THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 7320, 19 September 1887, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The English Government have decide! to Bubsidise the Canadian Paciiio route for ti-ans-portatiou of British trans-Pacific mails. Lord Lyon3 proposes to re.-ign thu Pm-. Embassy, and Sir Edward Malt will succeed him. . An open-air meeting was held at -\ e-tminst. r on August 2-1 for the imipu.se of denouncing thu Government's action in proclaiming tllt; I,ls " National League. Sir W. V. Haremt addressed the meeting, and, after dealing severely ■with Messrs Chamberlain and Callings as to their relation to the coercion movement, said that he regretted to hear that Lord Hai tingto:i s absorption by the Tory party had already been arranged for; but he hoped lie would be warned in time by the fate of Mr lioecheii. The British Government have made an arrangement with the P. and O. tVmpa' y, by which the Coinpiny w'.ll hvve three now steamers and seven otheis ready for use as armed cruisers. For this service the Com, any will be paid L7s,oOoanMi»lly. , _ A company has recently been organised in London to buy the famou* Real del Monte mines in Mexico. The price is stated to be from 400,000d0l to 500,000d01. In the case of Brooks alia.-t Maxwell, under sentence of death at St Louis for the murder of Prciler, a writ of error has b- en obtained from Justice Miller, of the Uni-od States Supreme Court, and the execution stayed. The people of St. Louis are incensed at what they call the legal tricks in Brooks's case after he has been fairly tried and con/icted. The Pacific Mail and Oceanic Steamship Companies of San F-ancisco hav ng been aroused by tho fierce struggle the CauulianPacific Railway Company is making for the Pacific Ocean traffic, are bringing pressure to bear on Congress for a subsidy. The recent bonus granted by the Impel ial Government to the Canadian-Pacitic Company has alarmed them. It is stated that the labor party that met in convention at Syracuse, New York, on August 18, proceeded at once to tlos-j the movement in favor of Socialism by ungating every del- gat • •who professed Socialise principles. On the State ticket propped Henry George is nominated for the Atteniey-Generabhip. All the Parnellites returned to Londcn and were present at the debate in tho House of Commons on August 15, when Mr Gladstone moved an address to the Queen on the subject of the proclamation of the National Le-tgue, and praying that such proclamation shall not continue in force. Mr Gladstone charactised the action of the Government a'* a more farce. Mr Balfour refused to submit the documents asked for, on the ground that they were confidential A Hebrew named Lepski, condemned to be hanged for murdering a London Jewess, was granted a respite by the Home Secretary at the last moment. The ' Pall Mall Gazette' says Ins lawyers privately convinced Judge Stephens, who sentenced the nun, of his innocence, but the Secretary was with difficulty brought to stay the execution. Eventually Lepski made a full confession of his guilt, and was hanged on August 22. Mr Gladstone has declared in favor of the Channel tunnel scheme. On the night of August 8, in the House of Commons, the Government were questioned as to the reason of their refusal to submit returns showing the number of Royal princes or persons allied to Royalty by marriage who held posts paid out of public funds, and how many offier rs have been passed over by such appointments. Mr Smith replied that in the judgment of the Government such a return would be of an individual character and ought not to be granted. The Radicals cried "Oh, but it must be granted." "What provoked the question was the appointment of Prince Louis of Battenberg to the command of the British -ronclad Dreadnought over the head of a snort-, ot seniors. Sir Algernon Berth wiek's Bill to amend the law of libel aims at preventing the recurrence of the scandalous actions under the existing law which has of late years disgraced the Courts. It provides that no p r.-on shall be found criminally guilty of libel unless it bo proved he wa3 privy to the publication of the libel; that the publication of Government or police notices and judicial notices sball be privileged, and that where no malice is proved and an apology has been published only special damages shall be recovered ; that where damages for libel have already been recovered, the fact m y be pleaded in mitigation of damages in an action brought for the same libel against another defendant. Mrs Macnamara, one of the tenants evicted at Bodyke, has gone mad. . Evictions are being continued with vigor. On August 12, at Mitchellstown, several shopkeepers in town who had been put out made most determined efforts to barricade their places of business. At Limerick sessions three persons were sentenced under the Crimes Act, two of them to six months' and one to four months imprisonment, for resisting the sheriff. A riot occurred at Kinrnore, County Kerry, on August 19. The mob attacked and stonvd the barracks where tin police were quartered. The police charged with drawn swords upo i the rioters, injuring many of ihem and arresting quite a number. A great meeting to pro'est against the proclamation of the Land League was held io Dublin on August 23, presided over by Profef sor Galbraith, a Protestant. It was one of the largest demonstrations, not excepting the famous O'Connell-Stee'e gathering at Clontarf, ever held in IreLnd. The delegation of English members of tie House of Commors consisted of Messrs Jacob Bright, Richard Burden Haldene, J. Fdwtrd Ellis, Charles Fenwick, and Angus Sutherland. This deputation is said to be only an earnest of what the Liberal English members are prepared to do if the Coercion Act is going to be worked with vigor. Members arego;ng to Ireland Jat r on to address meetings, be present at evictions, and sit as lookers-on in Courts where coercion magistrates will exercise summary jurisdiction. At a meeting on the 23rd the Irish members of Parliament advised tciants to double their demands.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. Feverish excitement prevails in the coast counties of California at the pre sent time in regard to real estate. Land has trebled and

quadrupled in value. The movement is caused by extraordinary immigration of moneyed people from the Eastern States. In Camden, New Jersey, a man named William Wiltshire, whose wife sought divorce from him on account of cruelty and neglect, entered the Court-room and shot her where she stood. He murdered the Justice and then blew his own brains out. A despatoh received at Minneapolis with regard to the destitution at Fort Chippeneyan last winter reports the affair as terrible. Cannibalism was resorted to. An old woman at Little Red Kiver admits having killed and eaten her entirs family. Starvation and cannibalism are also reported from Mackenzie River. Among the resolutions passed at a meeting held at Syracuse (N.Y.), on August 19, under the auspices of Mr Henry George, was one favoring the Australian system of secret ballot. Two cannons prematurely exploded at a sham battle held at Anfleld, Illinois, on Augast 29, mutilating five men in a horrible manner. The English steamship Madrid, which sailed from Philadelphia on May 25 for London v.'a Bull River, South Carolina, where she loaded a cargo of phosphorus rook, has been given up for lost with all on boa:d. She was commanded by Captain Matthew Garcon. and his crew numbered twenty-five. The value of the vessel and cargo was L 150.000. A west-bound passenger train of the Southern Pacific Railway was bailed up and robbed near Papago (Arizona) by four men. The train was pirtinlly wrecked, the engine thrown off the the track, and the fireman and engineer killed. The exnrcs-i car was blown open by giant powder, and the robbers secured about 50 000'al

Fanny Henry, a S-m Fr.mcisco waitress, having become infatuated with a baikei-per named Michael Kennedy, and fearing he would desert her, cut his throat while he slept, and then severed In-r own jugular vein. After Bhe had cut her lover's throit she fired four ptst-J bullets into his body, re. erving the fifth for herself.

An txplosion took place at Bandman i ml Ni.ilsen's giant-pow.ler works at Fleming Point, XWt B rkely, California, about six mile-i from San F.ancij-cr. The lo?s sums up in explosives to about 250,000d01. One Chinaman was killed.

A suit is about to be commenced in New York that promises to become celebrat-.d. It has been asserted that Mary Irene Hoy to, daughter of the Lite millionaire Hoy to, who unsuccessfully contested her father's will, \vm a confirmed inebriate, merging on lunacy and wholly unable to. take care o! herself. The case is to be re-opened It U charged that Miss Hoyte has been systematically drugged to produce hy-teria. More than 15,000 persons saw the HanlanTcciner race as Toronto. Ontario, on August 13. Odd* of :)00 to 200 on Hanlan were repeatedly offered ; hut there were no takers. The official time is given as 19min 29scc. The Prohibition aTciulinenttothe State Constitution was defeated in Texas on the 6th August by over KJO.OCO votes. United States Consul Despirre, writingfrom Salva'loro Ccntr.il America, says: " The United States products arc entirely run out of the markets uj> country by the base and cheap imitations from England and Germany." Timos Won 1 folk, living near Matron, (icorgia. deliberately murdered his father, stepmother, their fix children, and Mrs Woolfolk's aunt on the night of August C. Hi.s objest was to get possession of his father's property for himself and his sister*.

Grange Cricket Club meet on Wednesday, 21st, A meetincr of Mr Eegg's supporters will be held on Wednesday, 21st.