ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3732, 2 July 1883, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Auckland, This day,

The Pacific mail steamer City of New York left 'Frisco on June 10, having been detained first until June 6by thenon-arrival of the English mails owing to the steamer City of Brussels breaking her shaft and necessitating a return to Queenstown, where the mails were transhipped to the steamer Pavonia, which arrived at New York on May 30, and secondly by unexpected repairs required to her machinery. The City of New York arrived at Honolulu on June 17, and at Auckland at 9.30 a.m. today. Passengers— W. J. Weaver, C. B. Lowe, Rev. and Mrs L. 11. Burton, and Miss Austin.

GENERAL SUMMARY

San Francisco, June 9

The Papal Propaganda are preparing a reprint of the five acts of the present Pontificate relative to Ireland for circulation among the Irish by the Bishops and clergy. Poole, already arrested, is charged with tho murder of Kennedy in Saville Place, Dublin, a years ago. James Carey, the informer, wrote to the Irish Executive on June 6 protesting against being kept in confinement, and he also writes daily. Ho still declines to leave Ireland, and says, if compelled to go, he will return.

Eight men were arrested in Dublin on Juno 6 for conspiracy to murder a constable. A girl testified that tho murder of the constable was decided upon at a regular meeting, at which one of the prisoners and the actually appointed murderer was a carman. A large monument of gray granite has been placed over the grave of John Brown in Crathio church-yard. There will also bG a monumental brass in the Prince Consort's mausoleum at Frogmoro, and a tablet in the nave of St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Her Majesty is tireless in devising means for perpetuating her faithful servant's name.'

The Duke of Albany's request to be appointed Governor-General of Canada, to succeed the Marquis of Lome was supported by a personal intimation from the Queen that her son should have the position. _Mr Gladstone refused, stating that the appointment would be a special favor to royalty ; besides, sending the Queen's son to Canada would bu to invito some desperate action on the part of the Irish Fenians iv America, The appointment of the Marquis of Landsdown to the position was bitterly opposed by nearly all the Radicals in tho Cabinet. At one time tho opposition brought on a crisis, and Sir Charles Dilkc then proposed to relieve the party by sending Mr Forster to fill the position. Mr Gladstone opposed this strongely as extremely inexpedient upon the ground that Mr For.ster's presence in Canada as Governor-General would act upon a largo proportion of the citizens of tho United States as a constant irritant, and perhaps affect friendly relations between the American Government and Great Britain

Mr Panic! 1 has at last made an official utterance in the form of an open letter to a Paris journalist concerning the Pope's circular. He considers the effect will be the divorcing of Irish politics from the domination of religious bodies altogether, and is pleased with the situation.

The Irish National League is preparing for the resumption of extraordinary energy, and hopes to increase the number of the Parnoll party in Parliament from thirty to sixty. The Vatican has expressed thanks to the British Government for the aid extended to the Catholic missionaries in London,

Lord Dufferin has been decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

Edward Barrington and Edward Kerry, editor and printer of the Dublin Standard, were on June oth sentenced to six months imprisonment for publishing a placard inviting persons to join the Invincibles, and to attend a meeting. Two compositors, for assisting in its publication, got two months' each.

Despatches on June 3rd say that the labor market in London is extremely lively. Building is going on in all parts of the metropolis, and unskilled workmen are in great demand. At the principal shops shipbuilding is active, most of the yards being in full work. The colliery districts are unsettled, and the Sheffield works are languid. At Leicester, Nottingham, and Manchester there are plenty of orders in textile fabrics, but at nupaying rates. At Leeds the hat and cap makers are busy. Earl Dufferiu recommends that the proposals for Irish emigration to Canada be refused.

A foot of snow covered the greater part of Ireland on May 14th, and snowstorm did great damage in England and Scotland. The Hon. Wyndham Stanhope has obtained a divorce from his wife, formerly Camille Carglina, the pretty actress, for adultery with Lieut. Adye, of the Royal Irish Rifles, who was a close friend of tho husband. Society at Cannes is much scandalised by the disclosures. Eight thousand Mormons passed through Hull lately bound to America.

The Prince of Wales has expressed a wish to knight Mr Henry Irving, but the Queen objects that the honor has never before been conferred, on an actor.

London despatches in the Clticago papers give an account of a private prize fight between Lord Charles Beresford and the pugilist Mace. The Prince of Wales was present. Lord Beresford gave Mace a severe thrashing, escaping himself almost without a scratch. Ho then challenged the Maori Slado but the latte.- declined.

It is reported that Mrs Langtry will sue in America for a divorce from her husband.

Hanlan, the oarsman, is expected to visit San Francisco in September next with Trickett and Laycock.

William Stuart Gladstone, a nephew of the Premier, is visiting the Western States with a view of business and pleasure.

Sheaty, one of the Guiteau jurors, has became insane through remorse. He believed the assassin a lunatic, but dare not vote so in the face of public clamor.