NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 79, 5 April 1881, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

SHOCKING SHIPPING DISASTERS. ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST. TERRIBLE SCENE AT A MASKED FETE. THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY CONVENTION. THE AMERICAN PORK SCARE. SPECIAL TO THE POST. [from our own correspondent. I San Francisco, 10th March. A series of terrible shipping disasters occurred on the Aberdeonshire coast on the sth March. No fewer than nine vessels were wrecked and 100 lives were lost. The Liverpool ship Ben Rhydding, from Calcutta, was among tho number wrecked. All the crew, thirty souls, perished within sight of land, the rocket apparatus being unable to reach the vessel. Tho Revised New Testament will be published by the English University Pressos in May next. Another shock of earthquake has been felt at Casatnacoiola, Ischia. The latest reports show that 126 persons wore killed and 179 injured in all the shocks. At a masked f£te of tho students of Munich, the costumes of somo of them caught fire. Four vrero burned to death and eight seriously injured. Tho accident was caused by a student, dressed as an Esquimaux, setting fire to his dress by a lighted cigar, and then rushing in terror among others similarly dressed. The Synagogue at New Stettin, Pomorania, was burned on tho 19fch ult. Tho tiro ia supposed to be the work of an incendiary, as the anti-Jewish feeling is vory strong. The International Monetary Convention will meet on the 27th April next. One effeot of this movement may be, according to the Manchester Guardian, that the Bank of England may revive a section of its charter now in abeyance, allowing the Issuo Department to omit notes upon Bilver to the extent of one-fourth of the amount of gold coin and bullion held by that department. In this way the bank might immediately buy over .£6,000,000 worth of silver, and England, without joining the ranks of the bi*metallist countries, might indirectly render them very substantial assistance. Franco has prohibited tho import of pork from the United States, owing to the importation of diseased moat from Chicago. Mr Mundolla, in the House of Commons, in stating that tho English Government it would not sutiice to prohibit tno rtinericau supply, for trichinosis exists in other countries, and as Ion:? as any other country admitted American pork. England would bo sure to receive a supply second-hand. There was no authentic report as to an outbreak of trichinosis in England, and there was no occasion for apprehension. Goutinental countries were liable to the disease, because the people used uncooked food, which Wcis unknown here.