ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL, VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Westport Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1966, 13 January 1882, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL, VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

SUMMARY OF NEWS. General J. Johnston, late of the Confederate army, Charges Jefferson Davis with appropriating to his own use nearly two million fire hundred thousand dollars intended to pay the troops. The money was in specie, and was nearly a cart load. McQuail, Roman Catholic Bishop at Chicago, made a hot attack on Irisli nationality, and warned his hearers against listening to priests with lax consciences advocating the no rent proposition. Tea farming in South Carolina has proved a failure. Several citizens have sworn to kill Guiteau and release the jury of their responsibility. A package was sent to him on the IGth containing a piece of rope. 2000 lives were lost by diptheria in Nova Scotia last year. O'JDonovan Rossa boasts that the Irish organisation for destructive purposes was more perfect than that of Nihilists, and says two emissaries recently fired the town of Woodstock, in North Britain, which cost English insurance companies two hundred thousand. Sunday law movement in California is dead. Its non-observance was so general that business could not be clogged with prosecutions. Mrs Garfield has sent a portrait of the late President to the Queen at Victoria's own request. A sweeping revolution in steamship building is about being initiated. The vessels will have no masts and will be domed over from stem to stern, being thus placed beyond all danger from rough seas. The cost will be less than of rigging ordinary vessels. John Mackay, one of the Bonaza Kings, has declared that the Cornstock mines are nearly worked out, and he leaves for Europe. The firm of Flood, Mackay, and Pair lost nearly four million dollars last year. Reports lrom Panama Canal works are encouraging as the soil makes excavation easy. EUROPEAN ITEMS. The political situation in Germany is still gloomy, and no present hope exists of coalition of Conservatives and Clericals. An American circus rider has been ordered out of St. Petersburgh because she is a Jewess. A typhoon in China, at Hongkong and Tremoy, carried waters of the sea four miles inland, washing away one town with 3000 inhabitants. Mrs Langtry has made her first ap pearance on the stage at the Haymarket Theatre as " Miss Hardcastle" in " She Stoops to Conquer." The

Times says she was successful. Her voice has refinement in every tone, and the performance is an interesting and successful experiment. It is reported that the new steamer City of Some, built for the Inman Company, is a failure, and the Company refuse to accept bar. Lord Lome intends to remain in. Canada for three years longer. Fierce competition in telegraph rates with new cable companies is expected. The London police believe that the Hatton Garden Post Office robbery was committed by Americans. Burdett-Coutts litigation has been averted by the Baroness resigning her half-share in the Bank and accepting a small allowance. All legal counsels concur that she has violated the terms of the Duchess St, Alban's will in marrying. Lady Ferguson, wife of the Governor of Bombay, died on the ninth inst of cholera. The English Cabinet has refused to recognise the claim of the United States to political control of the Panama Canal. The French elections show a gain of 22 for the Republican party. The Government will suppress all newspapers in Ireland of seditious tendencies. A land slip near the Jenegpan Mountain in the Alps, caused great destruction of property, but no lives were lost. There was a serious accident in Cornwall. During a church bazaar at Cambornetown a temporary floor gave way and 20 persons were killed. Six hundred rioters at Warsaw have been arrested, but the fee'ing against the Jews is still very bitter. During a riot in a Cork theatre a number of persons were trampled to death. Small pox in America is spreading rapidly, and the Western States propose strict quarantine to prevent it getting across the Continent. Four hundred and forty thousand immigrants landed in the States during 18SL Newgate prison will be cleared out and abandoned as a gaol on the 10 th January. Many immigrant steamers between England and America are missing. Fears of their total loss prevail.