ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 885, 9 November 1871, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

(per grevillk's telegram company reuter's agents.) Auckland, Nov. 7. Yiv Opunake, Nov. 8. The steamship Nebraska arrived at Auckland on the the 7th; left Honlulu, October 22nd ; stopped half an hour at Suttonello one ot the Navigators Group and reached Auckland at 9 a.m. yesterday. The Moses Taylor left San Francisco on Oct. 11th, and on the passage picked up a water-logged brig, the only living soul on board being the captain. He had subsisted 105 days without food except stray living fish cast aboard, and a little wine left from the stores. The Nebraska brings London telegraphic dates to October 10 . Passenger List.—Auckland, J. S. Graham and wife, Captain Montgomery, E. 11. Maude, Mr and Mrs Bush, Miss Old. Lyttelton, L. Cook. Port Chalmers, S. Horton, and K. M'Donald. For Sydney and Melbourne, 9. GENERAL SUMMARY. London, Oct. 9. The health of the Queen is causing great anxiety. Gladstone and the Prince of Wales have beem summoned to Balmoral. There have been great gales and mauy shipwrecks with loss of life on the coasts of England. A shipwreck at Great Grimsby took place in full view of the people on shore. The details are harrowing. The ship James Booth foundered in the Bay of Biscay and eighteen men were drowned ; the ship Hesperus is lost and all hands drowned, the ship Mount Sinia is burnt at sea, but no details are to hand. The strikes in favour of the nine hours' movement continue. The Newcastle masters have compromised for 9J- hours until January ; after that 9 hours will constitute a day's work. Great distress preyails in consequence of accumulated demands upon the workmen.

The London " Telegraph" says that no doubt the misfortune of a deficient harvest will be added to the disaster of the cattle plague. Foot and mouth disease is spreading throughout the Kingdom with deplorable rapidity. In the city of Preston in one week 470 cattle were attacked, and it is esmated that there are 25,000 animals suffering in the Kingdom. The pest involves sheep and syvine. Pleuropneumonia is also ravaging the herds in England and Scotland.

The " Times" says that the fact of an Archbishop and a Bishop having appeared in the pulpit of a Scotch church, and having conducted divine service has given a severe shock to many classes in England. Others welcome the event as initiating a system of tolerance and liberality. An explosion from fire dump in Glamorganshire has killed five men. The reported marriage to take place between Prince Arthur and the Princess Thyra of Denmark is pronounced to be without foundation. Gladstone has been enthusiastically received at Aberdeen, and was presented with the freedom of the city. It is reported that Morocco is besieged by 12,000 Cabyes. Eeinforcements are promised the garrison. A letter from Teheran states that 80,000 persons perished at Mischad in July. The remaining population of 40,000 was captured by Afghans, who enslaved many. Pour tremendous explosions took place in an oil merchant's warehouse at Chelsea successively. Thirteen persons were injured.

FRANCE. Pakis, Oct. 9. The City of Paris Loan has been taken up. The subscriptions amounted to more than thirteen times the required sum. Several conflicts have taken place between French citizens and the German garrison at Dijon. Intense excitement prevails in consequence, and Thiers receives daily complaints from the occupied provinces declaring that the presence of the German troops is insupportable. The German Generals refused t° evacuate the department of Aisne until officially informed that the third instalment of the indemnity was paid. They subsequently received orders.to evacuate, which were immediately carried out. Dombrowski, the leader of the mob who attacked German residents at Lyons, has been arrested, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment. A deputation to Thiers from Dijon complained of the conduct of the Prussians occupying the city. They were charged by the deputation with having wantonly imprisoned 125 citizens who forgot to deliver up their arms. The Municipality of Paris has voted two million francs to repair monuments and public buildings. The supporters of the Empire are becoming bolder. They intrigue and agitate openly for a restoration. The Republican journals demand that Thiers act promptly in suppressing the Bonapartist conspiracies. The Court of Revision at which Rosset appeared have adjudged him guilty, and the penalty is death. The sentence of Rochfort has been commuted to banishment. The disarmament of the National Garde is proceeding rapidly. Diplomatic arrangements have been completed between France and Germany. The continued disturbances in the Algerian possessions cause uneasiness, lest the cost and trouble may possibly necessitate their abandonment. GERMANY. Berlin, Oct. 9. The Reichstag is convoked for the 16th October. The budget to be submitted proposes to increase the appropriation for the navy and coast defences by 5,000,000 thalers (£750,000). The workmen of Ghent on strike demand a reduction of hours and double pay for overtime. A Protestant league is in course of formation throughout Germany for the expulsion of Jesuits from the country. < At a meeting at Darmstadt resolutions were passed opposing the infallibility dogma as inimical to the sovereignty of the state, the liberty of the people, and the freedom of conscience. Bavaria is to recal her foreign ambassadors, and in future only to be represented as a portion of the German Empire. AUSTRIA. A rumour is current that the Emperor Francis Joseph is seriously disposed to abdicate. The cause assigned is despondency and conscious unfitness for the constitutional crisis which threatens the destruction of the Austrian Empire.

ITALY. Home, Oct. 8. Tbe Italian Government has demanded an oath of allegiance to the King from all professors of colleges at Rome. Twenty refused to take the necessary oath. Two convents hare been occupied by Italian troops. A difference has arisen between France and Italy respecting the official debt arising out of the French occupatian of Rome. The Italian Government has expressed a determination that uo professor of any University shall be permitted to exereiso his functions, without having taken the oath of allegiance SPAIN There is serious republican agitation. The Ministry has resigned, and the Cortes is adjourned without electing a President. A new Cabinet has been formed announcing measures of economy by reducing the salaries of the civil service. King Amadeus was enthusiastically received at Logrouo. TURKEY. A despatch from Constantinople reports seventy deaths from cholera in one day ; and that the water supply is failing. Subsequent news states that cholera is subsiding in Turkey, Russia, and Germany. The Moorish Cabyes at Segasta menace the Sultan's authority. Turkish troops have been despatched. The Spanish Government will remain passive unless its flag is insulted. AMERICA. A fire took place in San Franeisco on Sept. 23, which destroyed Reddington, Hastles, and Co.'s wholesale stores, and another in Harpendiary's block. The total loss was nearly one million dollars. In Chicago a fire, on Oct. 7th, burnt seven blocks of buildings ; loss, 500,000 dols. A second fire took place on the Bth, which destroyed 10,000 buildings ; loss, 150,000,000 dols. All the business part of the city is destroyed, and 100,000 people are rendered homeless. Fires in the forests north of Michigan, "Wisconsin, and lowa destroyed property to the value of millions of dollars, and many lives were lost. At Pensanca, Wisconsin, thirty lives were lost, and the whole town was burnt. Prince Alexis is expected with the Russian fleet at New York this week ; thence he will proceed overland to Washington and San Francisco. Subscriptions in aid of the Chicago sufferers are being collected at the Merchants' Exchange, San Francisco, at the rate of 500 dollars a minute. The prisoners in the Nevada State Prison at Carson made a desperate attempt to escape, wounded nearly the entire guard, and twenty escaped to the mountains, seven of whom were recaptured and the rest shot. The Dacotah is receiving new boilers and other alterations. She will be ready for sea at Christmas, and is expected to prove the fastest boat of the line.