THE ENGLISH MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6310, 7 February 1882, Page 5

THE ENGLISH MAIL.

«, The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's s.s. City of Sydney arrived last evening with the English mail. She brings papers from London to December 29, and from San Francisco to January 16, and telegraphic news from London via New York and San Francisco, to January 15. GENERAL SUMMARY. San Fraxcisco, January 16. The largest steel sailing vessel afloat, -2220 toas, was launched on the 9th at Belfast, for Ismie and Co., managers of the White Star line. Vessel is named "The Garfield," and will be employed in the California and Australian trade. Suppression of the Blanqui manifestation in Paris has created a. bitter feeling among the working classes, and may lead to mischief. Serious complications have arisen in Egypt between the Chambers and the European controllers. The cotton weavers of Lancashire have decided to apply for a general advance of wages. Stewart-Henley Regatta Committee has decided to restrict competition for the Visitors' Cup to colleges aud schools of the United Kingdom. The sulphur mines at Schmolnitz, Hungary, are on fire, and fears are entertained that the flames cannot be extinguished. A. loss of many millions of florins is in prospect. The King and Queen of Spain arrived at Lisbon on the 10th. King Louis received his visitors in royal style. The Czar has signed a ukase, in accordance with which payments by peasants on account of lands they received at tlio time of their emancipation will bo reduced by 120,000,000 roubles per year. A man, supposed to be the H.-itton Garden Post-office robber, has been arrested at Bangor. He answers the description of Banderstein. The French Chambers were formally reopened on January 10th. Large quantities of Irish potatoes are being exported to the United States. Jean Dupre, sculptor, died in Rome, on January 10th. The census of Paris shows a population of 2,225,900, as against 1,995,500 in 1576. At a banquet in Rome ou the 11th, given in honour of veteran soldiers, the Mayor declared the people of Rome would rather see the city laid in ashes than again be sub), jected to Papal domination. Famine is imminent among the French camps in Tunis. London has given a thousand pounds to the Vienna sufferers. The London News, discussing the Panama Canal enterprise, hopes the protectorate in which Europe cannot acquiesce, will bo no more heard of. " Blaineism is probably destined to become in America like Jingoism here and Chanirnism in France—the name of a temporary aberration from political reason." James Gordon Bennett, of th; New York Herald, has left for St. Petersburg to confer with the Russian Government as to the feasibility of starting another Polar Expedition. James O'Brien, Second Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland, is dead. Queen Victoria has accepted the dedication of Gounod's oratorio, "The Redemption." The London Times is of opinion that Chili will not accept the dictation from the United States, unless the American army and navy are largely reinforced. Sir Henry Ernest Bulwer, late of the Windward Islands, has been appointed Govornop of Natal. The servants of the Portuguese Royal household have been dismissed on suspicion of attempting to poison the King. Miss Anna Parncll presided at a meeting of the Ladies' Land League in Dublin, on New Year's Day, without police interference. The Novisti (St. Petersburg) announces the insolvency of the Grand Society Kailway, and the misappropriation of - 2u,000,000 roubles of Government money on the Nicholas line. The latest London theatrical news is to the effect that Henry Irving'a appearance in Digby Grand ("The Two Roses") was the decisive success of his whole career. The usual Christmas pantomimes were gorgeously mounted, but dull in plot and dialogue. Penerose's new comedy, " The Squire," is a success. Mrs. LaDgtry mako3 her first appearance as a regular member of the Haymarket Company ou January 18. She will play Blanche Haye in "Ours." Modjeska will play the leading role in Blanchard's English adaptation of Sardon's "Odette." Carl Rosa's English Opera Company commenced at Her Majesty's on January 1. The company is on a scale rivalling the Italian Opera. Miss Gay lord, Madame Valleria, ami Anton Sehofi' were in the distribution ; Albert Randcgger, conductor. The negotiations for an Anglo-French commercial treaty have oome to naught, because the concessions made by the French Commission in regard to cotton and woollen goods, did not reach the minimum fixed by the English Commission. The French General, Jean August Bcrthaut, is dead. The Russian military authorities will organise armed settlements on the Chinese frontier of .Siberia. The Italian Government is determined to guarantee more efficiently liberty and independence to the Pope in Rome. The arrest of a Jewish pickpocket in a Moscow church on Christmas morning led to a panic, and the death of forty-six persons. A very serious riot ensued after the panic. Most of the Jewish liquor shops and many Jewish houses were sacked. The police were not only powerless, but in many cases assisted the mob in plundering the dram shops.

Mormon proselyting in London is reported unsuccessful, but many converts have been made iu the provinces—lsoo since August. Emigration from Germany to America is assuming vast proportions ; 15,000 tickets have already been taken for vessels leaving Bremen in the spring, and an equal number go from Hamburg. The Privy Council has determined to proclaim Dublin anew.

The cashier of the banking-house of Fenzie and Co., Florence, who is 80-years old, has absconded with 2,000,000 lire.

Coffee speculations at Havre have resulted in a loss of £1,000,000.

The steamer Braunschwig, up for Baltimore, United States, sank iii the harbour of Bremen. She was coaling, and the water entered through the open ports. The South Arklow lightship, on the coast of Ireland, was run down on the 28th by an American vessel. The crew were saved. Three steamers left Qnecuston-n in chase of the vessel that caused the accident.

RQehefort has won the libel suit brought against him by Challemel Lacour. The latter was compelled to pay costs. An iron corvette, intended for the Chinese Government, has been launched at Stettin. Lisbon journals are investigating the treatment of the Azores emigrants to the Sandwich Islands. They demand the interference of the Portuguese Government.

Pierre Francois Eugene Girard, the French painter and engraver, is dead. Iu the recent modification of the French Cabinet the Ministry of Fine Arts will again

recently unftel with the Ministry of Public Cronstadt, Russia, was do «%£%£ ?L tl c^ e t S pondent <vho was imprisoned in Constantinople for speak.ng insultingly of the SulUn, has been pardoned by the request oE the British Consul-General. Telegraphic gossip from London says Granville Murray's death removes one of tne very few Englishmen who knew France thoroughly. Christmas was heralded by the densest fog of the season ; the large shops in London were closed from Friday till_ lues day. The success of Mrs. Langtry m «er theatrical Mbuthaa provoked a terrific, outburst of professional jealousy, the feeble echoes of which appear, in print. MB. hi ir^f S S»>y has taken up Lorillard's scheme for ™P ld J^ 3 ' 6 tween the United States aad knglana. Srdhas been chosen as the.port influential association, headed by fc-arl of the Vienna fire made theatrical business very slim in London during the holiday week. The losses of the managers were disastrous. Mr Gladstone has declined to interfere ■with the Mormon missionaries in England. Iα referring to the matter, he said those who 20 to Utah at their solicitation go, it is presumed, voluntarily. Two Mormon missionaries had been mobbed in London. There is a growing distrust of the electrical light in London, since the Hatneld House affair. The electricians are trying to ■May and the advocates of gas to foster it. ' The London Press discourage the bribery memorials presented to Sir \riUiam Marcourt, and nobody expects that a pardon will be granted. Mackie, imprisoned at Canterbury, has been released, on account 01 The steamer Catalonia sank the Sau Francisco barque Heleuslee in Queenstown harbour, on the 25th. Nine of the barque s crew were drowned. . In Spain, a widespread organization tor plundering post-offices has been discovered. Post-office people are implicated. The proposed exhibition of Irish manufactures bad fallen through, owing to a dispute between Dublin and Belfast regarding royal Pa vfcomft Helmsley, M.P. for North Riding, Yorkshire, is dead. . The Berlin Customs officials have contrived to double and treble the tax on many kinds of imported provisions by taxing the wrappers and labels as essential parts of the consignment. Thus American corned beef, in tiiis. is taxed as " fine iron wares." The eruption of Mount Vesuvius has assumed large proportions. Americans in Paris are buying largely 01 Panama Canal stocks. The Mosely Cotton Spinning Works, Oldham, were nearly destroyed by fire on the •24th ult. Miss Reynolds, convicted of aiding and abetting a criminal conspiracy to prevent the payment of rent, has been committed to Ca-stlcton Gaol for one month. - Pcgott, formerly proprietor of the Dublin Irishman, publishes a letter in which he says Fenianisir. is practically extinct, both in Irelnnd and the United States, anil also in Great Britain. London bankers and merchants have formed aa association for the purpose of rehabilitating sib-er. H. Hucks Gibbs, a director of the Bank of England, is president. John Ludwig Krupp, African explorer and missionary, is dead. The Emperor of A\istria will erect a charitable institution on the site of the burned Ring Theatre, Vienna. Powell, the English aorouaut, !o ouppoaeil to be lost at sea. A broken thermometer from thf balloon in which he ascended on the 10th ultimo has been found at Wymouth, on t!ie Dorsetshire coast. This is considered indicative of his fate. Iroquois and Foxhall are to try conclusions in the spring over the Newmarket course. On the day Parliament re-assembles Mr. Br:ul laugh will appear before the bar of the House and claim to have the oath administered to him. Daw3on was inaugurated Lord Mayor of Dublin on the 2nd inst. The Corporation, by a vote of 2S to 2S refused to pass the customary vote of thanks to George Moyers, the retiring Lord Mayor. The Freedom of the city had been conferred on Parnell and Dillon. Bernhardt, the actress, received 100,000 dollars for her St. Petersburg engagement. Tiie Emperor William received more than a thousand telegrams of congratulation on New Year's Day. The French Government has repudiated the act of its subordinates in annexing the island of Raiatea, in the South Pacific. Intelligence from Accra confirms the report of the massacre of 200 girls by the King of Ashantee. They were purposely captured by raids on neighbouring tribes. The Queen, on hearing the report of the attempt to steal the bodies of Napoleon and the prince at Chiselhurst, was greatly alarmud, and at once ordered special precautions to be taken at Frogmore, where the Prince Consort's body lies. Bernal Osbirne, M.P., recently deceased, has been splendidly biographied in all the London papers. The Hamilton Palace Library lias not yet been sold, but will be shortly offered to the public. The family estimate the value at half a million sterling. An Imperial edict, dated January 4th, countersigned by Bismarck, has been addressed to the Prussian Ministry, asd created deep and universal sensation. The Emperor claims, in effect, that _ his right to direct the Government and policy of Prussia, in accordance with his ov.-n judgment, is restricted, not abrogated, by the constitution ; and it is his will that in Prussia, and also in the leaislativc bodies of the empire, no doubt wilf be allowed to attach to his constitutional rights, or to that of his successors, to personally direct the policy of the Government. The duty of Ministers, as laid down in the decree, is to support these constitutional right 3, by protecting them from doubt and obscurity. The Berlin Press of the Sth, cautiously discuss this decree, and while they say a conflict cannot be avoided, hope the people will be faithful to their representatives in their efforts to protect Uie constitution. The influential Press of Vicuna condemn the decree. The gravity of the situation is patent to everyThe penny experiment of the Pall Mall Gazette and the St. James' is regarded with interest. While the Gazette is likely to succeed, as the sales have largely increased, doubts are expressed whether the Conservative, aristocratic St. James' will be equally fortunate. . The latest form of lawlessness in Ireland is " Land League hunts." In some instances, •where the authorities had not time to interfere, quantities of game were destroyed and preserves damaged. Short crops in Russia are reported. Hay is a general failure, and great loss of stock is looked for. HThe Allgemaine Zeitung has been seized for designating the Emperor William 3 recent manifesto a coup d'elat. tTA despatch in La France says the Emperor William has determined to proclaim the Crown Prince Frederick William

Eogent on the 22nd March next, the J Emperor's 85th birthday. The Nihilists are re-assembling in the Russian capital, and it is thought are preparing for fresh deeds of violence. The entire tenantry of the town land of Leacke, North Tipperary, were evicted by the military on January 7. The Lord Lieutenant refused permission to Dillon and Parnell to attend the Dublin Citv Hall to receive certificates of freedom i of the city, conferred by the Corporation. The reports that attempts had been made to steal the bodies of Napoleon 111. and the I Prince Imperial, are denied. A sculling match between Godwin and Flynn, for £500 aside, took place over the Thames championship course on the Cth. Godwin won by six lengths. The Emperor of Russia ha 3 pardoned the Polish Bishops oxilod in 1564. The Paris (Gambetta's organ) ridicules the scheme for the Anglo-French occupation ot Egypt. Dr. Lamson, accused of poisoning Ins brother-in-law, Percy Malcolm, a student ot Blenheim-house, Wimbledon, was arraigned in the Bow-street Police Court on the Oth, and a verdict of wilful murder found. The Parnellitcs will call a general meeting of the Irish Party in London, for a week preceding the opening of Parliament (February I; The Lord Mayor's Property Defence Fund amounts to £12,000. There are 403 suspects now in prison. . It is reported that an anonymous admirer of the late Lord Bcaconsfield has transmitted to his lordship's trustees the funds necessary to clear Hughenden Manor of all incumbrances. The sum is something over £50,000, and the donor gives no clue whatever to his identity. Some people believe that he is a member of the great firm Of , Kothschilds, but this is nothing more than a guess, and the only definite fact is that Mr. Disraeli will be enabled to take possession of his uncle's property free of all burdens. Concerning the abstraction of the body ot the late Lord Crawford, so many letters have reached Dunesht-houso from physicians and others suggesting that the body never left Florence, that it is deemed advisable- to state that the body was placed in the inner shell in the presence of a trusted servant, ana that it was sealed up in the presence of a physician and notary. No traces of the body have as yet been received. Mr. Alderman Mo Arthur, M.P., the late Lord Mayor, has left England for a tour in the Bast. He will visit Egypt, and probably Palestine, returning in time for tne opening of Parliament.

Sir Thomas and Lady Brassey are preparing for another world-wide cruise in the Sunbeam, which is now fitting out at Gosport. This time the Mediterranean will be the point for survey and visitation. The Daily News, discussing Blame a circular to the Republics of Central and South America, in proposing a Conference at Washington, says, "The moauing of the project is the establishment of an American protectorate over both Central and South America. Blaiue's pretensions are novel and extravagant. They were never contemplated by the originator of the Monroe doctrine, under which the attempt will probably be made to shelter them. Now that Frelinghuyseu has succeeded Blaine, there is at least a hope that some rational basis of negotiations can be arrived at. That the American interests on the Pacific seaboard hare greatly increased since the Clayton-Bnlwer treaty was signed, admits of no doubt; but it is quite an open question whether England is not intorestort in the Panama Canal yet more deeply. That England, with her vast American possessions and carrying trade, should become a party to any agreement yielding the canal into American haada, and. should acknowledge the suzerainty of the United States over the entire Western Hemisphere, is a dream

OBITUARY OF THE FORTNIGHT. General Sir W. E. Brikor, K.C.8.; General T. G. Ball, Colonel Sth Regiment; bir Y\ . P Gallwey ; Major-Gcncral E. N. Wilford ; Mr G. E. Street, R.A.; Dr. J. L. Krapf ; Mr. D. Burton, F.R.S.; Lady W. Fitzgerald ; Lady Moucricff; Lady J. Prior; Viscount Ilelmsley, M.P.; General Thomas Pattle, C B • Mr.' Grenville Murray ; Mr. Nicholas M Xel=en, late of the Sydney G.P.O.

IRELAND. On Sunday, December IS, the police visited an old house in Brabazou-street, Dublin, and arrested four men whom they found there. A discovery of a most startling nature was made. In a room on the third storey they came upon a regular magazine of weapons. In case 3 and stacked in order against the walls were numbers of excelleut new breech-loading rifles and revolvers of the latest pattern, all iu perfect order, and apparently carefully tended. The number of them was so large that it was necessary to use a boat to convey them to Newmarket police station. In another room in the same house the officers found thousands of loaded central fire ball rifle cartridges (seven thousand is the number stated °to have been discovered) carefully stacked and covered over with old sacking and tarpaulin. Near them were some kegs and bags of loose powder, and several thousand unfilled cartridge cases (army pattern) capped and ready for loading. There were also several bags of bullets, with moulds and instruments for loading the cartridges. In the same room a quantity of copper-cased central lire revolver ammunition.

THE LOSS OF THE JEANNETTE. Tidings have been at last received from the Bennett Arctic Expedition. The Governor of Eastern Siberia, who arrived at St. Petersburg, on December 20, brought the news that the steamer Jcannette, missing since 1879, had been discovered, nnd assistance rendered to the crew. The news was communicated to the Royal Geographical Society of London at once. The facts, so far as known, are to the effect that the unfortunate vessel was crushed in the ice on June 11, in lat. 77- N., long. 157' E. The crew embarked in three boats, which were separated by wind and fog. No. 3 boat, with eleven men, under the charge of engineer Melville, reached the mouth of Lena river, the principal one in Siberia, on September 19. Boat No. 1, having on board Commander De Long, Dr. Ambler, and twelve men, reached the same point in a pitiable condition. No. 3 boat had not been heard from. The discovery of the first boat was made on the 14th of September by three natives of Cape Bartay, 140 versts (about 00 miles) ijprth of Cape Bikoff. The Governor of Yakootsh immediately ordered supplies and medical assistance to be sent to the sufferers. In the meantime the Governor-General of Siberia went to Gatzchina from St. Petersburg, and had an interview with the Emperor, who personally ordered that all supplies necesssry for food, clothing, money, and transportation be placed at the disposal of the shipwrecked explorers. Some little feeling lias been caused by the fact that the President of Administration of Eastern Siberia refused to telegraph the announcement of the arrival of the survivors because they were without funds. The first news of their escape was consequently delayed ten weeks. James Gordon Bennett telegraphed unlimited funds immediately on the news of the misfortune reaching lrim, and the Secretary of State cabled Hoffman,

United States Charge d'Affaires at St. Petersburg, to return the surviving officers and men to America as speedily as possible, and after consultation with the Russian Government to make extended search for the crew of the missing boat. So far, no news of this boat has been received. A despatch says that after the Jeannette was crushed in the ice, the boats and sleds made -rood retreat to fifty miles north-west of the Lena River, where three boats were separated in a gale. The whaleboat, in charge of chief-engineer Melville, entered the east mouth of the river on September 17th. It was stopped by the ice in the river. A native village -was found, and as soon a3 the river «losod, Melville put himself in communication with the commandant at Boloomga. On October 29th Melville heard that the first cutter, carrying Commander Dα Long, Dr. Ambler, and twelve others, had lauded at the north mouth of the Lena. The commandant at Boloomga sent instructions to the whaleboat party, who were all well. Two sailors arrived at Boloomga on October 29th for relief for the firet cutter, all the men being in a sad condition, in danger of starvation, and badly frost-bitten. The commandant at Boloomga sent out scouts for them. In regard to the missing boat, a despatch from SfcT Petersburgh, dated January Sth, says that Saulkowski, who went in search of the Jeannette, aud, on board the Chasseur, met the United States steamer Rodgers on the same mission, telegraphs from Iskutsh under date December 26, as follows :—" We jjarted on the 9th of August from the Rodgers, which steered for Herald Island. The Strelok, with the Cremon Expedition on board, then returned to Chinese ports, having previously accompanied the Rodgers in the search. An American steamer, having on board the captain of a stranded whaler, had joined them in Providence Bay. This captain stated he had seen a boat containing corpses, and also silver spoons and ether articles marked ' Jeannette.' The boat had been cast on Herald Island. The commancUr of the Rodgers, therefore, resolved to proceed thither. Ho anticipated winterin" there, and aided by dogs purchased in Kamschatka, organising parties to make a thorough search of the island." \lt may be stated that this despatch from Saulkomski i 3 generally discredited.] A despatch to the New York Herald (December 27), from St. Petersburg, says that to arrive at the mouth of the Lena the boats must have passed between New Siberia and the Island of Fadiwskai, which is inhabited only during the summer by Nomads, who arrive at the close of the winter in sieilges drawn by dogs. The distance is about 500 miles from the wreck to the river, the mouths of which are situated in the most dreary aud desolate part of the confines of Northern Siberia. From this point to .Yakutsk the distance is more than 1000 miles through a desert country, completely destitute of population. A Russian expedition, to take scientific observations at the mouth of Lena during the years ISS2 and 18S3 left St. Petersburg on December 27. New York, January 12.—The Herald's St. Petersburg's special says : —The following has been received from Yakutsk. No direct news of the Jeaunette. In pursuance of orders conveyed, the inhabitants of the shores of the Governments of Takutsh and Yenisei, havo been informed of the shipwreck, and have been asked to make energetic search for the wrecked men, wiio have not as yet been found. Washixuto.s-, January 12.—The following has been received from the American Charge d'Affiures at St. Petersburg :—" Danen Power, and five of the crew oJ the whaleboat, arrived at Yakutsk on December 17. They are comfortably lodged, and all their wants supplied. Melville, and six other men, are expected soon. Captain De Long aud the first cutter were not found on November 16, the last date received. Donlainj** ropoi-toa pack oil" October 1, 1579, aud drifted with the winds and currents till January last, and was then abandoned."

TEE LATEST NEWS.

Sax Francisco, January 16. The Association of tho London Chamber of < Commerce is moving in the matter of cheapening telegraphic communication with foreign countries. Garibaldi is seriously ill. The Pope refusing to fill up the census papers, as required by law, a monsignore took upon himself to do so. The return shows 500 persons living in the Vatican, onethird of whom are females. The Ashton-under-Lyme weavers have been successful in their strike, and resumed work at teu per cent, advance. Miss Jennie Leu and J. P. Burnett leave for the colonies by the February steamer. Miss Lee is the original "Little Jo," which she takes with her; also, "The Colonel," and possibly Sardon's "DivorQons," with other new plays. Gladstone has again remitted ten per cent, of the rentals on his Hawarden estate. Restriction on the freedom of the German Press increases daily. The Chicago express train leaving Albany at 2.40 on the afternoon of the 13th, was run into by the Tarrytown special train, a mile east of Spington, Durpie Creek, New York. There were many members of the State Legislature aboard the Chicago train, one of whom, Senator Wagner, is reported killed. Nine other persons are dead. The Tarrytown train was not properly signalled, and was only aware of the Chicago train when within 50 feet of it. The Wagner palace cars, Idlewild and Emperor, were telescoped, and afterwards burned up. It was iu these the deaths occurred. The suffering was horrible. The weather in California is exceptionally cold for the season. Frost made its appearance on the 14th, in the southern part of the State,

The cascof theMarquisof Huntly was under investigation at the Mansion House on January 12. He is charged with obtaining £2378 from Benjamin Nicholson under fal3e pretences, lluutly has disappeared. The difficulty arose from a racing affair. The coronation of Czar Alexander 111. has been postponed till July. Nordenskjold contemplates an Arctic expedition next summer to prove the possibility of regular commercial communication with Siberia.

A Swedish mail steamer sank in Calmar Sound on the 13th while on a trial trip. Eighteen persons were drowned. The Ultramontane despatches in the Spanish Cortes and the bishops are organising a great pilgrimage to Rome. Tho Pope has given it his approval. Madame Caroline Richmays-Bernard, a professional actress of great eminence, died of smallpox at Richmond, Virginia, on the 14th. The disease is becoming rapidly epidemic, and migrating Chinamen are blamed for spreading it. It is now stated by Paris correspondents that the commercial treaty between France and England will, after all, be certainly signed inside of three weeks. An enormous mass of rock, 1000 feet high, has fallen from Rotharisa Mountain, near tho town of Giarus, Switzerland, destroying orchards, roads, 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 January 14. An undated aud unsigned letter, postmarked Cincinnati, was received by a farmer at the Lynn (Virginia) post-office, and in it were were two small-pox scabs. The letter read,

"I have sent you the small-pox; go home and die."

Dana, author of "Two Years' Before the Mast," is dead, and regret is expressed both in Europe and America. The English Press place his book next to "Robinson Crusoe." In Tunis General Logerot has seized several notables at Sfax as hostages, for the payment of the war indemnity exacted by France. Severe measures are threatened if the money be not immediately forthcoming. It is so intensely cold on the Sahara frontier that hundreds of camels and many soldiers have died.

Several members of the Gallagher brauch of the Ladies Land League have been committed to prison in Limerick in default of bail.

The New York Herald's cablegram (January 16) says Foster's scheme for placing the disturbed districts in Ireland under the supervision and control of five Stipendiary Magistrates, of whom Clifford Lloyd is one, has now been carried ; but there is no falling off in the number of agrarian outrages. The Earl of Shrewsbury, who eloped with Mrs. Miller-Mundy last summer, is before the public again in a discreditable role. Not satisfied with receiving his tenantry with that lady on his arm, when they came to congratulate him in November las:t, on his attaining his majority, he has saddled, himself with her graceless brothers, four in number. A fifth, C. R. Palmer, Morewood, of Alfrecon Hall, Derbyshire, was terribly assaulted by these four on Christmas night, aud 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 Shrewsbury and their sister ; but were arrested and put under £1000 bail each. The Earl went their bail. One of these worthies helped to give Shrewsbury a sound thrashing when he was discovered with his sister on the Continent. The Earl is evidently of an easy and forgiving disposition. The Archbishop oE Canterbury, Cardinal Manning, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Dean Bradley, and Canons Lydon and Parrar purpose organising a committee to call public meetings throughout the country for the relief of homeless Jewish families in Europe, and to promote their emigration. The amount required is estimated at one million pounds. A rich Hebrew will stwt the subscription with £10,000. The revelations iu the Lamson caso and some othera has caused a scare in London about poisoning, aud means are to be taken to restrict the sale of poisons. Germany intends to participate in Arctic exploration, and a committee of scientific experts to decide on the best means has been convened in Berlin. Ex-Senator Aaron A. Sargent has been offered the position of Secretary of Interior in Arthur's Cabinet.

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Fbaxciscd, January IG. There is a movement on foot to bring a colony of Jews from Russia to Canada. Hostility to the Hawaiian treaty (which expires in 18S6) lias already commenced in the United States Senate. The defenceless condition of San Francisco, in case of war, is attracting the attention of Congress. The alleged gold discoveries in the State of lowa turn out to be a fraud to force a movement in real estate. The sealing steamer Lion was lost on the 9th. off the coast of Newfoundland, with all on board. Samuel W. Pierey, a youno; and rising actor, generally regarded as fichvin Booth's successor, died in Boston on the Sth of confluent small-pox. Edwin Booth will soon join John S. Clarke in the ownership of a theatre in New York city. A disastrous fire had occurred in Los Angelos, California, on the 10th, causing a ; loss ut 70,000 i-11—. A new chapter in Blaine s diplomatic history has come to light. His attempt, undertaken without the sanction of the President or the authority of Congress, to create a great American league has stirred up a good deal of feeling. His friends will insist that if the Administration had been wise it would have retained him and his policy. It is now known that lie wrote two letters, one directly to the South American Governments, without consulting with their representatives in Washington, and the other to the United States representatives besides. The first invited the Governments to send delegates to Washington, and the second instructed the United States representatives to urge acceptance of the invitation, and to promise American Government would bear all the expenses of the convention. One of the objects of the convention was to concoct a joint tarilf, discriminating against all European countries, and in favour of all American Governments. The scheme was to form a sort of political and commercial league between the United States and South American countries. The European legations in South America were put on the qui vice at once, and it was easy for them to throw obstacles in Blaine's path. Their commercial and financial iniluence in South America was entirely too great, and the projected conference of American Powers was nipped in the bud. The Californian powder-mills, at Point Pinole, blew up on the Hth with a shock that shook the surrounding country like an earthquake. The high explosive called "Hercules" was manufactured here. The loss of life was small, represented by four Chinamen. The buildings were reduced to splinters. Healey, lI.P. for Wexford, arrived in San Francisco on the loth. During his trip overland, he made speeches at several points in favour of the Irish Laud Leaguers. The look-out for the crops in California this season is a very gloomy one. Rain is greatly needed in the southern portion of the State. Meantime sheep are dying, and as the lambing season has just commenced, many thousands of the little ones will have to be killed in hopes of saviug the lives of the mothers. Feed is so scarce that the lambs cannot be raised. British holders of Confederate bonds are circulating printed matter in the United States, supporting their claim that Uncle Sam is legally and morally bound to pay the Southern States indebtedness, incurred while the latter were in revolution. A new phase of Vandalism has come to light in Springfield, Mass., where two young men broke into Hampden Cemetery, and overturned and destroyed nearly 50 gravestones —"just for fun." The City of London steamer, from LonI don ; the Henry Eyre, from Antwerp ; and . the Lord Byron, from Hamburg, all overdue 1 at New York, are believed to be lost. I Phillips, Marshall and Co., of London, i have bought 1,300,000 acres of laud from the ■ State of Mississippi, said to be the richest I cotton and timber lands in the South. The intention is to colonise, improve, and culti- ) vate.

Scarlet fever has bccomo epidemic in New York, aud small-pox is increasing iu Chicago. A white girl named Estellc Smith, haying married a Chinaman, Lee Chow, at Little Rock, Ark., a young Prussian doctor named Kosenhauer persuaded her to leave him and become his mistress. Lee Chow resented this and shot the doctor, filling his body with Duck-shot. A horrible tragedy is reported [from Ashland, Kerry. A party of men came .to the Gibbons' homestead during the absence of the seniors, outraged two young ladies, aged respectively 14 and 17, murdered them aud

young Gibbons, who attempted to give an alarm, and then burned the house to the ground. No clue. Baron von Schloeser, for ten years German Minister at Washington, has been transferred to Rome.

Thomas Power O'Connor, the Irish Land League agitator, is being received with open hands all over America. His lectures are largely attended. Application has been made by outside parties to the assassin Guiteau to take insurance on his life, not exceeding 100,000 dollars.

A frightful case of homicidal mania occurred in San Francisco on December 31st, where a young widower, named Cfeorge S. Reed, shot his mother-in-law, daughter, and himself. Reed was a clerk with Macondray and Co., and is said to have been crazed by over work.

Fitzgerald won the walking match in New York, "making a record of 582 miles and 55 yards in six days ; beating the best previous record, that of Robert Vint's, 578 miles, by four miles and a few yards. Rowell, the English pedestrian, has made a match with Vint and Pantoli for a six-days' go-as-you-please contest, for 1000 dollars aside. A Bill has been introduced in the United States Senate, appropriating 100,000 dollrrs for the doctors' services in President Garfield's case. The introducer, Senator McMurdo, has a great dislike to Dr. Bliss, and is sceptical of his professional skill. Dr. Boynton has sent Mrs. Garfield a receipted bill for his services.

Wallack's new theatre in New York was opened on Wednesday, the 4th instant. The seat 3 for the first night were sold at auction, and realised 10,0(10 dollars.

A railroad from Texas to Brazil, through Mexico and Central America, and by the Isthmus of Panama to Rio Janeiro, has been projected. It is said John W. Mackay, the Bonanza capitalist, is to be the president, and that he has promised to devote his best euergies and a large part of his capital to its completion. A Bill, looking to the re-enactment of a National Bankruptcy Law, has been framed, and will be introduced into Congress at an early date. The anti-Mormon delegate to Congress from Utah, Campbell, has expressed himself astonished at the sympathy for Mormonism he finds in Washington, and is of opinion that polygamy is not so near its doom as some people imagine. Campbell is a Gentile and a Monogamist, while Cannon, whose seat he disputes, is a Mormon elder, and the husband of four wires. Mrs. Sten.house, who visited Australia some years ago, as a lecturess on the evils of Mormonism, is about to start for a tour of the world, with the same object in view. Oscar Wild, the (esthetic poet, arrived in New York on the 2nd instant. The newspapers are giving pen portraits of the notoriety that are not flattering. The floor of a dancing hall in Stranesville, Ohio, fell on the Ist instant, while a ball was going on, and a great number of people were wounded and several killed.

A very clever and partly successful swindle was recently discovered in Havana. A telegram, purporting to be forwarded from Madrid through the news agency of S. S. Spencer, was printed in the Havana papers on the morning of December 24, announcing that ticket 34,754 had drawn the capital prize of 500,000 dollars in the national lottery of Madrid. A few days afterwards the ticket was presented to the house of J. M. Borjes and Co., for negotiation and by them paid, after they had telegraphed to Madrid for confirmation of the despatch. It turned out afterwards that the whole correspondence was forged, and the job put up by a lot of smart swindlers in Paris. The bankinghouse discovered the fraud in time to saye 211,000 dollars, and will trace and probably recover the balance.

Reports at the Post-office Department, W lnf\\nn\-* c , *-l»o*-. QIY)Jl.ll -110 VIS spreading throughout the counti-J. Two eminent American lawyers—Richard H. Dand, jun., of Boston, and Edwin W. Stoug'iitou, of New York —died on the 7th, the former in Rome. Orders were received in New Orleans from San Francisco, on the 7th, to provide freight-room in March and April for 180,000 bushels of wheat for Great Britain. This wheat is to be shipped from California to New Orleans by the Southern Pacific railroad, 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 seagoing commerce of San Francisco. Hanlan, the Canadian oarsman, left for England on the 7th. A bonafide offer has 'been made Scoville, Guiteau's brother-in-law, from a medical gentleman for the assassin's body. The party offers 1000 dollars immediately, on condition to have the body as soon as the law is executed, and dispose of it as he sees fit, and agreeing to take his chances, waiting a month" or twenty years. Guiteau was favourably impressed with the proposition, but after reflection remarked : " I ought to bring more than that. Perhaps some one will offer 2000 dollars, and then pay my debts, and if I get a new trial that miserable Corkhill can't bring a lot of fellows just to swear how rauch I owe him." Warden Crocker having made a statement that Guiteau seemed an outcast from human love or sympathy, with the single exception of his sister, Mrs. Scoville, that lady replied on the 7th : " Judging from 300 or 400 letters I have penned since the Court closed on Wednesday, to say nothing of the news-papei-3 sent with special articles marked, I feel quite sure a great many people, not only care what becomes of him, but they have a decided desire he shall have a fair trial." A sanguinary affair is reported from Westport, Louisiana, where five men were shot dead in a country store, as the result of a dispute over a horse race. The three Patti concerts at Harverly s, Chicago theatre, netted 30,000 dollars. The churches at Port Jervis, New York, have been closed on account of the small-pox. Holland's ram, supposed to have been built by the Fenians, was sunk at New York by a canal boat, on the Sth. Sir George Nares, the Arctic explorer, had arrived in New York.

THE GUITEAU TRIAL. San Frahcisco, January 1C The trial of Charles J. Guiteau, for the assassination of President Garfield, although so long continued, presents but few new features in its progress. It may be summed up, so far, in this, that it was a prolonged struggle on the part of the prosecution— Judges Porter and Davidge—to show that Guiteau was sane at the time of the shooting, and responsible for his act; and, on the part of Scoville and Reed, for the defence, that their client was insane at the time ; had always been more or less demented ; and that the whole Guiteau family were tainted in the same way. Guiteau's interruptions of the lawyers and the witnesses continued after Judge Cox ordered him to be removed from the side of his counsel, and placed in the prisoner's dock ; and when the Court bailiff sought to check his outbursts at times, he turned on him in a savage manner, and threatened him with personal chastisement. The prisoner made a strong effort, as did also his counsel for him, to induce the judge to allow him to address the jury, but Judge Cox, after taking the matter under advisement, refused, with the remark that judging from his previous conduct, the prisoner would abuse the privilege, and what he would say would be highly improper to

go before the jury. He would, however, allow Gulteau's counsel to read from his client's manuscript. Guiteau protested. Hβ appeared, he said, as his own counsel, and claimed tfee right as an American citizen, to be heard in his own case. Finding that Judge Cox could not be moved, ho shouted : —"Let the record show that I appear as my own counsel, and that I take exception to your ruling, Judge Cox. I shall appeal to the American people, and they will overrule you, aud you will go down to future ages with a black stain upon your name. The Judge made no reply to this tirade, but simply nodded to Mr. Reed, the prisoner's counsel, to begin his argument, which was mainly to convince the jury of the irresponsibility of the accused. .The concluding portion of the address h a sample of the whole. Reed (continuing after an interruption by Guiteau}: "Think of him, a lunatic condemned to the gallows—a lunatic, whom the Saviour, if on earth, would heal. The picture is not overdrawn. lam very much obliged to you for your attention. I only ask you, pray do that which shall not in after years bring a blush of shame to your cheeks." The Prisoner : Reed is a good fellow, but I would not give a cent a bushel for his rubbish. If I could only have a talk with that jury I would give them the right theory."

The Court then adjourued.—[Proceedings on Saturday, January 14.]

Reed's argument was given close attention from the beginning to the close. Mrs. Scoville, the prisoner's sister, sat all day iu a mournful attitude, with her hands covering her face most of the time to conceal her tears, while her little daughter stood by her side, and by caresses sought to win her from j her grief. Washington-, January 15.—Guiteau's speech, refused by Judge Cox to be addressed to the jury, has been furnished by the prisoner to the Associated Press and published. Divested of its bravado and blasphemy the document simply amounts to this, that the writer ought not to be hanged because the act he committed was inspired by the Deity for the purpose of healing the breach in the Republican party and to prevent a repetition of civil war. An irresistible pressure to remove Garfield haunted the prisoner for thirty days, and when an opportunity came the shot was fired. The doctors finished what he commenced, and this was the will of the Deity, so that tho minds of the people should be gradually prepared for the change. If he were not a madman when he shot Garfield, no death could be too swift or severe as the penalty of that act.