THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 133, 25 August 1870, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

London, June 19th. The strike on the Continent is spreading rapidly. All the iron founders are stopping, it is believed in Obedience to the orders of the Central Committee International League. The English and German Unions have each sent thousands of pounds to supoort the movement, and will send more if required. The masters in Cork have hired a number of German tailors. The Irish tailors held a meeting and struck, and soon after a riot commenced. A number of citizens in aiding the police, were stabbed by the rioters. Barricades were thrown up. Several houses were assailed and shops attacked. Many arrests were made. "' ' A crowded meeting at Exeter Hall was in favour of a prohibitory liquor law. Deputations representing 60,000 Lancashire operatives waited on the committee of cotton manufacturers at Blackburn to-day, and asked an increase of wages. The answer was that the rate of wages would be raised five per cent, if the prices of goods after the harvest should warrant such a step being taken. The Cork riots have been renewed with hand to hand fighting. Several constables have been wounded. Great excitement prevails. The damage done to persons and property is serious. June 24th. Bridgett's great lace factory in Nottingham has been burned. A quanitity of loaded bombs have been found in an empty house in Limerick. The Cork riots have subsided. An hospital is to be erected in Edinburgh to the memory of Sir James Simpson. June 27th. Some cotton manufacturers have raised the rate of wages ; others hold out. The strike in Cork is general, labourers in all industrial departments leaving work. The steamers and foundries are abandoned, and the lockmen have stopped work. Women stay at home. News-boys refuse to sell papers. There is no violence, but the anxiety is intense. July 4th. Great riots have taken place in Cork, and there have beeu strikes in various parts of the United Kingdom ; also, on the Continent, chiefly among iron founders in Mulhausen, near Strasburg. There are said to be sixty thousand out of employment, and large bodies of troops have been sent to keep peace. In June, eighteen thousand persons left Liverpool for America, nine-tenths going to New York. Admiral Drummond is to command the Channel squadron. The clothiers of Cork are still importing German workmen. The^ fifth Earl of Derby has been married. There was no display,

The Bill for the revision of the I Prayer Book has passed the House of Lords. i Paeis, 18th June, j The strike of iron founders throughout the country has chiefly been sus* tamed by money from English Trade Unions. 26th June. A carpet factory was burned in Beauvaix, throwing eight hundred operators out of work. July Ist. There has been no apparent diminution in the ravages of small pox. The Minister of War declare* the army ready to move on the first signal. One corps is to operate against Spain. New Yoek, The Evangelical Alliance is to meet from the 25th September to the 3rd October. Two thousand delegates will be present by invitation, and three hundred from Great Britain. The fares to San Francisco were reduced to 130 dollars by the first English mail steamer from Australia via San Francisco on the 15th. Three hundred thousand dollars is fixed as the subsidy for the new Australian line, and thirty days out for tenderers. The revenue for the year is four hundred millions. The debt is reduced for the month by fifteen millions. There is a great decay in American shipping- There are no steamers between America and Europe under the American Flag, although 168,000 tons are employed. The Honolulu Government have voted twenty-five thousand dollars to a steam line, suitable for freight as well as passengers. Mr. Webb's steamer Nebraska is to come shortly to Wellington and Melbourne on a trial trip. Mr. Hall's line is considered too slow, and twenty days is thought enough for the voyage between San Francisco and Auckland. The San Francisco papers consider a branch line via Fiji inevitable, and the only way to suit all parties.