ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1513, 1 June 1886, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The a.B. Alameda arrived from San Francisco at 4.30 on Sunday evening at AncKlund. Time —2O <iay« 17 hoars 29 minutes. She brought the following intelligence : GENERAL SUMMARY. (European dates to May 6th.) The Nihilists atte npttd to bum the Imperial park at Livudia on May 7th firing the neighboring forest, but they failed. The Czar and family were at Livadia. Henry Rochfort and M. Portalee fought an ineffectual duel with pistole near Paris on May let. The cholera epidemic is spreading at Venice, Vicenza, and Buri. The Mormon missionaries were severely beaten in Switzerland on May 7th by the friends of seme Swiss girls who had been \ badly treated in Utah. J The Emperor of Germany has sent the f Pope a large gold cross jewelled, for the Utter’s services in arbitrating in. the Caroline Islands dispute. News from Austria states that the town of Friedland in Moravia, and the towns of Dotrow, Lanoy, Biaance, Chigron, and Lanok have been destroyed by fire, ; Mr Gladstone came out ou the 30th ! April with a denial of the report that he had decided to join the Roman Catholic Church. The Easter manoeuvres of the British*'' Volunteers at Dover and Portsmouth on. April 28th were most successful. The weather was brilliant, and the exercises at both places were witnessed by immense crowds of people. The Prince of Wales has been re-elected Grand Master of the Freemasons of Eng. land. ;The chief points in dispute as to the position of England tod China in Bur. mah hare been arranged, despite the tremendous pressure to induce a contrary course, AMERICAN SUMMARY. The stock of Patterson, Kissock and Co., of Montreal, valued at £420,000, was seized by the Customs authorities on 7th May for smuggling. Cardinal Tusheran, of Canada, tinned a pastoral on April 28th condemning the Knights of Labor as inimical to the interests of religion and good morals. A great many Mormon families, mostly English, are emigrating into Mexico trom Utah to avoid prosecution under the United States anti-polygamy law. Labour agitations are still rife in the Eastern States,chiefly fomented by foreign leaders. Twenty-five thousand workmen struck in various shops and factories of Chicago on April 20'.h. Two albums, each containing all tha Horne Rule editor! ils of the A merican Press, are in course of preparation in New York. One will be forwarded to Mr Gladstone, the other to Mr Parnell. Jefferson Davis made a sort of triumphal progress through the Southern States lately. The people went wild with excitement. Ten thousand persons stood in the rain to welcome him In Montgotftcry on the 28th on his way to his rooms in the hotel, which was strewn with roses. It is stated the Canadian Pacific Transcontinental railway will open for traffic in June next. Mr Mills, the managing director of the i Union Steam Company of New Zealand, V ~T was interviewed on his arrival in Han Francisco m route to Europe. He spoke hopefully of a cable project to consect California with New Zealand. Dr Milton Bowers, a physician of some standing in San Francisco, has been found guilty in the first degree for the murder of Lis wife by poison. The Qeronimus, a band of hostile Apaches, are raiding Southern Arizona, and killing and burning in every direction. ': The Canadian authorities have seized an American vessel off Cape Breton for violation of the fishery laws. This act is likely to hasten the settlement of the long _ standing dispute between Greit Britain and the United Stales co ncerning the North American Sea Coast Fisheries.

The Nova Scotia legislature passed a resolution 'on May 7th endorsing Mr Gladstone’s Irish policy. Rioting with bloodshed has taken place at Chicago and Milwaukee, chiefly among the foreign workmen. HOME RULE. The National Liberal Association of Scotland adopted a resolution on April 19th layering Mr Gladstone’s bill. The Dublin National organ, owned by the Lord Mayor, denies that the IrishAmericac dynamiters will continue to worry England, unless an absolute separation of Ireland and Great Britain is attained.

! .Mr Gladstone’s measure, says the Natibn, means peace to the Irish throughout, the world.

The Earl of Derby published a letter on May stb, denying the moral right of the present Government to decide the present Irish 7 question. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach and Viscount Cranhrook appointed a committee to present to I' . liament a petition against the granting oi Home Rule. The meeting ou the s(h of the National Liberal Federation of Great Britain endorsed Mr Gladstone’s policy amid the wildest excitement.

Herbert Spencer, Professor Huxley, and the Earl of Tyndale have joined the antr-disunion committee, the funds of wffioh now amount to £50,000. • The Earl of Kenmare has resigned his -office under the present Government. Notice of motion to reject the Horae Rule Bill in the House of Commons is placed to the name of Mr Brannd. Numerous instances are reported of country constituencies passing votes of want of confidence in their representatives in Parliament.

. Lord Hartington Las consented to introduce in the House of Commons a motion to reject Mr Gladstone's Home Rule Sill on its second reading. Four hundred Catholic priests attended ' a meeting at Dungannon, County Tyrone, cm May filb, called to give expression t<> their views on Mr Gladstone’s Home Rule policy, in compliance with the Premier’s , invitation to all bodies in Ireland to take action in the matter. The Most Rev. Daniel McGrettigan, D.D., Apchbishop of Armagh, presided. Resolutions were endorsing.Mr Gladstone’s policy, LETTER FROM MR GLADSTONE. The following letter from the ?remi|r to the London Chronicle was published )ji that paper on April 16th “It is not •-.ilny custom to comment on a statement by B : .hostile newspaper, but having a sin- • cere respect for the Chronicle, I would . C&il attention to an allegation by it in a leader that I have heretofore taught that Home Rule in Ireland would be the source of Imperial danger. 1 will not challenge proof of the assertion, which doubtless wasmade in good faith, but it is entirely -an error. I hare always asked for an rx■'jilanation of the meaning of Homo Rule 'in order to make clear the question whether or not it would bo a lonrce of danger. We have now - learned the demand of Ireland from five-sixths of her chosen representatives. Sach Home Rule is in the language of my address in September last—a source not of danger but of strength. The danger, ' If any, lies in refusing it. MR GLADSTONE’S MANIFESTO. The following are the principal parts of . Mr manifesto to the Mid- ' lothian electors : I have never known an occasion where a Parliamentary event caused so much excitement throughout ■ the world as the production of this. Bill -under the auspices of the British Govern-

ment. From public meetings and from, the highest authorities in the colonies and '■ America, from capitals such as Washington, Boston and Quebec, and from remote ‘ districts lying beyond the reach of all ordinary political excitement, 1 received ' conclusive assurances that our kindred re-

' gard with warmth and fraternal sympathy to attempt to settle on an adequate scale, '■ and once and for all the long, vexed and ■ troubled relations between Great Britain and Ireland, which exhibits to us the one conspicuous and only failure of ; political genlua of our race, to comfort and master the difficulty, and to obObtain in a reasonable degree the main ends of civilised life. He then gives a history of the attempts to conciliate or coerce Ireland, and adds “ watching from day to day the movements of the current of opinion during the present conflict, more and more I find it necessary to - • observe the point in which the dividing lines are drawn. On the side ad-v-Terse to Government are found, I sorrowfully admit, in profuse, sbundance, station, title, wealth, social influence, I.- -and professions, or a large majority of them, in a word in the spirit and power of this class there are the main body of . the opposing host. Nor is this all, as the .Knights of God had servants, so a great IDAny of this class, each enrolled soldier, has a roll of dependants. The adverse '■ r ; host then consists of class and dependants ■ -of class, but this formidable army is, in

the bulk of its constituent parts, the came (though now enriched at our cost with a valuable contingsnt of recruits) that has fought in every one of the great political battles of the last 60 years, and «aa. been defaafed. Wo have a great aim before us now, by dividing and by removing obstacles to its work, to treat the Irish question with due regard to its specialities, but with the same thoroughness of method . by which we have solved colonial problems that 50 years back were hardly, if .*• - stall, loss formidable. To give heed to * the voice of the people, speaking in terras of moderation by the mouths of a majority of those whom we ourselves have made ■ their constitutional representatives, and this to strengthen a consolidated empire on the basis of mutual benefit and hearty loyalty. Such is the end. As for the means we take : The establishment in Dublin of a Legislative body empowered to makO' laws for the Irish is contra distinguished from Imperial Affairs. It is with this- that we are now buried, and . - with the ’details and particulars to be •well -done." He thus concludes, “ We are not only debating the amount of the Irish contributions to the - Empire, ■or the composition of a ■Legislative body, or the maintenance ’Of representatives, in connection with Westminster, but what we are also de- ■ bating is the large and far larger ques- , tion which includes and absorbs them all - —-the question whether you will or will ■ 1 not have regard to the prayer of Ireland for the management by herself of affairs specially and exclusively her own. This •ad,:no other is the matter which the

House' of Commons has at once to decide. If on this matter it speaks with a clear intelligible voice I feel the strongest assurance that others, difficult as some of them are, will neveitheleas, with Ihe aid of full discussion, and a wise conciliatory spirit, be found capable of national and tolerable settlement.” GERMAN AFFAIRS, The Emperor William is at pressnt enjoying robust health. He reviewed the troops at Potsdam on May Ist. Count Herbert Bismarck, whose life was despaired of, passed the crisis of his disease on April 20th. Prince Bismarck has introduced a Bill into the Bunderath to increase the duties on spirits, and a law to suppress Polandism, which abolishes the Polish regiments in the German army.

The deficit in the revenue of the Prussian railways for the past fiscal year is 93.000. marks, owing to the general commercial depression. It is expected the deficiciency for 1886 will be even greater. DUELLING IN FRANCE. Edouard Drumont, author of the book La France Juive, in which he predicted a new France, on account of the Hebrew element, fought a duel on April 25jh with M. Meyer. Drumont, who had just recovered from a sword wound received in a duel with M. Laurent, editor of La Paris, who was the first to challenge Drumont, on account or his insults to the Hebrew race, etc., was again severely wounded by a savage thrust in the thigh. It is understood that Drumont will have to meet other challenges as soon as he recovers. The anger excited by Drumont’s book is due to an impression that the author designed it as the beginning of a French crusade against the Hebrews, I similar to those which have raged in Germany, Austria, and Russia. COLONIAL EXHIBITION. The Queen formally opened the Colonial Exhibition in London on May 4tb. The weather was beautiful, and crowds 1 gathered along the route taken by Her 1 Majesty from Buckingham Palace. They greeted her with cheers. The main hall 1 in which the opening ceremonies were conducted wa» crowded with a large 1 number of foreign princes and diplomatists, who attended in Court dress, together with scores of British officers who wore present in full and glittering uniforms. ] The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Henry of Battenborg j and his wife, Princess Beatrice, and the Crown Princess Victoria ot Germany led 1 the Royal procession throughout the j building, and were followed by Lord ; Hartington, the Marquis of Salisbury, Earl Derby and scores of other persons. The ' prominent feature of the opening cere- 1 monies was an ode composed for the occasion by lord Tennyson. This was magnificently sung by a vast choir of ( i-arefully selected vocalists. The ode was 1 sung just previous to the Queen’s formal declaration that the exhibition was open. She was profoundly pleased with the ode and with the manner in which it was j rendered. She nodded and smiled with , pleasure, and approved of each sentiment i as it was brought out, and seemed to exceedingly enjoy the enthusiam which the j poem and music provoked in the vast 1 concourse, whose applause was hearty | and long continued. j THE PANAMA CANAL. ] The latest information about this huge undertaking is from Dr Wolford Newson, i formerly under the Board of Health at ( Panama, who arrived in Neff York from > the Isthmus on May Ist.. He says if De j Lesseps is reported correctly in the state- 1 that one-half the work on the canal is completed he misleads. A fearful J crisis has arisen in the canal affairs. The ( Company’s indebtedness now amounts to 161,000,000d015. on which they are ■ paying an annual interest of 600,000d015. , For months past work has been dragging. , M. Borger, chief Director, told the con- ; fractors not to push if, presumably to cut 1 down expenditure. Millions of dollars 1 have been spent in useless machinery ; : 5.000. dollars to build a magnificent village on the former site of a mangrove , swamp, Superior-Agent Dingler’s home cost 100,000 dollars. Wilful and reckless extravagance marked every step of the enterprise. A splendid bouse was put up for DeLesseps on his late visit, and furnished in princely style with furniture brought direct from Paris. The Company have not settled on a plan for damming •the unruly Charges River ; and the huge cut atCulabla, if ever completed, will have a side 397 feet high. The whole project bristles with difficulties that many consider practically ihsumountable. It has been reported recently that M. Borger, chief of the works, believes a sealevel canal impracticable, and that it will have to be built as a lock canal, as originally suggested by Captain Bedford Pim, R.N., and Commander Quid. Although the Company has spent a fabulous sum, it is reported that it has not yet acquired a full right of way across tbs Isthmus. LABOR TROUBLES. Strikers and' lockouts are still ruling Chicago leading to violence and bloodshed. On May 3rd a crowd of Socialists and others besaiged a reaper factory about half a mile distant from the city, and riddled the windows with stones and pistol bullets. The police attacked the rioters, some 12 of whom were wounded, and dispersed them. Inflammatory circulars printed in German, with English translations appended, are being freely distribute], calling on the workmen to revenge themselves. The employees of the railway carshops in Detroit are out, and will not return to work without the managers agree to have ten hours pay for nine hours work, and fifteen per cent advance in addition. The agitation for eight hours as a day’s labor continues in St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinatti, Louisville, Philadelphia, New Fork, and other prominent cities. The demands in most instances have met with •affirmative responses, the point of whether ■ten hours’ or eight hours’ wages should be paid seeming to be the only one that created a difficulty in settlement. The strikers in New. York are firm in their attitude, and resolved to run amuck if need be, rather than recede from their position. The ironworkers resumed work on the 4th, giving employment to about 600 men. Rioting was resumed in Chicago on the i stb. A mob of six to e ; ght thousand i assembled on Eighteenth street and Centre s Avenuej and raided liquor and drugstores^