THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Southland Times, Issue 1662, 15 November 1872, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The following items of intelligence wore received by the above mail : — The London costermongers are itarring, in consequence of the failure of the fruit crop. Great distress exists in the country districts since the harvest ended. The deficiency of the wheat crop in England is estimated at thirty million bushels. Canterbury Cathedral is being repaired. A terrific explosion took place in a coal mine at Manley. Forty persons were killed, and others are missing. The steamer Hilda was lost off South ! Shields on the Bth October, atid all on board perished. A Birmingham firm has contracted to furnish the Prussian Government with 150,000 [another telegram says 100,000] rifles of an improved pattern. The Queen of Holland is visiting England. ! An explosion by which several lives ! were lost, occurred on board the steamer Senegal at Liverpool. - The Princess Beatrice has been betrothed to the Marquis of Stafford [eldest son of the Duke of Sutherland]. The British Court is in mourning for the deaths of the KiDg of Sweden and the Princess Hohenlbhe, sister-in-law to Queen Victoria. Agrarian violence is rife in Ireland, and several landlords have been shot. 60,000 emigrants have left England for America. A collision occurred between the Edinburgh train and another one at Kirtle Bridge. Great loss of life was occasioned. The station master has been arrested. An official statement has been made of the option given to the inhabitants at Strasbourg. It shows that in the new German Provinces of Alaaee and Lorraine 164,633 persons declared in favor of retaining their French citizenship. Of this number 38,800 declarations became valid through the emigration of the declarators to France, and in addition 12,000 domiciled Frenchmen left the Provinces. The Prussian Government are about to construct a canal from the North Sea to the Baltic. Another attack has been made on the life of the King of Spain by two men. They were pursued by the police, but escaped. The Kiug was unhurt. The occurrence caused great excitement in Madrid, and the shopkeepers in that city assaulted tke police with clubs and stones. The Spanish army has been reorganised, and the conscription abolished. The Cuban insurrection is to be promptly quelled, and troops have been sent to the island from Spain to compel it to submit to justice. The monastery of the Escurial and the mausoleum of the kings of Spain, hai been burned,