ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL, VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 2301, 28 April 1875, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL, VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

SUMMARIES OF EUROPEAN NEWS. Moody and Sankey, revivalists, held a confereuce with minisiei-s of all denominations, in London, to cousider the question of the success of the revival movement. The movement opened with great success, and it was arranged that Moody should by telegraph invite to England some of the most popular of American preachers. Statue of Marine Hero of Venice unveiled amidst great enthusiasm. A conflict occurred at Dublin between Bishop Morau and Father O'Keofe's parties. Much violence was used. O'Keefe's church was completely wrecked. There have been disturbances amongst coolie 3at Mount Bay, Jamaica. A man-of-war aud marines left Port Royal to quell the disturbance. A Calcutta despatch states that the Indian Government expedition sent to survey Western (Jainu, one member of wbioh was recently murdered, has arrived at Rangoon. The attack '.vas made by Chinese officials, and in the tight forty Chinese were killed aud many wounded. Communication with the Chinese frontiers is stopped by bands of armed men. A meeting, attended by one hundred thousand parsons, has been held in Hyde Park under the auspices of the Tichborne Release Committee. Bands of music were in attendance, nnd flags and banners bearing mottos demanding justice were displayed. Keueally, Onslow, aud Whalley addressed the meeting. The enthusiasm was tremendous. The people unhitched the horses from the carriages, and drew the speakers to Hyde Park. Resolutions were passed denouncing the partiality of judges, declaring that the country would know no rest until this enormous judicial crime hnd been rectified. In the German Reichstag, a resolution had been carried by a. larga majority withdrawing State aid from Ronum Catholic Bishops. Bismarck insists that it was the most imperative duty of the State not to pay the foment ore of insurrection. The Roumanian Government has issued orders for a levy of troops. This warlike order excites comment. Over ten thousand persons attended the funeral of John Mitchell. An explosion at a coal mine in Belgium killed aud wounded a number of people. A St. Petersburg despatch states that affairs in Turkestan have caused General Kauff man to lose favour with the Czar, who has rejected the general's plans for a reorganization in Central Asia. A mass meeting of thirty thousand Irishmen lias been held iv Hyde Park, to demand the release of the Fenian prisoners. Mo<>ly and San key's revival meetings at the Agricu'.l'iral Hall were crowded. Franco lias determined to join the United States Centennial Exhibition. A destructive fire occurred at Foo Choo. Four hundred houses were destroyed. Small-pox is still raging in Japan. The Czar of Russia has sanctioned the new Ministerial plan for the construction of five thousand miles of railway in that country. Don Carlos has requested more contributions from the Provinces ; to which it was replied that the country was exhausted, but funds might be procured from abroad. There has been further fraternizing between the Carlists and the Government troops. General Cabrera issued a manifesto declaring adhesion to Alphonso on the ground that grave responsibility was incurred In opposing a Prince bearing the title "Most Catholic." Don Carlos has ordered all persons found reading this manifesto to be shot. All hope of settling the war by convention is considered ended. Don Carlos is marching with sixteen battalions and artillery on Ramalleo, 25 miles from Santander. Spain paid Germany eleven thousand thalers as indemnity for Gustave outrage. AMERICAN SUMMARY. Groat ice floods at Fort Deposit, on 19th March. Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Ofiice over five feet deep in water. Ice floated at the rate of three miles an hour — the crashing was tremendous. People fearfully excited, the water being over four feet higher than ever known before. The railroad for five miles covered with ice. Bridges nil crushed. Damage estimated at half a millipn dollars. The flood subsided next day. Damage immense. Floods reported at Pittsowpen. At Wikesbarrc the water cut a channel forty-five feet deep through a cemetery, and flooded the streets of Kingston. People had to go about in boats. The los>B by inundations at Harrisburgh, Columbia, and Marietta, lias been very great. At Augusta, on the 20th March, a severe storm, with heavy fall of hail, passed over. Several towns in the interior suffered severely from loss of life and property. At Carnac, on the Georgia Railway, all tho houses were blown down. Thomas Gosling was killed, and several persons wounded. Near Thomson, some miles from Augusta, Beveral persons were killed, and a large amount of property destroyed. The telegraph wires are all down. At Appling, Martha Darcy, Maggie Bailey, and others, were killed, and more wounded. At Wnchite, Kansfw, on the 29th March, Catharine Germaine, identified four Indians as the murderers of her father and mother. Thirteen others, who were known and implicated, escaped. The Petalunia, Argus relates how John Quintan, afflicted with rheumatism, was completely aud quickly cured by applying the leaves of the eucalyptus. .Prostration very great in ship-building, j both in England and America. Of about one . huudred steamers plying between Europe and tho United States, a year ago, sixty have been withdrawn. There ia the same stagnation in the coastwise marine. Two lines ruu bctwecu New York and South. Steamship Hue, the merchants here discontinued, and there ia only the Crowell line left. The New York Mercury has a dispatch from Worthington, stating that Senator Cameron and others have been sent to Mexico with the object of arrangiug preliminaries for the annexation, by purchase, to tho UDitcd States, of the Northern States of the Republic, and that the Mexican authorities already ucquiesces in the transfer. The story is considered improbable. Secretary Firth has been tendered a mission to England, but declined. There was a large Irish meeting of citizens at Chicago, to' arrange a demonstration in honor of the late John Mitchell. A similar meeting is reported from Memphis, St. Louis, Louisville, and other cities. * The laatcra in Drab's shoe factor}', Pittsburgh, have struck for higher wages. Other strikes amongst shoemakers in towns on the Simyouko River. On the 27th Mnrch, .fames Lick revoked his great trust deed in favour of different institutions in Sau Frauciaco. Considerable comment iw caused by this rovolution-liko change. It is said that the deed of trust was made under mental depression and app-ehen-Bion of speedy dissolution. Expected that alteration will make great work for the lawyers. Ho now proposes to give directly instead of through trustees.

Another instance of illegal obstruction by the Maoris took place near Mackaytown yesterday afternoon, Te Hiva, through Mere Kuru, being the aggressor. W. Cox, of Shortland, some years ago bought eight acres of land (for which thcro has been issued a Crown Grant) from Te AYono, Te Paoro, and othe-s. Cox brought up a punt loaded with 'limber, intending to baud a house, but yesterday Mere Kuru forbid the landing of it, on the ground that Te Hira is pai't owner. There the matter rests, and it will require the tact of Mr. Mackay, I suppose, to settle the matter. WELLINGTON. April 23. The Hon. Dr. Pollen is gazetted President of the Executive Couucil of New Zealand. An Order in Council provides that all expenditure on the gold-fieltls in the Province of Auckland, shall be regulated by Acts passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council. The Superintendent of Otago has notified in the JS T ew Zealand Gazette that the whole of Dog Island off Bluff Harbour, is reserved from sale as a site for lighthouse. Also that the islands iv Dusky Sound, including Resolution Island, Breaksea Island, Gilbert Isles, Entry Island, Curlew Island, Heron Island, ludian Island, and Pigeon Island, have been reserved as a station to be used for the restraint and safe keeping of male offenders under sentence of penal servitude. The total value of gold exported from New Zealand up to the 31st March, 1575, was £29,067,193 ; for the last quarter it amounted to 97,681 ounces, valued at £391,1 77. Otago is the highest, yielding £124,545; Nelson, £110,471; Westlnud, £79,114; Auckland, £73,991 ; aud Marlborough, £2,756. April 24. The Secretary of the Titanic Steel Co. is stirring up defaulting subscribers. About twenty cases were disposed of yesterday, judgment being given as usual in favor of company. In one case, however, where the defendant had become bankrupt, the Court declared it had no jurisdiction. A good many of the Wellington shareholders are getting timid about the investment, and several have parted with their shares without compensation, and on the understanding that recipient would keep calls paid up. It is understood that Mr. Yogel will leave London for New Zealand in time to join the mail steamer at Brindisi on the 14th May that mail will be due at Wellington on the 9th July. At the latest dates matters were progressing satisfactorily for San Francisco mail contract ; also for a submarine cable to connect New Zealand witli New South Wales, possibly also with Fiji. Extensive alterations are taking place in the building known as the House of Representatives. The ship ' Carnntic 1 cleared at the Customs for London, with a full cargo, composed of grain, wool, tallow, hides, pawn shells, preserved meats, bones, rags, and sheepskins, total value, .e36,256. April 26. It is stated that the Hospital is so full of low fever patients, that the authorities are obliged to refuse all applicants admission. The ltangitikei election resulted as follows: — Ballance, 112; Watt, 105; Hutchison, 27. Marton carried the day. A private letter received from home points out mistaken made by Mr. Frank Buckland in the shipment of salmon ova per 'Timaru,' and expressed the opinion that the result must be a failure. There seems to have been some jealousy between Frank Buckland aud Mr. Toule, the famous salmon accliniatiser, who was set nsidc by Buckland, and thus valuable advice which Youle could have given was not available. Youle's opinion upon the matter will probably be published shortly. HAWKE'S BAY. Napier, April 24. Captain Fairchikl, in the 'Luna,' endeavoured to raise the sunken steam tug ' Una,' but she was too heavily laden and too firmly imbedded in the sand. The decks tore asunder in the attempt. The buoy on Panea Eock has been replaced. It is intended to make an experiment on 450 feet of Artesian piping expended on recent attempt to get water at Spit. Captain Fairchild purposes placing a charge of lithofracteur fit the lowest attainable points in pipe, which will be filled with water, and an iron cap fastened on top, when explosion takes place. It is expected that the shock will be sufficient to raise pipe or loosen it, so that it can easily be drawn out. Doubts have been expressed of feasibility of scheme, but it is worth ti-ying. The dumLion of Sir Donald McLean's stay here is uncertain. NELSON. April 24. A misunderstanding lias arisen between the Nelson cricket team and Mr. Wix, captain, on account of thG latter not going on the ground, but deciding to postpone the match without consulting them. They are so annoyed that some of them refuse to play on Monday ; and the country men, five in number, have gone home, determined not to return. The match, therefore, will not be completed. MARLBOEOUGH. Blenheim, April 26. At the opening of the Provincial Council, the Superintendent (A. P. Seymour, Esq., M.H.R.), announced his intention to proceed to England by the May 'Frisco mail. Mr. Hobson, Mayor of Blenheim, is to be appointed Deputy Superintendent. CANTERBURY. Christchurch, April 26. The Governor made a round of visits to public institutions on Saturday. A cricket match between eleven jockeys in costume and eleven bookmakers is arranged to come off to-morrow. Catholics intend giving a public reception to Bishop Redwood, who is expected overland from the West Coast on Wednesday. OTAGO. Dunedin, April 23. The Superintendent has received a telegram from Christchurch, stating that the Governor would arrive here in May. The ' Timaru brought for the Acclimatisation Society, a box containing a thousand charr eggd from Cumberland Lakes. These were placed in the Society's hatching box, Dnnedin, last night, und it was found that about three hundred were healthy. Several fiah were hatched this morning, and it is possible that theso will he the only fish obtained from the 'Titruvru' shipment, as all the salmon eggd are expected to be bad. Invercargill, April 2L I . Salmon ova received from the Clyde by the ship ' Timaru was tuken to the ponds to-day, at Makarowu. The ova latest collected wns first to bo unpacked. The first sight of it was not promising, and it is feared that the final result of the importation will not be satisfactory. A quantity of the eggs are perfectly opaque, which is d, sign that all vitality has departed. Not a few were in a crushed condition, but it was evident that no pains had been spared in the packing. A lurgc number of egg 3 retain healthful purple appearance, but some of the best-look-ing of these, on undergoing examination by i means of magnifying glass, were found to i contain no vital germ; they had not been i fecundated. It is believed that the majority . of the eggs found to be opftque had been ; fecundated, and that those which retain the I purple colour had never been. It is just possible, however, that Borne of the purplocoloured eggs may contain germs of life.

Opinion i* expressed that the revocation is not valid in law, but this idea is not generally entertained. The estate is valued at five million dollars. The American Bible Society, during the last eighteen months, " granted 16,000" dollars worth of bibles and Testaments to auxiliary societies. Cook, English champion, has accepted a challenge lately made by Dixon, for an international billiard match for 2,000 dollars. Boucicault has been retained at Wallack's Theatre for next season. Jefferson resumes noting in April, at Nashville. J. L. Toole is meeting with great favour in Chicago. Brighnm Young was arrested at his residence and taken before Judge McKeau, for disobeying order to pay alimony and fees to Eliza Young. On the 19th, the wife was fined 25 dollars and imprisoned for twenty -five hours. Mormons are indignant. San Francisco wheat market firm.

A Monstrosity. —At the house of a coloured woman by the name of Mag Bluthey, on the corner of Tenth and Wooster streets, says the Wilmingtou Star, there reside a colored man and his wife by the name of Fisher, who are the parents of a girl child about uiuc months old, who is certainly one of the greatest curiosities of the human species that we have ever heard or read of. Ex- Policeman William H. Harris, who visited the house on Sunday and examined the Tjhild, informs us that its skin is perfectly white, although its parents are of a dark gingercake complexion. Its form and features arc perfect up to the bridge of the nose — the chin, mouth, and nasal organ being not only well formed, but really handsome in their symmetry and general appearance; but, commencing with the eyes, the face and head has the appearance of an animal, more resembling a white bear than anything else of the animal species our informant could call to mind. The hair is of a whitish colour, and like the wool of a sheep. Its eyes are round and piercing, resembling those of a minx, and revolve in their sockets in a very peculiar manner. They cannot bear the light of a lamp, or candle, and are instantly closed when one is brought into the room, and are only kept open in the daytime when the room is somewhat darkened. It has no eyebrows, and the lid is of a peculiar formation, in no particular resembling the eyelid of a human being. It is very timid, and when anyone approaches it has the appearance and actions of a rabbit started from its lair. Here is a fine field for those who make human nature in its various forms and peculiarities an object of study and analysis. PItINCE BISJrAKCIC AXD HIS MONEY Affairs. — Ladies, whose hushands deny them the right of holding the purse strings, should point their lords to the example set them in this respect by no less illustrious a personage than Prince Bismarck. In receiving a deputation recently, His Highness took its members into a room where he showed them a desk, in which his wife kept his cash. He said that when he was first married he agreed with his wife that she should keep the cash while he attended to politics. This arrangement had been adhered to by them ever since, and had been found to work so well that he recommended all married men to follow his example. PARLIAMENTARY REPORTING. — A great innovation in the reporting of the debates in Parliament, will, it is reported, be made by two of the leading dnily papers in London during the coming session. The Daily Telegraph has resolved to dispense with the services of shorthand reporters almost entirely, and to employ ■precis writers instead, who will be able to give a readable digest of the debates instead of a so-called " report;" which ia neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, being neither an adequate report (iv the true sense of the term) of the speeches, nor r. readable and intelligible summary of them. The Daily News intends to do something of the same kind, and at the same time to enliven its account of the speeches by racy descriptions of the manner of the speakers, aud the behaviour of the other members, <&c. There is certainly room for something of the kind, for parliamentary reporting either in England or the Colonies ib at present ti most dreary business. Confirmed politicians who have the leisure will continue to munch the plentiful supply of dry bones the Times furnishes them in its parliamentary reports, but the great mass of the general public will prefer to take its political food in a more digestible form. A Wxesisg TO Batukks. — An English journal think 3 that n waruiug which is well worth the attention of bathers is to be found in the evidence given at an inquest held at Liverpool on the body of a young man, aged 18, who met his death at the Margaret-street baths in that town under the following circumstances: — The deceased, it seems, dived from the side into fhe deep end of the bath, swam across, and, after coming out, dived again from the spring-board. He afterwards swam across the bath under water, and when he came up wns unable to spenk, aud apparently motionless. He was tuken out of tiic bath, a doctor was sent for, and everything was done to restore animation, but without effect. A post-mortem examination showed that the organic condition of the body wns that of a thoroughly healthy young man. The brain and lungs were much congested, and this was attributed to iho fact that the deceased had been too long submerged in the bath. He had died of an apoplectic fit, produced by this congestion. A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical evidence, and the case is oue which may with advantage be remembered by bathers. Domestic Service for Ladies.— A long and interesting correspondence has been^earricd on in the columns of the Echo an eveniug paper published in London, on the subject of domestic service for ladies. The discussion arose out of a paper .read at the Social Science Congress by Mrs. Crawshay of Cyf arthf a Castle. Among the correspondents is one signing herself " A Peer's daughter," a second " Another Peer's Daughter," and a third "The Daughter of an Economical Duke." All of these oppose the innovation of having ." real ladies" to do housework instead of the present race of ignorant " holps." The second writer mentioned roundly affirms that if the lady-servant were an agreeable, well-educated woman, such ns she is pictured as beiug, she and tho mistress would waste half tho day in talking to each other instead of getting on with the work. The same writer declares that if tho idea is carried into execution she will becomo a candidate for a situation, and perhaps have the chagrin of being informed by some millionaire that she is not good enough for his scullery. Several members of the inferior sex have j thrust themselves into the discussion, and their great stumbliug-stock appears to be the jealousy with which their wives would regard an elegant, well-educated servant. The Saturday Eeviom suggests, as a solution of this difficulty, that gentlemen should take situations as butlers and- footmen, and then | the lady and gentleman servants could flirt | away with each other as much as they liked. One of the Boko's male correspondents said ' he would gladly take a servant of tho kind in question, us he himself was paralysed and his wife was engaged in looking after his manufactory. To this letter there wore received bo many responses from upplicnuts for the post, thnt the editor of the Uc/io declared that one of the disputed points, viz., the willingness of ladies to take situations of tho kind, might be considered settled. Strnngc to say, no oue seems to have thought upon what tho effect of suoh an innovation would be iv tho servants' hall. Preserved meat would be nothing tp it.