THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1427, 8 February 1888, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

GENERAL SUMMARY. On the 12iih the Bank of England reduced its rate of discount from 4 to 3£ per cent. A dense fog prevailed on the Irish coast on January 8, and the steamer Wisconsin was unable to land the mails at Queenstown. In a collision between the steamers Shonham and Catstrop, off Dover, the former aunk and seven persons were drowned. The London " Daily News " correspondent at Constantinople writes on January 6 :— " The Porte learns that Lord Salisbury has informed the German Government that if war should be occasioned by the attempt of Russia to occupy Bulgaria, England will send two squadrons to the Black Sea." The remains of Napoleon HI and hi 3 son the Prince Imperial were removed from Chiselhurst to Farnborou«h on January 2. They will be deposited in the mausoleum erected by Empress Eugenic. Trouble has occurred amonp the crofters of Aigaah, in Invernessahire, Scotland. Landless cr jfters to the number of 1000 drove the sheep off some farms, and offered determined resistance to the polioe. Troops were sent to the scene on January 8. Numbers were wounded on both sides, and many orofters were arrested. The friends of Sir Charles Dilke are agitating the propoai'ion that a seat must be found for him in P rliament. Ou the 4h of January the Prince of Wales took pains to deny the story that he was a raerabar of the Sinith-Kilrain banquet committee. A tight has been arranged between Jack Burke, the Australian champion, and Kilrain, the American bruiaer. On January 2 the London "Times" celeorated the one hundredth annivecsary of its foundation. Rwurns issued by the British Board of Tra.de on January 9 show that the imports for the month preceding increased £3,162,600 as compared with the corresponding month in 1889, and that the exports for the same month increased £3 260,000. Spec al poliqe protection has been accorded Mr Ballour. The Iriah National League receipts from Arnwnca, which have bmi very small since 1885, are still failing off. The Privy Council at a meeting on January 2 resolved to suppress tha league in London and thus cripple ihe central extcutive. Cullimore, the Plan of Campaign leader on the Kingston estate, was arrested on January 2 on a charge of inciting tenants to illegal acts. The tenants of this estate held a meeting on the same day, Mr Condon presiding, and adopted, resolu tions declaring the land opmnaisaiooera' reductions of judicial reuta inadequate, and that there would continue to be a Plan of Campaign until the evicted tenants were reinstated, and they would appeal for greater reductions. Lord Clanricarde is engaged in wholesale eviction out of revenge for the castigation he got in the libel suit on the Srd January. He applied for 150 writs, and has lodged £5000 to his agent's credit at the bank to enable him to carry on the Continued on ow fourth

war. Bad and bl6o<ry^s6rtr>« f antidii pated if troops are sant r to aid the land* lord. The incarceration of Mr Wilfred Blunt, in Galway, on January 6, caused a disturbance and a collision- between the people and police, in which swords and batons were freely xised. Mr Shaw Lefevre arrived at Balinasloe on the 7th and made a speech protesting against Mr Blunts imprisonment. The demonstrations in honour of Mr Sullivan, ex-Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Mr O'Brien, on their release from -prison and their return to London.were organised on a great scale. En route to Italy, Mr Gladstone, exPremier, indulged in some utterances during a speech at Dover about Protection that are exciting a certain amount of un- ! easiness among his Freetrade friends. At Florence on January Ist he was the recipient of a grand demonstration and a serenade. He afterwards received a deputation of citizeDß, who expressed the admiration of the Liberal democracy of Italy! for the ex-Premier's political achievements. Mr Gladstone, who responded in Italian, thanked them for their kind wisKs. Prince Ferdinand has declared that he will rather die on the battle-field than abdicate the Bulgarian throne. Notwithstanding all- remonstrance/ the Rev. Mr Spurgeon insists* on resigning from the Baptist Union. It was reported from Berlin on January 12th that a general blockade of Bulgaria is contemplated by the Powers in the event of Prince Ferdinand's refusal to resign the Bulgarian throne. From Vienna, on the same date, cama the statement that the Powers would ask the Porte to summon Prince Ferdinand to resign. Russia is determined in regard to the Bulgarian question ta make no concessions.