NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6536, 7 February 1882, Page 5

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[?SB FSS63 ASSOCIAMOIT.] (Per B.s. City of Sydney; via Auckland.) GBEAT BRITAIN. The largest steel sailing vessel afloat, 2220 tons burden, wu launched on Jan. 9 at Belfast, for Ismid and Co., managers of the White Star Line. The Teasel U named the Garfield, and will be placed in the California and Australian trade. The Stewards of Henley regatta decided to restrict the competition for the visitors' oup to the colleges and schsola of the United Kingdom. """"'"- A man, supposed to be the Batton Garden Post office robber, was arrested at Bangor. He answered to the name of Dr Sinstein von Banderstein. Large quantities of Irish potatoes are being exported to the United States. London has given £IOOO to the Vienna sufferers. James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Serald, has started for St Petersburg to confer with the Bussian Government as to the feasibility of starting another Polar expedition. Queen Victoria has accepted the dedication of Gounod's oratorio, " Bedemption." Miss Anna Parnell presided at a meeting of the Ladies' Land League in Dublin on New Tear's Bay without police interference. The Mormon proselytising tour in London is reported to be unsuccessful, but many con* verts have been made in the provinces, 1500 since August Mrs Langfcry made her first appearance as a regular member of the Haymarket Company on Jan. 13, as Blanche Hay in " Ours." Her success has provoked a terrific outburst of professional jealousy. She is said to receive £SOO a week at the Haymarket—twice the highest existing salary. An English Company has taken up Mr Lorillard's scheme for rapid transit between the United States and England. Milford Haven has been chosen as the port by an influential Association, headed by Earl Bunraven. Becollectioni of the Vienna fire have made theatrical business very slow in London during the holidays. The losses of managers are disastrous. Mr Gladstone has declined to interfere with the Mormon missionaries in Referring to the matter, he said that those who go to Utah at their solicitation go, it is presumed, voluntarily. Two Mormon missionaries were mobbed in London. There has been a growing distrust of the electric light in London since the Hatfield House affair. Electricians are trying to allay and the advocates of gas to foster it. The London Press discourage the bribery memorials presented to Sir W. Haroourt. The proposed exhibition of British manufactures has fallen through, owing to a dispute between Dublin and Belfast regarding Boyal patronage. The latest form of lawlessness in Ireland is "Land League hunts." In some instances the authorities had no time to interfere, and quantities of game and preserves were destroyed. An entire territory and town of the Land League in North Tipperary were cleared by the military on Jan. 7. Lord Luckmount refused permission to Meurs Dillon and Parnell to attend the Dublin Oity Hall to receive the certificates of freedom of the oity conferred by the Corporation. Br Lamson, accused of poisoning his brother-in-law, Percy Maloolm, a student at Blenheim House, Wimbledon, was arraigned m the Bow street Police Court. Subsequently a verdict of " Wilful Murder " was found. Miss Beynolds, convicted of aiding and aoetting a criminal conspiracy to prevent the payment of rent, was committed to Castleton gaol for one month. . Iroquois and Foxhall are to try conclusions "> spring over the Newmarket course.

CONTINENTAL. wifiT 9 ?- z l r “*• a ukase in accordance nf i- j .r P ft y men t ß by peasants on account anas they received at the time of emancipation will be reduced by 120,000,000 roubles per year, Pari * *hows the population M 2,226 > 900 > »gamst 1,998,900 in 1876. «... * a banquet m Borne, given in honour of tenni fc he Mayor declared the P Pie of Borne would rather see the oity laid domination 1411 ** irab 3 eoted to J^l 9 jS imminent among the French m Tonis. hoM \ ,ervants °* the Portuguese Boyal Houseatu been dismissed on suspicion of tumphng to poison the King. orranL military authorities will tt9 ohinMß Emigration from Germany to America Is proportions. 2600 delete have

•Irndy been taken for vessel* leaving Bremen m the spring, and an equal number go from ~ Jfpvetti -(St Petersburg) announces the_ insolvency of the Grand Society Bailway, and : the misappropriation of 25.000,000 rouble* of Government money on' the Nioholso Line.

The Italian Government is determined to guarantee more efficiently liberty and independence to the Pope in Borne. The cashier of the banking house of Fonzie at Florence, who is 70 yean old, has absconded with 2,000.000 lire. Coffee speculations at Havre have resulted in the loss of £1,000,000. The Lisbon journals are investigating the treatment of the Azores emigrants to the Sandwich Islands. They demand the interference of the Portuguese Government. A widespread organisation for plundering post offices in Spain has been discovered. The post office people are implicated. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius has assumed large proportions. Americans in Paris are baying largely in Panama canal stock.

The Emperor of Austria will erect a charitable institution on the site of the burned Bing Theatre in Vienna. • Nihilists are re-assembling in the Russian capital, and it is thought are preparing for fresh deeds of violence.

The reports that attempts had been made to steal the bodies of Napoleon 111, and the Prince Imperial, are denied in Paris. Gambetta't organ ridioules the scheme for the Anglo-IYenoh oeenpation of Egypt. A very olever and partly successful swindle was reoently discovered. An Havannah telegram, purporting to be forwarded from Madeira through the news agenoyof S. S. Spencer, was printed in the Savannah papers on Deo. 24 announcing that, tioket 84,764 had drawn the capital prise, 50,000 dollars, in the National lottery at Madrid. Four days afterwards the tioket was presented to the house of J. M. Barges and Co. for negotiation and cashed, after whioh they telegraphed to Madrid for confirmation of the that the whole correspondence was forged by a lot of smart swindlers. A Paris banking house discovered the fraud in time to save 21,000d01s of money, and will trace and probably recover Jifce remainder. AMERICAN BUMMAST. . A movement is on foot to bring a colony of Jews from Bussia to Canada. The defenceless condition of San Franoisco in ease of war is attracting the attention of Congress. V The reports of the General Post-office department, Washington, indicate that smallpox is spreading throughout the country. The Anchor Line steamer Victoria ran ashore in New York harbour on Jan. 7. She had been twenty-three days from Liverpool. Nineteen lives were lost by an explosion of kerosene on the steamer West Point, plying between York River and Baltimore. A gunboat has been despatched to settle the difficulties existing among the Liberians in Africa. Phillips, Marshall and Co., of London, have bought 1,300,000 acres of land from the State of Mississippi, said to be the richest cotton and timber lands in the south. The intention is to colonise, improve, and cultivate it. there is a scarlet fever epidemic in New York. Small-pox is increasing in Chicago. Thomas Power O'Connor, the Irish Land League agitator, was received with open arms all over America. Hisleotures were largely attended. An application has been made by outside parties to assist Guiteau to take an insurance on his life, not exceeding 100,000 dollars. A pedestrian earned Fitzgerald, in a walking match in New York, made a record of 582 miles in six days, beating the best previous records. The story that Jefferson Davis stole the Confederate* treasury chest is now emphatically denied. v . '■ A railroad from Texas to BrazUrthxoufh Mexico and Central America by the Isthmus of Panama to Bio Janeiro, is projected. It is said John W. Mackay, the Bonanza capitalist, is to be President, and has promised to devote his best energies, and a large part of his capital to.its completion. The anti-Mormon delegate to Congress from Utah, Mr Campbell, expressed himself astonished at the sympathy for Mormonism in Washington, and said he was of opinion polygamy is not so near its doom as some people imagine. Campbell is a gentile and monogamist, while Cannon, whose seat he disputes is a Mormon elder, and the husband of four wives.

Mrs Fanny Bteahouse, who visited Australia some years ago ai leoturess, on the evils of Monnoniem, is about to start for a tour round the world, with the same object in -view. Oscar Wilde, the aesthetic poet, has arrived in New York. Mr Healy, M.P., for Wexford, has arrived in San Francisoo. Daring his trip overland he made speeehes at several points in favour of the Irish Land League.' The look-ont of the crops in California this season is very gloomy. Bain is greatly needed in the southern portion of the State. Meantime the sheep are dying. Orders have been reoeived in New Orleans from San Francisco, to provide freight room in March and April for 100,000 bushels of wheat for Great Britain. This wheat is to be shipped from California to New Orleans by the Southern Pacific Bailway, thence by steamer to its destination. The experiment is looked forward to with a good deal of interest, as many believe it will have a disastrous effect upon the sea-going oommerce of San Francisco. Mormon missionaries are actively proselytising in the State of Pennsylvania, and accessions to the ranks of polygamy are rapidly increasing. While Congress is de? vising ways and means to suppress the practice in far-off Utah, the Mormons are carrying it into the heart of the country. Some churches in New York are closed on account of small-pox. A ram, supposed to have been built for Fenians, was sunk at New York by a canal boat. Sir George Morris, the Arctio explorer, has arrived in New York. Tidings were received of the Jeanette from the survivors, who reached St Petersburg on Dec. 86. She was caught in the ice on Oct. 2, 1879, and drifted about in the ioe pack until June last, when she was abandoned in lat 77 north, long 167 east. The crew embarked in three boats, and were separated by wind and fog. A beat with eleven men, in charge of Engineer Melville, reached Northland on Bept. 11; and boat No. 1, bearing commander De Long and 12 men, reached the same point in a pitiable condition. No. 8 boat has not been heard from. The first boat was discovered by the Natives at Cape Barton, 90 miles north of Cape Bitoff. The Governor of Yakutsk ordered supplies and medical assist&noe for the sufferers. With reference to the missing boat, the captain of a steam whaler said he had seen a boat containing corpses and also silver spoons marked " Jeanette." The boat had been cast up on Herald Island. The following was received from the American Charge* d'Affaires at St Petersburg :-• "Duncan Power and five of the orew of the whaleboat arrived at Yakutsk on Dec. 17. They were comfortably lodged and all their wants supplied. The Russian Government ordered the inhabitants of Yakutsk to search the coast for the missing men." LATEST ITEMS. SAN FBANOISOO, JAN. 16. The Associated London Chamber of Commerce is moving in the matter of cheapening telegraphic communication with foreign countries. Garibaldi is dangerously ill. The Pope refusing to fill the census papers, as required by law, a Monaeignor took upon himself to do so. The return shows 500 persons living in the Vatican, one-third of whom are females. The Association of Lynn weavers nave been successful in their strike, and resumed work at ten per cent advance. Miss Jennie Lee and Mr J. P. Barrett leave for the Colonies by the February steamer. Miss Lee is the original in »Utile Joe,"

which she take* with herj a* well as “ the Colonel '* and possibly one of Sardou’s, betide* other new play*. - Hr Gladstone ha* again remitted ten per cent off the rental* on hi* Hawarden Estate.

Restrictions on the freedom of the German Press increase daily. . The Chicago express train leaving Albany at 2.40 p.m. oh Jan. 18 was run into by the Tarry town special train a mile east of Dupril Creek, New York. There were many members of the State Legislature aboard the Chicago train, one of whom, Senator Iragoner, is reported to have been killed. Nine other persons are dead. Tho Tarry town train was not properly signalled, and was only aware of the Chicago train when within 60ft of it. Two Wagner pa'aqe care were telescoped, and afterwards burned up. It was in these, the deaths occurred. The sufferings of those injured were horrible. The weather in California is exceptionally cold for the season. Frost has made its appearance. The case of the Marquis of Huntley was under investigation at the Mansion House on Jan. 12. He is charged with obtaining £2374 under false pretences. Huntley has disappeared. His difficulty arose from a racing affair. The coronation of the Osar Alexander IY. has been postponed till, July. An Arctic expedition is contemplated next summer, 'to prove the possibility of regular commercial communication with Siberia. A Swedish moil steamer was sunk [in Oalmor Sound on Jan 13, while on a mail trip. Fifteen persons were drowned. The Ultramontane disputes in the Spanish OortAs continue, and the bishops are organising a great pilgrimage to Borne. The Pope has given it nis approval. Madame Caroline Liohmond Bernhardt (not Sara), an actress of great eminence, died of small-pox at Richmond, Virginia, on Jan. 14. The disease is becoming rapidly epidemic, and migrating Chinamen are blamed for spreading it. An enormous mass of rook 3000 ft high fell near the town of Geras s, in Switzerland, destroying orchards, woods, and meadows. No lives were lost.

An attempt to spread small-pox through the U. S. mails was reported to the Washington postal authorities on Jan. 14. An undated and unsigned letter, post-marfeed Cincinnati, was received by a farmer at the Lynn (Virginia) post-office, and in it were , two small-pox scales. The letter read : “ 1 have sent you the small-pox. Go home and die.” In Tunis, General Logaret has seized several Notables at Sfax, as hostages for the payment of the war indemnity exacted by France. Several members are threatened if the money be hot immediately forthcoming. Several members of the Gallagher branch of the Ladies’ Land League have been committed to prison in Limerick in default of hail.

A New York World cablegram of Jan. 16 says: “Mr Forster’s scheme for placing the disturbed districts in Ireland under the supervision and control of five stipendiary magistrates, of which Mr Clifford Lloyd is one, has now been carried out, but there is no falling off in the number of agrarian outrages.” The Bari of Shrewsbury, who eloped with Mrs Millar Munday last summer, is before the public again in a discreditable rdle. Not satisfied with receiving his tenantry with that lady on his arm, when they came to congratulate him in November lost on attaining his majority, he has saddled himself with her graceless brothers, four in number. A fifth, Mr 0. A. Palmer Morwood, of Alfredon Hall, Derbyshire, was terribly assaulted by these four on Christmas night, and beaten within an inch of his life, because he refused to sign a document conveying to them certain properties. They then fled and took refuge with the Earl of Shrewsbury and their sister, but were arrested and put under £IOOO bail each. The Earl went bail for them. One of these worthies had helped to give the Earl of Shrewsbury sound thrashing when he was duebveried with the lady on the .continent. Therevelatioruintho tamuon'oasoandßome others, hsvo caused a scare in London about poisoning, and means are to be taken to restrict the sale of poisons. Germany intends to participate in the Arctic Exploration, and a Committee of scientific expertsto decide on the best means has been convened in Berlin.

Ex-Senator Aaron A. Sergeant, has been offered the position of Secretary of the Interior in President Arthur’s Cabinet.