Erigland arid France.' ~t . . Bismarck, in reply to French journalists, declares that France threatens jlhe peace of Europethat’ such, a'stalb of affairs cannot continue without s,eeribus danger, rind that the passions fomented by agitation may" burst the- bonds*

peace. , * ' Mount- Vesuvius was again abtive,on August. 22nd.. ' and the Mountain railroad were damaged ,by

tremblings. : ' .’ ' t Freemans Journal bitterly denounces the House of Lords for its action in rejecting the Irish Registration Bill. ' Ah extensive flour millTiear'Kihnegal, Ireland, was burned on the 22nd. Three persons perished. , I ' The Count de Chambord’s cfbalh' is alluded to by. the Republican: journals respectfully, and’they unite in .pairing homage, to ; his' loyalist papers appeared .with moiirnmg borders, and are reserved 'in > their ; comments ‘ regarding the consequence of the death. .The body will lie' bnried' by, the of Charles the Tenth. A reign of terror existed on ’ August 24th in the village, of. Cassob, in’ Roumelia. The Turks were murdering the Christians,‘and all llie latter who could get away were fleeing from the country. Ah accident happened to the Duke of -Cambridge while at Chatham. faad just alighted from a carriage with Colonel Evidon, when the horses became very restive/ and turning .suddenly round, npset the Colonel arid the'carriage struck the Duke in the chest. His Royal Highness left for,' Woolwich yesterday morning. The new governor of /Lebanon has sent .to the Porte a . memorandum stating that the "situation in that province , had been rendered by.,’the action of Rnstem Pasha much worse thanit was formerly. . . Mr Cxladstone is said to have.-recently .declared in conversation with a Methodist clergyman that the large’mrimber of Ministers and others wearing the Blno Ribbon was an exceedingly gratifying circumstance, speaking: well for the future. '■

Switzerland" has jost concluded ' a treaty with the United States,.to he in force thirty years, binding both republics to submit any differences arising between them to arbitration. Honduras and Columbia have given, , in. their adhesion to the, principle. If France jshbuld continue to countenance the attempts of De Brazza . to establish French rule in central Africa, the African Association at; BerUn intend to insure the protection of England. A for the neutralization of (Congo is favoured in London. 'The Pope is drawing an encyclical letter against divorces. A despatch from London on August 5 th says the Queen is much stronger. In receiving M. Waddington, the new French Minister, she stood through the interview which lasted twenty minutes. She has ordered that no tenant festivities take place this year at Balmoral or

any other estates on account of the death of John Brown. Another despatch says that in spite of the continned efforts of the Royal Family and medical ad risers the Qneen obstinately declines to go abroad for her health, and insists on spending the autnmn at Balmoral. She is determined to be near John Brown’s grave, and will make daily visits to it, contributing new testimonials of esteem in which she holds the memory of the departed gillie. Her family is exasperated by her expenditure of feeling on this subject which begins to border on the ridiculous. Her Majesty left London for Balmoral on Friday, August 25. The Cairo correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes to a medical frfend, informing him that at one of the principal hospitals no precautions are taken to disinfect, or even to clean the bed and bedding from which a cholera corpse has been removed. As one patient, dies his body is hustled away for burial, and another sick or dying wretch fills the vacancy caused by the death. Even Vomit and ejections from successive patients are- allowed to accumulate for many hours until the place becomes inexpressibly noisome, and this case is but a type of what is going on at every depot for the receipt of cholera stricken people. Carts are sent round at intervals to collect the dead at hospitals and front private houses, and bodies arc not nnfrequenlly found even in the open 'street; : Should the man in charge of the dead cart come across a sick person, the latter is unceremoniously seized and thrown into the vehicle on fop of its ghastly freight, and is left there until the cart charged with the collection of the sick only is ! met, when the living are transferred from the dead cart to the; company of their fellow sufferers and taken to the hospii d.

American Items. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25. . Pacific Railroad will be finished hy ‘September .6; li

' The ! Brooklyn suspension bridge is pronounced a financialfailure. Several towns in the State of Minnesota were visited by'a cyclone on Ang. 2&h, vrith the most distressing results. Were literally wrecked, and many :6f the inha titan ts killed. The wihd iilsOji.demolislicd a railroad train, UftTng the cars bodily from the track and. reducing them to splinters. One hundred passengerswere killed. The object of the visit of Mdnsignore Capel to the United States is said to be to signify the intention of the Church of Rome to try and make a great spread in future in this country. The somewhat- startling story is circulated that M. Onpei’s appearance here bnt precedes the arrival of the Pope himseff. Moody and Jsahkey go to London in September to spend the winter there in evangelical work. 1 The : White Star Line steamship Lndwig, so long overdue at Montreal* for; fast.. ; .Commissioner Pien-epoint has made a report to the effect that in five years, if the present policy of the Government towards the Mormons were continued the latter would control all the territories remaining;