SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 103, 9 April 1884, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

GREAT FIRES—ENORMOUS DEBTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. SOCIALISTIC GATHERING. MEMOIRS OF PRINCESS ALICE. MEETINGS AGAINST THE HIGH PRICE OF MEAT. LORD GARMOYLE’S BREACH OF PROMISE. PRESS CRITICISMS OF HER MAJESTY. THE CONGO DIFFICULTY. THE PARKER FRAUDS—TWO MILLIONS APPROPRIATED. THE FENIANS DRIVEN OUT OF FRANCE. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION—ISO MINERS KILLED. GREAT DISTRESS—STARVING EMIGRANTS. ALLIANCE OF POWERS AGAINST ENGLISH SUPREMACY.

THE DYNAMITE DIFFICULTY. A Midland hosiery factory at Bushford was burned down on the 14th. The loss is estimated at £40,000. London Communists were to have met, on the 14th March, at the grave of Koremoix, a Socialist. The police, however, closed the cemetery gates and prevented the meeting. Memoirs of Princess Alice will appear at an early date. The work will be edited by Prince Christian, and Published by Murray. A mass meeting was to be held in London on the 31st March, to oppose any Legislative action that will increase the price of meat. The celebrated actress, Miss Fortescue, who was recently jilted by Lord Garmoyle, continues an object of interest to the London public. She is playing at the Mart Theatre, as Dorothy, in “ Daniel Deronda,” and although her parrot-like delivery and mechanical action are commented on by the press, the house is nightly filled to overflowing, and the audience show their sympathy for her position by frequent calls. Her weekly stipend at Surrey Theatre, before the Garmoyle incident, was £3, now it is £5O per week. Consolidation of the great banking house of Bornettshoars, Hanbury and Lloyd, and Bosanquet, Salt and Co. with Lloyds Banking Company has taken place, which as a result will extend its capital to £5,000,000. As reported, Captain Nares who commanded the British Arctic Expedition of 1875, and who was assisted by Captain Markham, has drawn up a memorandum of great value regarding the navigation of Smith’s Sound which has been sent to American authorities. The London World and Truth has been criticising Her Majesty with the utmost freedom. The first charges her with dragooning her household into providing a present for Princess Victoria on her approaching marriage with Prince Louis, of Battenburg ; and the second says she is delaying the appearance of Prince Alice’s letters till another edition of her letters has been sold. The bust of the American poet, Longfellow, was unveiled in Westminister Abbey on the first of March. The voting in favor of Henry Irving’s admission to the Reform Club, was almost unanimous, there being 39 negatives only out of 329 ballots. A despatch dated London, 4th March, says that the treaty with Portugal appointing an Anglo-Portuguese commission to regulate trade and navigation on the Congo River, is approved by a majority of Liberal and a number of Conservative members of Parliament. It is reported that France is determined to resist the recognition of sovereignity of Portugal at the mouth of the Congo, and also to insist upon the rights of France to be represented on the commission. Mr. W. G. Marriott, Liberal Member for Brighton, has been re-elected to the House of Commons. He resigned his seat to test the feeling of the electors on the Government Egyptian Policy. Two members of the firm of Messrs Parker, Solicitors in Bedford Row, London, absconded on March sth, having misappropriated their clients title deeds. Their liabilities are between one and two millions, they had borrowed £50,000 for various speculations. The Fenians in Paris have removed their head quarters to Geneva. The French Government made it too hot for them, Mr. Parnell is actively promoting a company to further emigration from the overpopulated districts in Ireland. The company has been formed, with a capital of £250,000. Mr. Parnell is chairman. Nelles, an informer, surrendered himself on March 3 to the Greenock police, and gave names of the murderers of Lord Leitrim as Pat McLoughlin (travelling Fenian head centre), Thos. Hunt, and Michael McGinn. He says he heard McLoughlin coafess he shot Lord Leitrim. The murder was planned in London. The last he knew’ of McLoughlin’s movements was that he went to Dublin in 1882 and gave Carey two knives, and £5O out of the Secret Society funds, An investigation proved that the man was a lunatic.

AMERICAN ITEMS. A terrible explosion has occurred in a coal mine at Pokehontas, Virginia, from fire-damp. The mine was completely wrecked, and 150 miners were killed. Strong efforts are being made by the leading Republicans in favor of Blaine for the next President. He is considered the strong candidate in the field. The Democrats are greatly divided re Free Trade and Protection, which, in the opinion of the New York Sun, renders the success of the Republicans at the next election certain. A fire in Charlotte Town, Prince Edward Island, destroyed all the business places on the south side of Queen’s Square, including the Post Office and Custom House. The loss is estimated at 250,000 dollars. The streets of Montreal are thronged with starving immigra its. The discontent in Manitoba has grown so great that bloodshed is feared, and the Premier warnes the Ottawa Government that it will be held responsible. The Fenians are moving actively to take advantage of the prevalent discontent. All the Chinese cigar-makers in San Francisco went out on strike in March last, and the white employers are so incensed that they have made arrangements to discontinue the employ of coolies altogether. They will import cigar rollers from the East, and train white girls and boys to the business. Remington, an arms manufacturer, of New’ York, has confessed that the pistal found in the infernal machine at Charing Cross, London, was made by his firm. Joachim Miller has been before Congress on the Mormon qusstion. He argued earnestly against hostilities, and recommended a thororough system of education as thes best solvent of the difficulty. He considered considered Mormons a community of cranks through ignorance. SPAIN. Trinidad has been almost destroyed by fire, the loss is estimated at 400,000 dollars. CONTINENTAL. A despatch from Berlin says that the German Ministerial Associate Alliance, Russia, Germany and Austria, with a coming league of Continental Powers against the maritime and commercial preponderance of England. A notable article appears in Kreng Zettung which predicts the formation of a league, including France, to break the insular supremacy of England, which it says by the annexation of Egypt, has completed the links of a gigantic chain extending from Gibraltar to China, and coiled around the body of Europe monopolising the commerce of the world, and making the Mediteranean sea an English Lake, and the Indian Ocean an Indian Lake. Mr. Deßuscle, Under Foreign Secretary, in an article in Greaztotean remarks that “ Russian progress towards India is a matter of indifference to Germany.” England he says “ is no longer our ally, but regards us with evident distrust.” The newspaper United Ireland published what is considered to be a bogus letter, signed by F. F. Frellinghugson, American Secretary

of State, addressed to Earl Granville. It purports to be a reply of the Government at Washington to Earl Granville’s despatch on the dynamite outrages. Secretary Frellinghugson is made to say that the question will never assume the proportion of an international difficulty; but the general feeling among all classes in the Republic is that the best remedy for Irish evils would be to concede to Ireland some such measures of autonomy as was granted to Bulgaria by Turkey. Police surveillance has been extended to Antwerp, Hamburg, Brest, and Bordeaux. Registers of hotels in Brussels, Paris, and other centres are closely scanned, and French dynamite works are strictly watched, and in Vienna, the police have discovered that the anarchists possess large quantities of explosives. The police in London, according to despatches were doing their utmost to discover the authors of the dynamite plots, but the clues did not promise much. The authorities offered a reward of £lO,OOO for detection of the authors of dynamite outrages, and four railway companies have offered an additional £lO,OOO, and insisted upon an inspection of all baggage left at their terminal stations. The police are convinced that the advanced Irish party has made Paris it head-quarters in Europe for the perpetration of their dynamite schemes. The explosive is made at Montrogue. Stephen John O’Carey and “General” Meades, former Fenians, are engaged in the affair, but they are a little disturbed now that the French Government have given assurance that it will assist in the discovery of the conspirators. Princess Marie Anna has returned to Berlin, and has rejoined her' husband, Prince Frederick, thus sertling all difficulty. Later in the day she was received be the Emperor and Empress.