ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 6476, 18 December 1883, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Tho m. City of Sydney was detained from the 23id till the 26th, owing to the non-arrival of the English mails. It is proposed shortly to confine tho Sati FrancUoo and colonial mail (service, to throe steamers, which can be done by shortening the time of lying in Ban Francisco.

The Southern Pacific railroad ..people are trying to control the wheat-carrying from this part, and the way they propose to do it Is this: They have found that the ships which go to San Francinno for wheat carry their <argoes of coal from England, Australia, and elsewhere in order to meet at shis point. They hftvo bought exiensive coal deposits on Puget Sound, where they jtrobuild'ng ships to freight this coal to San Firucuco. In this way they could supply a large amount of tho demand for coal, and render it unprofitable for wheat ships to coal here,

William M'Oamt. Neilaon, formerly of Vio-toria,'>-.owof cha Francisco, was attacked and Sw/Hy beats n on October 24 while leaving his dwelling by two disguised men. It is thought tho assault had some connection with a recent suit against ex-Sonata* Sharon for adultery, in whioh NeiLion wan engaged for the proseouMcn, Theafhir is consldeied somewhat mysterious. Before he wa? attacked Neilaon had brought a personal suU against Sharon for slander, laying damages at 120 OOOdoi. Tho letter had (stigmatised him as a blackmailer. The Sharon suit has also led to the indictment on a charge of forgery of Mr Neihon aad Miss Hill. yir Henry Herbert, M.P., tho ow»or of Muck-, r■ ss Abbey, was about to marry Miss Williams, ft Baltimore heiress-,'on November 11, when her father discovered that the baronet's estate v;as so heavily mortgaged th&t he was noxt door to ft pauper. The wedding proceedings wero summarily stopped. The iron mils of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, are generally closing down owing to the depression of trade

John Bright denies that he Intends to visit America this winter, Gerald Massoy, at present in Now York, en route for Australia, is nearly broken down by bronchitis, contracted in America, from which he hopes his trip.to tho colonies will free him. A and enthu«ia»tio meeting of Freetraders was held in New York on November 22, Henry Ward Beecher presided. Capt&ih F. W. Dawson, an Englishman, and editov of the Charleston 'News and Mercury,' hai been created a Knight of tho Order of sfc. George by the Pope for the opposition he has tnachi to duelling, and which ha 3 gradually led to the, suppression of the practice in South Carolina.

. Hanlan arrived In San Francisco on November 22 en route to Australia.

William J. Katnsay, the proprietor of the 'London Fieethlnker,' convicted on the 6th of March last of publishing blasphemous libels, and Benteaced to nine months' Imprisonment, ■W!i3 released on November 24, Ho was escorted from gaol by Bradlaugh and a large crowd of sympathisers, who cheered him, and ho was given a public breakfast at the Hall of Science. George W. Foote, editor of the same paper, convicted' of the Bame offence, haß yet to serve three months, ; Wolff, a member of the Advanced Socialist Olub of London, was arrested on the 23rd in his house, where were found two infernal machines, pliced I.he:o 1 y a Frenchman named Bolkeiane. It turned out on investigate n to be a put-up job to obtain the reward expected to be paid to the informer, the Frenohnnn undertaking the rQle, and that no real conspiracy existed, as was nfcated, to destroy the German Embassy, Ambassador, arid attacM. 4 Messrs Jamea and Co., merchants, of Map-,. Chester, f ailed on the 24th. Their liabilities are LUO.OOO. 'Canada haa demanded that the Imperial, Government pay part o» tho expenses of maintaining paupor immigrants deported from Ireland and landed in the colony, but there la no likelihood the demand will be complied with, It is now suggested by tho Ottawa J?ross that destitute and undesirable imml&rantß be shipped to the placa from whence the came, as was done b,7 tho authorities at American ports. A son of Jay Gould, the American millionaire, is about to wed .Miss Carrie Astor, of the famous Astor family! a'union of wealth that 13 Btirring New York society circles profoundly. It u stated in San Francisco that a delegation of business men from the Australian colonies, hoaded by U.S. Consul Calho, of Sydney, will Visit America next spiiug, with the view of mulling themselves more thoroughly acquainted with t»*e country. The Marquis of Lome, in his "Impressions of Colonial Life," writes that Canada is the least costly country and the least troublesome, and yet the greatest, of the British colonial possessions. ~-.*, Tho s,a, City of Sydney reached San Franchco a day in advance of schedule time. Her speed was due, j.t is "aid, to iii-j new Improved screw with which she has been recently fitted. Aylw,vrd, who gained jfame as a leader on the Boer aide in the recent Transvaal war, was airesteii In Chicago recently f,or being drunk and disorderly. Port Antonio, Jamaica, was almost enijrefy degtrityod by fire on October 18. It began m the Wry-goods store of Sutherland and Co. The jtntal loan is over L2GO 000. Thp Canadian Pacific railroad having.been consitaUAVed pa the eastern side to within thirtyfivo rai'los of &3 jiummifc of the Selkirk Kidge of the Eocky Mountains, it was then discovered that it might be impossibly to cross via the, Kickiug Horse Pass. The eriglner-rs on tho work got into a dispute on the tv.bject, which became so serious that the matter was laid before tho manager and officials, and the conclusion, was come to to stop all work for two years. Consequently betwewn 4,000 and 5,000 msn wore discharged. Engineers will be put to work at once to discover the best route.

Extraordinary precautions liave been taken, to guard the English men-of-war dow lying in the port* ot the Canadian seaboard provinces aaainat Foniau attack. Tne Marquis of Salisbury, speabkg at a banquet of the Carlton Club, said that the defeat of Hicks Pasha must end all thoughts of the withdrawal of British troops from Egypt. The French papers express the opinion that the disaster will lead to the permanent English occupation of Egypt. Sir Evelyn Wood has advised the Egyptian Gr'jvernmottt to abandon the Soudan and establish a strong frontier line from Khartoum to on the Red Sea. Tce.o wore arroated in New York city on November 12 three notoiloua counterfeiters viz., C. E. Martin, William E. Brokway Watt, and P. Foster They were charged with cou?:torfeifchn; l.OOOilol mortgage bonds of the Central Pac'.Cu iki.il way of California and Monis and Wmvx Hail ways of New York, A large number of unsigned bonds and plates for mniing'them were found in their possession. T&6, anurous bonds were' so well executed that experts were .yucerfiain.which were genuine pnd, -*hich were counterfeit. 0. R. Martin is'well Tflaojwn in-Stydtaey and He had

visited those cities twice within tho last six years. His first visifi was with tomo young horses, and that venture v..i;i bo sucG?s;dul that two years tigo ho made a second with a number of thoroughbred nvsrino sheep, which ho disputed of rapidly to bi-i advantage. While iu Australia he became well liked by those ho in contact with, and before he left Sydney he established business relations with several well-known breeders of thoroughbred sheop and cattle for the exchange of choice stock between 'Frisco and that city. The first consignment under his arrangement arrived from Sydney on the last steamer and is now in San Francisco awaiting the result of Martin's examination and trial. Martin and his companions have been indicted by the New York County Fraud Jury and held for trial. In 1875 Martin was indicted for the samo offence iu New York, but escaped trial on account of important information ho gave to tho authorities, A London despatch say?:-"The Qcteen's health is improved, but from the effects of nor late accident she is ttill unable 100 stand or walk for more than a few minutes at a time, and it is still impossible for her to walk up or down stairs." Her Majesty left Balmoral for Windsor on tho diite mentioned, closely guarded by apec'ul polico all along the route. At Windsor there wero largo detachments to guard the approaches after Her Majesty's arrival at the Castle.

Tt:o Earl of Danraven is agitating for Protection. Ho was chairman of a largo ' • fair trado " meeting at Leamington on November 11, and his remarks wero strongly in opposition to tho present trade policy, A syndicate in London hj discussing a project for a ship canal across Ireland. London physicians are about to commence a campaign against canned goods. , Several cases of sickness have recently been traoed to their use. ■

The Lord Mayor of London refused on November 11 to, allow Dt Stockor, chaplain of the Court of Germany, to lecture in'the Mansion House, stating as a reason that Dr Stockor had originated the recent persecution of the Jews on tho Continent. The doctor lectured at the Memorial Hall instead on November 14 on the sabjeot of "German Soc'aKsm." A largo and unruly crowd was present, and frequently hissed the lecturer, some cheering, and others groaning. He was frequently interrupted with insulting crks and epithets. Dr Stocker finally loft the hall indignantly, and the meeting broke up in confusion.

Mr Henry Chaplin. M.P. for Lincolnshire, has renewed his efforts to iaduce the British Government to restrict tho importation of cattle from the United States. The" trade is rapidly increasing, Lord Kipon has offered his resignation as Viceroy of India. Mr Goachen 13 spoken of as his successor, and will be made a Peer. The 'Pall Mall of November 8 contained a btatement that tho authorities were anonymously informed that an attompt wonld bemade to destroy the train ca which the Duke and Duchess of Connr.ugnt t avelled from London to Dover en route for India

Several large failures in the cotton trade were reported in Liverpool on October 30. The bouse of M, and F. M Jianger was one of thcue that collapsed, its liabilities bdng estimated at L 600.000. ]!. H. Foreman nod Co,, Hollena and Head, Tatty and Co. followed. New York dealers weie affected by these failures to the tuno of LIQO.OOO. On the 81st tho Liverpool house of Miller and Fenton also suspended, with Henry Pearcc and Joseph Taylor and Co., cotton broker*.

A warrant was issued on October ?1 for the arrest of the suh-manager of tho' Preston Banking Company on a charge,of embezzling LIO.OOO.

The Steamship Owners' Association of London have wjrifcten to Karl Graav'illo urging fresh action in the matter of cutting a second canal across 1 Suez Lord Granville has sent a communication to tho French Government insisting upon, a proper apology for the, behavior of the late Admiral Pierre towards ■Commander'Johnson at Tama-, tave. The question of the conduct of the' French towards.Mr, Shnw is treated by Lord Granville as a thing apart frcm the other. The English Liberals lost heavily in tho recent municipal elections, which though fought In isolated places on such local topics as the Salvation Army, tho new town hall, olectrlo lighting and gas, or toototalism or beer, were fought generally' on political lines. Some of the Liberal journals are despondent, and think that the result presages the defeat of tho party on a wider field, illustrating the general eleotion of 1882, when the Conservatives were overthrown. It is propoeed by a committee of Glasgow' peoplo to buy tho house of the late Thomas C;>rlyl9 at Chelsea and convert it into a "Oarlyle Club House." ' The marriage of Princess Louise Victoria, tho eldest daughter of the Princess of Wales, now sixteen y oars old, to the young Duke of Portland Is mooted.

Sir Moses Montefiore, on attaining Ills ninetyninth year, received many congratulations from all parts of tho world. Among the letters was one from tho Prince of Wales. The deafness of the Princess of Wales has' bet n relieved.

An aotion has been brought against tho Duchess of Montrose in relation to her late husband's will, validity of which is disputed. Her defence is that her husband, in making it, used a stump instead of a pen, because his right hand was unsteady. : ' The Duke of Leicester has refused the vacant Order of the Garter because tho. proffer came from Mr Gladstone. Mr Carnegie, millionaire, ironmaster, of Pittsburgh, has been proposed as M.P. for the Borough of Kirkcaldy, his native town. A miners' conference in Manchester onOctober 31, representing 200,C00 men, resolved to send notices to miners' employers demanding an advance of 15 per oont. in their wages. ' Humphries and Co., eugmvevs, of London,failed on November 6 for L 200.000. Lord Lorne is suggested as Viceroy of Ireland. An explosion took place in the Moorfleld Colliery, Lancashire, on November 1. Seventy miners were killed.

The Queen, in her impatience, has had a temporary stucco cast of the late John Brown's statue erected on the lawn at Balmoral in front of tho royal apartments. The cast has become tho snbject of eo much discusolon in artistio circles that Mr Boehm, it.i., has had to speak in selfdefence. He admits that it is better-looking than John Brown ever w*s, but s»ys that Her Majesty came to his studio weekly to superintend the modelling, ar.d insisted on one change or another until he thought ho was doing the Apollo Belvidere in kilts. Several of the London newspapers recently published articles suggesting the establishment in New York of homes for the reception of English girls who emigrate with the intention of becoming domestics, and a nutrtber of English' ladies .'have expressed tholr willingness t0 organise"a system of selection, asd to send a continuous supply of well qualified girls. • No public meeting of the National League was held anywhere in Ireland on October 28, the Government having forbidden tbem. , Some disorders occurred at Castle Lyon, 'County Cork, where tho police with fixed bayonets charged upon a procession, breaking it Etp, and capturing the banners and musical nstramenta. When the police withdrew with the military a" meeting was/held, and. tho purpose of tho League in part effected.

Mr Michael Bayltt has expressed privately and pubUply his dissatisfaction with the want of support that tho IrUh people are showing towards the National League, and says that neither Mr Parnell nor his following are making any serious efforts to carry into effect the resolutions that were passed a year ago by the National Conference held in Dublin. The Parnell Fund is expooted to reaoh L35.0C0. On the Ist November Lord Rossmore, Grand Master of the Orangemen, wrote to a newspaper to the effect that, if tho Parnellite League and other disloyal meetings were allowed to continue in Ulster, there would be bloodshed aDd perhaps civil war, as restraint of the Orangemen cannot bo reckoned upon, The Londonderry Hall, In which tho Lord Mayor of Dublin was to deliver an address on November 1, was taken possession of by tho Orangemen, who held it. On tho arrival of the Mayor in tho City he wan driven to his hotel, his escort carrying green banners and the bands playing Irish national airs., During the passage of tho procession a man and a boy wore shot. The Orangemen planted the IJnton Jack on the roof of the City Hall, but later in the day'they'vacated the building and withdrew from 1 ho vicinity. The Mayor of Londonderry isDued a proclamation appealing to the people to refrain from yloleDce and retaliation. The chief prjanieer ef this rowdyism was Lord Ernest Hamilton, a sop of the Duke of Abercorn. The 'Times' and the Tory journals applaud the arrangement; but the Radicals call for tho prosecution. <of the ringleaders. ( The whole business haß immensely strengthened the National party and the popularity of the Mayor pf Dublin. The disorders incident to the Dublin Lord Mayor's visit did not cease on his departure. Hostilities between Nationalists and Orangemen were continued, and the breaking of windows was general, A Nationalist was stabbed on December 3. Several. hundred factory women went on strike on the same day because the proprietor Tofusfecl to cUsc&aige a man in the factory who moved in the Borough Gounoil to rescind the resolution granting permission io the Mayor of Dublin to lecture in the Town Hall, Tho Nationalists paraded the streets, crying "God Save Ireland 1" when they were attacked and stoned by a mob, which they fought;de«perately with until they wero dispersed by the police. An investigation as to tho cause of the disturbance is to be held, but in tho opinion of the Irish Katipnal League leaders it is likely to prove a farce, A bailiff was shot dead on November 1 in a house at Castle Blaney, Galway. Tho trouble In Ulotor has given tie to a proposition to form a constitutional organisation apart from Orangemen, and uniting Catholics and Protestants for the good of the country at lai'XO. Tho Archbishop and priest 3 of Tusm have come out fiercely against "anaisksfi" Immigration, and the Government announce that not more than L50.C00 will lo spent for this purpose. . i The Cabinet having hinted to Earl Spencer iljat the polioy of proclaiming the League meetings on the assumption that they will be att»ckdd by Orangemen cannot be approved of.

The Lord Lieutenant tnok rmbrago., and threatened to resign if >.)!•: policy wero interrupted. There is great excitement throtr^bc^.', T.onghre» in conseqner"!H of .1 wholesale: r;.r : iiem of evictions put into operation there on November 9. The resuli; has been the revival of the f ?uda between Orange r oen and Nationalists. Mr Healy, the M.P. for Monaghan, on seeking admission to tho Irish Bar, was black-balled on November 13 by the law students of tho Debating Society of Dublin. The'seat for Limerick has been filled by Mr .Edward M'Marfcon, Parnelliteand Nationalist, who rocoived 9&2 votes against 474 oast for Mr James Spsight, the Conservative candidate. Lord Spencer's prohibition of the Orange and Parnell meeting in Dublin on November 12 is bitterly denounced by the national prcsa in Dublin and London as a surrender to the Oranoe taction. He believes that this course is the solo means of keeping the peace/without troops. The wildest license «if speech is meanwhile accorded to Mr Harrington and Mr Healy in the South of Ireland. Mr Healy openly advooutes the complete pliuge of the landlords. Joseph W. Poolo, found guilty of the murder of Ktnnody and snntcnccdto death In Dublin on November 20, is *•• hj& hanged on December 10. The. prisoner crltd out 'Three cheera for •the Iri.h Kopubiio; down with English rule" as he left the deck. Tremendous efforts are being ! made to f>ave him from the gallows..