AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3141, 13 March 1879, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Fbancisco, Jan. 18.

The anti-Chinese bill by which it is made penal for any shipmaster to bring more than 15 Chinese passeugers into any part of the United States at one time has passed. Both Houses of Congress require the President's signature to become law. , .

The Pacific Coast press are jubilant while, with the single exception of the Enquirer, every Easter'n'paper denounces the measure fiercely. It is feared that pressure will be so strong on President. 1 Hayes that he will veto the bill. Immigration from Europe to America is largely on the increase; 120,000 more arrivals than last year are expected. The prepaid passage of 20,000 English operatives is reported. British and' American shipmasters are discussing the. question as to whether the Chinese are likely to own new steamers in America and England.. Their, rapid acquisition of the t ,;carryuifl .trade in Chine ac waters leads prominent merchants to believe that only the low rates'now prevent the Chinese from entering into competition with foreigners' in? ocean carrying. In the event of a rise, Mongolians will likely enter into the market. ' Eichard Henry Dana, poet and essayist, is dead.• »-:i f-' \,;;„..,;.,.,. r V.;;;■!. #fe James Carroll claims to have discovered mysteries of the gyroscope, and demon* slrated a new law of motion.

Tilden's friends and agents are iigain active, to secure his nomination for: the nexf; Presidency. The British ship Nio, took .fire at Charleston on the 24th. 37,000 bales of a cargo of cotton were destroyed. Stewart's marbls. palace in New York is to be concerted, into an hotel. ■■ ; .,, The, Canada V^ardy of Trade have a resolution in favor of protec- : atibn. ; The importation of American cattle into Canada irprohibited. ; i:.' ] ' '"-'■ '• ■ A London despatch to New-York says that Siberian wheat is Hk«lyiito be a formidable competitor with ifie American article in the English marke^j 'and even with Eussian, as it can be sold for 99 cents per 36.10 pounds, while Eussian wheat costs 103| cents, and American llOi Ballot box stuffing has been decided not to be a penal offence. Bishop Bethune, of Canada, is dead. The crop prospects of the Pacific Coast are reported generally to be good. It is generally conceded that Governor Tilden, the defeated democratic candidate for the Presidency, has cleared himself from the charge of complicity in the " Cipher dispatches'' matter. There will be a mass meeting to vindicate him. The, ship Clara sailed from New York for Australia on the tenth, conveying D?pny American and Canadian exhibits for the International Exhibition at Sydney. The Niobe will sail next month with a still larger quantity of machinery and other American manufactures.

Breakfast (?) at St. John was swept away in a gale which did heavy damage. Irish societies are holding meetings with a view to promote immigration from Ireland to America, and to protect immigrants on their arrival. Tattersall's Yo;k celebrated racing sale stables were burned, together with eighty fine horses.

Tne Saturday Club, Philadelphia recently tendered a reception to Mr George Childs of the Ledger, at which nearly all the representative newspaper men in the country were present. The branch mint at New Orleans, idle for 19 years, has been re«opened. Haulon, the Toronto oarsman, has gone to England to row a match.

James Stephens, " Irish rerolutionist" and formerly the Fenian head centre, turned up at New York and proposes to consolidate the ranks of the Irish revolutionary party in the States. There is a mania for pedestrianism in America. Both men and women are engaged walking against time for gate money. Bret Harte, while lecturing in London, was well received.

A Grand International Exhibition is proposed to be held in New York in 1889, to commemorate the centennial of the inauguration of Washington as President.

Deaths from trichina are reported. The Canadian Parliament has opened. Joseph Goderic Blanchet was unanimously elected Speaker. Venezuela is in revolution.

The Her. Mr Bindsall, Protestant missionary at Aspinwall, died on January 14th.

The "black plague" has made its appeavance at Brazil.