ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1767, 24 July 1888, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Ibe mail steamer Mariposa arrived! at Auckland from San Francisco late os Saturday afternoon, and brings new from Europe bearing dates up to June 30th. GENERAL B¥MMAET. Mr Gladstone Is about to issue a manifesto to the electors. It is also reported that he Las a new proposition to make as to the settlement of the Irish question, which he will introduce iu the House, and provides for a National Assembly for Ireland and continues Irish representation in the Imperial Parliament, the National Assembly to control the polica anl judicial matters. On June 30tb the London Courts refused to grant an application for a summons against Mr Matthews, Home Secretary, and Sir Charles Warren, Chief of Police, for preventing meetings in Trafalgar Square. The judge decided tbit no right existed for bo'ding meetings which interfered with the passage through the square by thn people, It has been decided, because the British Government refuses to pay a pension to Matthew Arnold’s widow, to solicit funds for the erection of a bust in Westminster Abbey ; to make provision for Mra Arnold, and also to endow a scholarship in English literature at Oxford, I

The rumor is revived that Prince Albert Victor, the heir apparent, is to marry the Princess of Annahalt Dessan, The Princess of Wales has made a special visit to Dessan to see the Princess. At the sa'e on/one 30th the Queen’s yearlings sold at an average price of 474 guineas. The majority of the Royal Cotnmiision on Education recommends a greater amount of the teaching of the Christian religion in board schools; also increased aid from rates to private sohoo's over which the ratepayers have no control. An influential minority opposes the recommendations. A division in the douse of Commons on June 19th, on the question of control of the police, resulted in (be defeat of (be Government. The Marquis of Harliogtou and the whole body of Liberal-Unionists voted with the Opposition. The proposition on which the Government was defeated was to have the appointment of Chief Constable of Quarter Sessions placed in the hands of the central The Liberal amendment which prevailed placed the appointment under control of the county councils. The Liberals propose to follow tip this victory by challenging the whole administration of aflfiirsr* Ireland. Mr Gladstone on Jane 11th asked the Hon. W. H. Smith to grant him a day for that purpose. Dr Martinis w a leading Unitarian, received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Oxford on June 20th.

Dr J. H. Zukertort; the famous : chessplayer, died in London on June 20tb. Hewas defeated by Wai, Steinmstz in the international chess match to the United States in 1835. Death was caused by cerebral hemorrhage. The ship Dotheboys Hail, from San Francisco, arrived at Liverpool on June SStbyand reported that the captain had been fatally stabbed by the steward. . Mr Condon, M.P., was released from gaol In Cork on June 20th. Father Giliigao, who was tried under, the Coercion Act on the charge of attending a proclaimed meeting, was ou June 21st adjudged guilty by the Dublin court and sentenced to imprisonment. Sir Morell Mackenzie left Berlin on June 38.. He asked an audience of tbe Emperor William and was refused. This is regarded as significant that the antiEnglish feeling, is becoming intensified in the Emperor's mind. The late Emperor Frederick by will bequeathed the Castle of Charlottenburg and his palaces in Berlin and Hamsburg to the Empress Victoria. An anarchist plot against the life of the Emperor William is repored to have bean discovered on June 30th, but tbe Socialists declare the report to be an invention of tbe police. Thera is an extraordinary increase in the precaution for the safety of the Emperor, Prince Bismarck has had the Guards reinforced around the Palace nt Potsdam, and the building is practically iso’ated. Several persons have . been arrested for throwing pati ions into tbs Emperoi’s carriages, and for some time menacing letters luve reached Prince Bism irek and the Emperor warning them that the beginning of the reign of the repression of the people would bs signalised by an act of retaliation. It is said that the Emperor authorises some striking act of severity against the Socialists, the leaders of whom resent the assassination reports as a mars pretext for reactionary measures. A great sensation was caused in Berlin on June 2Jst by the publication of the lute Emperor’s private papers. They discuss family and political aff.irs, including the overtures made to the Emperor Frederick to induce him to abdicate in favor of his son William. It Is asserted that the notes are genuine. They show that Willium urged his father to consent to a regency. The intrigues of Pastor Stocker and General Waldemer to gel William into the pietist movement are also revealed. The Empress Victoria is thought to have consented to the exposures. The National Zeitung says that the Emperor and bis Consort will be crowned in tbe Autumn at Kenigsburg. The , date is not fixed as yet, but it is thought that Octob;r 18, tbe anniversary of the battle of Leipaic, and of tbe birthday of the lata Emperor Frederick, will be the time. The British (lovernment has added to British possessions a tract extending from Zmzlbar, with a seaboard 1700 miles and 70,000,000 of population. On. June 29th Austria moved troops to the Galician {rentier to ch ck the Russian move of forces on June 6tb.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. Charles Sullivan, a carpenter, who foolishly attempted to climb the spire of Sr. Michael’s Catholic Church, Buffalo, on June .2stb, was precipitated headlong by its breaking, and fell nearly 100 ft. He whs dashed to pieces. The Duke of Marlborough was married in the City Hall, New York, on June 29 h, by Mayor Hewitt, to Mrs Lilian W. Hammersley. A small number of noted society people Were present: Mrs Qammarsley has an annual income of 160,000 dollars. The couple, left for England on June 30th. .Themarriage was the topic of conversabiooi in Loudon, and the announcement was posted in both Houses of Parliament. Pittsburg (Pa.) iron mill* shut down on June 30th, owing to the failure of ap agreement between the Wage Committees of the Anulgamattd. Association of Iron and Steel Workers of the United States add the iron manufacturers. The closure will be for an indefinite period, and the strike will throw nearly 100 000 men nut of employment. The coke interest is likely to follow suit. Up to ten o’clock on the morning of June 25th the record of prostration in New York was unprecedented for a June d«y. Ic the register of the coroner's office at noon, the total list reached twenty, all more or leas fatal, and directly caused by the torrid atmosphere. Many of the victims expired without the slightest premonition of their fate. Some in tbs prime of life, who the day before were iu the best of spirits snd apparently best of health, were corpses is their beds next morning. Children in crowded reeky tenement districts died off like flowers that wither in tha sun. Aged persona in many quarters attempting to move about in ordinary pursuits sat down only to gasp their last. Several died at the breakfast table. Ttie temperature was cooler in the evening, but the death list of the 4th June was very l«rge. There is great suffering in and near New York. The range of tha thermometer was from 91 to 99 deg.

The statement that Fred. Qebhardt and Mrs Langtry are to be married in September, unde by the New York Press, is denounced by tne English actress as “a pack of lies.” The new loan of the Panama Canal Company .. (authorised by the ; French Government without its ..guarantee) for 720,000,000 francs has been .advertised in New York, San Prenciiobj and other American cities where snbscriptibns ire solicited. - f "" Julia F. Oargil, a handsome ahd wellconnected Southern girl,' committed suicide in New York on Jane 17tb, by jumping fnra the fourth-storey window of a lodging-house. Tko cauae was melancholy, induced by indigence.: , , A challenge to Carlisle D- Graham to go over Niagara Falls in. a barrel for 10,000 dollars lias been accepted and forfeited. Graham is the pioneer barrel navigator of the whirlpool below the Palls. ' - According to the Pananrt Star and Herald ef June 6th, the looks'wre now being constructed for Do Lessepi? cans), but are npt designed, to a»permanent feature. They are adopted through tbe necessity of completing the. work end opening up the canal within tbe required time. The building of these locks requires an outlay of prodigious;'sums of money. They number are located five oo the Pacific and five on the Atlantic side of . the lstbmqs. The genenl width of : thp oipal pfqppr is a very small .fraction over, frlitj,,the Work of canat building tftefo'ari now employed 5000 laborers, and on the locka about 1000 skilled laborers besides a email army of clerks, ' ; 3 ?'' The first Mongolian ' newspaper'in the United States made its appearance in New York;on June 9tb.- The-reditor, Pong Gbing Foo, in his leading . Article, advises his countrymen to stay at home, as there are too many Chinamen in America already. , The defences of Esqiiimault, B;0., will be proceeded with immediately. jQacada having agreed to England’s proposal for garrieoning the forts. Six eighty-ton guns will be shipped to Victoria, 8.C., from Woolwich next month. '