NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 57, 10 March 1881, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

SPECIAL TO THE POST. TERRIBLE WINTER IN ENGLAND. SLEIGHING IN THE STREETS OF LONDON. MR. BRADLAUGH AND JUDGE SHAW. SHOOTING OF A PRIEST. THE HANLAN-LAYCOCK RACE. i.from otjr own correspondent.] Auckland, This Day. English papers received by the mail are filled with accounts of the Eevere winter. Judges were snowed up when on assize journeys, actors were belated and unable to appear. A party of Australians who attended the luncheon at the Victoria Docks to celebrate the opening of the direct line of steamers from London to Queensland, were snowed up on the railway in returning, and after waiting for hours in the cold had to get out and walk the best part of the way baok on foot. Sloighs were frequently seen in the London streets, the Prince of Wales Betting the example. In America the damage done by storms is very serious. Rivers overflowed, trains were blocked up with | snow, and traffic generally was impeded. California especially suffered, and the greater part of New Orleans was submerged. A lady superintendent and six lady nurses have left England to nur3e sick soldiers in the Transvaal. Bradlaugh has brought under the notice of the House of Commons some remarks made by Judge Shaw, of Taranaki, in sentencing the Maori prisoners. Mr. Grant Duff said the Judge was under the control of the Colonial Government. It iB stated that Russia gave England positive assurances that if the Turkomans surrendered, the Russians would not occupy their territory, but would retire on the Caspian. The Catholic clergy at Maynooth College have resolved that immediate and thorough reform of the land laws would restore peaoe and security, but they fear that the fictitious peace cauaed by the Coercion Bill, which has led to many tenants paying rents, will encourage the House of Lords to reject or nullify the Land Bill. Mr. Thornton, a well-known English millionaire in Russia, who is also known in New Zealand, has closed one of the largest cloth manufacturies in the world, and discharged 1500 hands in St. Petersburg, owing to the dullness of trade. A priest at Guatemala has been shot by order of the President for not obeying a decree expelling Jesuits. American accounts of the Hanlan-Laycock race say that the result was regarded as a foregone conclusion, and there was little betting, three to one on Hanlan being freely offered Laycock, though rowing well and strongly, had no chance trom the beginning. An explosion in a Pennsylvania oil refinery broke windows a mile distant. A thousand barrels of oil, and many buildings and wharves, were destroyed. SELLING CHILDREN FOR FOOD THE KING OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. A FATHER CRUCIFIES HIS SON. NEFAEIOUS FRAUDS BY UNDERTAKERS. A GIGANTIC TELEGRAPH SCHEME. WRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE. THE FENIAN "SCARE." SERIOUS COLLIER? ACCIDENTS. THE ARREST OF MICHAEL DAVETT. [ UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | San Francisco, 15th February. Lieutenant Percy Roper, 8.E., was found murdered in Brompton Barracks on 11th February, and it is believed he waß killed by Fenians. Distress is so great among the Ural tribes in Russia, that parents are selling their male offsprings for grain, and leaving the females to perish. The Land League has decided to invest in the United States the .£600,000 now in Europe. 225,000 dollars have been subscribed for ex-President Grant. Messrs. Gould, M' Kay, Vanderbilt, and E. D. Morgan gave 25,000 dollars each. King Kalakau, of the Sandwich Islands, has arrived in San Francisco. He proposes to visit the different Asiatic and European nations, with a view to finding out tho most feasible means of attracting a desirable class of immigrants to the island, to take tho place of the natives, who are doomed to rapid extinction. A new organisation, called the National Anti-Monopoly League, has been started in New York, with branches over the country. Its object is to protect citizens against the aggressions of corporations, and to advocate and defend the rights of the many against the privileges of the few. Moody and Sankey continue their revival efforts in San Francisco, but do not make as great an impression as expected. Meetings in favor of the Irish Land League, held in San Francisco, have been largely attended by citizens, and the feeling is very enthusiastic Professor Proctor, who has returned from Australia, is drawing thousands to hear his lectures on astronomy. An important statement has been made that Californian wheat is deteriorating. This is attributed to the impoverishing of the land by growing year after year the same kind of crops without other fertilizers. Jay Gould, it is said, has purchased the Montreal Telegraph system. This, with the system now organising for Mexico, makes him autocrat of the wires on the Continent. Seven hundred of Sitting Bull's band of Indians have surrendered to the United States authorities, and Bull's power is now broken. A select committee of Congress has agreed to report favorably on the inter-ocean transit scheme of carrying vessels by ship railroad across the Isthmus. The Legislature has refused to pas 3 a resolution expressing sympathy with the Irish people and regret at the course puroued by the British Government. Two barrels of nitro-glycerine cartridges were recently shipped aboard a steamer at New York, with a view to blow up the i vessel, bnt the carriers acting suspiciously, r caused an examination, and the explosives were at once thrown overboard. George Darrell is playing " Back from the Grave "at Baldwin's, San Francisco, with moderate success. The movement for the World's Fair in New York in 1883 is very strong. General Grant heads it, and the railroads are expected to contribute 100,000 dollars. The tide of emigration to the United States has increased enormously. Some paperß hint that it might be stayed if Canada ceased to be a British colony. The Railroad Bill has finally passed the Canadian Parliament. It is generally considered that the figures are " cooked " on which the awards were made in the late fishery arbitration between Canada and the United States. The latter have been the sufferers. The Chinese treaty with the United States creates alarm in some English quarters on account of the opium clause. It is found that China intends to renew her attempt to prohibit the importation of opium altogether. It is proposed to 6end the Government veasel Coxwin in search of the Bennett Arctic exploring yacht, Jeanette. American forgers have been arrested in Florence, Turin, and Milan, and papers found in their Inggage showed that their operations extended throughout the United States. Canada, England, France, Belgium, and Italy. Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, the most celebrated Catholic prelate in the United States, is paralysed. An extraordinary instance of cruelty has occurred at Newark, Ohio. John Cumming, a laborer, forbade his eight year old son from coasting on an adjacent mill (sic) and crucified him for disobedience. A cremating association has been formed in New York. It has been discovered that a class of men in New York, calling themselves undertakers, trade in the corpses of children, and agree with parents to bury their dead offspring for a small sum, and then sell the bodies to the dissecting rooms. Inexperienced burglars, attempting to get into the money vault at E. Palme and Co. 'a paper warehouse in New Orleans, recently blew the whole front of the building out. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs has adopted resolutions declaring that the policy of the United States in reference to the Inter-Oceanic Canal is to be a re-affirma-tion of the Monroe doctrine. The resolutions insist that the work shall not be under the control of any European Government or power, but shall be free to the commerce of the world upon equal terms. Gold in great quantities, chiefly in the form of nuggets, has been discovered in some old abandoned mines of Lefu, near Caneties, in Chili. In reference to the recent consolidation of the telegraph system in the United States, Jay Gonld Baid to an interviewer :— " The new company now has under contract, through a new cable company organised at Albany (New York), two cables between thia country and England, which are to be laid early in the summer. The cables will be laid from Cuba, where they will connect with our present syßtem, to the other West Indian islands, to Brazil, and other harbors of South America, as well as from San Francisco to China, Japan, Oceanic* ; with a

northern line by way of Paget Sound to Alaska and Northern Asia, connected at Kamschatka with the RussUn system. So that, at no distant date, St. Petersburg will be in direct communication with Now York by way of Asia, as well as Europe ; and England will reach her Australian provinoea through New York, and by our American lines, cheaper and more exueditiously than on English lines through the Red Sea and by way of India. We contemplate a general cable and telegraph syßtem round the world." It iB rumoured in Cork that the Fenians in America and tho United Kingdom are aiding the Boers with men and money. It is also said that 500 American adventurers had gone to the seat of war. Baroness Burdett Coutts and Afihmead Bartlett were married in London on February 11. None but the nearest relatives and most intimate friends formed the wedding party. Despite all precautions taken at the Portsmouth barracks against the Fenians, the brass connections belonging to the fire hose have been cut and stolen. Twenty thousand miners attended a meeting of the League in Lancashire, and afterwards repaired to the Atherton Collieries, where a desperate riot ensued. The Hussars, infantry, and police were marched on the ground, and after the reading of the Riot Act the cavalry charged the mob. Several miners and policemen were injured. Fearing a Fenian attack the police guard Gladstone's residence, and attend him at a distance. A vessel has arrived at Plymouth with the figure head of the lost training ship Atalanta. Strict precautions have been taken in every part of the United Kingdom, on account of. Fenian agitation, and remarkable vigilance iB used at tho Houses of Parliament. Troops, even in London, are confined to their barracks. Three policemen have been shot in Edinburgh, one Beriously, in making an arrest of two men lurking about the Custom House. One of the arrested parties has sinoe committed suicide, and is supposed to be an Irish American. A Dutch Rifle Corps has been formed at the Hogus to assist the Boers. William, son of the hereditary Priaos Leopold, of the Hohenzollern throne, was forcibly abduoted by throe men, and taken across the ithine. He subsequently esoaped. Reid, Leiprand, & Co., coffee merchants, of Frankfort, with branches in London, haTe failed and the coffee trade generally is dis> organised. Leopold De Rothschild the youngost son of the late Baron Lionel Do Rothschild, and Miss Perugia, of Trieste, were married in the Portland-street Synagogue, London. The Prince of Walea, Lord and Lady Rosebery, and other parsons of rank were present. Thomas Carlyle was unconscious for many hours before death, and Buffered no pain. Professors Tyndall, Froude, and Lecky attended his funeral. The North Gorman Lloyd'a steamer Kron Prinz Frederio Wilholm waa sunk by another steamer in a collision off Cothavon, and six lives were lost. The ship Bremen has boon wrecked at the Shetland Isles. Thirteen of tho orew were drowned ; seven saved. Twelve men have been imprisoned, and probably since perished, by a oolliery explosion in Whitfield, near Chall, Staffordshire. Two ships were damaged, 18 railway trucks, and 12 grain-lodon barges destroyed by fire at the Victoria Docks, London, on Bth February. The steamer Bohemian, Captain Grundy, from Boston for Liverpool, went ashore in Dunlop Bay, on the Irish Coast, during a dreadful Btorm, and 32 persons were drowned. Twenty-one of tho orow, including the second officer, were saved. The Bohemian was one of six steamers of the Loyland Line, plying between Liverpool and Boston, and probably worth £100,000, Her cargo was worth £56,000. Tho vessel was insurod. Michael Uavitt, Land League agitator, was arrested on the 3rd February, under his tickot-of-leave, and taken to the Millbank Penitentiary, and immediately clothed as a convict. The arrest was made in Dublin, and the cause assigned was that he had not reported himself to the police. Messrs. Egan, Brcnnan, and Dillon triod to see him, but were ref uaod. The doctor advised Davitt to go to the hospital as soon as he arrived in prison, as he was threatened with lung disease. He has since been conveyed to the Portland convict prison, but it is not expeoted that he will be detained after order has been restored in Ireland. It is said that the real cause of Davitt's arrest waß his connection with the new movement leading to the employment of physical force in solving the Irish question. Orders have boon given to treat him dnring his imprisonment with all possible indulgence. He occupies a separate room, well furnished, and is kept apart from other convicts. He will not be subject to the ordinary prison labor, but must wear tho conviot dress. The Home Secretary says there was grave and just cause for cancelling Davitt's ticket-of-Jeavo, but it ia not desirable to state the reasons. Davitt is in good health, and satisfied with the arrangements made for him at Portland. Arthur O'Connor, Homo Rule momber, denounces the published statement to the effect that the Irish members of the House received an allowances from the Land League fund, as an atrocious calumny. The Home Rulers have deoided to carry the agitation against the Coercion Act into the-great towns of Kngland and Sootland. A murder, arising out of the land disputes, is reported at Derry Lee, and a serious encounter with the police has taken plaoe at Kilkeely ; also at Bally Hairnis. The mob stormed the police, and were charged at the point of the bayonet. The proprietors of the Marseillaise have been sentenced, in contumaciam, to a fine of 1000 francs for defaming (the army and eulogising a regicide. The manager of the same paper baa been sentenced to a year's imprisonment and 2000 francs fine; and General Cluseret, the editor, to two years' imprisonment and 3000 francs fine.