ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume X, Issue 2028, 18 September 1883, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

»■ (Per R.M.s.s. Australia.) LONDON, August 25. In the House of Commons, on the 22nd August, the Uiider-Sejretary for India presented his Indiau Budget. The surplus | for 1884 is estimated at £475,000. Sir Stafford Northcote attacked the whole t policy of Government on the 21st. He [ accused it of keeping back facts in thu Madagascar affairs. Mr. Gladstone, iv I r °ply> praised the working of the Land Act, and Earl Spencer's vigorous governI meat of Ireland. In relation to Madagascar, he declared that nothing had occurre i to disturb tho cordial relations of England and France. J Bismarck, iv reply to a Frencii journal, declared that Franco threatens the peace of Europe ; that such a state of affairs cannot continue without serious danger, and that the passions fermented by the agitation may burst the bouda of peace. Mount Vesuvius was again active on the 22ud of August. Some buildings and mountain railroad were damaged by the tremblings. The I'reeman's Journal bitterly denounces the House of Lords for its action in rejecting the Irish Registration Bill. An extensive flour mill near Kuinegan, Ireland, was burned on the 22nd, aud threo persons perished. The Comte de Chambord's death is alluded to by the Republican journals re- | spectfully, and they unite iv paying j homage to his sincerity. The Royalists' papers appeared with mourning borders, and are reserved in their comments regarding the consequence of the death. The body will be buriod by the side of Charles K. A reign of torror existed on Aug. 24, in a village of Cussos, in Roumeha. The Turks were murdering Christians, and all the latter who could get away were fleeing from the country. An accidont happened to the Duke of Cambridge while at Chatam. He had just alighted from his carriage with Col. Gordon, when tho horses became vory restive, and turning suddenly round upset the carriage and struck the Duke in the chest. Hi 3 Royal Highness left for Woolwich yesterday morning. The new Governor of Lebanon has sent to the Porte a memorandum, stating that the situation of that province has been reduced by the action of Rustem Pasha, and is much worse than it was formerly expected. Mr Gladstone is said to have recently declared, iv csnveraatiou with the Methodist clergymen, that a large number of ministers and others wearing the blue ribbon waa an exceedingly gratifying circumstance, speaking well for the future. Switzerland has just concluded a treaty with the United States, to be in force for 30 years, binding both Republics to submit any differences arising between them to arbitration. Honariras and Columbia have given in their" ailheajqn to the' principle if Prance should" continue to countenance the attempts of DolfraKssa to establish French rule in Central Africa. Tho African Asaooiation at Berlin Intend to implore the protection of Kngland. The project for neutralization of the Congo is favored iv London. The Pope is drawing up an encyclical tatter against divorce.

A despatch from London, of August 5, ' says that the Queen is much stronger. Iv receiving M. Waddin\»ton, the new French Minister, nhe stood through the interview, which lasted twenty minutes. She has udered that no tenant festivities take place this ye;\r at Balmoral or any other estates, on account of the death of John Brown. Another despatch says that, iv spite of tho continued efforts of the Royal Family and her medical advisers, the Queen obstinately declines to go abroad for the benefit of her health, and insists on spending the autumn at Balmoral. She is determined to be near .John Brown's grave, and will m «kc daily visits to it, contributing new testimonials of the esteem in which she holds the memory of the departed gillie. Her family are exasperated by her display of feeling on this subject. A Cairo correspondent to the London papers writes : — " lam informed that at one of the hospitals no precautions are taken to disinfect, or even to clean bed and bedding from which a cholera corpse lias been removed. As one patient dies, I the body is hustled away for burial, and ' another aick or dying wretch fills the vacancy caused by the death. Even vomiting ejections from successive patients are allowed to accumulate for many hours, until the whole place becomes inexpressibly loathsome. This caso is but a type of what is going on at every depot for the reception of cholera-stricken people. Carts are sent round at intervals to collect the dead at the hospitals and private houses, and the bodies are not unftequeutly found even in the open streets. Should the man in charge of the dead-cart come across a sick person, the latter is unceremoniously seized, and thrown into the vehicle on top of its ghastly freight, and is left there until the care, for the collection of the sick only is met with, svhen the living arc iranferred from tho dead-cart to the company of their fellow sufferers, and taken to the hospital. Mrs. Langtry say* it is the dream of her life to return from her American and Australian t«ur, and found a theatre in London, to be known by her name. The London Atlutimum devotes fourteen columns to tho publication of the newßyrou correspondence, showing the relations between Lord and Lady Byron, and his .-sisters. The correspondence disposes of the scandal circulated by Mrs. Harriet Beecher-Stowc. Miss Fianey (stage name, " Fortesque ") has married a son of Lord Cairns. Serious rioting has occurred in the town of Coutbridge, Lanark, Scotland, between Protestants and Catholics. Several police were wounded. While thirteen men were being drawn up to the surface at the mining town of Kedruth, Cornwall, the rope attached to the car broke, and the men were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft and instantly killed. Mr. Newdegate threatens to take proceedings against Mr. Bradlaugh. The latter charged Mr. New. legate with being so tipsy in the House of Commons that he fell off his seat, and also that during the discussion on the Affirmation Bill he was so drunk he could not walk from the lobby to give hia vote. Mr. Newdegate's friends 3iid ho only fainted through illness, and a doctor attested that fact. Terrymau left Dover on a flying bicycle on the 28th July, for the purpose of crossing the Channel, and arrived at Calais at "t o'clock the same afternoon. The boxing match between Sullivan, the American champion, and Slade, the Maori I. oxer, came off on the 6th Augfst, and resulted in Slade being knocked out in the third round. Slade was horribly mauled. An attempt was made on 3rd August to blow up a large linen factory at Capar, Fife, Scotland, and was attributed to Fenians. Mr. Labourchere says iv Fruth that the greater part of the Duchess ol Edinburgh's trouseau was sold in London some time ago as the property of a lady of tank. The Queen received Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone on the 4th August for the first time for many years. Tho coldness between the Quei-n and the Premier is lessening. This is considered to indicate an early application to Parliament for a further grant to the sons of tho Prince of Wales. The Star Music Hall, Sunderlaud, lias been burned. There were 1,400 persons in tho Hall when tho lire originated, but all got safely out in four minutes. SAN FRANCISCO, August 25. Brooklyn suspension bridge is pronounced financially a failure. Several towns iv the State of Minasota wero visited by a cyclone on the 24th August, with most distressing results. The wind also demolished a railway train, liftiug the cars bodily from tho track, and reducing them to shivers. One hundred passengers were killed. The object of tha visit of Monsignor Capel to the United States, i 3 said to signify the intention of the Church of Rome to try to make a great spread iv future iv this country. A somewhat startling story ! is circulated that Capel's appearance here but precedes the arrival of the Pope himself. Moody and Sankoy go to London in September, to spend the wiutor there in evangelical work. The White Star Line steamship Ludwig is long overdue at Montreal, Canada, and been given up for lost. The Commission at Pierrepoint has made a report to the effect that in four years, if the policy of Government towards Mormons was continued, the latter would con- | trol all the territories remaining.