THE SAN FKANCISCO MAIL.

Southland Times, Issue 1282, 22 July 1870, Page 3

THE SAN FKANCISCO MAIL.

The Phwbe arrived yesterday with the English mail via California. There is very little later news than that already received via Suez. The News of the World, published in San Francisco just j before the departure of the steamer, gives the following explanation as to the cause of this defect : — "We had arranged for a lengthy telegram from Eeuter, of London, in addition to those in our columns dated last evening, to be prepared specially for the Colonies, giving all items of AngloAustralian news ; the price of wool and colonial produce; the arrival and departure of Australian shipping, and generally whatever might be thought of interest, but, for some cause not as yet 1 explained, no such message had been j received up to the hour of going to press. I Our arrangements "will be so complete, that a similar disappointment ' cannot occur again." . ' > The Queen continues in good health. There is again a rumor current that she is about to be married to. a prince of the House of Schles^g-ffolstein. A Bill providing for female suffrage has been rejected by Parliament. Mr Gladstone ha« adopted the Ballot. The Saturday Review believes in the certainty of its being earned, and prophesies the adoption of universal suffrage as its results. . A heavy debate on the proposed abolition' of the Indian opium duties ended wjthout result. s The Married "Women's Property Bill passed its second reading without a division. Great complaints are made as to the inefficiency of the London police. The roughs reign paramount. Mr Disraeli's new political novel " Lothair," has been severely^ criticised. Public opinion generally is against it. Mr Goldwin Smith stigmatises the allusions it contains to himself as the " stingless insults of a coward." Some young men have been apprehended for wearing female attire, and have been committed for trial. They are, generally speaking, well connected, and are but a small portion of a numerous gang implicated. By latest accounts all was quiet in France. The English tourists captured by brigands near "Gibraltar have been rescued. The missing raailsteamer City of Boston | has been given up for lost. ■ The reported massacre of Jews in Boumania turns out to have been a canard. The Pope has not yet been declared infallible. The American prelates in the (Ecumenical Council oppose the proclamation of the dogma. The American Cabinet is in favor of granting a subsidy of 500,000 dols. to the Australian mail route. It is thought that Congress will pass the item. Professor Gamgee's meat-curing process is a failure. Street shootings, termed "little difficulties," are on the increase in San Francisco. . Walter Montgomery is^ playing in San Francisco. The sensation is not profound. The establishment of telegraphic communication between the west coast of America and China is in contemplation, and is likely to be realised. It is rumored that '.Russia has promised to give active support to the Khedive of Egypt in his endeavors to free himself j from the yoke of Turkey. Egypt i« j increasing its armament. < The Flying Squadron left Honolulu for Valparaiso at 8 a.m. on the 23rd June. Londoit, June 10th. The Paris physicians have reported favorably of the practical value of vaccination as a preventative of «mall-pox. Seventy-three deaths from small-pox took place in Paris during the first ."-week of j June. . I The Examiner recommends a federal ■ union between Spain and Portugal. , 21,000 emigrants, chiefly Irish, left Liverpool for New York during the month of May. The Shipping Gazette calls for the interference of the English and American Governments to prevent extortion in the Cuban Ports. Considerable alarm continues to prevail with regard to the ramifications of the Fenian movement in Dublin and the large towns of England. The wheat crop in France is very short. The American yacht Sappho has beaten the English yacht Cambria in all three matches to windward. The races were a gift to America. Arrests continue to be made in Paris. The High Court of Accusation is to ait on the 30th of June. The Emperor of the French is suffering from rheumatism. In Spain the adherents of the Due de Montpensier are very active. The Cuban insurgents have offered to surrender if their lives are spared. The debates in the Cortes have raised the issue of republicanism or a monarchy.

New Yobk, June 7th; Cable despatches report that the French have defeated the native tribes in Morocco. A rising in Algeria is feared. Wachtel, the famous tenor, has been dismissed from the Opera for undue familiarity with Madame Fatti.

Canada. | A meeting of French settlers has been held near Fort G-arry to assist the Bed Biver expedition. Two companies of United States infantry have armed at St. Joseph.