ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK WITH THE EUROPEAN & AMERICAN MAILS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3567, 2 June 1880, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK WITH THE EUROPEAN & AMERICAN MAILS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

(Peb Pbess Association.)

AUCKLAND. This day. GENERAL SUMMARY. Exeter Hall has been purchased by the Young Men's Christian Association for £25,(100 (? £8000.)

The ship employed in transporting fre3h meat from South America to France has been sold to an English Company for lll.OOOfr, .

Nos. 80 to 84, Gray's Inn Road, and 25 Port Pool Lane, London, were burned on the 7th ; fourteen persons are missing. The steamer American, belonging to the Union Company, was lost near the equator on April 28bh. She foundered ailer breaking her shaft, but the crew ani passengers were saved by boats. The recently discovered deficit in the ludian Budget amounts to £4,000,000. The Press openly charge deception in the mat;er on the part of the authorities. Edward Stanhope, Under-Secretary for India, writes to the Standard denying that the late Government had received a teledtatn concerning the Indian deficit on the morning after the debate on Professor Pawcett's motion in Parliament in ft /or of England's contributing a portion of the Afghan war expenses. He severely deprecates Professor Fawcett's action in making such a statement before ascertaining it to be a fact. Professor Fawcett writes to the Standard recalling his statement and expressing regret that be had been misinformed.

The Princess of Wales visited and congratulated Mr Gladstone on the Liberal victory, and his appointment as Premier. The incident has occasioned some surprise. The British steamer Aid trick Castle, bound for Venezuela entered the river Elbe on the 15th. The vessel from the nature of her cargo attracted the attention of the Peruvian Consul. She had on board a large quantity of war material, and intended to take in a hundred tons of powder at Hamburg, and then intended to proceed to Valparaiso. While at anchor she took fire and was scuttled to prevent an explosion. The ship and cargo

which included a number of Krupp guns were insured in London and Ham* burg companies for £137,000. The Peruvian Consul is about to proceed against the owners of the vessel. The London World says the Queen's health and spirits are most unsatisfactory ; she suffers from constant headache. < Miller, alias Maxwell, wbo was arrested at Liverpool on two charges of forgery on the Bank of England and other Bunks, is said to be wanted for forgeries committed in America. ! The.Earl of Scarborough was fatally | injured on April 19 by being thrown off | a dray. i Mr Bright says he wishes to enter the Ministry because he has work to perform i with reference to the Irish land quesI tiou.

J. S. Wright, a prominent Liberal of Birmingham and chairman of the six hundred, recently elected to Parliament from Nottingham, fell dead at an educational meeting in Birmingham. His death is considered a loss to the Liberal interests.

The English crop reports are generally satisfactory, though wheat is said to be losing color on heavy lands. It is by no means promising in a few districts. The Shaw-Parnell feud has grown into such importance that the Catholic bishops were appealed to to heal the breach. The Land Conference in Dublin has been a failure. The Sligo police seized a number of army rifles, swords and bayonets at Tab* bercurry. The manifesto of the Land League proposes the establishment of a department to buy land, create proprietary peasantry by advancing, purchase money at fire per cent, per annum for 35 years, suspending all ejectments for non-pay-ment of rents for two years. The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin has issued a pastoral, warning the people against the present agitation in Ireland, and the destructive doctrines laid down by some public speakers on the first principle of morals. The Lord Mayor of Dublin stated in a recent address that the distress in Ireland was as great as ever. He feared that during the next three months it would prove most severe. This too in the face of failing subscriptions. Kilrude, in the County- of Galway is suffering fearfully. Hundreds of people will die if food is not supplied. The Eight Hon. W. E. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, devoted a week at Dublin to a careful examination of the condition of Ireland, aad is deciding whether to continue the Peace Preservance Act or allow to expire. De Lesseps declares that New York subscribes $3,000,000 to the Panama Canal scheme. GERMANY. The Samoari Islands Assistance Bill has been rejected, and consequently the German South Sea Islands Company has resolved to wind up affairs. Bismarck was incensed at the rejection. KUSBIA. Poisoned food was detected on the Czar's dinner table.

A congratulatory address was forwarded to Gladstone by sereral prominent Bussians. The press and public opinion welcome the Liberal Tictory, because Gladstone's cabinet is a guarantee of desired peace. The Government issue a new railroad loan of £15,000,000.

The Czar advised thereto by General Melikoff is pursuing a policy of clemency. Three students at the Karkoff University were pardoned for political offences, and the act made a deep impression upon their fellows.

It is said that over 20,000 political and other prisoners were at Moscow, Nijini Norgarod, and Samara on the 17th ult., ett route to Siberia.

The province of Orensburg has been visited by unprecedented snowstorms, in which several persons perished. Many villages are without food. According to the Moscow Gazette the reasons upon which China refuses to ratify the Kuldja Treaty are that the mountain passes would remain in posses* sion of Eussia.and 5,000,000 roubles might better be expended by China in military preparations. The same paper warns the Russian Government not to undervalue China's warlike strength, and discusses Siberia's strategical strength in the case of a row with China, which is now considered certain.

Plague and famine are raging in parts of Russia, and the twin calamities are passing from villiage ta village ia the Don district. All granaries are empty, and there appears to be an absolute dearth of money. Shintsch, the missing workman who lodged in the basement of the Winter Palace before and up to the time of the explosion, has been discovered at St. Petersburg, and was arrested. He confess s himself guilty of this attempt on the Czar's life. He is a Lithuanian by birth, and his uncle is Gorernor of the province of Kalonga. All the Jews of foreign birth have been ordered from St. Petersburg. The feeling against this class is daily becoming more bitter.