ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2579, 27 June 1881, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(Per City of Sydney at Auckland)

Auckland, June 26

The City of Sydney arrived at 3 p.m., She left San Francisco on June 4. She will probably leave to-night for Sydney. San Francisco, June 4.

A Brazilian Commissioner is in New York to get 3000 coolies for the planters in that country.

Lorillard won 12,000 dollars on Iroquois’ success in the Derby. He gave Archer, the jockey, 6000 dollars, Participators in the Marseilles demonstration, favoring the pardon of Hcssey Helfraan, the Nihilist, have been sentenced to imprisonment and fined.

Confederate bondholders are moving in London to get the value of their securities, or a portion.

The Mendelsohnn Quintette Club, five accomplished musicians, will visit New Zealand and Australia by this steamer. A United States Polar expedition will be despatched from St. John’s Newfoundland, on July 4, for Lady Franklin’s Sound, and also to find the whereabouts of the Arctic exploration yacht Jeanette. One thousand six hundred cases of small-pox are now in the London Hospital, and the epidemic is increasing rapidly. Dempsey, a fanner, who took land from which a tenant had been evicted in Galway, was killed from behind a hedge. Prince Leopold, by the conferment of the Dukedom of Albany, will take a seat in the House of Lords. It is understood he intends to take an active part in debate.

Sir Charles Dilko has accepted the Presidency of the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty Commission, and this, it is believed, argues the probability of an agreement between the two countries.

The conviction of Herr Most, editor of the “ Freiheit,” was based expressly on his distinct recommendation that the present Emperors of Russia and Germany should be assassinated. The London “ Daily News ” (Radical) says “ the condition of Ireland gives cause for greater anxiety from day to day, We seem,” it says, “to be coming nearer and nearer insurrectionary outbreaks, and serious collisions between the soldiers and the people. The Conservative hatred of Ireland is so great that they openly express a wish for war so that the Irish may be bayonetted into submission.” According to the recent census the population of London is 3,815,571. Shocks of earthquake at Mount Vesuvius have been followed by strong eruptions, and streams of lava are flowing down the north-east side of the mountain.

All the cattle by the steamer Phoenician, recently arrived at Glasgow from Boston, were found to bo affected by the foot and mouth disease. They were slaughtered, and the carcases boiled down.

The Spanish Anti Slave Trade Society demand the abolition of capital punishment and the immediate liberation of all the slaves in the Antilles.

The Cape Colony loan of £2,000,000 has been covered thrice over. The Lord Chancellor expresses the opinion that the revised Testament can not be read in the English Church until it has been recommended or authorised by some sufficient public authority. Count Yon Entenberg, the German Minister of the Interior, is dead.

General Grant has been successful in all his railway projects in England. All efforts to stop the spread of smallpox in the Sandwich Islands appear to bo unavailing. At last advices there were 90 patients in the Smallpox Hospital.

Some well-known Scotch farmers are taking a tour of the United States, to obtain information regarding agriculture and immigration. An attempt was made to kill Judge Gildessliuer,of NewYork,by a man named Peter Grey Vandewater, for corruption in judicial office. Commodore Sheefield, of the United States navj,has gone to China,ostensibly to carry the ratified Chinese treaties. His real mission, however, is to open, if possible, the ports of Corea to the world.

It was given in evidence lately that the lines of the American Union Tele* graph cost 10,000,000 dollars, and based on their earnings, were worth 20,000,000 dollars.

A young lady named Ida Foster, of San Francisco, daughter of Peter B. Foster, deceased, of the “Morning Call,” quarrelling with her lover took strychnine and died in his presence. Stupendous frauds have been unearthed in the letting of contracts for mail routes. Government have been plundered to the tune of millions. Competition between the Atlantic Cable Companies promises to reduce the tariff to one shilling per word. The Connell College crew, if barred out of the Henley Regatta, will challenge the winners. There is also a strong probability the crew will go to Vienna and challenge the Viennese. The American barque Arcadia, has been seized and held by the authorities at the port of Merida, Mexico. A U.S. man-of-war has been sent to investigate. The United States war steamer Alliance has been ordered to cruise in search of the Arctic exploring vessel Jeannette, between Greenland, Iceland, and the Coast of Norway. The Duke of Sutherland has arrived in San Francisco. The mother of Tom Hughes, of H'Ughy farm, arrived at her son’s colony in Tennessee to spend the remainder of her days. She is 80 years of age. The entire revised New Testament was published in the “New York Times ” and “ Tribune ” on May 22. The work meets with general favor among the clergy, and a few condemn it.

The Brazilian line of steamers known as the American line has been withdrawn, foreign rivalry proving too gTGftt.

Frontier ruffianism is becoming rampant. In Colorado stages are robbed in the open da} 7 , and outlying settlements invaded.

Jhe circulation of American silver dollars is practically stopping, and most of the silver out has found it way back to the Treasury vaults. Coinage, however, at the rate of 2,000,000 dollars per month goos on. Evart’s plans, so far as the Monetary Conferehce in Paris is concerned, are likely to prove a failure.

The Duke of Athol is on his way to California.

The Queen has conferred the Order of the Garter on the King of Sweden. A Committee composed of all the prominent Conservatives, has been formed to further the Beaconsfield memorial proposal. Princess Louise, under the advice of her physicians, will not leave London for Canada till July. A Turkish frigate with one thousand troops has left Saida Bay for Tripoli with a ransom of 45,000 dollars to pay the brigands for the release of the Englishman Suter. Merlier’s flour mill near PortMooum, Ireland, was burned on the 24th. The loss is £20,000. Henry Yates Thomson, has been elected to Parliament for Preston. The proprietor of the “ Pall Mall Gazette,” though a Conservative, received the whole of the Irish vote.

Earl Shrewsbury, it is said, will marry Mrs Munday, with whom eloped recently. A public appeal is being made for subscriptions to the Carlyle fund. It is said to be a difficult thing to raise subscriptions since the publication of his “ Reminiscences.” Emmet, the actor, was unable to fill his engagement in London owing to drink. lie was locked up in the lunatic ward of the Workhouse.

A Bill has passed the House of Commons to protect newspapers from wanton libels in the exercise of their public functions. Trickett, the oarsman, has left London for Saratoga. Mr John Bright recently spoke in favor of the wholesale immigration of Irish to the United States. He thinks if a free passage were offered probably all, or certainly half, the population would find its way to America, and to deliverance from poverty and suffering. Cabinet rumors are to the effect that Gladstone retires to the House of Lords at the end of the session with the title of Earl of Oxford. He would prefer Earl of Liverpool had not a predecessor in the Premiership borne it during the present century. Mr Childers will become Chancellor.

The Marquis of Lome proposes to resign the Governor-Generalship of Canada.

The Newgate Stakes were won by Monarch, Retribution second, and Tristan third. The race fer the Selling Plate was won by Lord Sydenmouth’s Trefoil.

Mr J. J. Miller, of Melbourne is about to introduce trotting there. He has bought of Colonial Richard West, of Georgetown, D.C., the Hamiltonian stallion, Contractor, 3yrs old. He also bought an 8-year old brood mare, by Marabrino-Patchem. The horses were shipped from Chicago for their destination on the 18th.

The “ Standard" says the success of Iroquois did not seem to be popular, and all the cheering was for the jockey Archer. There was great excitement in New York on the victory of the Derby. It is stated at Newport that Lorillard wins two millions of dollars on the event, The horse will be one of the most prominent at the Ascot and Goodwood races.

Van Puilt, a Dutch diamond merchant, has failed for 8,000,000d01s His acceptances are mostly held by Paris merchants, who bought them without guaranteed endorsees. Midhat Pasha declares the story of the murder of Abdul Aziz to be a falsehood. He says Abdul committed suicide.

The persecution of Jews in Russia continues, particularly at Odessa and Oval. Railway workmen have pillaged their houses.