ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 170, 30 June 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

MUNIFICENT BEQUEST OF £200,000. THE PAPAL AUTHORITIES AND FREEMASONRY. THE EARL OF EASTON’S APPLICATION FOR DIVORCE.—ADULTERY. CONVICTION OF LORD ST. LEONARD FOR INDECENT ASSAULT. REVOLTING SCENE AT AN EXECUTION THE DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS.— FURTHER ARRESTS. THE IRISH LAND LEAGUE. FRANCE AND THE VATICAN. ARREST OI~WHOLESALE MURDERESS. SHOCKING BARBARITIES IN THE EAST THREE PRIESTS BROILED TO DEATH. The following summary of European news arrived per mail steamer Australia, and bears date ’Frisco, June 7, and Honolulu, June 14. We received the same per Press Association on Saturday, but too late for publication. The Aquarium, Bishopgate, London, was burned on June 4th, with several lions, bears, and other specimens of natural history. Benedict, the composer, has decided to visit the United States next fall, and lecture upon his half century of musical experience. Earl Granville has transmitted a note to Washington in relation to the collection of conspiracy funds within the jurisdiction of the United States. George Hudson, M.P., bequeaths £200,000 for the education and maintainance of orphans in Sunderland. A Papal encyclical letter was read on Sunday, June the Ist. in the Catholic Churches in England, warning people against joining secret societies under pain of excommunication, The letter says Freemasonry at its inception, was probably merely a friendly society, but if so, it asks where was the necessity for the blind obedience demanded of its votaries. The Earl of Easton, is about to apply for a divorce, on the ground of adultery. The countess’ friends say that no evidence can be procured against her, and that the Earl wishes to obtain a divorce, in order to enable him to marry an heiress. Moody and Sankey, (who is ill, and has quite lost his voice), closed their English mission at Croyden on May 26th, and would leave for America July Sth. The present drought throughout England is almost unprecedented, no such dry season having been known for upwards of fifteen years. Lord St. Leonards was convicted, May 23rd, for an indecent assault on a servant girl named Cole. The Court reserved its decision till the June assizes. The Duke of Marlborough has made an offer to the directors of the National Gallery, of eleven of the best pictures in his collection as Blenheim Palace for £367,500. There was intense excitement in London on May 24th, over the poisoning of several people, from eating what is known as “Chicago brown,” imported from America. One person died and three mere are reported

dying. On the 24th inst. the British Admiralty ordered the torpedo flotilla at Chatham and Portsmouth to prepare for active service. The fire in a coal pit at Porto Bello, in Scotland, on May 22nd, has caused the suffocation of nine men. Advices from Great Britain state that the number of visitors from that country this season to the United States and Canada, promises to be unprecedentedly large, 1000 savant alone, including 100 members of Parliament, having already applied for, and secured, tickets for attendance at the meeting of the British Association at Montreal. A large number of these visitors, it is said, propose to make American investments. At a recent meeting of the watch and clock makers of London Sir. John Bennett, an eminent maker in the trade, acknowledged that unless something effective was done to • counteract the American and Swiss compe- i tition British articles would bo extinct in ft k very few years. The business of making time- ] keepers in England was in a most desperate

state of decline. Mrs. Leffiey, who poisoned her husband last fall, was hanged at Lincoln on May 26th. Some of the circumstances attending her execution, according to despatches from London, are most shocking. The hangman, Binns, was unnecessarily and barbarously brutal in his treatment of the unhappy woman. Eye witnesses state that he knocked her kown in pinioning and choked her till her face was livid, in order to stop her from screaming. The London papers generally condemn the exclusion of the Press, and say this disgraceful scene furnishes another and quite sufficient reason for the dismissal of the drunken brute Binns from his office of hangman. When the news of the Scotland Yard dynamite explosion and damage was received in New York, O’Donovan Rossa said, “ We’ve got England at last, and it will not be long before she will be on her knees. Last night’s explosion is only the beginning of her trouble.” Patrick Joyce, secretary of the Irish revolutionary brotherhood, said, “ Last night’s work ought to convince England that we are in earnest. You need not be surprised to hear of greater explosions before many days. Gladstone had better mind himself.” A London despatch dated, May 31, states that four of the dynamiters had been captured. One effect of the late outrages will be doubtless to secure the conviction and long terms of imprisonment for Daly, Egan, and O’Donnell, now on trial at Birmingham for treason and felony in connection with the Dynamite conspiracies. [The London peopre demand O’Donovan Rossa’s arrest, although many people believe that the explosions were not the doings of Irish Americans, but of AngloIrishmen, which makes matters all the more serious for Irishmen in London. IRISH AFFAIRS. Patrick Delaney, an irish informer, testified at Sligo investigation, on May 23rd, that his only object in giving information was to save innocent lives and prevent others from being trapped. He was duped into assisting at the Phoenix Park murders, and was not giving evidence for money, with any idea of obtaining his liberty, as he expected to return to a life of penal servitude. Timothy Harrigan, the secretary of the Irish Land League, reported on May 29th that two or theee years ago from £l,OOO to £2,000 was received weekly from tho American League, but now they are obliged to depend almost exclusively on funds contributed in Ireland. There has been a marked; increase in the number of agrarian crimes and outrages in Ireland within the last few preceding days, and people are beginning to trace a connection between this fact and the dynamite explosions in London during the preceding week. CONTINENTAL ITEMS. France wants a Cardinal, and the Vatican will consent to appoint one on condition that the French Government restore all the grants to those Churches which were suppressed last year. The German Grand Duke Louis, persists in his demand for legal separation from Madame Von Kolemine. The Emperor conducted the annual Spring review in person on horseback. Prince William of Prussia was present at the marriage of Princess Elizabeth of Hesse to prince Leopold, heir to the throne, on May 26. J Dr. Strongberg, the well-known financier of Berlin, is dead. France is supported by Italy in her demands for international control of Egypt while one section of the Liberal Press is strongly opposed to the French demands. In Austria a woman has been arrested at Varanada, Hungary, on June 4th, who confessed to having poisoned four husbands, and hundreds of women during the past two years. A number of accomplices have also been arrested. A Catholic priest arrived at Cairo from Soudan on the 28th, and reports that seven Catholic priests, and four Sisters of Mercy

were murdered at El Obeid, He also reports that three priests were exposed naked to the sun for four days, when they died from the effects of their exposure. The total earnings of the Pacific Mail Company last year was passengers, 1,319,367 dollars, and freight 3,083,682 dollars. Of this the Australian branch of service contributed passengers, 234,509 dollars, and freight, 134,778 dollars. It is proposed to hold a World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1892, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Colombus. The bribery of the Massachusets legislators this session on the subject of the Oath Bills has been so general and flagrant, that an investigation, urged by force of public opinion, has been undertaken. Benjamin Butler has accepted nomination for President of United States. Butler is generally conceded an important element in the Union fight, especially by the younger Democrats. The important subject of the Australian mail service is exciting the interest of our mercantile community, and was brought before Congress on May 20th, when Senator Miller presented a memorial from the directors of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, praying that the necessary action might be taken to maintain the service between the United States and Australia and New Zealand, and it is now understood that the Postoffice Committee of the House of Representatives, acting on the recommendation of Postmaster Gresham, have prepared a measure, providing for the continuation of the subsidy of 40,000 dollars per annum.