THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Southland Times, Issue 1297, 23 August 1870, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

London, June 19th. Tbe strike on the Continent is spread ing rapidly. All iho iron founders an stopping, it is believed in obedience to tin orders of the Central Committee Inter national League. The English an< German Unions have each sent a thousand pounds to support the movement, anc will send more if required. The masters in Cork have hired a number of German tailors. The Irist tailors held a meeting and struck, and soon after a riot commenced. A numbei of citizens in aiding the police, were stabbed by the rioters. Barricades were thrownfup. Several houses were assailed and shops attacked. Many arrests were made. A crowded meeting at Exeter Hall was in favor of a prohibitory liquor law. Keble College at Oxford was opened in presence of a great concourse oi people. Deputations representing 60,000 Lancashire operatives waited on the committee of cotton manufacturers at Blackburn to-day, and asked an increase of wages. The answer was that the rate of wages would be raised five per cent if the prices of goods after the harvest should warrant such a step being taken. The Cork riots have been renewed with , hand to hand fighting. Several constables nave been wounded. Great excitement prevails. The damage done to persons and property is serious. June 24th. Bridgett's great lace factory in Nottingham has been burned. A quantity of loaded bombs have been found in an empty house in Limerick. The Cork riots have subsided. An hospital is to be erected in Edinburgh to the memory of Sir James Simpson. The carpet weavers threaten to strike for higher wages. June 27th. * Some cotton manufacturers have raised .the rate of wages ; others hold out. .The strike in Cork is general, laborers in all industrial departments leaving work. The steamers and foundries are .abandoned, and the lockmen have stopped work. Women stay at home. News-boys .refuse to sell papers. There is no violence, bat the anxiety is intense. June 29th. Cork is quiet, bnt business of all kinds -is at a standstill. July 4th. Great riots have taken place in Cork, .and there have been strikes in various parts of the United Kingdom ; also, on "the Continent, chiefly among iron founders in Mulhausen, near Straaburg. .There are said to be sixty thousand out of employment, and large bodies of troops have been sent to keep peace. rMr Bright's health is quite restored. \ . In June eighteen thousand persons left laverppol for America, nine-tenths going to New York. A grand reception was given at the Crystal Palace to M. de Lesseps. Admiral Drummond is to command the Channel squadron. - The clothiers of Cork are still importing German workmen. - The fifth Earl of Derby has been married. There was no display. The Prince and Princess of Wales have gone on a visit to Denmark. The Bill for the revision of the Prayer Book has passed the House of Lords. The treatment of the Jews in Eou. mania, though exaggerated, has been cruelly inhuman. The Greek Christians there are very ignorant. The Jews number half a million. Before his death, Lord Arthur Clinton denied the charges laid against him. j The collection of tolls at 500 gates in England, ceased in one day. The construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Corinth is announced. The harvest in France has proved a failure. The Canterbury Convocation has appointed a committee to watch the proceedings of the Vatican. Paeis, 18th June. The strike of iron founders throughout the country has chiefly been sustained by money from English Trade Unions. 26th June. A carpet factory was burned in Beauvaix, throwing 800 operators out of work. July Ist. There has been no apparent diminution in the ravages of small pox. The Minister of War declares the army ready to move on the first signal. One corps is to operate against Spain. July 9th. Beferring to the Hohenzollem affair, the 3£oniteur says that the abandonment by Prussia of her present project is not enough ; that France must take steps to prevent its recurrence, and demand entire liberty for South Germany, the evacuation of Mayence, the renunciation of military influence beyond the Maine, and the settlement of the Schleswig-Holstein question with Denmark. If the silence of Prussia continues till Monday, French, troops will be ordered to the Rhine on Tuesday. New Yobk. The Evangelical Alliance is to meet from the 25th September to the 3rd October. Two thousand delegates will be present by invitation, and three hundred from Great Britain. The fares, to San Francisco were reduced to 130 dollars by the first English mail steamer from Australia via San Francisco on the 15th. Fenianism has fallen very low through the late Canadian fiasco. The British Government thanked the United States for their prompt measures. Three hundred thousand dollars is fixed as the subsidy for the new Australian line, and thirty days out for tenderers. Tie revenue for the year is four hundred millions. The debt is reduced for the month by fifteen millions. There is a great decay in American shipping. There are no steamers between

v America and Europe under the Americar Flag, although 168,000 tons are employed The Honolulu government have voted twenty— five thousand dollars to a stearr q line, suitable for freight as well as B passengers. Mr Webb's steamer Nebraska is tc 2 come shortly to Wellington and I Melbourne on a trial trip. j Mr Hall's live is considered too slow. and twenty days ia .thought euuugn tor the voyage between San Francisco and j Auckland. r I The San Francisco papers consider a j, branch line via Fiji inevitable, and the j only way to suit all parties.