SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Western Star, Issue 281, 25 January 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

The Queen’s speech on the opening of Parliament chiefly 1 referred to the Affghan question. Earl Granville and Lord Harrington both criticised with some sharpness l ord Lytton’s course towards the Amepiy but both urged that, as war had been commenced, 'ample encouragement and support should be given to the invading forces. The Irish members were loud in their complaints because Ireland waa not alluded to in the speech. ‘ r ' The Duke of Cumberland and the Princess ThyTa arrived with great pomp at the chapel of GhriStiansborg Castle on the evening of Saturday, December 21. The Bishop of Durham.has resigned, owing to iU-health'., . . ,\ . ;i ;; . {,,] , It Is rumored that Alexandretta, a seaport nortl} of Syria, has’been ceded by. Turkey to England.'' The Derby cotton-mill at Bolton was destroyed by fire., Boss, L 25.000. , Dr lsaac Eutt has .been denounced by John O’Connor Power as a traitor, to Home rule and the Irish cause. John Buskin declines the Slade professorship of Oxford., ; The steamship Pomerain was run into by a Welsh collier named the Noll Ellian, of Carnarvon, ' off Folkestone. Thomas' Blight, chief officer, says—“ The Pomerain was going at half to three-quarters speed. I heard no whistle or fog-horn. Our lights were all burning. All could have been saved if the sailors had not rushed the boats.’' One hundred and sixty-two passengers were saved and ninety-four are missing.',' . ,’ r ‘ • The British Government have abandoned the intention to ' grant relief to the ' Ehodope ngitives. : ; , r ; .r Mr Tottenham, a Conservative, has been returned for New Boss, defeating Mr Delaney, a Home Euler. Mr Gladstone intends, to come forwSrd as a candidate for Midlothian. The Great Triatorn Colliery Company have closed their mines. By a collision in the Mersey fifteen persons were drowned from a ferry-boat. O’Connor, the convicted Fenian, has.been released from Spike Island. A Canadian loan,of L 3,000,000, 4 per cent., half ‘guaranteed by the Imperial Government, has been placed on the market and allotted at a minimum price of 96J per cent. Henry Wells, founder of Wells, Fargo, and Co.’s’Express, died on the 10th. Business in. silver is at a complete standstill. William Henry Palmer, well known as B. Heller, the.magician, is dead. He leaves L 125 a-yeaf.to.Haidee, who assisted him in his performance,. L 125 to his wife, and the balance of his wealth to his brother Angelo, of Hamilton, Victoria,. Australia. Siif F. M’Olure, a liberal, has been returned for Londonderry, beating Mr Alexander, Conservative. ' i.'.-.V',', ■ Obituary: George Henry Lever, the author ; Alfred Wignan, author; Mrs Tait, the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury; Captain White MeMlle, the novelist, who broke his neck in the hunting field; and Karl Ferdinand Gutzkon, the German dramatic poet. The failures for the month are the Pilston Loan and Discount Company, with'liabilities L 60,000; Henry Taylor and Sons,; grain and flour. - merchants, Glasgow, with liabilities LI,300,000; J. J. Fenton and Sons, privat bankers, Rochdale ; and Heywood Smith, Fleming and CO.’s liabilities (their failure was announced on October 3) are estimated at L 3,000,000; James Ramsey, Dundee merchant, L 80,000; Gallemot| and Weylandht, bankers; Horgland, merchant, Stockholm. The Caledonlan Bank of Glasgow and the West of. England 'and South Wales Banks have suspended. They propose to reconstruct the banks by assessing the individual steak-holders. The Odessa Commercial Bank went into liquidation on the 14th. Fox, Walker, and Co., the Atlas Engine Works, Bristol, Zubina and Co., iron ore importers, of Cardiff and Newport, Wales ; and M’Kean. Tibley, and Co., merchants, of _ Bradford, have also faded. The latter’s liabilities are J-85, COP. - _ , Ari American swindler named William Griffis haa been arrested in San Francisco for extensive forgeries on the Union Bank of London, in the shape of letters of credit passed on Baldwin, the mining millionaire, and proprietor of Baldwin’s Theatre. A plan is under consideration to consolidate the Union and Central Pacific Railroads under one management. The Marquis of Lome was sworn in as Governor-General of Canada, at Halifax, on the 25th ifit, There were great festivities on the QgCaglOß. The American theatrical firm of Shook and Palmer has been dissolved. The former will become Police Commissioner of New York. Napoleon Compana, cf Bridgeport (Conn.), has challenged O’ieary to a six days’ walk. O’Leary has accepted. William Muller, champion athlete, New York, has published a challenge to wrestle for 500dols. aside, which M‘Mahon, of New Jersey, has accepted. Weston proposes to walk in Sau Francisco 522 miles in 144 hours. The Haward Boat Club are enthusiastic in their determination to .challenge the oaremen of the two, English Universities for an eight-oared race next, summer.} \ ;: y ; : /. ; , Denifl'Kearney, the anti-Chinese agitator, was received on his return to San Francisco by a precession of nearly 5,000 working men with banners and mttfic,. Clara t Louise Kelbg quarrelled with her manager because the new prima donna, Rita, eclipsed her in the estimation of the musical pnbJtcV The steamship New Zealand, from New York for Antwerp, returned on the 27th with her cargo on fire. Virginia refused to observe Thanksgiving Day on President Hayes’s proclamation. Andrews brothers, who went to Europe in the little, cutter. Dory, are coming back next spring in the same beat. They intend to build another in which to ga to San Francisco, and thence across the Pacific to Australia. Mrs Tilton has been fo.mal'y expelled from the Beecher Church at Brooklyn, Orville ■ Grant, brother of the ex-President, has been released from the insane asylum. Mackav, the Bonanza king, has given Gilmoure, the bandsman, 150,000 dollars, to ensure the latter’s European professional tour against loss. • iif .

A vendetta took place in Breathill County, in which a.judge and several others were ki.led. General Grant has concluded to visit Asia and British, India before his return home, which will be by way',of’ Australia, New Zealand, and California. '1 Heavy floods have occurred in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Vermont, and New Hampshire, washing out the railway beds and doing a vast amount of damage otherwise. The British ship Thalia, from Glasgow to Honolulu, foundered at sea. Part of her crew reached,Valparaiso., ... ’ i; Bayard’Taylor, the traveller and author, formerly United States Minister to Germany, is dead'from dropsy. Curtis, editor of ‘ Harper’s Weekly, ’ is spoken of as his successor. A mutiny occurred on board the British barque’Attaway, on the voyage from Ke-v York to Trieste;; The mate was killed, and others were wounded. The captain shot one of the mutineers. , v. ■ • Gold sold at par in New York on the 18; h, for « the first, time since the suspension of specie payments in 1862. , Gas stock in San Francisco has fallen heavily in consequence of the preparations to introduce the electric light. The Pacific Mail -00. has/ been - offered 2,000,000d015. for two China steamers, and 300,0D0d615, for their Australian steamer. It is believed that this will lead to the withdrawal of the company from the latter route, and to its ■ passing into English hands, David Cowine, many years Pacific Mail agent at Panama during the existence of Hie Australian line to that place, died at Florida on the 26th ult, The Russian cruisers Asia and Europe left Philadelphia for Cronstadt amidst great enthusiasm, Russian seamen manning the rigging, wharf, and batteries, and firing salutes. A despatch from Nashville, Tennessee, reports a terrible fight between the revenue officers'and smugglers; six were killed ou each side. l Hongkong advices report Asiatic cholera there. The American Government propose to quarantine all vessels from Hongkong. The Sioux Indians in the Dacotah territory left 500 lodges; 2,000 warriors have assembled, and are supposed to be preparing for war on a gigantic scaled

The Governor of Gnadalaxara, Mexico, having decreed ari extraordinary tax of 1 per cent on real property and capital, the citizens assembled to protest. The troops were called out. Many prominent citizens were killed. The emancipation of the slaves is proceeding in Cuba. Five thousand were freed in thirty During the election quarrels at Louisville men crazed with whisky charged through the streets brandishing knives arid revolvers. Four were killed and . seven wounded. The military suppressed the riot. A terrible steamboat collision occurred on the Mississippi between the steamers Morgan aud Cotton Valley. Twenty lives were lost. _ A serious rebellion has broken out in Kivypgsi (China) under General Li, who has 50,000 men under him and is carrying all before him. The Abb6 Debaize proposes to penetrate Central Africa. Stanley advoeatea a railway from Zanzibar to Lake Nyanza, He thinks a grand trade could be developed with Central Africa affording employment for English looms. The French also project a railway, from Algiers to Tirabnctoo. Dui ouchel, the engineer, thinks the water difficulty could be surmounted. An extraordinary story is circulated that Cyprus was required to ensure England pos e*sion of Captain Burton’s gold discoveries in Midian and Hedjaz. Gold discoveries are slso reported near Hindoo Koosh, on the river Hi. A recent conspiracy at Constantinople was a serious attempt to replace the Sultan by his brother Eeshid Pasha. The Sultan had to be dissuaded from executing Beshid and Mahmoud Domad Pasta. Ihe former has been confined, to his seraglio. It is reported in club and military circles_that the Czar .intends to propose the Duke of Edinburgh as the Prince of Bulgaria. Captain George Graham Duff, B.N. (on the retired Ist), died on the- 21st November of wounds received at the storming of the Gate Pah in 1861. The St Petersburg correspondent of the Vienna ‘Evening Post’ affirms the statermnts that the Russian Government has offered its good offices as mediator in the Affghan difficulty to England. The same correspondent announces that a good road, practicable for heavy vehicles and artillery, is being made by the Russians fiom Samaicand to Termez on Amodatya. in the diiootion of Balkh and Cabul, and that the road is to be completed in four months. Bussian newspapers express astonishment at the prompt and successful action of the British troops in Afghanistan, but they warn the English not to boast too soon. The Bussian Government are mu b surprised at tbe speedy success of the British troops, and is quite unprepared for active interference. 2he ‘Cologne Gazettee’remarks that danger of collision between England and Kussia in Central Asia is less remote than th** English newspapers appear to imagine. There are Bussian troops at the present stationed not more that seven or eight days’ journey from Merv, and the distance from Merv to Herat might be traversed in twelve or fifteen days. The road leads through a fertile district, abounding in food fur man and beast. It ought to be borne in mind, says tbe ‘Gazette,’ that Eussia has an army of 100. COO men in the Caucasus, which might, without difficulty, be conveyed across the Caspian bea to the mouth of the river Attric. Once there the Merv is within easy reach. The Bussian army has once been more placed upon a war footing. Three hundred thou-and men are in tin annexed province, and a force of 40 000 will pass the winter in large camps near Gumii and Erivan. Recruiting is going on incessantly. Some heavy guns are being mounted at Kars.