SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XVII, Issue 831, 17 March 1885, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Mr Courtney and Mr John Morley are arranging for a conference of all members of Parliament opposed to the continuance of the Soudan War. Many Liberals urge that the Soudan and Egyptian muddle should be handed over to the Sultan. They are alarmed at the prospect of boundless expense. Sentries are trebled at Sheerness Powder Magazine in consequence of the appearance of suspected dynamiters. Guards are also placed at Eton College. The War Department are organising a corps of balloonists to form an engineer corps for experimental service in the Soudan. Fifteen hundred Irish have been dismissed from buildings in the course of construction in East London up to February 14th. Similar movements have been started at Manchester, Liverpool, and other provincial centres. • A great corporation, called the Local Soudan Trading Company, has been formed in London and Alexandria upon the same basis as the old East India Company. One of its privileges will be the right to build railways between- Berber and Suakin.

Crofters have been arrested in the parishes of Kilmuir and Glendale, isle of Skye, for resisting the sheriff, who landed at. Portree on January 30th, guarded by 100 policemen and a number of marines. A large crowd of people sympathised with the prisoners, and followed the guards with yells, and would have attempted a rescue, but were kept at bay by the guards. O'Leary, the Fenian, had a free fight at his Glasgow lecture on February Ist, excited by his references to Parnell, Rossa, and Ford. The Tichborne Claimant has now fallen low. He appears in a provincial variety company in England, and takes his turn between an acrobat styled " the Human Serpent" and " the Cornish Mite."

The London weekly papers say Lord Garmoyle and Miss Fortescue will marry notwithstanding the lawsuit.

One of the Transatlantic steamship lines is about to issue tickets entitling passengers merely to lodging and conveyance. This is a concession to passengers subject to sea-sickness. A soldier was bayoneted to death on February 7th at the London Arsenal. He would not give the countersign to the sentry, and the latter, on his attempting to pass the guard, stabbed him to death. An investigation showed the affair to be the result of a practical joke on the part of the dead man. Eighteen violent maniacs were burnt to death when the Brackley Almshouse, Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire. The Socialistic labour party in New York passed resolutions favoring the Irish dynamiters. A tremendous storm occurred in the Western States on February 10th. The snow in Chicago stopped the railroad traffic, and horses and cattle were frozen or starved to death.

The vigorous enforcement of the anti-poly-gamy law in Utah has demoralised business. Influential Mormons are removing elsewhere. The debts of the New Orleans Exposition have reached 380,000d01., and Congress is asked to make good the deficiency. The San Pablo, the largest steamer trading from San Francisco to China, is reported to be lost.

The director of the U.S. mines reports that the gold and silver yield of the country in 1884 was greater than in the year preceding. Chief Engineer Melville, of the Jeanette exwants 130,000 dollars to reach the forth Pole by Franz Joseph Land. The Swedish brig Fingal, which sailed from Boston for Brisbane, put into New York 011 January 22nd. A terrible mutiny had occurred on board. The captain was attacked in his berth at night by the carpenter with a broad axe, but, aided by the mate, beat him .off, and also the steward, who joined his assailant. The captain, after staunching his wounds, sallied out with the mate and faced an encounter with the steward and the sailors armed with axes, sheathknifes, and capstan bars. A ferocious fight ensued, in which the captain and mate triumphed. The captain's son and the second mate had been murdered by the mutineers and thrown overboard. Finally, when the mutineers were subdued, the captain, having got handcuffs to secure them, shot the steward and carpenter dead, and

threw their bhdies overboard. The seaman then agreed to obey orders. The reported existence of a powerful dynamite organisation at Pittsburgh, who are preparing tor a Socialist outbreak, is causing considerable uneasiness. Martial law was proclaimed in Panama on February 11th. The coast of Cauca is in the hands of the revolutionists. All kinds of business is stopped. M. De Lesseps and party concluded an examination of the Panama Canal on the 10th, and pronounced it a success. O'Donnovan Eossa was shot by a woman in Chambers-street, near Broadway, in the afternoon when the streets ware full of people. The first shot lodged in Rossa's body, and he fell to the sidewalk. The woman continued shooting till she emptied five chambers of the revolver. She is an Englishwoman named Dudley, aged 25, a nurse and unmarried. Inquiry showed that she has been almost crazed with excitement siuce the explosions at Parliament Houses and the Tower. On examination of Rossa's wound at the Hospital it was found the ball had penetrated the back, but the wound was not dangerous. In an interview Miss Dudley says she saw Rossa, and offered him money in order to draw him out. He told her that the next buildings to be blown up were Sandhurst College, the Carlton Club, Woolwich Arsenal, and the Bank of England. This showed her that she was doing right, because it would not have been fair to have condemned the man on what she read in the paper. Rossa has received hundreds of threats that he will yet be killed. His paper is much modified in tone. Visitors crowd to see Miss Dudley. There 18 some activity in the British Shipping interest. Among the incoming contracts are two big steamers ordered to be built separately under the British Limited Act, and to be sailed under the British flag, while every share in the stock is owned by American citizens. John Lennox, the convict who murdered Miss Lee, a wealthy lady, in her mansion at Babicombe, has been sentenced to death. The Governments of Russia and America are conferring as to a treaty for the extradition of dynamiters. A marriage has been arranged Princess Clementine, daughter of King Leopold of Belgium, and Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales. Mr Michael Davitt is in Rome, seeking to present an address to the Pope, justifying the action of Catholic Irish Nationalists. The Vatican is unwilling to receive him. Eminent persons are, however, trying to procure him an audience. The Russian Press strongly advocates hoisting the Russian flag a few miles within the Corean frontier. China has taken alarm, and is establishing posts there and concentrating troops. The present attitude of Russia and China is one of menace. Mayor O'Connor, of Dublin, a strong Nationalist, declines to attend the vice-regsl levee at Dublin Castle. Messrs Redmond and O'Brien, Irish Nationalists/on returning to Londonderry on January 13th, after a meeting at Gardenough,-,were met by a torchlight procession. The Mayor ordered the police and military to prevent the entrance of the procession into the city, whereupon Mr O'Brien departed for Dublin and Mr Redmond put up at a hotel in Londonderry. This led to savage riots during the nights between Irishmen and Orangemen. At a meeting ! of the Irish Nationalists held at Dublin on February 9th, Thomas P. Connor, M.P., said in his address that when in due time Mr Parnell appealed to the people the result would astonish the world. He made no reference to the explosions in london or the shooting of Rossa.