NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. SPECIAL TO THE POST.

Evening Post, Volume XX, Issue 267, 15 November 1880, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRAN CISCO MAIL. SPECIAL TO THE POST.

THE CONDITION OF IRELAND. BURMESE HOSTILITIES AGAINST THE BRITISH. THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAR. HURRICANES IN EUROPE. ACTION AGAINST THE NEW GOYERB NOR OP FIJI. THE KHURDISH OUTRAGES. EXPECTED DISFRANCHISEMENT OF OXFORD. EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS OF BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION. FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. THE POPE AND THE EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS. London, 24th Ootober. After considering the report of General Roberts, the Indian Government has recalled General Primrose, and it is believed he will be summoned to defend his conduct in connection with General Burrows' defeat A general strike against rents is threatened. The Land Leaguers and the Fenians have coalesced. The enmity is increasing between Catholic and Protestant, and between North and South. Parnoll has issued a circular to the trading and farming classes of Cork, inviting them to a meeting to be hold on Saturday next for the purpose of establishing a land league on a new basis, intending to give the new body a wider scope. A correspondent of the Standard states that Serjeant Sherlock lormerly member of Parliament for King's County, has been retained by the Crown to prosecute the agitators. Mr. Dillon, member of Parliament for Tipperary, speaking at Donegal, said that before Christmas thero would bo a branch of the Land League in every county of Ulster. Steps arc being taken to form an influential committee of Liberals to strengthen the hands of the Government in dealing with the disorder in Ireland, and to urge the necessity for immediate measures for tho protection of life and property. The Globe learns, from good authority, that tho quantity of firearms imported into Ireland from America and tho Continent greatly exceeds the official estimates. The violent resolutions passed by Orange lodges in condemnation of tho Land agitators attract much attention. In consequence of the disturbed state of the West of Ireland, a detachment of troops will bo 6ont to Bantry. A gunboat is anchored at Bear Haven, near Castletown. Sing Theebaw has been rendered arrogant by the easy suppression of the rebellion under Prince Nyonngoke, and is preparing to make war on the British. Over 10,000 Burmese troops have arrived at tho frontier. They daily expect to be reinforood by 10,000 more. A message is expected from the King demanding an indemnity from the British for the losses of Burmese subjects from Nyouugoke'a expedition, or, in default, tho troops will immediately cross the frontior. Two companies of infantry havo been ordered to protect tho exposed villages. A groat demonstration of Orangemen took place at Donaghalonoy, County Down, on 18th October, to protest against the Parnellite agitation. Tho limes says that the belief that the Government intends to prosecute tho agitators has already producod a lull in tho agitation. The second-rate leaders are cowed, and tho Land League aro unusually quiet. Mr. Parnell, at Longford, uttered an uncertain sound, and it is suspected that he has not yet made up his mind what course to pursue, and that his followers share his hesitation. Additional particulars have been received of the outrage near Skibbereen, County Cork, when a landlord named Hutchins and his driver wore shot, and the latter killed. They show that the second shot was fired at Hutchins, who escaped by jumping off the car. The affair occurred in broad daylight. No arrests have been made. Hutchins is a Justice of the Peace, and he and his driver were armed with pistols, but did not uso them. Only one person made the attack. Peruvian Consulate advices state that Charillas Ancon and Chanoay have been bombarded, because Peru refused to surrender the ships Union and Rimoc to the Chilian commander. Panama advices to the 6th inst. say the Chilians havo begun the bombardment of Callao and Charrillas. The diplomatic body agreed that they could do nothing to protect the threatened towns, and tho only course open to them was to acknowledge the despatch, received from the Chilian naval vessels. The Chilian authorities claim that the invading army will consist of 30,000 men, divided into four divisions, each consisting of two brigades. Tho divisions are to number from 6000 to 7000 men, to be accompanied by 500 cavalry and 25 Krupp cannon, giving a total cavalry force of 2000 sabres, and 100 guns as their artillery. The issue of 12,000,0u0 dols. in paper in Chili has boon followed by the Bank 3 ordering all their depositors to withdraw their deposits, otherwise they will only earn one per cent, per annum. A Now York message, dated 15th October, states that representatives of tho three belligerents, Bolivia, Chili, and Peru, will meet on board a United States man-of-war at Arica. It is understood one stipulation will be that hostilities may continue pending the negotiations. Porn will refuse tho cession of territory. Earthquake shocks were felt throughout Spain and Portugal on 22nd October. A violent hurricane occurred in tho Province of iteggio Di Calabria, Italy, on 21st October. Several houses were washed away, and there was some loss of life, A terrible hurricane passed over Denmark the same day, doing much damage to shipping. A St. Petersburg telegram of the 22nd October roports tho arrest of Warsheafsky, tho well-known capitalist and purveyor to the Russian army. His arrears are in connection with the army supply contract in the last war. Evidence is forthcoming to show that Warsheafsky defrauded the authorities of upwards of .£2,200,000. Bord, secretary and chief army administrator during the late war, has been arrested at Odessa. The Prussian Finance Minister has decided on the complete revision of the tariff. Higher protective duties will be levied on imported fallow, grain, and coal. The British steamers Robinia and Benalla, which were wrecked in the harbor of St. Michael, proved a total losb. The crews of the vessels were saved. A fearful gsle raged at Penzance, Cornwall, on 6th and 7th October. Numerous vessels were damaged ; tho harbor works and quays were injured, and several small yachts and boats were destroyed. A fishing lugger was capsized at the entrance to the harbor, and five persona drowned. The Chicago commission firm, Millard and Co., of the Board of Trade, have brought a suit against Mr. Dcs Vobux, Governor of the Fiij Islands, for 7000 dollars, for money loss on sprain speculations. Dcs Voonx lost 15,000 dollars, of which the commission firm havo only been able to collect 8000 dollars. The British ship David Law, which sailed from Leith on 19th June for San Francisco, took fire at sea, and has been abandoned. The crew were saved. A Teheran despatch states that a Kurdish chieftain from the Turkish frontier has united his forces with Hamzeh A jba. Tho Persian and Kurd allies number 153,000, and are mostly armed with Henry rifles. After plundering the Lahigan and Maragha district, they are within fifty miles of Touris. The inhabitant?, at the approach of the Kurds, have sworn allegiance to the Kurdish chief. The town of Mirandab and four large villages have been pillaged and the inhabitants massacred. The Persian Government have ordered the despatch of twelve battalions of infantry, and 2000 cavalry with twelve guns. Foreign bondholders will be invited to send delegates to Constantinople to arrive at an arrangement by which certain revenues may be assigned for the payment of interest on their bonds. It is believed that the Commission of Scrutiny in the Oxford contested election case has decided that Oxford shall be disfranchised. The revelations of _ bribery j made by tho Parliamentary inquiry were scandalous in the extreme, and the influential and fashionable circles in which tho contestants move had not yet fully recovered from tho shock produced by the evidence in the case when this new surprise came upon them. The Conservative agent testified that it cost Ms party about .£BOOO to beat Sir William Harconrt in May, .£4OOO having b?en expended in April, without success, at the first election. There was a tacit compact between the two parties that "j the expenditure on ea?h side should be limited to and that no bills should be issued; but when the contest became warm the bargain was repudiated, and "both sides fired bills at each other," as many as five sets of placards being issued lin one day. His published accounts, he said, had never been correct, and lie ** juggled " items so as to save himself from criminal prosecution. On the election day i ha employed about 12,000 people and 1075 conveyances. His side got 2780 votes. He gavo tho name of a member of the Junior Carlton Club from whom he got money for election purposes, and admitted that the gain of 100 rotes, which defeated Sir William Harcourt. was made by corruption, and that the differences between his published and his actual expenditure went for bribes. Both returning officers and magistrates, he added, were corrupt. The Mayor of Oxford testified that the majority of the electors looked to being employed as clerks

and messengers on the election day, and tho Conservative agent finally deolarod ho had destroyed nearly all of his papers, " because thoy would have disclosed quasi-corrupt transactions." "*^.i i_ A terrible accident occurred or* 11th Ootober on the Pennsylvania road,'Pittaburg, caused by the neglect of the flagman to signal tho section train. Kine persons were silled outright, and eleven have since died. The casualties were very numerous, besides the fatal injuries. Word was immediately telephoned to the manager's office for assistance, And twenty-five policomen, with a f nil corps of physicians and waggons, woro despatched at once to tho scene of the disaster^ where they were soon busily employed in alleviating the sufferings of the victims, and clearing &tho wreck. Tho wounded, who wera fcnfcblo to care for themselves, were carried to the Soldiers' Hospital, a short distance from the scone of the accident. Three more victims of the disaster died next day. Joe Emmett, the actor, is dead. Moody and Sankey are holding revival meetings at Salt Lake City. The church ia crowded, and " overflow meetings " aro held. News from the city of Mexico, to tho 10th October, states that a bill has been submitted to Congress that the churches and curacies now tinder the charge of foreign priests shall be restored to the dominion of the nation. This is a? blow aimed at the Jesuit*. The Holy See has formally threatened to recall the Papal nuncio from Paris if the Jesuits' decrees are enforced. The Jesuits who had taken np their abode with the students of an American College at Villa San Girottano, near Loretto, recoivod intimation from the police to leave. Tho inspectors visited a former Jesuit establishment at Amiens, and found thore two Jesuit fathers, previously professors in tho samo college. The Franciscan friars of Avignen have bricked up the doors of their monastery there. The/ are well supplied with provisions. The President of the Montpellier Tribunal declared himself inoompetent to hear a suit of the Carmeilites against the Prefect to reoovor possession of their convsnt. Aooordintr to the olerioal journals the papal nuncio at Paris will continue to ncgo ciato with the French Govornmont with th object of mitigating tho application of th religious docrcos, and it will dopend on the rosult of their offorts whothor the Pope will intervono or not. A corn-cooker at Powell's distillery, Twenty-tecond-streot, Chicago, exploded with terrific effect, on 16th October, killing sevon persons and wounding four.