VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3798, 17 September 1883, Page 3

VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

S.vx Fs.ancisco, August 2G

In tho House of Commons on August 22 the Under-Secretary for India presented tho Indian Budget. Tho surplus for 1884 is estimated at £457,000.

Sir Stafford Northcote attacked the whole policy of tho Government on the 21st, and accused it of keeping back facts in the Madagascar affair. Mr Gladstone, in reply, praised the working of tho Land Act and Earl Spencer's vigorous government of Ireland. In relation to Madagascar he declared that nothing had occurred to disturb the cordial relations of England and France.

Prince Bismarck, in reply to the French journalists, declares that Franco threatens tho peace of Europe that such a state of affairs cannot continue without serious danger, and that the passions tormented by agitation may burst the bonds of peace. Mount A r esuvius was again active on August 22, and the buildings and mountain railroad were damaged by the tremblings.

Tho Freeman's Journal bitterly denounces the House of Lords far its action in rejecting the Irish Registration Bill. An extensive flour mill near Kinuogad, Ireland, Avas burnt on the 22nd, and three persons perished. The Count do Chambord's death is alluded to by the Republican journals respectfully, and thoy unite in paying homage to his sincerity. The Royalist papers appeared Avith mourning borders, and are reserved in their comments regarding the consequences of his death. The body was buried by the side of Charles X.

A reign of terror existed on August 24 in the village of Cassoo, in Rounielia. The Turks Avere murdering the Christians, and all the latter avlio could get away Avere fleeing from the country. An accident happened to the Duke of Cambridge Avhile at Chatham. He had just alighted from his carriage Avith Colonel Gordon, Avhen the horses became very restive, and, turning suddenly round, upset the Colonel and the carriage, and struck tho Duke in the chest. Tho new Governor of Lebanon has sent to tho Porto a memorandum stating that the situation.in that province has been rendered, by tho action of Rustem Pasha, much Averse than it Avas formerly. Mr Gladstone is said to have recently declared iv conversation Avith a Methodist clergyman that the large number of ministers and others Avearing the Blue Ribbon Avas an exceedingly gratifying circumstance, speaking well for the future. Switzerland has just concluded a treaty with the United States, to Ijo in force for thirty years, binding both republics to submit any differences arising- between them to arbitration. Honduras and Columbia have givon in their adhesion to the principle. If Franco should continue to countenance the attempts of M. De Brazza to establish French rule in Central Africa, the African Association at Berlin intend to implore the protection of England. A project for the neutralisation of the Conga is favored in London. The Pope is drawing up an encyclical letter against divorce. A despatch from London, dated August 5, says the Queen is much stronger. In receiving M. AVaddington, the iicav French Minister, she stood throughout theinterview, which lasted twenty minutes. She has docided that no tenant festivities shall take place tins year at Balmoral, or on any of her estates, on account qf the death of John Brown, Another despatch says that in spite of tho continued efforts of her medical advisers, tho Queen obstinately declines to go abroad for her hoallh, and insists on spending the autumn at Balmoral. She is determined to bo near John Brown's grave, and will make daily visits to it, contributing new testimonials of tho esteem in which she holds the memory of the departed gillie. Her family is exasperated by her expenditure of feeling on this subject, which begins to border on tbe ridiculous. Her Majesty left London for Balmoral ou Friday, 25th August. The Oah-'Q correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes; —" jnedical friend informs me that at one of tho principal hospitals no precautions are taken to disinfect or even to cleanse the bed and bedding from Avhich cholera corpses havo been removed. As one patient dies the body is hustled away for burial, and another sick or dying wretch fills the vacancy caused by the death. Even vomit and ejections from successive pationl s arc allowed to accumulate for many hours until the Avhole place becomes inexpressibly noisome, and tho case is but a type of Avhat is going on at every depot for the receipt of cholera stricken people. Carts are sent round at' intervals to collect the dead at the hospitals and from private houses, and bodies are not infrequently found even in the open street. Should the man iv charge of the dead cart come across a sick person, tho latter is unceremoniously seized and thrown into the vehicle on the top of its ghastly freight, is loft there until a cart charged Avith the collection of the sick only is met, Avhen the

living are transferred from the dead cart to the company of their fellow sufferers and taken to the hospital. Mrs Langtry says it is the dream- of her life to return from her American and Australasian tour and found a theatre m London to be known by her name. The London Athcmeum devotes fourteen columns to the publication of a now Byron correspondence showing tho relations between Lord and Lady Byron and Ins sister. The correspondence disposes of the scandal circulated by Mrs Harriet Beccher Stowe. Miss Timiey (stage name Fortesque) has married a son of Lord Cairns. Serious rioting has occurred in the town of Coatbridge, Lanark, Scotland, between Protestants'and Catholics. Several police wore wounded. While thirteen men were being hauled to tho surface at a mine in the town of Redruth, Cornwall, the rope attached to the car broke, and the men were precipitated, to tho bottom of the shaft and instantly killed. Newdegate threatens Bradlaugh with an action for libel. Bradlaugh charged Newdegate with being so tipsy in the House of Commons that he fell of his seat, and also that during the discussion of the Affirmation Bill he was so drunk that ho could not walk from the lobby to give his vote. Newdegato's friends said he only fainted through illness, and a doctor attested that fact. A ferryman left Dover on a floating bicvele on July 28th for tho purpose of crossing the Channel, and arrived at Calais at 5 o'clock the same afternoon. An attempt was made on August 3rd to blow up a large linen factory at Cufar, Fife, Scotland. The attempt is attributed to Fenianisin. Labouchcre says in Truth that the greater part of the Duchess of Edinburgh's trosseau was sold in London some time ago as the propcrtv of a lady of rank. Tho "Queen received Mr aud Mrs Gladstone on August 4th, the first time for man}' years. The coldness between the Queen and the Premier is lessening, and this is considered to indicate an early application to Parliament for a furthur grant to the sons of the Prince of Wales. The Star Music Hall at Sunderland has been burned. Fourteen hundred persons were in the hall when the fire originated, but all were got safely out in four minutes. The town of Cassimacciola, Island of lschia, was destroyed by an earthquake or recession of the land on the night of July 2Sth. It is estimated that 5000 persons perished. The shocks began at 9.30. The majority of the upper classes were at the Theatre, and tho scene there was one of horror. The curtain had just risen, when a tremendous shock was felt, followed by a fearful roar, and the ground rocked like a ship in a storm. A great cry of terror arose from the audience, who were thrown in aheap, and a great number were buried beneath the timbers of tho building, which fell on them. Thoso who could escape from the theatre, some clambering into the trees for safety, but the larger number fleeing to the sea shore, where alarm fires were kindled. Meantime every building in the town had collapsed. The Hotel Piccola Sentinolta sank into the earth and was buried with many of its inmates. Many Romans having villas at Godera arc known to have been lost. Tho corpses were plainly discernible through the ruins, but could not be extricated. _ In nearly every case, they were horribly mangled. The Minister of Public AVorks arrived at Cassimacciola on July 20 to arrange measures of relief. Hundreds of the victims were buried iv the usual way, and immediately on their being recovered, in order to prevent miasma ; but, as it was impossible to recover and bury all the bodies, it was ordered, considering the horrible exhalations from the decomposing remains, that the uncovered corpses be left whore they laid, and fifteen hundred tons of chloride of lime were to bo poured over the ruins, thus converting Cassimicciola into a vast cemetery. The neighboring towns, Fario and Lucco, wore also greatly damaged, and the loss of life reached 2000, divided between both places. The centre of tho area of tho shock was the same as that two years ago, but tho radius was a great deal larger. It was felt at sea, and, according to some accounts, even at Naples, the hospitals in which city wove crowded with wounded and dying brought there by steamers from tho island. The calamity infinitely exceeded the Chios earthquake in 1881. Among the missing are an English gentleman named Sommcrs, who resided at the Hotel Manzi, and also many English and American visitors, lschia being a great resort for travellers in pursuit of health or pleasure. Of a Swiss family named Pascal, numbering eight, only one daughter survived. Many English and Americans arrived on the 31st in search of friends and relatives. On the night of tho disaster tho sceno was wierdly horrible, when hundreds of half-naked men and women, wild with terror and grief, ran to and fro among tho ruins with torches searching for missing friends. For days the stench of the decaying flesh, notwithstanding the deodorizing material used, was almost unbearable. Additional shocks, attended with damage, occurred on August 4th. King Humbert visited tho hospitals on the 3rd and condoled with the sufferers, and also repaired to the sceno of the earthquake, where ho distributed money and provisions to those in need.