ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 64, 12 February 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[Per Press Assocutxox.] Auckland, Feb, IL The ZeiUandia with the San Francisco mail arrived at 7>30 this morning, During a gale on the voyage her rail was often over 18 in. under water, A seaman named Lambert fell from the foreyard to the canvas over the hurricane deck, His head was cut severely, Another man slipped on the deck and severely cut his head, Ot the news she brings the following GENERAL SUMMARY* San Francisco, Jan, 20. A London telegram, dated Jan. 19, says the British Post Office, after September Ist, will forward all mails for America by the fastest steamer under a monthly contract, chiefly by way of Queenstown. Mails are to be forwarded, it an agreement is reached, by Southampton mid-weekly by a fast steamer, which leaves there at midnight on Thursdays, connecting from London, The premises of Silber and Co., colonial merchants, Sun Court, Cornhill, London, were destroyed by fire on the morning of January 17th. The reformatory ship Clarence was burned in the river Mersey on Jan, 26th, All hands were saved. The iron and steel workers of Great Britain have been notified by their fellow-craftsmen of America that agents from the United States will shortly be in England to get workmen, and they hope that no British workmen will assist in defeating their brethren in America. The jury in the case of William Wolff, on trial in London for unlawful possession of explosives, disagreed, and were discharged. By mail advices received in London from China, it is stated that several Chinese bankers had committed suicide owing to the unsettled political situation and the deplorable state of the money-market. Miss Hogarth, the surviving executrix of Charles Dickens, has taken steps to prevent the publication in England of the novelists letters to his solicitor (which have been published in America) on the ground that they were never intended for the public. Lord Lytton’s biography of his father meets with no sale in England, because it is said the price is too high and the work too bulky. The American Minister in London, Mr. Lowell, has accepted the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute. Mr. Schuyler, who explored Equatorial Africa, is reported dead. On January 16 Mr. Gladstone issued a circular to the Liberal members of the House of Commons requesting their attendance at the opening of Parliament on February 5, as it was the desire of the Government to submit at as early a date as possible proposals of much interest and importance. The marriage of Prince Louis of Battenberg with one of Queen Victoria’s grand-daughters is fixed for April 15th. Lord Mayo, who lately explored the Congo, is on the way to explore Patagonia and Terra Del Fuego. Queen Victoria is about to present a portrait of herself, painted by Princess Beatrice, to the National Portrait Gallery. A sensation has been caused by the bequest of £500,000 made by a wealthy London lady to Pope Leo. XIII. The Catholics of England have completed arrangements to begin the erection of a Cathedral in Westminster to cost over £500,000, and to be erected within a stone’s-throw of the Victoria Station. The design as approved of is similar to that of the Votive Kirche in Vienna.

FRANCE; It is denied that the Rothchilds havU offered to buy the Government railways. A Company will be formed for the purpose of acquiring them.A Bayonne telegram of January 2nd states that a revolutionary movement is expected to occur on the Franco-Spanish frontier, and persons are warned to take precautions. A Paris despatch of January 10th says :— M. Leoyr has been re-elected President of the French Senate. SPAIN. A cable despatch from London of January 13th says that reports from the Spanish Parliament show that it has been turned into a bear-garden, and that the patched-up alliance with various Liberal groups is broken. The War Minister’s proposal of increased pay to officers of the Army is suspended as torecasting a coup de etat, Several Republican refugees have disappeared from their places of retreat, and soldiers in many garrisons have been kept under arms at night. Nobody seems to know why, but the impression is general that Alfonso will soon have to fight for his crown; A free-trade banquet was given at Madrid on January 15th to celebrate the conclusion of commercial treaties between Spain and various countries, ITALY. The London Pofit't correspondent tele* graphs on January 3rd that the Pope’s secre* tary, Monsignor Boccalli, opened a letter from America, addressed to Leo XIII, containing Fenian threats, should the Pope continue supporting England against the National cause in Ireland, The letter states that the protection which the Italian Government gives the Pope, who is now the only Sovereign safe from dynamite, will be of no avail. The Pope is warned there are priests he is bound to receive who will obtain access to his presence, to sustain the cause of the Irish against oppression, RUSSIA; Tollosi, Minister of the Interior, received & letter on January 8. stating he had been sentenced to death by Nihilists, The letter also intimated the speedy murder of the Chief Public Prosecutor, Dofreskanski. GERMANY. Proposals from Japan that a Court of Justice should be established in that country, having jurisdiction over foreigners as well as Natives, has been favorably received, The United States Government has also agreed to it, AMERICA. Matthew Arnold lectured in Chicago on January 20th. He expressed his surprise at the Americans flocking to cities and seeking an education fitting them only for clerical labor. Mr. Charles Delmonica, a celebrated New York caterer, came to his death on January 14, under distressing circumstances. Being ill and partially out of his mind, he escaped from his guardians, wandered into New Jersey, and was found on the morning of the day named between Orange and Mount Clair, lying under a tree, and frozen stiff. East River, between New York and Brooklyn, was bridged by ice on the 13th, being the first time since 1875. The streets of Boston, Mass., a city that has enjoyed the reputation of being the best municipally-governed in the United States) have become unsafe, by reason of bold robberies and brutal assaults on respectable citizens.

A proposition was introduced irltd cdngresl on January 9th, backed chiefly by Western sentiment; to exclude German and French products from the United States, in retaliation for the hostility of these Governments to the American hog. This policy is strongly favored by Californian wine-growers. In this connection news has been received to the effect that the tariff reformers among the democratic members of Congress who made Carlisle speaker on the question of the reduction of duties, are weakening, and the indications are that they will abandon the position altogether. Dr. Edward Laseer, an eminent German, died in New York suddenly on Januaiy sth. He was leader of the National Liberal party in the German Parliament, and was in the United States on an invitation from Vellard to attend the opening of the Northern Pacific Railroad. His body was taken to Berlin for interment. The organ of the American Iron and Steel Association stated on December 22nd that prices are about steady, and, owing to restriction in production lately, there will be no further depression, The laboring classes of the country tettlisM the change in the condition of trade and appreciate it. Wages have not declined in proportion to the fall in the prices at present of steel rails. The consumption of iron and steel will about equal the outputs. The American coal-miners in Pennsylvania have commenced war against the Hungarian immigrants brought over to work in the coal districts of that State, Trouble is antiei; pated. Mr. Matthew Arnold has expressed himself as much gratified by the attendance at his lectures in all American cities he visited; excepting Baltimore; He had found, he said to a reporter, many groups of cultured people, but he was afraid they were not of a class that might be termed the average Americans, Rose Horan, formerly ladies’ maid to Lady Mandeville, has begun a mit in a New York Court to recover 20,000 dol|; damage, for false arrest and imprisonment, at the instance of Lady Mandeville, who charged her maid with larceny, Lady Mandeville is an American woman, married to an Englishman of title. Mr. J, E. Redmond, M.P., arrived in San Francisco, on Dec, 81st, and delivered several lectures there on Irish affairs; He was warmly received by the Irish-Amerloans. Mh Redmond is en route to Europe. The New York World of Jan. Ist says that during 1883 not one American vessel cleared from the port of New York for Europe laden with grain. During the year there were exported frum New York, in 491 vesselsi 21,545,000 bushels of wheat, 25,222,600 bushels of corn, 5,052,043 bushels of rye, and 1,474,800 bushels of oats, The lowest amount of freight.money paid fox the transportation of this grain was at least 4,000,000 dols., not one dollar being received by American shipowners,

The work of recovering £1,000,000 in treasure, supposed to have been lost in the wreck of the British frigate Hussar in the bottom of the East River, New York, just below Fort Morris, has commenced. The vessel was wrecked in 1770, while on her way to Norwich, Connecticut, and the money was for the payment of the British troops. The Hussar had also seventy American prisoners chained to her gun-decks. The company engaged in the work retain 90 per cent, of their findings, and the United States Government 10 per cent. Capt. Eads, builder af the jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi Biver, left for London on January Ist to interest English capitalists in his project to build a ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, This enterprise is said to be regarded with more favor in London than De Lesseps’ Panama scheme. CANADA. The Governor-General opened Parliament at Ottawa on January 17th. In his speech he said the general condition of the dominion was such as to justify him in congratulating the Canadians on its prosperity. The Erskine Presbyterian Church, in Toronto, was burned on the 20th. The Sabbath School was in session at the time; but, fortunately, all the children escaped. The loss is 40,000 dols. SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO, AND THE WEST INDIES. The Mexican Government announces that no arrangement exists for the conversion of Mexican indebtedness in England. The Argentine Government is about to issue bonds for 4,000,000 dols., to advance public instruction in the provinces and for juilding 300 school-houses. The yellow fever has nearly disappeared from Havanna. A despatch from Buenos Ayres, dated December 22nd, says that Mr. Callan, a member of the British Parliament, was at that

plaee, and it is believed that his object ia to Introduce Irish colonisation into the Argentine Republic, The Mexicans have refused to accept the new nickel coinage, on account of the debasement of their issue, which led to a riot, and President Gonsales was pelted with the coin in the public streets. Great alarm was caused at Martivido on January 16th by immense tidal waves. They are attributed to a volcano. Each wave was preceded by a large dark cloud. Party-rioting has occurred in Newfoundland. An Orange procession at Harbor Grace, on December 26th, was attacked by a mob, and three men were instantly killed and several fatally wounded. The riot lasted far into the evening. At first the Orangemen thought the firing was from guns loaded only With powder, in the hands of their friends, until they saw their men fail. Two Orangemen and two Roman Catholics are reported killed, eight mortally wounded, and from eighteen to twenty slightly. Head-Constable Doyle is among the latter. The details of the affray in brief, as received by telegraph ware that the orangemen walked out on the inorning of St: Stephen’s Day and got as far as the point leading down from Harney Street to Water Street. They had just arrived at the bridge, and the baud was playing " Boyne Water ” when they were met by a mob and told to some no further, but go back. The liviuan Catholics were arranged In line, those in front having sticks in then hands, and it had been determined to use no Other weapons unless in self‘defence. They fought with these till Head Constable Doyle was shot down, as was also a man named Callahan. Then went up the cry ** all hands look out,” and in an instant off went a rattling volley from several guns. Four men fell dead, 14 were badly wounded, and the test of the Orangemen fled, abandoning their Scarfs, flags, and banners. One of the Boman Catholic party tore the flags into strips and planted green flags in their places. He was fired at and wounded while doing this. When the Orangemen went down into the city they began breaking the windows of Catholics and tearing down shutters of those whose houses ware mosed. They stopped the horse of Dr. McDonald, the Roman Catholic Bishop, later in the day, while he was visiting the wounded men at Bears’ Cove, they seised him and attempted to throw him over a cliff, but were prevented by Father Bowe, an herculean priest. Who braved one of the assassins with a loaded whip, and dispersed the rest. The mounted police then came up, and escorted the clergymen, All the people in the neighboring towns, especially in Carbonear, were terribly excited, but the presence of a large police and military force finally quelled the disturbance.

GENERAL GORDON'S MISSION TO SOUDAN. The London Times of Jan. 20th says the General (Chinese) Gordon goes straight to Souakim by the Canal. He will meet Mr. Baring, British Consul-General at Sues, and some to an agreement in regard to the cobperktion of the English authorities in Egypt as far as may be necessary. Moussa, chief of the Hadendowa tribe, whose eons General Gordon saved from death, to which they had been condemned by the Egyptian officials for making raids, will be summoned to Souakim, and General Gordon will go with his escort to Khartoum, where he will assemble the heads of tribes, arid announce that he has come on behalf of England to restore their liberty and remove the adventurers who have recourse to the country; He will also inform the chiefs that ge slave-trade must cease: So soon as he a finished his task in the Soudan, he will go to the Congo country, and deal with the slavetrade in its head-quarters. General Gordon expects to be five months in the Soudan. The King of the Belgians has asked the English Government to send him English officers to act in General Gordon’s place in the Congo country until General Gordon is ready to fulfil his engagements. A despatch from Khartoum, January 18, says it is reported that a number of dervishes here have summoned the people to join El Mahdi; and a great army is expected in ten days. English sovereigns, recently popular in the bazaars, are now refused, or only taken at a discount. This is regarded as ominous. The bearing of the people has been totally changed, and some very strong influence is at work. Carso, Jan. 20. Khartoum still remains open to Cairo. The appointment of Chinese Gordon is generally welcomed, and it has received the eerdial sanction of the Government. THE ACCIDENT TO THE CZAR. The latest version of the accident to the Czar on December 17th while returning from a shooting excursion to Balyma Palace, in Austria, is to the effect that he was accompanied by his suite in eight sledges, with a number of servants. Although darkness was coming on, the party noticed ahead six men, apparently peasants. The Czar's aides drove forward, and ordered the men to clear the way. The men saluted the officers, and obeyed the order; but when the Czar’s sledge eame on a level with them they suddenly wheeled around and fired at him thrice, and two of them ran towards the sledge. The nona attached Became frightened and galloped some hundred paces, when the Czar was thrown out of the sledge. A bullet lodged in the Czar's shoulder, but it was not a dangerous wound. The Ozar's followers immediately mounted the sledge-horses and followed the assassins, who escaped to the neighboring wood. Owing to the depth of the snow the pursuit was fruitless. One of the pursuing officers ventured too far and did not return. The Telegraph thinks the attack was an attempt to execute the sentence of death recently passed upon the Czar by the Nihilists, Incut, Sudeiklne was murdered at St, Petereb ora on December 81st by Nihilists. He was decoyed into one of their secret meeting-places, tortured for two hours, to compel divulgenoe of some police secrets, and when he did at last give them up and they were verified as correct he was stabbed to death] as a measure of safety to the conspirators. The murder is attributed to the instrumentality of Anne Walkerstein, a sister of the lady who shared in all the attempts against the late Czar, and who was finally hanged. A second account says the colonel was a tall and powerful man, and that, to Judge from the broken furniture and debris in the room, he did not die without a desperate struggle. Thirty-seven students were arrested on the 9th for complicity in the murder. Sudeikine’s nephew, who was with him at the time, was severely wounded, and died on the 17th, without recovering consciousness. The assassination had a most depressing effect on the Czar, who was on the point of making constitutional concessions ; but it is now said that he has firmly resolved on being more stringent than ever. He sent for Count Tolosti, Minister of the Interior, and violently reproached him for his lack of energy and incapacity. Tolosti thereupon resigned.

A GERMAN COURT SCANDAL. Loxdon, Jan. 10. Court circles in Berlin are excited by a scandal, the alleged culprit being no less a personage than Prince Frederick Charles Nicholas, nephew of the Emperor, and one of the most distinguished generals of the FrancoPrussian war. His wife, Princess Maria Ann, daughter of Duke Leopold Frederick, of Amhalt, recently discovered what she considers conclusive evidence of the Prince’s infidelity. The female in the case is a lady who is prominent in the Court of the Empress Augusta, but whose name has not been allowed to be mentioned publicly. It is almost certain that the Prince’s offence, if he has been an offender at all, is a thing of the past, and that the liaison was ended several years ago. The Princess confronted him with proofs of his guilt, and a terrible scene resulted. The upshot of the row was that Frederick Charles refused to comply with the demand of the Princess, that he should refuse to speak to the lady in question, and that the Princess threatened to proseeute him for divorce in the public courts. The Princess has submitted the question to the Emperor and agreed to abide by his decision as head of the Hohenzollern family. The Emperor has issued an order in which he decides that a suit for divorce may be arranged after due provision has been made to protect the State rights of the Princess and her offspring.

SANDWICH ISLANDS. The Washington National Republic of January 4th publishes a letter from Honolulu, in which it is stated that matters are in a very serious condition in the Islands, on account of the unpopularity of the Prime Minister, Mr. Gibson, and his Cabinet, by his influence over the King. The correspondent says Mr. Gibson has become all powerful and is using his position to advance the interests of Clause Spreckles, one of the chiefs. The causes of the present trouble come from the recent contract between Spreckles and the Government. Chinese laborers are imported into the kingdom, but by law the importations are limited to twenty per month. The transportation of these Chinese is profitable, and the Government had made a contract with the Pacific Mail Company to bring them; but recently Mr. Gibson notified the company he had cancelled the contract and made another with Spreckles for some service. Amass meeting was held on Dec. 17th, to consider this action of Mr. Gibson’s, and condemnatory resolutions were adopted. A resolution expressing want of confidence in the Cabinet was also passed.