SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 4952, 16 January 1879, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

The Queen’s speech on the opening of Parliament chiefly referred to the Affghan question. Earl Granville and Lord Hartington both criticised with some sharpness 1 ord Lytton’s epurse towards the Ameer, but both urged that, as war had been commenced, ample encouragement and support should bo given to the invading forces. The IrLh members were loud in their complaints because Ireland was not alluded to m the speech. A The Duke of Cumberland and the Princess Thyra arrived with great pomp ,at the chapel of Christiansborg Castle on the evening of aaturday,.December 21.

The Bishop of Durham has resigned, owing to ill-health.

It is rumored that Alexondretta, a seaport north of Syria, has been ceded by Turkey to England.

The Derby cotton-mill at Bolton was destroyed by fire. Loss, L 25,000, Dr Isaac Butt has been denounced by John O’Connor Power as a traitor to Home rule and the Irish cause.

John Buskin declines the Slade professorship of Oxford.

The steamship Pomerain was run into by a Welsh collier named the Noll Ellinn, of Carnarvon, off Folkestone. Thomas Blight, chief officer, says—“ The Pomerain was going at half to three-quarters speed. I heard no whistle or fog-horn. Our lights were all burning. All could have been saved if the sailors had not rush°d the boats.’' One hundred and sixty-two passengers were saved and ninety-four are missing.

The British Government have abandoned the intention to grant relief to the Bhodope fugitives.

Mr Tottenham, a Conservative, has been returned for New Ross, defeating Mr Delaney, a Home Ruler. Mr Gladstone intends to come forward as a candidate for Midlothian. The Great Triatorn Colliery Company have closed their mines.

By a collision in the Mersey fifteen persons were drowned from a ferry-boat. O Connor, the convicted Fenian, has been released from Spike Island. A Canadian loan of L 3,000,000, 4 per cent., half guaranteed by the Imperial Government, has been placed on tbo market and allotted at a minimum price of 96£ per cent. Henry Wells, founder of Wells, Fargo, and Co.’s Express, died on the 10th Business in silver is at a complete standstill. William Henry Palmer, well known as B. Heller, the magician, is dead. He leaves L 125 a-year to Haidee, who assisted him in his performance, L 125 to his wife, and the balance of his wealth to his brother Angelo, of Hamilton, Victoria, Australia.

Sir F. M’Clure, a Liberal, has been returned for Londonderry, beating Mr Alexander, Conservative.

Obituary: George Henry Lever, the author ; Alfred Wignan, author; Mrs Tait, the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury ; Captain' White the novelist, who broke his neck in the hunting field; and Karl Ferdinand Gutzkon, the German dramatic poet. The failures for the month are the Filston Loan and Discount Company, with liabilities L 60,000; Henry Taylor and Sons, grain and flour merchants, Glasgow, with liabilities LI,300,000; J. J. Fenton and Sons,, privat bankers, Rochdale ; and Hey wood Smith. Fleming and Co.’s liabilities (their failure was announced on October 3} are estimated at L 8,000,000; James Ramsey, Dundee merchant, L 80,000; Gallemotf and Weylandht, bankers; Horgland, merchant, Stockholm. Tbe Caledonian Bank of Glasgow and the West of England and South Wales Banks have suspended. They propose to reconstruct the banks by assessing the individual stock-holders. The Odessa Commercial Bank went into liquidation on the 14th, Fox, Walker, and Co., the Atlas Engine Works, Bristol, Zubina and Co., iron ore importers, of Cardiff and Newport, Wales; and M‘Kean. Tibley, and Co., merchants, of Bradford, have also failed. The latter’s liabilities are L 86,000, An American swindler named William Griffis has been arrested in Ban Francisco for extensive forgeries on the Union Bank of London, in the shape of letters of credit passed on Baldwin, the mining millionaire, and proprietor of Baldwin’s Theatre. A plan is under consideration to consolidate the Union and Central Pacific Railroads under one management. The Marquis of Lome was sworn in as Governor General of Canada, at Halifax, on the. 25th ult. There were great festivities on the occasion. The American theatrical firm of Shook- and Palmer has been dissolved. The former will become Police Commissioner of Now York. Napoloon Compana, of Bridgeport (Conn.), has challenged O’Leary to a six days’ walk.

O’Leary has accepted. William Muller, champion athlete, New York, has published a challenge to wrestle for 500dols. which M'Mahon, of New Jersey, has aoceptod.’ 'Weaton proposes to walk in San Francisco 622 rnileVlii 144 hours. ,; y i

The Uaward Boat Club are enthusiastic in their determination to challenge the oarsmen of the two English Universities for an eight-bared race next summer.

Denis Kearney, the anti-Chinese agitator, was received on his return to San Francisco by a procession of nearly 5,000 working men with banners and music.

Clara Louise Kell g quarrelled with her manager because the new prima donna, Rita, eclipsed her in .the ..estimation.of .the musical publ.c. - The steamship New Zealand, from New York for Antwerp, returned on the 27th with her cargo on fire.

Virginia refused to observe Thanksgiving Day on President Hayes’s proclamation.. ...... Andrews brothers, who went to Europe in the little cutter Dory, are coming back next spring in the same boat. They intend to build another in which to go to San Francisco, and thence across the Pacific to Australia.

Mrs Tilton has been foimal'y expelled from the Beecher Church at Brooklyn. Orville Grant, brother of the ex-Presidcnt, has been released from the insane asylum.. Maokay, the Bonanza king, has given Gilmoure, the bandsman, 150,000 dollars, to ensure the latter’s European professional tour against loss.

A vendetta took place in Breathill County, in which a judge and several others were killed. General Grant has concluded to visit Asia and British India before'his return home, which will be by way of Australia, New Zealand, and California. >

Heavy floods have occurred in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Vermont, and New Hampshire, washing out the railway beds and doing a vast amount of damage otherwise. The’ British ship Thalia, from Glasgow to Honolulu, foundered at sea. Part of her crew reached Valparaiso. Bayard Taylor, the traveller and author, formerly United States Minister to Germany, is dead from dropsy, Curtis, editor of * Harper’s Weekly,’ is spoken of as bis successor; A mutiny occurred on board the British barque Aiiaway, on the voyage from Now York to Trieste. The mate was' lolled, and others were‘wounded. The captain shot one of the mutineers.

Gold sold at par in New York on the 18th, for the first time since the. suspension of speoie pay men s in 1862.

Gas stock in San Francisco has fallen heavily in consequence of the preparations to introduce the electric light. Tbe Pacific Mail Co. has been offered 2,000,000d015. for two China steamers, and Soo,ooodolß. for their Australian steamer. It is believed that this will lead to the withdrawal of the company from the tatter route, and to its passing into English hands. David Cowine, many years Pacific Mail agent at Panama during the existence of the Australian line to that place, died at Florida on the 26th nit.

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