ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 756, 27 August 1886, Page 29

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

(united peess association.) Auckland, August 22

The Alameda, from San Francisco, arrived at 8 a.m. She left San Francisco on Angnst Ist, the passage being nneventfnl. She was delayed by a gale off the coaßt and dirty weather. Passengers for Auckland—Miss Bandfield, Miss Netbercote, Mr and Mrs Smith and family (31, Messrs Neile, G. E, Alderton. Among the through passengers are Dean O’Keefe and Mr Black, Actuary of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. Among the cargo for New Zealand are 400 cases of salmon, and 300 cases of dried fruits. The Alameda sails for Sydney at daylight tomorrow morning. The Hinemoa sailed at 11 this forenoon with the Southern San Francisco mails. GENERAL SUMMARY. European dates up to July 30. Circulars are being distributed in Wales demanding Home Rule, free education, abolition of landlordism, and disestablishment of the Church. A cable message of July 30th from London says that the sensation in the new Cabinet is the appointment of Sir Henry Matthews as Home Secretary. It was made at the request of the Queen, who was charmed by his vindication in the Crawford trial of the sanctities of the English Home. He is entirely an experiment, and is without Government experience. He is a Roman Catholic and antiCoereionist.

The Alpine climber, Pauline Von Soulkar, was dashed to pieces on July 29 fch. Mr John Ruskrn is reported to be insane. The Prince of Wales’ Bons are charged with plagiarism in “ The Cruise of the Bacchante.” A passage which begins “ We should be less than men ’’ and ends “ but sad memories of their useless valor,” is taken almost word for word from Charles Kingley’s “At Last,” where it will be found in the second chapter. An attempt on the part of the authorities at Amsterdam to prohibit a popular game called “ eel-killing " on Sunday led to a conflict with the police on July 25th. The rioters erected barricades, and the police fired into the crowd, killing 20 persons and wounding 80. Twenty-eight arrests were made. A convention between England and China has been signed at Pekin, by the terms of which China agrees to the occupation of Burmah by the English, and promises to encourage trade between China and Burmah. A commission is being formed to delimitate the Burmese frontier.

Despatches of the 25ih say that Lord Salisbury was cordially received by the Queen at Osborne House. On his return from Osborne House, Lord Salisbury was cheered all a’oog the route by immense crowds. He declined to speak anywhere. The parents of Eliza Armstrong, who figured so conspicuously in the Pall Mall Gazette exposures, have arranged to bring a suit for £BOOO damages against Mr Stead, the editor, its publishers, and General Booth, of the Salvation Army. The claim will be for libel on the girl’s parents, and for assaulting the child.

The Sultan of Sovmalt has expelled the members of the German East African Society from his dominions.

Wassit Bey, who arrived at <Cairo from the Soudan on July 28, reported Khartoum had been razed by the rebels. In his opinion a force marching to re-establish the Khedive’s authority would now meet with welcome rather than resistance.

The Rev Henry Ward Beecher has been adversely criticised by the London papers. His lectures were but poorly attended. The admission fee being too high is said to be the cause in part. Mr Davitt has written to Mr Ford,'editor of the New York Irieh World, taking him to task for advising a policy of paltry obstruction on the part of the Home Rule members. He says that the true policy for the Home Rulers is to advocate the reforms required by the workers of Great Britain, while advocating justice to Ireland. The London World says that Mr Gladstone is going on a yachting excursion as soon as released from official work. After the preliminary debate he will not be Been again in the House of Commons for several months. He proposes to Btart for Rome early in November, and to remain in Italy till after Easter. Excitement has been caused in political circles by Russia’s occupation of Port Lazeroff in the Corea.

The Paris Figaro of July 26th, publishes a sensational article giving details of a meditated coup d’etat by General Bonrazer.

AMERICAN NEWS.

The United States { Commisaiener, Mr George H. Bates, left on July 31st for Samoa, to discuss with the English, French, and German Commissioners the neutral position of the Islands.

A cable is proposed to connect Japan, New Zealand, and Australia with Canada. A commissioner, Mr Fleming, left for England on July 11th, to confer with the Imperial Government on the subject. Maxwell, the murderer, was sentenced to be hanged on August 27th. _ The St. John’s Newfoundland Colonist on July 28 contradicts the sensational reports of destitution in that colony, and says there have been no deaths from starvation. The same paper denounces Mr Weddel, who is in Canada seeking assistance, as an impostor. Despatches from Ottawa say that the Government has no official knowledge of the reported woeful condition of things in Labrador, and believe the reports to be without foundation.

The mining region of Medow Lake, in California, is rich in ores, but the working of them was impracticable on account of their rebellious nature. It has suddenly come to the front again on account of the difficulty being overcome. A syndicate of English capitalists are erecting a mill there, costing 150,000 dollars. Mr William John Hurst, a prominent citizen of Auckland and a member of the colonial Parliament, fell into the hands of the Press interviewers after he arrived in San Francisco. He gave rather a Bad colored view of affairs in New Zealand. He said that the Colony was suffering from a spell

of depression ; that the taxes were excessive, and growing heavier every year, but hoped that things would be better when the Opposition ousted the present unpopular Ministry. He attributed the depression to the fact that for very many years the people of the Colony have been living on one another and the country.

IRISH TROUBLES. Two thousand persons attended an Orange soiree given in Dublin in the Rotunda on July 12, The hall was guarded by the police. Thousands of Nationalists surrounded the building, and many placards were posted with inscriptions—“We will pay you Orange dogs in Irish coin The one long debt which Ireland owes all braggarts of the Boyne.” At Armagh, Major Saunders presided over a gathering of 2009 enthusiastic Orangemen. Afterward there was a procession, the route of which was lined by 300 police and soldiers. Business was suspended. An Orange lodge in Coalistan, a small village in County Tyrone, four miles from Dungannon, was attacked on the night of the 13 th by a number of men belonging to the National League. The attacking party were armed with rifles, and kept up a fire for two hours, the police being powerless to interfere. Armed moonlighters came the same night and attacked and took possession of two houses in Freemount and Kanturk, County Cork, where they entered and severely beat the inmates. There was a tremendous riot in Belfast also on the night of the 13th between Roman Catholics and Protestants, during which four taverns and a number of dwellinghousea were wrecked. The police and soldiers charged the rioters several times and at last succeeded in clearing the streets. Among those wounded was a sergeant. His injuries are said to be mortal. A constable and several civilians were severely hurt. The fighting was done between the police and the Orangemen, the latter assailing the officers because they prevented the Orangemen from attacking the Roman Catholics. A policeman named Garlin is among those who died from injuries. Two civilians named McDuttou and Mcllroy were shot dead, and fifteen persons were sent to the hospital. The police garrison has been largely increased. The wreckage caused by the rioting resembled the effects of a tornado, and men, women, and children who were struck down, bruised and bleeding, still uttered cries of defiance aud threats of revenge. The Protestants were beaten by sheer numbers, and many of their houses were afterward raided. Twenty-three prisoners while on their way to the police station sang “ Rule Britannia,” ' and . cursed Messrs Parnell and Sexton. On the morning of the 14th Head-Constable Waterford forced a private soldier to attempt to arrest two Orangemen, a father and son, and during the struggle that ensued both Orangemen were killed. Waterford's streets were patrolled by police and cavalary. A Nationalist meeting at Stewart’s Town on the same evening attacked by a mob, and the Riot Act was read. Several of the police were injured.

The Government decline to institute au inquiry into the conduct of the police on the occasion of the recent election in Londonderry. The Viceroy’s order summoning the inhabitants of Londonderry to deliver up their arms and ammunition before the 25th July has been discharged. The United Ireland of July 29 says that the truce with the landlords is shattered, and the Irish people having not the least intention to estrange the English masses it would be impossible to produce a more eloquent example of the policy of ramming English rule down Irish throats than is afforded by the appointment as Irish Viceroy of the Marquis of Londonderry, inheriting, as he does, the blood and name of cut-throat Castlereagb. The Freeman’s Journal says the appointment is ominous of coercion, and Irishmen must be prepared for this. The Loyalist press of Ireland is delighted over the appointment of Lord Londonderry as Lord-Lieutenant.

EXTRADITION TREATY The extradition treaty between the United States and Great Britain was signed in London on June 25th, and was sent to the United States’Senate on July 8, with a message from the President advising its passage. To the list of crimes subject to extradition the new treaty adds manslaughter, burglary, embezzlement or larceny involving 500 dollars or npwards, and finally malicious destruction of property which endangers the life of others. The treaty especially exempts from extradition persons who have been convicted of political offences. Mr Howard Vincent ha 3 written to the London Press, quoting from his reports in order to prove the urgent necessity of an extradition treaty with the United States directed entirely against Fenians and dynamiters. He concludes by saying that the whole civilized world is watching the United States.

CANADA. * The anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne was celebrated on July 12 by the Orangemen of Canada on a much larger scale than usual at Sairie, Bobeaygeon, Gost, Peterborough, Belville, Kingston, Ottawa, and Halifax. There were large gatherings, processions, and meetings,- at which addresses were made. At the Kingston meetings resolution was passed deploring the state into which the Home Rale agitation had placed the Empire, aDd denouncing Mr Gladstone’s measure as one which muet bring about the dismemberment of Great Britain, but at the same time favoring any measure which would create and give power to local councils or assemblies in England, Ireland, and Scotland to deal with local questions. At Peterborough on the 11th a Home Rule banner was pelted with rotten eggs.

A TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT,

The Prince of Wales gave a garden party at Marlborough House on Saturday, the 24tb, to a party which included French princes now in England. The following day notices appeared in all the Orleanist papers in Paris to the effect he had given a magnificent entertainment in honor of the Comte de Paris, and that the Queen had come to town from Windsor for the purpose of meeting the Pretender at Marlborough House. The Prince was furious, and the matter created the worst

possible impression at Paris, where at fi ra^J fc was looked upon as a direct insult to the Government. Matters to-day are slightly improved by an official communication in the London Times, denying the Orleams. despatches. The Comte de Pans gave orders for the statement to bo contradicted in La France The French Radical press was much amused over the affair.

GERMANY IN’ AFRICA. Despatches from Berlin of July 28th say that Herr Schwartz has been compelled to terminate his explorings in the Cameroon Country, owing to hostile natives. He has, however, concluded treaties _ with several chiefs, giving Germany authority to establish a protectorate over that part ot the country governed by them. Herr Fischer, the African explorer, reports that he bad reached WaDga, north of Pagani, with a remnant of his expedition after a journey of extreme hard- " Bhip lasting thirty-two days. The members of the expedition suffered from hunger. Of 230 Natives who went with the party 57 died from disease or wounds received in battle. Herr Fischer had secured valuable botanic specimens. He proceeded to Zanzibar from Wanga.

RUSSIA AND ENGLAND. Private despatches received in London on July 21st, tend to confirm the threatened occupation by the Russians of Port Lazeroff. Russia h&s long had a coaling station there, for which she paid yearly, a bounty to the Corean Government. Russia and China recently made a mutual concession regarding the Manchoorian frontier, and it is believed that China will quietly acquiesce in the Russian occupation of Port Lazsroff, in revenge for England’s refusal to acknowledge China’s suzerainty over Burmah. In event of war between Russia and England, Port Lazeroff will place Russia in a more advantageous position for both offensive and defensive operations than during the recent Russo-Afghan crisis. The occupation of Port Hamilton by England at that time was a serious blow to the Russian operations. In military circles the matter i 3 regarned as of serious import. The London Standard had an alarmist article on the 2.lst, concerning the Afghan question, in which Russia waa hotly denounced. A London despatch, of the 23rd, says that Russia is getting bolder, and now demands the cession of Erzeroum, which would give her the key to the whole country south. Military preparations by both Russia and Turkey are going forward.

THE CRAWFORD-DILKE CASE. At the rehearing of the divorce case of Crawford against Crawford and Dilke, opened by the Queen’s proctor, the Court was crammed with notables, including many •well-known ladies. Sir Charts Dilke, Mrs Crawford, and her sister, were present. The counsel for the Queen’s proctor, in opening the case, asserted that the servants mentioned by Mrs Crawford in her confessions, as being present or witnessing her meetings with Sir Charles Dilke at his house or elsewhere, did not confirm Mrs Crawford s statements in any particular. Sarah, the maid, who, Mrs Crawford said, dressed her m bir Charles’ apartments after his departure from _ there, denied the story. The counsel said : Altogether, the Frenchwoman, Fanny, who, Mrs °Crawford confessed, brought her into intimate relations with Sir Charles, had, counsel admitted, disappeared ; but Sir Chas. Dilke himself would teetify and show that he was not with Mrs Crawford on the dates she alleges he was in company with her. Sir Charles’ coachman would show that he never Btayed loDg at Mrs Crawford’s house waiting for his master to terminate his visits to Mrs Crawford. The coachman would farther testify that he would have seen if anything wrong had been done in the room when Mrs Crawford had received Sir Charles m her own house, as a coachman from his box could easily see over the whole area of a room. Sir Charles Dilke, being sworn, denied totallyall allegations concerning him made by Mrs Crawford. He declared her confession an act of deliberate conspiracy, due to his. having advised Mrs Crawford through a friend to abandon an intrigue she then had with Oapt. Forster. Capt. Forster challenged the witness but he declined the challenge as ridiculous. Sir Charles was visibly affected while testify ing, In walking to the witness box he almost staggered, but soon recovered, and hiß replies to questions were made with clearness and precision. He replied to the question, . Did you make love to Virginia Crawford? with : No, certainly not.” Mrs Crawford and Sir Charles frequently exchanged glances, and the former smiled amusedly when Sir Charles denied that a laiason existed between them. A despatch from London, of July 17, says that Mrs Crawford made a statement to the Queen s Proctor, the exact nature of which is not Known, but it is expected that she will be called upon to substantiate it, and some new fact*, perhaps, of a startling nature may be elicited, it is the opinion that Sir Charles makes a bad witness, failing to answer questions asked until absolutely forced, and showing a general disposition to debate and quibble. One o Mr Matthews’ questions which caused a flutter was, “ Were you ever a lover of Virginia a mother ? ” The reply came,. “I have been asked previously a somewhat similar question, and I must decline to answer. This response created a sersation. During his evidence, Sir Charles declared he had never kissed Virginia Crawford or made love or paid any court to her. and had never been improperly or unduly familiar with her. In fact, he was only on terms of ordinary acquaintanceship with ner. “ Mv reasons for appealing to the Queen s Proctor,” he continued, “ arose from comments of newspapers.’’ A sensation was caused in Court on the 19th by an expert m writing testifying that letters, admittedly written bv Mrs Crawford and signed Vircinia” were found to be on comparison with anonymous letters warning Mr Crawford aeainst the member for Chelsea similar m handwriting. In Court, on the 20th, Sir Chaa. Dilke waa cheerful, almost frisky. Mr Donald Crawford was sullen and heavy-ayed.. Mrs Crawford was ccol and collected, breaking the tedium of the technical evidence by a senes. of little yaw ns and twirlings of her handkerchief. the same time she consulted a miniature diary, and occasionally whispered to. Mr Lewis and chatted smilingly with her sisters . The evidence of the servants tended to show that Sir Charles Dilke ordered the housemaids to be on the staircases as seldom as Zsible because he disliked to see them Shant, the coachman, said be frequent y

drove Dilke to the house in Young-street, the visits usually being of a quarter of an hour. Once he saw Sir Charles Dilke and a lady through the window ; they were only sitting and talking. Three secretaries testified that they never Baw lady visitors at Sir Charles Dilke’s house. One said he had refreshed his memory as to dates by reference to Hansard. Mr Justice Hanner, interrupting, said Hansard was not a book recognised t>yjbe Court. Madame Dessoulavy, a native cf Neufchatel, was a difficult witness. She did not remember whether she was married in 1873 or -is//. She had kept a cigar shop in Montpelierplace, but had forgotten whether it was m 1873 or in 1863 that she had kept it ; bhe had let lodgings, but was not able to give the name of anybody who had. ever st ®J e night. Sir Charles Dilke, she , called only once a year. She never saw Mrs Crawford. She had engaged Fanny as a servant. Witness said she was formerly in Sir Charles Dilke’s service, and was now pensioned. Mrs Robertson deposed that Captain Foster called at her bouse and told Mrs Crawford that he was ordered to Egypt, and Mrs Crawford wept, fitness also Crawford bad once told her t a ( Crawford) had on two occasions slept m Sir Charles Dilke’s house. Witness Mrs Crawford to rupture her relations with Sir Charles Dilke. Some of the evidence was decidedly the most circumstantial yet given. Mrs Crawford testified that Bhe confessed that she disliked her husband because he was too old, that she loved Captain Foster because he was handsome and pleasing, and that she was intimate with. Sir Charles Dilke for the purpose of obtaining a divorce from her hated husband. She spared Captain Foster as far as possible because she. knew he was about to marry. Under strict crossexamination she confessed she had been intimate only with Sir Charles Dilke and Captain Foster, exculpating two other society men. A remarkable feature was when Mrs Crawford was asked a question, for instance, in regard to French vices, &c. She anpounced, with the utmost calmueßS, “ Yes, yes,” and even smiled, showing that she was naturally an abandoned woman, who rather gloried in her shame. Mrs Crawford spoke in soft, pleasing tones, damaging Sir Charles Dilke without exculpating herself. The evidence given to-day produced a deep impression. Its directness, clearness, and circumstantial minuteness convinced all of its truth. Sir Charles Dilke’d refusal to deny, a liaison with Mrs Crawford’d mother is attributed, to the open nature of the scandal rendering denial impossible. The conduct of Mrs Crawford and her two sisters in Court was marked with unseemly levity in laughing and talking together. Mrs Crawford resumed her testimony on the 21st. She asserted that she believed it was Mrs Rogerson. who wrote the anomyous letters accusing witness, of infidelity with Captain Foster, and her object was to screen Sir Charles Dilke. Mrs Ashton Dilke, sister of Mrs Crawford, and sister-in-law of Sir Charles, testified that he (Sir Charles), after Mrs Crawford had made her confession, suggested a quiet separation between her and her husband, and offered to contribute to Mrs Crawford’s income. While Mrs Crawford was testifying under crossexamination, Captain Foster entered the Court-room, and was seen by her, when she became less confident in her manner, and ber replies were often made in a stammering way and after long pauses. On the 23rd Captain Foster was a witness. He admitted he had been guilty of criminal intimacy with Mrs Crawford. He once quarrelled with Sir Charles, and called him a liar, scoundrel, and coward, because he had secretly attempted to sever the relations between Mrs Crawford and witness. He also attempted to thrash Sir Charles, but desisted at Mrs Rogeraon’a entreaty. Mrs Rogerson was here recalled. She denied the statements just made by Captain Foster. Mr Matthews then addressed the jury in behalf of the petitioner, Mr Crawfard, who the lawyers described as “ the only one who emerged clean from amidst this plentiful throwing of the foulest mud.” The lawyer ridiculed Sir C. Dilke’s reason for remaining silent during the progress of the trial. Mr Matthews did. not mince matters. He described things in the true vernacular with such power as to intensely excite Sir Charles Dilke, who became livid with rage, and twice jumped to his feet and essayed to speak, but the Judge prevented him from doing so. ]Mr Matthews, continuing, referred with intense scorn to “ Frenchified Sloan-street orgies,” and said no man who was not bo beastialised as to be lost to all Bhame would act as Sir Dilke had done in them. “ Why,” said the lawyer, ‘‘is Fanny (accused of sharing orgies while this young married woman, who was betrayed and degraded into them, is being held up to infamy before the whole English-speaking world. Fanny has vanished ; she dared not appear before this jury.” Commenting upon the apparent present lack of sensibility manifested by Mrs Crawford, Mr Matthews said, “ Doubtless the last spark of shame and respect in Mrs Crawford expired after the visits she made to Sir Charles Dilke’s| house.” Sir Charles Phillimore, on behalf of the Queen’s Proctor, followed Mr Matthews. Sir Walter contended that unless Mr Donald Crawford proved that bis wife had committed infidelity with Sir Charles be was not entitled to a decree of divorce from her in the present action. Mr Crawford might obtain the divorce, but he would have to obtain it by bringing another action, in which Captain Foster was corespondent. Not a single witness had sworn to either seeing Mrs Crawford go into or leave Sir Charles’ house. However, it was always crowded with offic’als and friends. Every gentlemanly feeling had restrained Sir Charles from going into the witness box and testifying duriog the previous trial that there waa a dark stain upon . his life and he was unwilling to submit himself to the process of examination, which would become the making of an exposure concerning Mrs Eustace Smith, Mrs Crawford s mother. The absence of Fanny, Sir Walter argued, could be accounted for. She doubtless had a dark stain upon her life, and it was enough to keep her out of the witness box. Concerning Mrs Crawford, Sir Walter s evidence showed that she had been badly reared. She waa a most bold abandoned woman. Alter Captain Foster had given his testimony, Sir Charles said to him, “We will meet next week in Paris” “Whenever you please,” Foster replied calmly. The case was given to the jury on the 2<Jra. Mr Justice Hamau’s summing np was pronounced by the lawyers to be the model o£

clearness, compactness and impartiality from beginning to end. The charge was decidedly agfinst Sir Charles Dilke. The Judge alluded to the absence from the testimony of confirmation of an essential portion of Sir Charles Dilke’s story as certainly to be remarked, while Mrs Crawford was able to describe accurately the bedroom, in Sir Charles’ house, although he had sworn he had never taken her into the house. Besides this the evidence given by those who had testified to respondent a visits to the house in Warren-street was unshaken. If the •jury believed these witnesses the whole value of Sir Charles Dilke’s testimony was destroyed. In reference to the long interval which elapsed between the first ana second acts of adultery, the Judge thought Mrs Crawford’s explanation sufficient when she said Sir Charles was not well during this period. Mr Crawford . stayed throughout the Judge’s charges with his elbows resting on the table, his face buried in his hands. Sir Charles sat all the time with his eyes fixed on the Judge’s face, occasionally nodding in agreement to a judicial remark. After the verdict was rendered Sir Charles looked the picture of misery. Captain Foster sat near him, evidently gloating over his rival’s dejection. It was observed that Captain Foster was watchmg for the door Sir Charles would select for hia exit, and it was thought Captain Foster meant to follow the Baronet and assault him. The formal verdict of the jury contains no mention of Sir Charles Dilke by name. It simply declares that no material facts were suppressed at the previous trial, at which a decree of divorce was obtained justly. . There were no scenes attending the declaration of the result of the trial, although the people outside the Court room received the announcement with cheering. Sir Charles Dilke vanished immediately after the verdict was returned. Mr Donald Crawford, the plaintiff, when he left the building, was cheered by the people in the street. Sir Charles Dilke left town on Saturday, presumably for the Continent. On the same day, anticipating his removal by the Queen from her Privy Council, he resigned, and no longer even technically is right hon. Many clergymen, under an ingenious veil of rhetoric, made his fall the leading topic of their sermons on Sunday. Sir Charles Dilke has ordered the sale of his house at Chelsea. He refused the solicitations of his friends to remain in England and face the trouble, and intends to take up his permanent residence in the South of France. Previous to his departure, he issued the following address to the Chelsea electors He says--“ So far as my public life goes I have no option but to accept the verdict while protesting once more against its justice. I can only assure you, as I have already often solemnly assured you, and with equal solemnity sworn in Court, that I am innocent of the charges brought against me, and respectfully and gratefully I bid you farewell.”