NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2509, 5 April 1881, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[By Telegraph.]

(Per s.s. Australia at Auckland.)

AMERICAN SUMMARY,

President Garfield’s inauguration, notwithstanding stormy’ weather, was a brilliant affair. Nearly 50,000 people were massed in front of the Capitol at Washington, and the address is pronounced one of the most careful and statesmanlike documents ever delivered there. General W. S, Hancock, the

defeated Democratic candidate, was present at the head of his brilliant staff, and by the attention paid him seemed to divide tiie honors of the day with his successful rival.

A terrible blow up of an explosive manufactory occurred at'West Berkley, near San Francisco, on March 4. The buildings were reduced to Uindhng wood, and three Chinamen and two white men torn to pieces. A case of poisoning from eating canned salmon occurred in Chicago, ending fatally. The corrosion of the can caused the poisoning. The scare about American pork reduced the rate in England to almost nothing. The same clique of speculators who caused the mischief are now attacking American canned meats in general. The World’s Fair to be held in New York in 1883, will probably be abandoned, as no subscriptions are coming in. Steps have been taken by the New York Municipal Council to put a stop to walking matches in the city, which are denounced as frauds.

The policy of educating young Indians instead of fighting the old ones is now proposed by .the United States Government.

The Assembly of the State of Maine indefinitely postponed a resolution expressing sympathy with the people of Ireland. The Rev Ward Beecher has cancelled all lec.ure engagements, and will devote himself exclusively to church duties in future. His congregation had become dissatisfied, and an effort was being made to compel his resignation as pastor, if not his withdrawal from the congregational communion. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company at San Francisco is at present engaged in an active competition with the China Merchants’ Steamship Company for the China trade. The second vessel of the latter line, the Mee Foo, was in port in February, and cut down the fares and freights below living rates. Some of the papers see in the contest retributive justice, as the Pacific Mail Company have been the moans of inundating California with myriads of Chinese, who have reduced the price and remuneration for white labor in nearly every branch of business. The Catholic Orphanage at Hyde Park, Scrunton, Pa., has been burned. Seventeen children were lost—fourteen boys and three girls. The trial of Isaac Kellock, for shooting Charles De Young, is now in the thirty seventh day. The testimony is conflicting. An American citizen, after some litigation, lias come into the possession of Fernando de Vergula Islands off the coast of Brazil, which he claimed by right of discovery. On this and Hollas and Athrotos Islands are 9,0C0,000 tons of phosphate. A 50.000 dollai relief fund, for Michael Davitt, has been started in San Francisco. Contributions are limited to 25 cents.

An immense corporation has been organised in St. Louis, tbe purpose of which is to forward grain in bulk and all kinds of merchandise from St. Louis to Liverpool and other foreign parts. The state of Delamaine has passed a prohibition liquor law. President Garfield’s inaugural address was telegraphed verbatim to the London Press, and produced an excellent impression. "Roth Ulia Americans atlm’ired it for its st3 r leand wise moderation of tone.

The steam whaler Mary and Ellen has been purchased by the United States Government, and will be fitted out to go in search of the missing Arctic expedition vessel the Jeanette.

Harry Genet, one of the old New York Tweed Ring, was convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary for six months, and also to pay a fine of 9604 dols.

Cholera is raging in Chicago. It is attributed to the general use of butterine or olemargen'ne. The vetoing of the funding Bill by President Hayes has caused an extraordinary activity in American securities in England. CANADA. French Canadian operatives are .emigrating in large numbers to the United States. Scarlet fever and diptheria have become an epedemic in a part of Canada. On the the return from England of Edward Hanlon, the Champion oarsman he was the guest of the Atlanta Boat Club of New York. On March 3 a dinner was given in his honor, at which Mayor Grace, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and other distinguished per sons were present.

It is thought that the Union Pacific (overland) Railway will go on the Loudon market for a loan of £40,000,000, with which to pay the United States Government the whole sum due to it for the road.

Canada’s population is being rapidly decreased bj' emigration to the United States.

The Canadian railroad is being pushed on with the utmost rapidity.

SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.

The Hawaian Islands are being devasted by smallpox, recently imported in the bH& Cassandra from Canton. The white inhabitants are flying in dismay. Although the roads and paths leading out of Honolulu are closely guarded, the mail steamers will not take anything on board, except mails, remaining odtside the reef to receive them. Mongolians are arriving in large numbers and appropriating the native women. The affairs of the islands are far from satisfactory. Many of the sugar plantations of Honolulu are heavily mortgaged, and some of them will have to go to the wall. Chinese are already maturing plans for the purchase of these estates, and a Chinese landed proprietary is not unlikely a possibility of the future. GREAT BRITAIN. Mr Ash mead Bartlett, husband of Baroness BurdettCoutts, is threatened with a breach of promise suit. Lord lioseberry has given an order to Behm to execute a statue of Carlyle in marble. A Fenian lodge has been discovered in Lancashire, and arms were found secreted. In the Lenten Pastoral, issued by the Irish Catholic Bishops, the people are earnestly warned against joining illegal secret combinations, while the strongest sympathy is expressed for their trials. In the House of Commons Mr Mundella said the Government did not at present intend to prohibit the importation of pork, bacon, and haras from the United States. He added that the yearly importation from that country,

Canada, Germany 7, and Denmark was more than twenty pounds weight per head for the whole population of the United Kingdom, and its value exceeded £9,500,000, exclusive of live swine. To cut off this enormous supply of food would inflict a great hardship on the poor.

The Archbishop of Dublin assails the League in his Lenten Pastoral, and also the ladies who are associated in the movement. The ladies intend to reply.

Earl Beaconsfield offered to cancel his “ Endymion ” contract with Long mans, and instead of £IO,OOO to take half the profits. The offer was declined, as the loss, now £3OOO, is expected to be made up by a cheap edition.

Fronde’s “Reminiscences of Carlyle ” contain many more auto-biographical details than was expected. Several characteristic allusions to early con temporaries and brief sketches of many persons are given, including Leigh Hunt, Para, De Quincy,. Chalmers, Disraeli, Murray, Halle, and a dozen of what Carlyle calls “ thin celebrities.” He nicknames Earl Beaconsfield “ Demosthenes Disraeli.” Over 4000 copies of the book were taken in advance. Fronde, before publishing it, sailed for Madeira in ill health

Edmund Yates is about to start a new daily afternoon newspaper in London. George B. Berkley, brother of the Earl of Berkley, and a well-known author, is dead. Lord O. D. Bussell has been raised to the Peerage, with the title of Baron Empthillo. An attempt to bold a Horae Rule meeting at Coventry 7 under the auspices of Arthur O’Connor and Finnigau, led to a free fight. FRANCE, GERMANY, AND THE EAST. A French man-o war will be sent to China waters, and a war vessel will be detached to watch the Tahiti islands. Two million five hundred thousand francs are asked by the French Government to suppress piracy in Tonquin. General De Cissy has been acquitted of all charges against him. According to a vote of 12 to 6 in the Court of Enquiry, he is not guilty of treason or corruption, nor of irregularities preyudical to the State.

It is rumoured in Paris that Herbert Von Bismarck, son of the Chancellor, has eloped to Italy with a German Princess, the wife of a high dignitary of the Court of Berlin.

General Ney, Due De Elchingen, grandson of Marshal Ney, committed suicide at Ohalillonby shooting himself through the head, A cartridge manufactory 7 , with American machinery turning out 300,000 per day, has just been put into operation in Constantinople.

The Porte has ordered 30,000,000 cartridges from the United States, to be delivered in three months from February.

The whole of the villiages in Posen, Prussia Proper, and Schleswig, are represented as deserted, the residents emigrating to America. Government is doing all in its power to check emigration lo the United States, but in vain.