American.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4327, 13 November 1882, Page 2

American.

San Fbancisco, October 22

The Australian cricketers hare been handsomely entertained during their short stay in this city, and on Saturday played a match merely to [show their style. The cricketers carry back with them oyer £11,000.

llowel, the English pedestrian, has offered to bet £20,000 he will win the coming six days' match in New York. The sanguine belie™ 649 miles will be made. .

The British ship Bremen, of Liverpool, weut ashore in a fog on October 16, near San Francisco harbor, and is a total

wreck

A Bill was introduced into the Vermont House of Representatives on the 18th instant, requiring the prison authorities to vender prisoners insensible before execu* tion.

On the 18th October Secretary of State Frelinghugsen conveyed to Henry George, the Ncr York Iris.h World's

correspondent the "regret of . Her Majesty's Government" foVthe treatment to which he had been subjected in Ire«. land. - . Ihe Eev. Henry Ward Beecher's fare, well address on retiring from the Congregationalists shows that in effect he deuies the inspiration of the Scriptures, the orthodoxy of the doctrine of the fal ' ;>ad atonement, and also the doctrine of eternal punishment, at which he scoffs.

Major O'Connor, worth 10,000,000d015, wa» killed in a street fight in Tenevme. '

The light«keeper at Lonely Island, Canada, has been arrested for robbing drowned persons washed on-shore.

A.andJ. C. Hopej iron importers of Montreal, failed on."October 16th for

200,000 dols

A cyclone visited the Vuelta Abago tobacco region, Cuba, on^ October 16, and wrought so much damage to the property, and loss of life fo individuals that the Captain-General is compelled to appeal for aid to the Spanish Minister of the Colonies. The acts by the Peruvian Provisional Government at Arequipa show their cause to be desperate, and according to a despatch of tbe r2lst October, "Thatthey are marching headlong to destruction."-.