AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, December 23.

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AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, December 23.

The steamship City of New York has been placed on the China route. The depression in the iron trade continues. On December 19, 12,000 coal-miners were thrown out of employment by the suspension of work. A delegation of alleged French working men have been on a visit to the United States to extend the cause of internationalism. The "Times" and ''Herald" denounce them as incendiaries and impostors. The Windsor Theatre, the largest in New York, was burned to the ground on November 28. No lives were lost. On December 14 the Standard Theatre, of the same city, was also destroyed by fire, and an attempt was frustrated to burn the casine. Gerald Massey, the English poet, has commenced an action against the "New York Times" for §5,000 damages, for a "false and defamatory article " published in that paper. Charles McLaughlin, a pioneer of California and a millionaire, was assassinated in his office by a railroad contractor named Jerome B. Cox,who had grown disappointed because of legal difficulties in a suit with McLaughlin. Seventy workmen, discharged from New Jersey Locomotive Works, sailed on December 11th for Liverpool,England,to work at iron ship building on the Clyde. The decision of the U.S. Customs to exclude impure teas is said to have caused a decrease in imports from 14,685,000 lbs to 8,650,0001b5. The "roughs" of Callonville, Pennsylvania, stoned MrsLangtry's car as it passed through that place on Decembers. Notwithstanding apparent ill-feeling towards the English actress, she has been playing to enormous houses in the United States this season. The British as well as the Chinese flag was publicly burned by an assemblage of Irishmen and their sympathisers in San Francisco on Sunday, December 9. The cremation was preceded by a resolution of sympathy for O'Donnell. The representative of Convese, Ohio, proposes to introduce a bill for the restoration of the duty on combing, carpet, and other wools, to what it was before the enactment of the present tariff law. Dr. Wilson, of St. George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario, has been dismissed from his place for attending the Salvation Army meetings. The Dominion Government has been strongly pressed to take immediate action to prevent an influx of Chinese into British Columbia. Upwards of 9,000 of these undesirable settlers are without work in that province. At Caldera, a Chilian seaport, on December 10, 8,500 sacks saltpetre became ignited, and destroyed a great part of railway between that place and Capiapo.