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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4686, 14 January 1884, Page 2

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5.4.N Fjbancisco, Dec. 22. The Australia ieavpg at date 13 the first' departure under the re-arranged service. - the City of New York steamer is withdrawn, and will be placed in the tihia'a £nu&' " ' ' ''■ ' The New York Commerci3M|tt|tia of the 20th December, revievyin^BtJ! bill introduced in Congress to replacellCo^ duty on wool, advises fa 9 OhJo~3lik*

growers to learn a lesson from California, which now supplies the knit goods manufacturers of Cohoes, New York, shipping its wool so clean that it has displaced the Australian product in their mills. Cohoes is now the great competitor of Nottingham in England. A movement has been commenced against the secret societies by the " Chris tian League," embracing the leading divines of the United States.

Brendan, the Hon. Secretary of the Irish Land League,"'is in San Francisco for the purpose of raising funds for the League. Villard, the proprietor and successful manager of the Northern Pacific Railroad, has resigned the Presidency of the company owing to the pressure of discon* tented stockholders. His manipulations hare almost beggared some of the leading men of the country, while he is reported to have made 10 million dollars. \

A 20 years' lawsuit ended in San Francisco on December 13 by a pioneer of California and millionaire, Charles McLaughlin, being assassinated in his office by a railway contractor named Cox, who had grown desperate from his protracted legal difficulties with McLaughlia. Cox originally advanced money to d(i» ceased to build the railroad between San Jose and San Francisco.

The New York Commissioners of the Police Department have had five officers dismissed, two permitted to resign, one placed on trial for murder, and others charged with drunkenness and obtaining money on false pretences. The depression in the iron trade in America continues. The manufactories in Pennsylvania are generally shutting down, and 12,000 coal miners are out of employment.

The Bolivian Commissioners at Santiago de Chile are rapidly completing the peace negotiations between Peru and Chili. Seventy workmea, discharged from the Patterson Locomotive Works, New Jersey, have left for the Clyde, to*work on the iron ship building, paying their own passages. The American Free Trade journals say this augurs badly for Protection. ;

The British, as well as the Chinese flag, was publicly burnt by an assemblage of Irishmen in San Francisco, on December 9. The cremation was preceded by resolutions of sympathy. Owing to the strike of engineers on the Canadian-Pacific Bail way, business is at a standstill. The company was retrenching, The Key. Mr Wilson, curate of St. George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario, has been dismissed for attending Salvation Army meetings. Londonderry has been thrown into a state of excitement by the visit of the Lord Mayor of Dublin (Mr Dawsori, M.P.),for the purpose of delivering a lecture. He arrived in Deny and drovfe in a waggonette, followed by bands and a grsat concourse. The Orangemen, headed by Lord Ernest Hamilton, Captain Barton, J.P., and others, obtained possession of the Corporation Hall, in which Mr DawEonwasto lecture. The apprentice boys and Orangemen paraded the.streets with bands and banners from an early hour. Lord E. Hamilton arrived at the head of the contingents from Corrigans and St. Johnstons. Th*e Loyalist procession formed and marched to the Corporation Ha 41 r which they took by force and enterei^^lanting the Union Jack on the roof. They occupied the building, and declared their intention to hold it against the Lord Mayor's' party. The gates of the city were guarded by police, and the streets were patrolled by a troop of the 16th Lancers. A vast body of Nationalists from the neighboring county, Donegal, were waiting to greet the Lord Mayor. When the Corporation Hall came into view it was seen that on the top of the building bands of apprentice boys and Orangemen were assembled, with four cannon pointed through the tower of the hall. The cheers of the Nationalists were answered with counter cheers from the Orangemen on the Hall in the interior, and revolver shots were discharged by the Orangemen. Revolvers were then fired by the Nationalists, and an attack on the hall was thought to be imminent. The Nationalists were afterwards dispersed, and the authorities decided not to permit them to again enter the city. At a special meeting of the corporation the resolution for granting the use of the hall for the leoture was rescinded, A man named Geo. Kelly, a carpenter, and a boy, both .Roman Catholics, were shot. Kelly is suffering from a dangerous wound in the left temple, and his depositions were taken. After some negotiations an arrangement was come to by which the Orangemen agreed to evacuate the hall on certain terms made with the Mayor and Corporation. The Lord Mayor was eventually compelled to deliver his lecture in the robiks of the Irish National League, where he was also entertained at a dinner. His Lordship, addressing a crowd from a window, denounced the con* duct of an expiring faction which had power in Derry. The National Party had all but won a victory in Ulster, and, those who were losing had become desperate. Owing to the great force of military and constabulary, no riot of any consequence took place.