ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 32, 31 July 1880, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

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England is making numerous important additions to her torpedo, fleet. The statue of Baikes lias been erected on the Thames Embankment. A great uproar occurred at a Protestant Reform Society meeting at Exeter Hall, to protest against Catholic appointments by the Gladstone Ministry. The steamer Humboldt, at Liverpool from New York, took fire. Every bale of cotton had to be thrown overboard. A bloody riot between the people and the police took place at Dublin. "Several were seriously injured. • ■ "- ' '"■'-'■ Redpath, the" New York Herald's correspondent, condemns Irishmen for their indifference to their distressed- countrymen, and says that while Australia and New Zealand subscribed Jj'55,570; America, _28668; Canada, JG3348; India, £3150; and England, _;10,0_6, there were no Irish subscriptions. Mr. Parnell's Bill proposes to take .3200,000 from the Irish Church Fund. The Hon. Mr. Foster said he must oppose it, as doing more harm than good. The Government Irish Land Bill is strongly opposed by the Conservatives, and is condemned by the Press, which denounces it as a confiscation. In Prance the execution of the decree against Jesuits and authorised religious bodies haß led to most exciting scenes. At a Jesuits' chapel in one of the provinces, where thronged meetings were being held to protest against the decrees, the most riotous proceedings prevailed in and round the building. The mob hooted the priests, and the Rue de Sorres priests locked themselves in cells, which the police broke open. 39 establishments, with 454 members, have been broken up. The Archbishop of Avignon offered hospitality to a number ' of expelled Jesuits, but he received a peremptory telegram from the Minister of Worship, which caused him to request the Jesuits to leave without delay. The Spanish Government has granted numerous applications to establish Jesuit Colleges in Madrid. All judges and public prosecutors of Versailles resigned rather than give effect to these decrees. Some of the expelled have purchased the old Neverall estate in England. Several duels have occurred recently, chiefly with French journalists. Six thousand Communists have returned to Paris. A general amnesty is expected. The German Church Bill passed by 200 to 202. Prince Bismark said the Bill was drawn by himself, and he would not permit its ventilation. He avows bis intention to leave Parliamentary fighting, and devote his attention to Foreign Affairs. The general opinion is that the Vatican got the best of the Chancellor in the Church fight. The leading Austrian journals express the belief that the end of Turkey is at hand, and advise Austria to take as much Turkish territory as possible. It is believed the Czar of Russia intends morganatic marriage, with a Princess by whom he has had thirteen children. ' ' Russia is disgusted by Colonel Gordon's visit to China. A Russian floating batteiy, the Kremlin, going to the Pacific, collided with a Danish steamer, and was so crippled that it had to put into Kolingsford for repairs. Admiral JeSsoki has been appointed chief commander of the Pacific volunteer cruiser Russia, with 1276 men, who have gone to Velsdevostrito, which has been placed in a state of siege. The clerical party have been triumphant in the Italian municipal and provincial elections. Garibaldi was beaten by Prince Chiagofenarshal, a candidate of the Conclave. In reply to an^address from Goschen, the Sultan expressed a desire for thecompletion of all reforms. * .; The Sultan refused to allow the hftreta of the ex-Khedive >'f Egypt tQ%ild;.ij| Constantinople. • . ..V. '* T : -

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Pirates are ravaging the coast of Asia Minor. An attempt on the life of the new Grand Sheriff of Mecca has failed. The Sultan is alarmed at the secret designs of the Powers, and proposes to render the Dnrdenelles impregnable by topedoes and Torts. A despatch of the 3rd July says the ports are proclaimed in a state of siege throughout all the provinces on the Greek frontier. The new iernlory to be ceded to Greece is estimated ak 890 square miles, containing iOOfiOO inhabitants. The St. Gotliard tunnel is threatened. Landslips are disintegrating the masonry, and engineers think the only way out of the difficulty is a modified line traced out. Chacin Rhisha, formerly Egyptian Minister of War and Marine, has obtained naturalisation as an Italian subject, without the permission of the Egyptian Go. vermnent or the Porte, thus placing himself under the protection of the Italian Government with his immense property,' "which it is generally supposed belongs to the ex-Khedive. The Khedive has issued a decree orderiug his degradation, and dismissing him from his appointment in the Egyptian army. Earl Kimberley instructed the High Commissioner in South Africa to avoid extending British jurisdiction there. In Calcutta the Chamber of Commerce takes desponding views of the future export trade. The Indian Government makes a clear gain of 10,000 rupees by the allotment of the new 4£ per cent. loan.