ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 147, 3 June 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The following is a summary of news by the San Francisco mail:— A despatch dated April 21, on the situation of the Mercantile Marine in England says, that the depression amounts almost to a paralysis. Mi 1 . Gladstone has announced his positive refusal to include a clause enfranchising the Women’s Franchise Bill. The authorities at Swansea arc endeavoring to induce the Government to send the American mails by way of Swansea, instead of through Liverpool and Queenstown as at present. The story that T'l-ineo Albert Victor is to bo ‘ . I - • •' I < il. ! . •. 'I ’ ■ fradio!-’d. Ho wiil be sent on another travelling tour. Lmd Falmouth’s racehorses were soi l on \pri! 27. Sir John Willoughby bought the • ■ 1 <■’ I I.'li ve f o ). threc-venr old filly Busybody, was purchase ! l.y I. . 1 Arli .gton *' ■ 1 0'). Th ■ t realis-'tl bv the sale was £38,228. 1 h rail < 1 < ing to the dep re sion in trade, h ivc dischat ; 12,5 )0 eraplo’ on the 7th, and . • 1 clei 10 p cent. Ten women wore blown to pieces and two other wounded, by an explosion of dynamite at Nobel’s factory.

Herbert Spencer declines to visit Australia. The failure of Prainey, Knox Co., linen manufacturers and merchants of Glasgow, is reported, and that of Leittle, Paken Co., sugar brokers, at Greenock. The liabilities of the latter firm are £70,000. The Tunnel under the Mersey to connect Birkenhead and Liverpool will he formally opened on June 14. Bv consent of the Dutch Government, an English force will be sent against Rajah Tanom, of Sumatra, to rescue the crew of the wrecked British steamer Nisero. The Bell Tavern, near the Old Baileyr London, was burned down on the 22nd, and two barmaids perished in the flames. Among all the thousands of Mormon immigrants who arrived at New York during the past month, there is not a single Irishwoman. A Salt Lake missionary admitted that there was no use in trying to convert the Irish, but added : “ The Irish are not of a steady going industrious disposition that we care to handle. They are too enthusiastic and spasmodic. The elders of the church say that they are satisfied that the Irish converts would bring us into trouble, and we always keep away from Ireland on that account.” A number of cartridges were found near the Law Courts in Dublin. . The offices of the Court and jurorshad received threatening le'ters. A notice has been found in Phoenix Park, near where Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke were assassinated, declaring the Invincibles to be impregnable. American remittances to Ireland for the purposes of political agitation have fallen off of late, and the police think that the recent ominous notices from the Invincibles found about Dublin are a trick to stimulate arrests. The jury in the Smythe murder case, the trial of which closed in Dublin on April 23, returned a verdict, “ That Elliot, Swords, Byrne, and Fitzpatrick were morally and legally guilty of the murder of Mrs. Smythe.” His Honor the Judge concurred, and sentenced each of the prisoners to ten years’ penal servitude. Elliot and Swords protested their innocence.

The Dublin Express of the 26th April says that Mr. James O’Kelly, M.P., who went to the Soudan as correspondent of the London Daily News, after the death of Mr. Edmund O’Donovan has been taken into custody bj r Egyptian authorities. Suspicious documents were found in his possession, among them being letters from Frenchmen to El Mahdi.

A canister of gunpowder exploded on April 26 in the area of the barracks, in Ship Street, Dublin. The windows were shattered; but several officers who were dining in a room above were uninjured. Clockwork was found in the vicinity. No arrests have been made up to the present time. Michael Davitt has abandoned politics. He purposes taking up his residence in Australia for the future.

At the trial of the Invincibles in Dublin on the sth the prosecution stated that James Lyons and Patrick Renolds now in the United States were local leaders of that orginisation, and Moran deposed that P. J. Sheridan visited Quabberculy in the garb of a priest and formed an inner circle. ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS. Sir Edward Walker, M.P., offered on the 23rd ult. £l,OOO towards the rescue of General Gordon. He asks the London papers to open a fund for this purpose, where, he says, £200,000 would be collected in a few hours. A despatch from Cairo of the 2nd May says the Egyptian Government had offered a Soudan chief £5,000 to bring General Gordon from Khartoum. A despatch from Vienna of the 6th May says that a Catholic missionary writes from the Soudan that, unless the British send a strong force to hold Assouan, all Egypt will eventually succumb to El Mahdi. An Arab journal affirms that El Mahdi demands £500,000 ransom for Gen. Gordon, to be paid to Arab leaders within three months. The Pope is reported to be about to issue an encyclical letter against Freemasonry, alleging that Freemasons are blind instruments for obscure ends in the hands of their chiefs, and that, when interests require it, they do not even shrink from crime. The damage caused in Colchester by the earthquake on the 22nd of April is considerable, and is estimated at not less than £lO,OOO The spire of the Lion Walk Congregational Church, 150 feet high, was brought to the ground, and there is scarcely a house that is not injured by the falling chimneys. At Langenhoe, 10 miles from Colchester, every farmhouse was damaged, and the church, an ancient structure of stone, is shattered.

Mr. Rusden on his new “ History oF Australia,” advocates the creation of hereditary order of nobility in the Colonies. Sir Henry Parkes, in a paper in Nineteenth Century, favors the same idea. The New York World, in a cable from London, dated Bth May, says :—The Grand Duke Louis 4 of Hesse, whose morganatic marriage has been the subject of so much gossip, suddenly made his appearance in England without his bride, and was a guest of the Queen, at Windsor Castle, at the date of this despatch. The Queen has settled £20,000 on the bride of the young Prince Louis of Battenburg, her granddaughter. A despatch of 16th ult. says the Duke of Edinburgh will take the Channel _ and Reserve Squadrons on a summer cruise to the Baltic, visiting Riga and Cronstadt. The visit is designed to increase the friendship between Russia and England. The Standard of the 27th April, disbussing the Greely relief expedition, condemns the decision to place the Alert at Lyttelton Island. It believes that Greely and party, if it reached Cape Sabin*' in boats, would remain there, and concludes that on the whole he is probably at this moment safe and sound at Lady Franklyn Bay, and possibly has even reached Upernavit. The article comes from a high Arctic authority. A sensation in political circles has been caused by the withdrawal of Lord Randolph Churchill from the Conservative Union. It seems that Lord Churchill, after becoming chairman of the Union, ignored the Marquis of Salisbury. Ho claimed that the Council of the Union had control of the entire Conservative party. At a caucus meeting of the party an opinion was expressed that the Union and Central Committee should work in harmony. Lord Churchill took this as a vote of censure, and retired from the Association. Correspondence between Lord Churchill and the Marquis of Salisbury is so acrimonious, that reconciliation is improbable. Gorst and Henry Cecil Bailees have joined Lord Churchill, and they propose to form a now party. Prince Bismarck spoke on the Bth in defence of the Anti-socialist Bill. He stated that measure should be rejected, the Government should discuss it with another Parliament. Should this likewise reject the Bill, the Government would be exonerated from all responsibility, and could regard further development of social democracy with a quiet conscience. O wing to the discovery of a plot, at Moscow to assassinate the Czar, the festivities in honor of the coming of age of Czarewitch will bo held at Stetersbury. Arrests of persons known to be Nihilists, or suspected of being in connection with the order, continue without abatement. On the sth of May a large number of Artillery officers were arrested on a charge of being connected with the murder of the late Chief of Police. General Suderkin. An explanation of these arrests is that De Gaeriff, who assassinated General Suderkin, was at one time in the artillery service. Several more : udents have been arrested at Moscow, and the first number of the paper ]>ublished in the University there, Cheski Ironcil, has been seized by the Secretary of he Board f J ■ Mistress of th 3 school for women at St. Petersburg has also been arrested. During the trial at St. Petersbugh of the Black Band of Nihilists, Dubelzke and his daughter, two prisoners, stabbed themselves the father fatally, and the daughter dangerous] v. Th ■ • ’■■■• ■' ■ I': : : '’.hHi b ft New York for Glasgow on the 12lh of April, with a 1 . 1 on th ‘ 13th of Amil ai or a c diislon with the 1, N >w Bn 1 . Both ship t vneously, and 01 ' (f the t to im • ’s pa aenand w, 1 i lud { the stewardess e cap I in boats, and out of the barque’s crew of 15, only the captain and two seamm were saved. The collision occurred at 11.30 p.m. about 120 miles of the Irish coast, and the night though moonless was clear, with

the sea as smooth as glass. Next morning the barque was observed floating bottom up. The survivors after being 85 hours in boats without food or water, were rescued by the Norwegian barque Theresa, of Christiana, from that port bound to Quebec. 240 (?) of them were transferred to the ship Louisa from Cardiff, bound for Quebec. It is believed that 130 lives were lost. A passenger named Jas. Bennett, says the panic on board the doomed steamer was frightful. Only four lady passengers were willing to go into the boats, and only one woman the stewardess, was saved by the exertions of the chief engineer, who lost his wife in doing so. The captain and crew seemed paralysed. Must of the crow were shipped at Glasgow, and the scene outside the steamship office there when the news was received, is described as h -u trending. Nearly all the operative force of the Union Pacific Railroad struck work on the Ist of May against a reduction of salaries from 10 to 15 per cent. The strike is extending all over the Union Pacific line. In Colorado it was so general that the directors restored the original rate at once. The silk weavers in New Jersey also struck in the same way. Employers say that trade is so depressed that it is impossible to continue business with profit. Two bicyclists left the City Hall, New York, on the 2nd of May, to ride to San Francisco, a journey of over 3,000 miles, bets have been taken that they cannot reach their destination in seventy days. Ex-governor Stanford, of California, proposes to endow with several millions a university for sons of working men in the States. It will be named after his son, recently deceased. A story that Jay Gould is financially crippled was in circulation when the steamer left. A war of races is threatened at Buffalo New York, between American and Irish longshoremen and Greeks and Italians, who are taking their places on account of the wages trouble, and overt acts of violence were committed on the 3rd ult. The Chinese in Chicago, by cutting down prices to a ruinous figure, have driven several of the leading laundry firms out of business. Those remaining have been compelled to associate for mutual protection. The Marine National Bank of New York failed on the 6th May. Ex-President Grant is senior member of the banking firm, and the largest stock-holder. He will lose very heavily. A relief movement is proposed for him.

The Greely Arctic relief expedition sailed on the 10th May. One of the vessels carried the Union Jack at the for, in recognition of the lieutenant from the English Government.

Mr. Henry George, author of “ Progress and Poverty,” and social agitator, was banqueted at the Metropolitan Theatre, New York on May 1. In his speech he described the working classes of Great Britain as almost inaccessible to argument owing to their dense ignorance. The middle classes, he said, generally received his lectures with favor, and his land policy had taken firm foothold among them.