ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1266, 18 November 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The City of Sydney, with the San Francisco Mail, arrived at Auckland at four o'clock p.m. on Saturday. Among her passengers is Sir John Hall. She bring the following intelligence, tbe European dates being to October 24 :

The iron and steel works of Crawshaw Bros., Merthyr, Lydol, South Wales, have been closed. Stagnation in the Welshiron and steel trade is the cause.

Delegates to the Farmers' Alliance will hold a conference in London in November on the agricultural crnis. The programme of the meeting includes a proposal to refer the question of the reduction of rent" to courts of arbitration. The Scotch Farmers' Alliance received favorably a report of a deputation sent to Ireland, ad vicing the application to Scotbind of the Irish Landlords Act, with fixity of tenure, fair rents, free sales, and remission of arrears.

Mr Gladstone, in a long letter to the St. Asaph Diocesan Conference on the subject of the disestablishment of the Church of England, counsels Churchmen to be tolerant of each others views, and to conduct their controversies with charity, moderation, mildness ani reserve. The Tichborne claimant was secretly taken to Pentonville prison on the night of October 20th, and was discharged next morning quite unexpectedly to himself, as his time had still three days to run. At Sfotland Yard the Claimant received a ticket of leave requiring him to report himself monthly by letter to the authorities. He appeared to be in good health, and will remain quiet for the present, keeping his residence secret. A London despatch of October 19th says on the opening of Parliament a Commission will be appointed to enquire into the condition of the Navy, and the Admiralty will ask for an increased graDt for ship-building to enable it to give orders to private firms for the construction of swift and light-armored vessels. Wheat reached the lowest price in the London market on October 19th since the American Civil War.

The Government has decided to expend one million on fortifications in Aden, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and orders have been sent from tbe War Office to hasten the work.

Tory election agents throughout the country, in reporting to headquarters in London on October 19th as to the effect of the Government redistribution scheme, declare that it will be destructive to the fortunes of the party. Distress at the ship building centres of the nortb is increasing. Forty ocean steamers are lyine," idle on the docks at Sunderland, and most of the ship yards are closed. Public subscriptions are being made for laborers out of employment.

British emigration statistics for the nine months ending Sept. 30(h, showed a decline of 70,000, over 30,000 of the number being Irish. The total number of British-born persons who left the Islands since January Ist is 20,000. A home for female inebriates has been established in London.

The Queen on the 14th requested Mr Gladstone to submit to the Cabinet for their consideration the question whither special powers cannot be conferred upon the Prince of Wales, to enable him to participate in any conference of the sovereigns of Europe. [The Paris Memorial Dipomatique is responsible for this item]. A fund is being nised in England to enable Henry George to continue his agitation in favor of land nationalisation, but subscriptions come in slowly. According to a London despatch of October 12'h, the English land-owners are menaced with impecuniosity, for no less than 30,000 acres vainly demand tenacy in Essex, within 30 miles of London, and lately 170 acres were sold for £2400, for which £SOOO was refused yeirs ago. Low prices of wheat and cattle, with high rents, have impoverished tenant farmers.

The Lord Mayor gave a dinner on the 20th to the Incorporated Society of Authors. Among the notables present were Lord Houghton, Walter Besant Geo. A. Sala, Wm. Black, Justin McCarthy, and many others. At the anti-slavery jubilee meeting held in Manchester on October, Hy. M. Stanley was present, and assured the English people who believed slavery had been abolished that the so-called free laborers in South Africa were captured slaves. He said the cause of the existing slavery was the action of the Portuguese Government, and that a strong expression of public opinion on the subject v/ould do much to abolish the evil.

Ada Therese Foote, daughter of Captain Foote of the United States Navy, and Lord Montague Paullet, son of the Marquis of Winchester, were married at St. George's Church, Loudon, on October 14rh. The Queen - sent an antique diamond bracelet and gold breakfast service ; the Prince and Princess of Wales a diamond necklace and an Indian shawl.

The singer Nillson met with an accident, in being thrown from a vehicle while driving in Hide Parke, and will not go to the United States this year. Her injuries are painful, but not serious. The A.me>ic», of the National line of steamerß from New York to Liverpool, bus succeeded in making the trip frcm the former place to Queenstowo in six days eleven hours and fourteen minutes.

The canoe Neptune, 20ft long, which started from Norway some time ago for New York, recently put into Falmouth, and arrived at Penzance on the 22nd October. Captain. Johnston forms the whole crew. BGYPT. A. despatch from Cairo of Oct. 16th say* provisions are extremely •carce throughout the whole country from Berber to Khartoum, and from the river Nile to the Bed Sea littoral. J A native who arrived at Wady Haifa from El Obeid by way of Merome, reports I that no steamer has been wrecked but the Dahab'eich, the crew of which were murdered within a day's march of friendly territory. Th« same native reports that El Mahdi's troops occupy the hill north of Khartoum, and have thrown broken telegraph wires across the river. Special despatches from Cairo of the same date say the Canadian boatmen are unruly and refuse to obey their officers. IRISH AFFAIKS. On October 12th a number of laborers delegates inaugurated at Cork the " South of Ireland Labor League," which is to be devoted eawlumvely to the intereita of

laborers. It is altogether independent of the Irish National League. Mr H. Collier Stuart, M.P. for Waterford, whs elected President. The members are pledged to support only candidates favorin' the Franchise Bill, which they believe will tend to remove the grievances of laborers, and also abstain from outrages. A London despatch of October 17''h says private negotiations between Mr Gladstone ana Mr Parnell have been broken off. The Lord Mayor of Dublin and others have subscribed £ISOO for the benefit of the late Alex. Sullivan's family. It is proposed to raise £IO,OOO. Mr Dickson, a Liberal Member of the Houso of Commons, was injured on Oct. 22r:d, in a riot at Portadown, at a meeting in favor of the Franchise Bill, and is confined to . his room. A number of rioteis have been arrested. Mr Trevelyan, late Chief Secretary for Ireland, is now accompanied everywhere by a detective. The weekly National papers exalt over Trevelyan's resignation. CONGO CONFERENCE. The Frankfort Gazette predicts the failure of the Congo Conference unlesß English hostilities cease. Itsnys the American Government has given Germany to understand it will not sustain the enterprise if directed against England. Portugal will side with England rather than risk her pretensions to the possession of the mouth of the Congo. Holland, distrusting Germany, is inclined to see in all her actions against England a strategic - morement of which the final action is the annexation of Holland. Italy's colonial interests are oppoaed to those of France, and she also supports England. THE SITUATION IK CHINA. A riot occurred in Hong Kong on October 25th, and several persons were killed by the police firing on the mob. Colonel Donnister, in an engagement on the Bth October, carried the heights which command the fastness of Chin Chin. The Chinese forces were numerous, and the French artillery strewed the ground corpses. Three thousand were killed, according to Donnister'sreports, including the Chinese chief commander. Chinese troops continue (Oct 21st) to pour into Canton. Great uneasiness was felt in Paris on this account, and the Cabinet was divided as to what mes.sures should be adopted to provide reinforcements. General Sampenon, Minister for War, declines to mobilise a corps de armee without the authority of the Chamber. Fuller advices from China, received in Paris on Oct. 23rd give particulars of the defeat of the Freuch at Tamsui on the loth. Ling Ming Schuoi, the Chinese general, sent some of his soldiers, disguised as coolies, to offer to assist the French at their work of building forts. Meanwhile the rest of the Chinese soldiers formed an ambush near at hand. Presently a signal previously agreed on was given, whereupon the supposed coolies and the soldiers in ambush made a sudden attack upon the French and hemmed them in on all sides. The French were overwhelmed, and rushed into the sea in the wildest confusion. Admiral Lesseps admits that 106 of his men were killed. He offered a reward of 6 dols for each corpse restored. The loss of the French flag «ras greatly deplored. Lesseps endeavored to recover it from the Chinese by offering them two new flags in exchange, but they refused. Latest, Paris, October 24th—Reports are current that the Chinese are pushing their advance into Tonquin, and are about to besiege Bung How. The remainder of the Chinese troops before Chee How have been withdrawn and the Chinese there have abandoned their entrenchments. The British man-of-war Rambler has been ordered to Chinese waterß.

THK BRUNSWICK SUCCESSION. The question of the Brunswick succession has been discussed by the Bundesrath. The majority of that body resolvea not to admit the claim of the Duke of Cumbeiland to the throne. The North German Gazette says eleven out of nineteen districts in Hanover return Guelph deputies, whose programme, according to Deputy Goertz, since Prussia will not Boontaneously offer the Hanoverian throne to the Duke of Cumberland, is the use of foreign complications to bring about a forcible restoration. The Gazette considered this declaration treasonable. Prince Albert of Prussia is a candidate for the succession. AMERICAN NEWS. The following items of American news date up to October 25th : The World's Fair and. Centennial Cotton Exhibition, to bo held in New Orleans, commencing December Ist, will be the largest and most exhaustive exhibition ever held in the States. Miss Carrie Walton, a youn? New York lady who wandered from her party of tourists in Colorado mountains recently and was found frozen to death, left all her property, amounting to 250,000d015., to the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The first Chii-aroan admitted to the privilege o- voting in California was registered at San Francisco on the 16th. He is really a Chinese American, having been born in the County of Nevada. A Bill was introduced into the Vermont Legislature on October 10th providing for the death punishment of malefactors by electricity. . Western farmers are now press.ng their wheat on the market, under an apprehension that prices will go lower. The first electric lighthouse in the United States went into operation at Heligate, New York, on the night of the loth.' The lights are nine lamps of UOU candle power each. - Thirty-one cotton mills at Fall River, Mass , representing 3,000,000 spindles employed on print goods, shut down for a week on Saturday, Oct. 18th, and 10,000 persons were thrown out of employment. The prospect is that unless ihe market improves the shut-down will continue indefinitely. The Government of Columbia have notified the Panama Railway Company that it will not allow thejr line of railway to be cut, changed or damaged for the benefit of De Lesseps' canal. _ The Orange d» urbaoces were reived at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, on the 10th Oct. The gate? of a convent were torn down into the sea, and a nverhead roan was beaten to death. Mrs Langtry, the actress, declines to return to the United St Ues. Ic is known Bbe will be sued jf she coine?, an,d she. h,«s attachable properly in New arjd Chicago, The rupture of her Australian, contract has something to do with this,

resolve. Henry Irving has also given up his intention of visiting Sa,n Franisco. The noted Confederate spy, Belle Boyd, shot a man named Cotton at Dallas. Texas, on October 10th, for seducing her aixteen-year-old daughter. _