THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO.) San Francisco, December 16.

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THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO.) San Fran cisco, December 16.

The steamship Mariposa was detained till 2 p.m. to-day, owing to the non-arrival of tho English mails. Among the passengers for the colonies is Robert. J. Creighton, the New Zealand Government agent at San Francisco. His mission has lor its object; the establishment ot an Australian commercial agency at (.ho city named, for the mutual benefit of the colonies and California. Mayor Hen itfc, of New York, and Colonel John A. Cockerill, editor of the New York "World," 1 meeting at the Senate Investigation Committee, on December 15th, quarrelled, and pa^ed the lie freely. No personal violence followed. The anne:\abion resolution introduced in Congress by Butterworfcb,on December 13th, has ereaiert some sensation in Canada. The press of the Dominion considers the proceedings insulting. Large seizures ot smuggled opium were made by United States officials on the Canadian border on December 15th. A large two-btorey warehou&e in JBostoti, occupied by Tuttle, Puller Bros., and -McMullin and Co., wa* blown upon December 15th and completely wrecked. By some the disaster 'is charged to escaping gas ; by others, to dynamite, which is beiug freely used ab present. A report was current in New York December 15th that tho British steamship Samana, running between that city and Aux Ca)"e:-,' liaj(i, had been lost with a cargo of arms for the insurgents, \alued at !>30,000. Gold and silver-bearing quart"/ ledges, were discovered at Glens' Falls, N. V., on December 15th. Dr. Gustavo Holland, for many years a man of importance in San Fr.mci'-co, and a member of the first Board of Health in the city, died at El Paso, Texas, December 12th. of cancer in the face. Jame^s G. Blame has been invited by President-elect Harrison to take the chief place in his Cabinet, and accepted the invitation. In regard to the new law concerning execution of criminals by electiicity, which goes into operation in New York on and after January l<-t, 1889, and the inhibiting the publication of the details in the public press, the editors of the city held a meeting ou December 15th, and resolved to dis- | regard the secrecy clause. They will publish all facts connected with the executions that may come into their possession. The demonstration promised by the Chicago anarchists, in the Haymarket-, December 9th, did not amount to much. There was a procession lasting fully two hours ; but no disturbance of any kind, nor any effort made to hold the piohibited meeting. The police were in force everywhere. A movement it. on foot to organise a federation of all railroad employes in the United States, excepting; conductors. Governor John P. Richardson, of South Carolina, inaugurated for a second term, Dec. 6th, said in his speech : " That efforts will be made, either by coercive legislation or conciliatory measures, to bieak the solid South, i-= to be assumed : l»ut this solidity will piove a stone wall as long as the civ.hsation of the Anglo-Saxon is threatened." ■Mr* Langtiy, the Engli.-h dctres-s, habeen oflered sio,ooo by a 2\e\v York publisher to wite her autobiogiaphy, and has ageeed to do so. I The plans for tho L.S. bartlc-^bip Tevas j having been found deiecti\c .n many e^jtntial particulars, work en the \e->;rl wa^ en thely abandoupd on Ueccmbei 9Ji. The curious paiDofthe affair i- that the plancame from England, and v, eie passed by a boaid of American n.i\al ofliccia n» correct. On their leeommendatlon. the Secretary of the Navy (Whitney) adopted them. The e\-Mayor of Texarkana, Arkansas-, Dr. K. M. Beidler, ha\in<; had a difficulty ! with a man named Spear, in the! honour of his (Beidkr"s) wife was concerned, Kpeor's son, a \onth of seventeen, walked up to the e\-Ma\.oi on the stietc next day, and placing a shotgun to his? ear, blew the top of his head off. One hunched Chinamen arrived in Charleston, S.C., on Decomber 7th, and immediately took poi-session of the laundi v business, driving out the blackt, male and female. More Chinamen ai - e coming, and the negroes are arming, having declared Avar to the knife. A mob of 5,000 men, armed with gun s*,5 *, revolvers and pitchforks, attacked the gaol at Birmingham, Alalmtra, on December otb. Their object was to lynch an alleged murderer named Hawe^, whose daughter and a former wife had been found in a lake near by, evidently ha\ ing keen foully dealt ■with. The would-be lynchers were met by a fierce fiiefiom apossoofgaol attaches and driven back. Three were killed outright and twenty wounded. Peter C. Campbell, a Brooklyn jeweller, has, it is claimed, invented a controllable air ship. In an e:\p6i-iment at Cony Island, New York, on December Bth, it was obedient in all its movements. A bloody fight between Chinamen, members of rival companies, took place in the streets of Portland, Oregon, at- mid-day, December 2nd (Sunday). Four Mongolians were killed. One displayed desperate biavery, firing from whore he lay on tho ground after being riddled with pistol balls and receiving two blows from an iron bar. The fight grew out of disagreements in settling company accounts. They are common at the close of every Chinese year. A Bill has been introduced into Congtess pioviding for the division of California into two State?. Paddy Gorman, the Australian welter weight, met young Mitchell, the middleweight champion, in the prize ring at San Francisco, on December sth, and defeated him after 27 rounds. It i-> said the Chicago newspaper publishers are' taking steps to indict certain clergymen Avho have recommended a boycott of all journals issued on Sunday. The wife ot James G. Blame, jun., has withdrawn her suit against the Blame family for alienating her husband's affections, and is now determined to adopt the stage as a profession. Eugene Kelly, President and Treasurer of the Irish Parliamentary Funds Committee in the United States, after denying, in a statement made December 3rd, that Parnell used any of the money forwarded him in his lawsuit, says there is very little money on hand— less than $200, and the Committee are not exerting themselves te raise any more. Boston "Pilot" of December 3rd publishes & special telegram from Home saying the Vatican positively denies the allegation ih «.t Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, was instructed bo congratulate Harrison on hif •election to the Presidency of the United States on the ground that Catholic interests yfould be *afe under his administration. Hall McAllister, a leading San Franciscc lawyer, and who had probafily earned mow .money in his career than any legal practitioner in America, died at his residence near San Rafail, Marin Co., on Deccmbei Ist, from an unsuspeatod brain tumour and impoverishment.