THE MAIL.

Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1604, 4 February 1873, Page 2

THE MAIL.

The mail, it appears, wag detained by the non arrival of the English mail at San Francisco, and the Nebraska waited eight days for it. Although the dates by tbie route do not reach further than the flth of January, there are several items of interest that the Port Darwin (to the 23rd,) did not notify. At New York, the Fifth Avenue Hotel, having 500 guesta, was consumed by fire, and twenty-two persons were burned to death, Sixteen bodies were recovered. Barnum's menagerie hag been, destroy

by fire and all within ifc consumed, including six women; a few of the quadrupeds being all that, escaped. Another large fire in America, and the discovery of an attempted extensive incendiarism at New York, by fuse being placed in the roofs of numerous houses, and these connected together for the purpose of wholesale destruction, will cause the English insurance companies to turn their minds to the Boston conflagration, and revise their risks on the other side of the Atlantic. Sir Charles Dilke's lectures upon " The Land and the People " resulted in a riot, which continued for more than an hour, and during which several persons were seriously injured. There is a report that Mr. Webb is negotiating for the sale of his boats and subsidies. At the first general meeting of the National Bank, in London, the report stated that 60,667 shares had been taken up by 850 shareholders, and were ready to commence busiuess.