SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 311, 18 December 1884, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

London, November 22. The distress among the ship building workmen is increasing at the ship yards on the Clyde, the Tyne, and the Mcrsev. Scarcely one-fourth of the possible working force and power is now in effective operation.

A severe shock of earthquake, accompanied by a terrific report, occurred at Clittercne, Cheshire, twenty-five miles, from Manchester. The shock threw down horses in the streets and caused great consternation and excitement among the inhabitants. It is officially announced thnt an International Inventions Exhibition will be held in London in 1885, under the patronage of the Queen, the presidency of the Prince of Wales, and the management of an executive council of eminent Englishmen.

Some sensation has been caused by a rumor that Earl Durham is about to bring an action for judicial separation from his wife. The cause assigned is a discovery that the unhappy lady is mentally unsound. The election of a democratic President of the United States necessitates the retirement of Mr. James Russell Lowell as minister at the Court of St. James. It is said he will take up his permanent residence at Oxford. According to political gossip, Mr. H. W. Halbert, formerly of the New York IVor'ff, will be Mr. Lowell’s successor.

In the House of Commons Gladstone stated that the Government was submitting its financial p’ans regarding Egypt to powers, and therefore were unable to disclose them on the 21st. The Marquis of Salisbury pressed Gladstone for a reduction in.the number of Irish members of the House of Commons under proposal re Distribution Bill, and reported that Gladstone consents to reduce the number by five. The coa’ition extreme Radicals and the Parnellites in Commons’ thrhafen?t'lie Liberals with a large defedHoft. :1,,i

A serious riot occurred at Raining village of Coal Island, id the suburbs ~oF Dungannon, Coun’y Tyron, on November 16, while being far from good cathoiics the colliers are bitter haters of Protestants. and to show their feeling they attacked the church, and drove the Protestant worshippers out and assaulted them with c’ubs and stones, and held possession of the village for two hours. They were dispersed by the police force from Dungannon. Additional mail news advices reached Boston that the American ship Anu’anac was lying at Saratoga, bound for Australia. Captain Freeman, and the first I

officer were reported dead, from cholera, and a new commander will be sent from Boston to take her to her destination.

Captain Bedford Pirn, R.M., has been interviewed in New York, on his return from Panama, and gives it as his opinion that DeLessep’s canal, as now being constructed at the latter place, is impracticable. Tcemer, the oarsman, who Is anxious to meet Hanlan, lost the race with Gadour at Crocour Lake, near St. Louis. He claimed that his boat was waterlogged. An ex-priest, the Reverend Father Chiniquy, attempted to lecture in Russell Hall, Montreal, but was prevented by a mob of young Catholic students who threatened to take his life. The hall was full. On the 6th he preached at the Canning street Presbyterian Church, and was again interrupted by students. A small territory of Chinese are assuming the offensive in both Tonquin and Formosa. Before the French can resume the aggressive they must have additional 15,000 men in Tonquin, and 10,000 in Formosa. An expedition to Pekin wuuid be cheaper in the matter of both men and money, A despatch from Cairo says that a man who arrived here yesterday evening from Khartoum, says Mahdis position is eighteen hours march from Khartoum. Disease is making great ravages among Ins followers, fully 100 dying daily. Sheik Morgana, with a large forces, had arrived at a point midway between Kansal and Berber, to lend assisiance to General Gordon. Michael H. B. Young, the surviving partner in the business of the San Francisco was shot at and seriously wounded on the evening of November 19 by Adolph Sprickles, son of Clause □priCKies, the Sandwich Islands sugar millionaire. Young was shot on precisely the same spot where his brother Charles •as kii ed uy young Kallock a few years igo. Two bal.s weie lodged in his left ihoulder, and it is feared the wounds will prove fatal. Ihe Cause was ihat the J/iranLie had charged Clause Sprickles father of Adolph) with swindling st<*c.v lolders in the Hawaiian Commercial Co. jat of a million dollars.

The Cholera epidemte is fast dying out n Paris. For twelve hours preceding .<ov. 23 the Sanitary Commission ha reused to hold daily sittings, and tin epidemic is considered ended.