NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4164, 25 August 1881, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[By Tblbsbaph.]

(Per b.b. City of New York, via Auckland.)

GREAT BRITAIN.

Eight hundred inhabitants of Northhampton bave petitioned that Mr Bradlaugh be not admitted to Parliament.

King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands, has been the lion of the month in London. He behaved himself very well, excepting that he drank too much at dinner.

In the House of Commons, Mr Gladstone announced that Government had abandoned the Bill for dealing with corrupt practices, for amending the Ballot Act, and for regulating the Irish country government, but hoped to pass the Bankruptcy Bill.

The Queen reviewed 50,030 troops at indsor, the largeßt review ever held there. The Duke of Cambridge commanded ; the Prince of Wales marched at the head of the Honourable Artillery Company of London, and the Duke of Connaught commanded a division of the second army corps.

The Orange anniversary passed off quietly in Ireland.

A vast amount of property has been destroyed in England by storms. In Lancashire 50 mills stopped.

The British claim for damages during the bombardment of Sfax amounts to 60,000,000 francs, and tho claims of other Nations to 20,000,000 francs.

GENERAL SUMMARY. It is estimated that ten to forty million francs, in false gold, have been shipped from Geneva to Egypt, within the last few yearß, and disposed of by organised Bank swindlers, comprising men of prominence in Geneva, Marseilles, and Alexandria. They are now in prison, and will be defended by the celebrated Mattre Le Chaude, of the Paris bar.

S. Kialkini, Italian Minister, has left Paria. No successor, it ia said, will be appointed. France is making treaties in Senegal for the exclusive right to found atations, and form a road to the Niger. Segoo is to be placed under a French protectorate, and a French Resident is to be stationed there. It is intended to build a railway up the Valley of Senegal, toward Braniakoo, on the Niger, in order to establish communication with Upper Soudan.

The Nihilists held a great and solemn meeting of their Executive Oommittee at Pari*. The meeting reaolved to warn the Czar once more, and then, if he and hia advisers do not heed their ontreaty, they will perish. Statistics published by the Hamburg police show that the number of German emigrants passing through Hamburg alone to America, from Jan. 1 to June 30, amounted to 74,633, being twice the number for the same period in the year following the late war. Reckoning other departures, it is said it will be found that Germany has lost so far, in 1881, a quarter-of-a-million of her best subjects.

The Sultan is still sending contingents of troops to Tunis in spite of hia promise to the contrary given to the French Charg* d' Affaires. The relations between France and Turkey are strained to ihe utmoßt. The Sultan declared he would never again receive M. Tissot, the French Ambassador at Constantinople. M. Tissot, in reply, says the Sultan may soon learn what it costs to insult a great nation in the person of its Ambassador. Later accounts Bay the Porte satisfactorily explained the despatch of troops to Tripoli.

The Chinese revenue cruisers have been turned over to the Vice-royalty of Canton, and the American and English officers dismissed, their places, being supplied by Chinese.

Two English Missionaries crossed China from Bhamo in Burmah to Hankow on the Yangtse-Kiang. They accompanied a caravan, and were only molested once by brigands on the Yunan mountains.

AMERICA. San Fbanoisoo, July 30. John Burnside, originaUy an Irish immigrant, died in New Orleans" worth 5,CC0,000 oollars. He was the largest sugar planter in . the Southern States.

An Italian bandit, living incognito at New Orleans, has been arrested and sent to Italy. There is a horrible catalogue of crimes against him, committed in Sicily and Palermo. The Orange anniversary on July 12 was celebrated in the United States and Canada without disturbance.

Brush, the Oleveland electric light inventor, has announced the solution of the problem of storing electricity so that it can be carried from place to place and delivered like coal, oil and gasoline. It is said that Yanderbilt will soon run a line of railway from the Atlantio to the Pacific.

Maud S., VanderbUt's mare, trotted a mile in 2 minutes 11 seconds on a Chicago track.

A terrible riot ocourred among the Montreal Long- shore men on July 9. They turned out 7CO strong, and oloarod the wharves. The magistrates read the Riot Act. The police charged the rioters, three of whom were seriously wounded, and several others hurt. Five officers were injured. The race for the July Cup, six furlongs, was won by Charibert, with Peter seoond, and LoriUard's Barrett third.

Small-pox is raging in San Domingo to a fearful extent. Parties are daily organised to bury the victims.

AMERICAN BHIPPING.

Sailed, from New York, July 16, Chattanoga, for Lyttelton, with 1053 packages harvesters and binders, 346 packages poles and wheels, 125 boxes wire, 333 boxes twine, 258 machines. From Boston, the Marie Berg cleared on June 27, for Dunedin, with 2400 cases kerosene, 235 reels wire, 898 doors, 241 cases oanned goods, 64,180 ft spruce deals, 39,026 shelving boards. Teasels loading at New York : Eyor, for Dunedin and Lyttelton, with 1000 cases kerosene for Dunedin, and 810 for Lyttolton ; she will clear about July 27. Beatrice Hanna, for Auckland and Wellington, with 3750 cases for Auckland, and 1000 for Wellington ; clears about July 29. The Lady Agnes, for Wellington, with 1200 cases, clears on August 20 ; and the Fingay, for Dunedin on August 23.

Freight to New Zealand porte, 27£ cents per. oubio foot measurement, with, in some caaea, lower ratea to New Zealand for single lots.