LATE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Press, Volume XXV, Issue 3227, 4 January 1876, Page 2

LATE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Auckland, January 1. The City of San Francisco has arrived. She left on December 10th. She brings 43 cabin and 23 steerage passengers. The mails were sent on per the Mikado, which left the day before. She sighted the Mikado at six o'clock yesterday morning astern. She will therefore arrive in the morning. The whole time occupied from San Francisco was 21 days 10 hours, running time 20 days 21 hours, being the fastest time on record. Sir George Bowen is passenger for Melbourne. Passengers for Auckland—Mr W. K. Graham, Hon Dr Grace, wife and daughter, Messrs Turner, Bramwell, Watson, Hartley. For Wellington, Mrs Lucy Stuart and daughter, Mr Hester and wife. For Lyttelton—Messrs Anderson (2), Miss Anderson, Mr Boag. For Port Chalmers—Rev Mr Stobo and wife. The Mikado's passengers are — Captain Fielder and wife, Robert Shakspear, Mrs Harrison and five children; and seventeen steerage. Bj an explosion in a coal mine at Ashley, near Leeds, six lives were lost. A Carlist Court Martial has sentenced General Dohlar to four years' imprisonment.

In the French Assembly the balloting for 75 life members gave the Left a large majority over the Right. Spain is sending further reinforcements to Cuba. It does not anticipate American intervention, and thinks Europe would not permit it. A terrible colliery explosion has occurred at Swathe Colliery, England. The latest accoonte indicate the total number of lives lost as one hundred and forty. The explosion was caused by careless blasting operations. Another disaster of a similar character ie reported in a coal mine near Pentraeth.'in South Wales. Twelve persons were killed and ten injured.

Another steamer has been wrecked with fearful lose of life. The Dentechland, from Bremen, Btrack near Harwich, England, daring a fog, and became a total wreck. The captain reports that he left Bremen Haven on Saturday morning, and encountered a heavy northeast enow storm. The weather was so thick that he found it necessary to throw the lead constantly, and to slacken the gpeed of the vessel. "{At 6.30* a.m. the vessel struck, and shortly after all hands commenced pumping. Several vessels passed us quite close, but paid no attention to oar signals of distress. I ordered the life boats to be got in readiness, and soon had them swung out, but did not deem it safe to lower them in such a heavy sea. One boat was lowered against my positive' orders, and she was- almost immediately capsiz and six persons in.her drowned. A tremendous sea swept decks every few minutes, and washed overboard many of the passengers, who had all probably been provided with life preservers. After this I ordered the passengers to (take to the rigging, and some sought safety in the wheel house, from which position they were rescued by a tug boat. There were about ten in all." The latest estimate makes the total number of lives lost on the steamer Deutscbland at seventy-eight. It is now ascertained that the crew numbered ninety-nine, of whom fourteen were drowned. The captain admits that he was an hour and a quarter out of his reckoning. At the inquest at Haiwich the captain testified that he signalled passing vessels, but none answered. The jurymen and others admitted that his signals of distress were seen at Harwich. One of the jurymen stated that seamen did not feel bound to risk their lives and go to the rescue, having no life boat. The Times this morning says that the want of care is a disgrace on the I English name. The Deutschland has broken I in half.

William Spetten and Co, linen manufacturers and bleachers, Belfast, have failed, with liabilities of a million and a half.

A dispatch from St Petersberg says the rumors that Khokand was surrounded, and that a majority of the smaller Russian garrisons had been massacred, are false. There has been no further rising in the city of Khokand.

A telegram from Alexandra says Egypt does not wish to annex Abyssinia. She merely wants security against the violation of her frontier.

The vessels ordered from the East Indies to the Mediterranean, compose the detached squadron under the command of Bear-Ad-miral Lambert, which, according to previous arrangements, was to have remained in the East Indian wateje till March. The combined crews number over 3000. On the receipt of the new order the squadron will sail for the Red Sea, and proceed through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean. This will be the first time that a whole squadron belonging to a foreign Power has passed at once through the Canal.

A special, from Berlin, eaye the Prussian Government has formally summoned the Archbishop of Cologne to resign,preliminary to legal being taken to depose him.

The Berlin special says Count Yon Arnim has refused to obey a summons to attend the trial for treason, on the plea of ill health.

The Prussian Cross Gazette reports that Turkey has given her assent to Count Andrassy's scheme of reform.

It is very cold in the south of Spain, and some soldiers have been frozen to death. It was reported that General Tristany had re-entered Catalonia and issued a proclamation, but it is denied to-day. It is stated that Professor Manx Mailer, professor of comparative philology at All Soul's College, has offered his resignation, and will leave England in 1876. Placards, censuring arrangements made by the Chinese Government with the British Minister, were posted in Pekin, but were immediately removed by the authorities. The native officials are uneasy in regard to the recent negotiation. Information, implicating the Molien authorities in the murder of Mr Margary has been received. The Macmahon Ministry expect to obtain a large legislative majority at the general election for members of the Assembly. The French Minister of Foreign Affaire, states that the reason why the Government refused to purchase the Suez Canal shares, when the property was tendered for sale to the Ministry, was that Macmahon's Cabinet feared war with Germany. The Federal Provincial Council hae passed a resolution, adding 100,000 marks to the sum already up, to facilitate and promote the display of German products at the Philadelphia Exposition. The Egyptian troops have occupied the district of Juba and Kestay, disarmed the Zanzibar forces there, and hoisted the Turkish flag.

Asiatic cholera is violent in Madras. The committees of the Bight and Left Centres of the French Parliament have agreed to the report that a dissolution is to take place in December, and the elections for Senators to be held on January 23rd, and the meeting of both Chambers on the 26th of March. Eastern complications and the July report of the foreign loan commission have caused a steady depression in the foreign bonds on the London market. The action of the Prussian Government regarding the ratification of the contract for the sale of guano, hypothecated for the payment of the interest of the Pernvian fives, has caused a panic.

China, Nov 1. Foochoo officials say they have at length captured the murderers of Mr Blacklock, custom house officer.

A Baogoon correspondent says news of the reported settlement of the Chinese difficulty, and the projected opening of the trade route between Burmah and Yunnan, has been received here incredulonely.

Chief Justice Small at Hong Kong has passed sentences on the prisoners gailty of murder and piracy. The accused had boarded a junk, and forced the passengers and crew, in all twenty, below the hatches, and fastened them down. They then scuttled the ship. Three were sentenced to death, and two to ten years, and one (woman) to five years.

The report that a boat's crew of H.M.S. Sylvia has been chased by Coreans is confirmed.

Pekin is rapidly improving, and buildings are better constructed. The roads are kept in order.

The jury has been struck in the suit against Tweed to recover six million dollars on behalf of the city of New York. Meanwhile Tweed has disappeared, and detectives are searching for bim in Canada. It is reported he went with accomplices to South America.

The survey made of a ronte of the Nicaragnan canal to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific is highly spoken of.

There have been further indictments of Mormons at Salt Lake for bigamy.

A telegram from Oka, an Indian village on the Ottawa river, says the Protestant Indian Church was completely wrecked by a crowd of French Catholics.

The first raid on the opium dens by the police of San Francisco was made on December 6th. Four captures were made. The raids are to be continued till the dens are suppressed. At Toleda, the mail agent Bobinson, after being missiDg for five days, was found terxibly maltreated in the river. There is no clue to the tragedy.

It is stated that the Apache Indians, in Eastern New Mexico, numbering several thousands, are about entering on the war path. About 4500 of them have been handed over to the United States troops, who have removed them to Fort Stan ton.

Kerr was elected Speaker on the sixth, by ballot, by the democratic caucus at Washington.

The Erie Bail road Company are about to sue James Henry and the London Banking Association for claims held by the company against them, exceeding two million dollars. Judge Donohue to-day granted leave to Mr Jewett, receiver, to eend funds to Eng land, to institute a suit.

Charles O'Connor, the noted billiard expert, died suddenly in New fork.

The American papers etill harp oa the Beecher scandal. At a Plymouth prayer

meeting, Beecher delared that the policy of silence was at an es. _r~—