Mail Items.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2905, 7 June 1878, Page 4

Mail Items.

The Pacific Mail Company refuse to pay Elder and Co.'s drafts for the mail contract.

The British Minister at Washington has 5 a list of every Russian agent and every representative of the Irish element working in the Russian or Fenian interest.

A Fenian attack or feint on Canada is said to be intended if Kussia and England go to war. A Fenian commander near Buffalo will close the line;

The House Committee of Congress on education and labor agreed to a bill making it a misdemeanour for a master to introduce more than fifteen male or female Chinese passengers to the United States after June the Ist, 1879.

A, group of six powder mills in Minnesota exploded, shaking the city. The loss was a million and a half dollars. Seventeen persons were killed. , In the event of war, it is probable that privateers will be extensively fitted out in San Francisco and other pacific American ports. John Morrissy, the pugilist, died at Saratoga, with attendant priests' hands grasped in his own. His estate will not pay bis debts. Majeroni made her debut in New York fcefore a large audience, and received favourable criticisms.

The Russian Minister has removed his residence from Washington to New York, in order to be in a more convenient position for the rapid despatch of business in the event of war.

New York arms dealers state that they have received numerous letters from California asking the price of arms. The impression is that hostilities are probable between working men and Chinese, and faction quarrels between Orangemen and Catholics. The Fenian brotherhood near Sfc. Alban's, Vermont, are organising.