NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1533, 16 January 1879, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[By Telegraph.] EUROPEAN SUMMARY. London (undated) The Queen’s Speech at the opening of Parliament was chiefly referring to the Afghan question. * Earl Granville and the Marquis of Hartington both criticised with some sharpness Lord Lytton’s course towards the Ameer, but both urged that, as a war had been commenced, ample encouragement and support should bo given to the invading forces. The Irish members are loud in complaint because Ireland is not alluded to in the speech. The Duke of Cumberland and Princess Thyra arrived with great pomp at the chapel of Chriatiansberg castle on the eveniag of Saturday, December 21st. The Bishop of Durham has resigned through ill-health. It is rumored that Alexandretta, a seaport in the north of Syria, has been ceded by Turkey to England. The Derby cotton mill at Bolton was destroyed by fire, the loss being ,£25,000. Mr Isaac Butt has been denounced by Mr John O’Connor Power as a traitor to Home Rule and the Irish cause. Mr John Ruskin declines the Slade Professorship at Oxford. The steamship Pomerania was run into by a Welsh collier named Noll Ellian, of Carnarvo*, off Folkstone. Thos. Blight, the chief officer, says the Pomerania was going at half to threequarters speed. Nothing was heard of whistle or fog ham : her lights were all burning, and all could have been saved if the sailors had not rushed to the boats. 162 passengers were saved, 94 are missing. The British Government has abandoned the intention of granting relief to the Rhodope fugitives. Mr Tottenham, a Conservative, was returned for New Ross, defeating Mr Delaney, a Home Ruler. Mr Gladstone intends to come forward as a candidate at Midlothian. The great Triatoru Colliery Company have closed their mines. By a collision in the Mersey, fifteen persons were drowned from the ferry boat. O’Connor, convicted of Fenianism, has been released from Spike Island. The Canadian loan of 3,000,000, at 4 per cent., half guaranteed by the Imperial Government, has been placed on the market, and was allotted at the minimum price of 96) per cent. Business in silver is at a complete stand still. William Henry Palmer, known as B. Heller, the magician, leaves .£125 a year to Haidee, who assisted him in his performance, .£125 to hia wife and the balance of his wealth to his brother Angelo, of Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. Sir F. McClure, a Liberal, has been returned for Londonderry, beating Mr Alexander, a Conservative. Obituary—Geo. Henry Lever, author ; Alfred Wignan, author ; the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Captain White Melville, the novelist, broke his neck in the hunting field. Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow, the German dramatic poet, is also dead. The failures for the month are Bilston Loan and Discount Company with liabilities £60,000; Henry Taylor and Sons, grain and flour mer. chants, Glasgow, liabilities £1,300,000; J. J. Fenton and Sons, private bankers, Rochdale, and Heywood, Smith, and Co. (failure announced on October 3rd), with liabilities estimated at £3,000,000 ; James Ramsey, Dundee, merchant, £80,000; Gallemot and Weyland, bankers ; Horzland, merchant, Stockholm ; Caledonian Bank, Glasgow. The West of England and South Wales Bank has suspended. They propose to re-construct the bank by assessing individual stockholders. The Odessa Commercial Bank went into liquidation on the 14th. Further failures are —Fox, Walker, and Co., Atlas Engine Works, Bristol; Zubina and Co., iron ore importars, of Cardiff and Newport, Wales; McKean, Tibley, and Co., merchants, Bradford, for £86,000. AMERICAN. A swindler named William Griffin has been arrested at San Francisco for extensive forgeries on the Union Bank, London, in the shape_ of letters of credit paesed on Baldwin, the mining millionaire and proprietor of Baldwin’s Theatre and hotel. ~ , .... A plan is nnder consideration to consolidate the Union and Central Pacific Railroads under one management. The Marquis of Lome was sworn in as Governor-General of the dominion on the 25th ultimo. There were great festivities on the occasion. , McMahon, of New Jersey, accepted Weston s proposal to walk in San Francisco 522 miles in 144 hours. , . ~ . The Harvard Boat Club are enthusiastic in their deter min ation to challenge the oarsmen of the two English Universities for an eight-oared face next summer. . Denis Kearney, the agitator, was received on his return to San Francisco by a procession of nearly 5000 working men, with banners and music. # Clara Louise Kclogg quarrelled with the manager because a new prima donna, Lita, eclipsed her in the estimation of the musical public. Chinamen are being naturalised in New York. The steamship New Zealand, from New York for Antwerp, returned on the 27th with her cargo on fire. , Virginia refused to observe a thanksgiving day on President Hayes’ proclamation. The Andrews brothers, who went to Europe in the small boat Dora, 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 1 ilton has been formally expelled from Beecher’s Church at Brooklyn. Orville Grant, brother of the ex-Prcsident, has been released from the Insane Asylum, cured, Mackay, the Bonanza king, has given Gilmore and Bandmann 150,000 dols to insure their European professional tour against loss. A vendetta took place in Bethel 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, Now Zealand, and California. , _ , . , T ir 1 There have been heavy floods in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Vermont, and New Hampshire, washing out railway bods, and doing vast damage otherwise. The British ship Thalia, from Glasgow to Honolulu, foundered at sea. Part of the crew reached Valparaiso. , Bayard Taylor, the traveller and author, formerly United States Minister to Germany, is dead from dropsy. A mutiny occurred on board the British barque Anaway, on her voyage from New York to Trieste. The mate was killed and others wounded. The captain shot one of the mutine Qold was sold at par in New York on the 18th for the first time since the suspension of specie payment in 1862. Gas stock in San Francisco has fallen heavily jn consequence of preparations for the introduction of the electric light. The Pacific Mail Company is offered two million dollars for two China steamers, and three hundred thousand for an Australian steamer. It is believed this will lead to the withdrawal of the company from the latter route wi to it» pfWßiog into English hands.