ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 40, 15 January 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

GENERAL SUMMARY. San Francisco, December 22. A movement has been commenced against Secret Societies by a Christian League embracing the leading divines of the United States. Brennan, Hon. Secretary of the Irish Land League, has arrived in San Francisco for the purpose of raising money for the League. A San Francisco pioneer of California arid a millonaire, named Cass. MacLoughlin, has been assassinated in his office by a railway contractor named Frome Cox, who had grown desperate by contracted legal difficulties with MacLaughlin. Cox originally advanced money to the deceased to build a railway between San Jose and San Francisco, The Canadian Pacific Railway business is at a standstill. Gerald Massey who arrived at New York to deliver a course of lectures, has commenced an action against the New York I'imes, damages 5000 dollars, for publishing a defamatory libel. The Bolivian Commissioners at Santa Fe, Chili, are rapidly completing the peace negotiations between Peru and Chili. The depression in the iron trade in America continues. Seventy workmen, discharged from Patterson’s locomotive works, New Jersey, have left for the Clyde to work on the iron ship-building works there, paying their own passages. The American Free-trade journals say that this argues badly for protection. The British and Chinese flags were publicly burnt by an assemblage of Irishmen in San Francisco. The cremation was preceded by resolutions of sympathy to O’Donnell, who shot Carey. The Rev. Mr. Wilson, curate of St. George’s Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario, has been dismissed for attending a Salvation Army meeting. The Pope has approved of the proposal to erect a memorial Church to the memory of Daniel O’Connell at Cahereiveen, County Kerry. Archbishop Groke will lay the founda-tion-stone. The executrix of the dowager Lady Lytton threatens to publish 800 letters of the late Lord unless his son will do justice to the memory of his mother. Mr. Bradlaugh met with a cordial reception in Paris, but studiously avoided the Anarchists.

The London police have begun to make raids on all fashionable gambling-houses. On December 15 they entered the Bacarat Club, the Jinks Club, the Park Club, and others known as swell hells, and warned the players and proprietors. Peyton and Peyton, furniture manufacturers, Birmingham, have failed for £lO,OOO, and Abbot Page and Co., London, stockbrokers, for £205,000. Cyoret, a Lyons Anarchist, concerned in the explosion at the theatre there, has been sentenced to death.

Rosa Bonheur is dangerously ill at Fontainbleau,

Tremendous floods in the Scheldt did great damage.

General Manteufel, Governor of Alsace and Lorraine, has issued an order abolishing the use of French language in debates. A meeting will shortly take place between the Emperors of Austria, Germany, and Russia.

The disputes between Spain and France as to King Alfonso’s treatment in Paris have been satisfactorily settled. The Crown Prince of Germany during his visit to Madrid gave 24,000 piastres to the palace servants and 50,000 to the military asylums.

On opening the Spanish Cortes, the Royal Speech announced the extension of the suffrage to all who can read, write, and pay taxes.

A hurricane in Aliense, Spain, uprooted 1400 olive trees. Heruca, in Valencia, was inundated, the town wrecked and fourteen vessels stranded.

The canton of Valois, Switzerland, has restored the death penalty for murder. Monsignore Savarez, the Pope’s domestic prelate, has left the Roman Catholic Church and has been received into the Episcopal Church by Dr. Nevin of St. Paul’s American Church. At an interview between the Pope and an American Catholic Bishop, the Pope expressed hopes that he might live to see the Greek and Latin Churches united. Several people were crushed to death in Moscow owing to the pressure of an immense crowd assembled to receive a gratuity usually given at the demise of wealthy persons. The assemblage was before the house of a rich merchant. Fourteen thousand cotton operatives are idle in Lancashire, and half of the Blackburn looms are stopped. The Anglo Egyptian Bank, Alexandria, has offered the Egyptian Government ten millions sterling to construct a canal parallel to the present Suez canal. The deficit in the Egyptian Budget for 1883 is 3,000,000 dollars. ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS. A despatch from Washington says that the representatives of the Congress of Ohio propose to introduce a bill for the restoration of the duty on combing, carpet, and other similar wools to what existed prior to the enactment of the present tariff law. The President of the National Wool-growers’ Association of the United States endorses the bill, which, in the opinion of its friends, will pass the House by a two-third majority. Ohio is the chief wool-producing State in the country, and suffered most severely from the reduction made in the present tariff law. There are in that State 40,000 wool-growers, and their loss on the sales of wool at the last annual clip amounted to more than a million dollars. Despatches, dated Jan. 12, describe the effects of a violent gale throughout England

during the preceding days. Much damage was caused in London. In the nrovinces, huge trees were torn up and carried away to the low-lying districts. Birminghani was flooded, and a portion of the roof of a church was demolished, and the Congregational Church also was injured, The parish church at Rotherham was much injured. Chimney* stacks were thrown down at Manchester, ana at Leeds a large gas-holder near Bradford was capsized, and great damage was done at Liverpool. . « The chief officer of a steamer just arrived from Glasgow was killed; cabs were overturned and many buildings damaged. At Lincoln the parapet tower of the Cathedral was blown down. A ship was blown from her moorings in Belfast. In harbor, the British ship Liverpool, from Quebec, for Greenock is a total wreck, near Stranver, Only a man and boy were saved of the crew. Two person* were killed at Hull and several injured. A portion of Portsmouth was flooded, and it Hartlepool many ships were damaged. At Birmingham two persons were killed and a number were injured. Three persons were killed at Manchester and three at Dewebbury, At Chester a man was blown down in Hie street and killed, and two persons were killed at Liversedge. A portion of the roof of St, Mary’s Church, Berwick, was destroyed. Several houses in the suburbs of Nottingham were blown down. At Keldwick a gasometer was demolished, and the Postal Telegraph Inspec* tor at Leeds was cut in halves. At Bradford the monuments under the cliff in the cemetery, and a portion of the depot of the Midland Railway were blown down, and several vessels docked in the Mersey were damaged. Two vessels were wrecked at Dunure; Scotland, and two men were drowned. The Lowlands of West Lancashire and Garstage districts were flooded. At Glasgow the damage to property was very great.