SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

HIGH W^TT?B—Thfa sfteraoon, fifl; to-mwft^ «TJW ftBT Thi« evening, (558. BTTW RISK—T- marrow Riornlag. 71 woov* AfJK—Kew Moon, 24th, 3 4 a.m.

ARRIVALS.

Australia p M. sa, fora K&ndavu (English mail) Lady FrankHh, barque, from Newcastle Scuthern Cosn, fs. from Raptor do -h nd, ss, from the Manukau via Kussoll Hnwea, ss, i'rom the South

DEPARTURES.

Australia, sg, for the South

ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALIA.-HEAVY GALE.

The s p. * nttraUa arrived r>H Tiri Tiri at midnight las' evni'-£T. n d camn up hirbour parly this morniDjr Sfco loft Sydney on Sntu>div. 'ho Gth, at midnicht, it lVowm? h >rel < rpuiils with rain, the aea gettiniy up and thn vePSfl shippino- water On Rnndft", »t 10 a.m. experienced stroic iv.T.'W. pale, shipoinsr large quantities of w*tor. The smoking-room, purser'H cabin, and offic" doiro, windows, &o , were stove in and t.Ho plarvs flooded On Mom'sy the strong pale continupd. 'ho phip libonrlnß h»avily ; at 5.30 a.m. eased engines to half spped ; at 7.10 shipping quanti ties of water over all : pvjt enginel? to slow On Tues day afrong pplo ami heavy sea continued, vessol stcnml'-? plnw wl'h linad to s^a In Iho afternoon had thofinmo wnthpr, the pncrinr s coinj? dead slow. At midnight thorn w-*s los« and cn»inea were put at half sp°ed. On Wedl c day, at. 7 a.m., wind Icsh, sea polm? down ; pot un full speed From Thurflav, the 11th. to ATnndav, thn 15ili. fxporlenoed strong bropz" and hich sni, Ihn iliin vnllinp 'noa^ily. Carrier! away the ioro boom. Arrived at Kanrlnvn on the 15th. at 2 30. Tim OnHma arrived on Saturday, and pr^ccedpd fironph at 4.d"> pm. On Werlneirlay, <ho 17th, at 0 40 t!ii City nfNewVork onrao alnncsido. nnd after transhinpinu m*ii', nrncopdftd nt 5.d0 for Sydney. At A t 0 o'olc-cV thn Anstrftlial'-ft for AjicWnnd. ar,d 6x perinncfd flro wither nnd lio^d winds all the way. arrivin? here at midnight on Sunday. Pa'annpor?— For Anokl^nd : RMoon—Mr and Mrs T StnsTock, M• TC Beaumont Mr= R. OJraham, Mr J. V: C^nev fmo.ll a?ent). Stepragn—Mr aM Mrs J Tlnckott, Mr Tonny Mttrtin. M,c G. V>. Low, Mr TVilH*. For "Wellintrfon Mr F. Schoven. For Port Chalmers—Miss Mary Duncan, and Mr J. W. Duncan.

The s.s. City of Wew Y-rk met nnd spolce the B.s, Coli'ia the dar before an-iving at Kandavu Tho Union Co's s s Hawea, Captain Wheeler, ar rived at the whirf. Onehnnca, at S3O am thismnrn ingr Sbo left Port Chalmora at 350 pin on the 17th, and an-lved at Lytteltoft at, 845 ft in on tho 18th left atlpm, and arrived at '\Vell!nfcton at. 10 S3 am; on thlO; left at 130 pm samo day, and arrived at Picwn at 630 pm ; loft at 8 pm, and arrived at. Nelson at 5 a m on the SOth ; left at G p m, and arrive'1! at New Plymouth at 10 am on the 21st; left. at SSO pm, arriving as above. Fxperlenced strone NW winds to Wellington, from thence fresh 8W winds to arrival. 'Passensjers : Misßea Op.llibrsnd and E^tford, Mrs Willoox. Mr and Mrs Gellibrand. Col. Gordon, O»ptain "Walker. IWessrs Peason, Eoss. Ki;k, Mcljein, Heale Tuliy. and eight In tha steerage. The bnrque Lidy Frantlin, which arrived from Newcastle on Saturday afternoon, is commanded by Captain Payre, late df trie Francis Hnnty. He reports leaving on tho fith instnit, and having had variable winds durinrrlilM pasaape. Thn North Oipe was rounded on tho 18»h Instant, and hohovo-to off Tlrltiri on the night of (he 10th.

The steamer Australia left at 10 o'c1o<& for the South via Napier. Her eatly departure took many persons by surprise, and several Intending passengers were left behind.

Tho schooner Golden Isle has cleared out for Enssoll in ballast.

ENGLISH SHIPPING.

Tho ship Inverallnn. 059 tons. Citato MbCKmi. left Gravesend for / uokland on the 18th Msroh, and parsed Deal on tne 20tti.

Thn barquo Dnn,lop, 403 tfliisi, loft Gravesend on the IBth March for th's port. The ship Crownthorpo left liondon for this p»rt on the 14th April.

AUCKLAND VESSELS AT SAMOA.

Wk learn from Mr G-. W. Owen, who has received advices from Samoa hy way of Fiji, per the Australia that Ihe Helena arrived at Apia on the 23rd ult. H. M.H. Sapphire and tho F.S eorvettn Tusearoia, were l?iri£ thoro af the same time with tho gunboat Sindflp, and several German ress^la.

The Anne McLeod schooner arrived at Apia on the 25th uito. ~:.;•

The barqua Martha wag loading at HabLa and Vau vau, for Auckland." She was to fill up at these ports and may do expected in n, few. days Thn Helen* hart "all her cargo engaged and Is due about the Ist J::ne.

The barque B >tavia w»s 27 days from Auckland to Vaavau. Ski lo?Jls,there for Hambtirih.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND

MATLfi will .Close ah follows :— For Tairna to-morrow at 9 am fot Thames this d>vy at 630 pm, and to-morrow at

0 30 a m ■ , ■.: . Mails for India, China. Medeferranean ports, Con tinent of Europe, United Kingdom, via S iez and Southampton, ana via Brlndisi, will be made up per Taupe oh Tuesday, SOth Instant For Taranaki and Southern provinces per Hawea tc-

morrow at 5 a m For Waiwero, Kawau, and Matakana to-morrow at

10 a m . ; , For Wangaroa to-morrow at 2 p m For Napier and "Wellington to-morrow at 3 p m For Wangarcf on Wednesday at £ pm For Taranaki and Southern provinces on Saturday at 0 45 a m (Signed)

S. B. 8183, Chief "Postmaster.

MARRIAGE.

FRAPKtt— BAKTUS —At St. Matthew's Church, TTolison-strop.t, on. the lSlh instant, by the T?ov. R. T. Ffus'-ard, JX, C. Frnser, fpuoikl son of B. 0. Frascr, Esq.. Waijiu'. <o Klfoabct'h. ybuuKesti daughter of A. Barris. Esq.. Ornhnm-Btreot, AuoWnnd, N.Z.— Cape Breton papers ploar.e copy.

DEATH.

BTAINES—On tho evening of tho 20th Hay, Reljecca, the beloved, yjife qf George Staines, in her 57th year, of heart disease. The ftthoral will leave her lato reaidenco. in TJpiicr OUPon-strcet, to-morrow (Tuesday) after noon, at 2 o'clook... Friends will please acoept this intimation.

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED "The Evening News," "The Morning News," and "The Echo."

MONDAY, MAY 22, 1876.

Foe tht cav.se that lacks as.'.isUticA, Per the wvony tV.r*t nee-i< reslstUiM, Kor the luiarc hi lln cli-.tasics.

:V;n3 tile v/e c&n an.

Fir Daniel Cooper, Agent Genoral of New South Wales, was a through passenger by the mail steamer City of New YorktoSydney. His mission is understood to be connected with the San Francisco Mail Sorvico, and it is said that he is empowered by the contrac tors to submit certain proposals for the abandonment of the connection at Kandavu in favour of a service via the Bay of Islands. This proposal we regard as very much more favourable to New South Wales than to New Zealand. The chief value of this mail line is its supposed commercial importance, but if New Zealand is to pay £40,000 a year merely for the conveyance of letters, while Sydney" derives all the advantages of the permanent terminus • for the main boats, a cry for the discontinuance o<= the service will very speedily arise in the colony. We oannofc Dee that Auckland will derive much more benefit from a service con necting with local steamers at the Bay of Islands than Fiji does now from its. Kandavu connection, for which it pays nothing.

The Pacific Mail Company embarassmentg are tho general topic of conversation in com mercial circles at San Francisco. At an in vestigation into the Company's ailairs> Richard B. Irwin enumerated tho names of the members of Congress to whom large sums were given from the 750,000 dollars devoted to the passing of the Company's Subsidy Bill. A New York telegram states that "it is re ported the Panama Railroad Company's officials have directed their agent at San Francisco to attach all the incoming China steamships of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. It also statbd that John Roach, ship builder of Philadelphia, who holrls a con siderable amount of Pacific Mail property, is acting in conjunction with the Panama Rail road Company. The Railroad Company claims 400,000 dollars. How this will affect the San Francisco Mail contract it ia difficult to say.

Sir George GpvEY has addressed a long letter ■ to* the Marquis of Normanby protesting against the permission granted by the Gov ernment to favoured individuals, empower ing them to purchase lands within districts that have been reserved from sale 'by the exercise of the pre-emptive right of the Crowa. His Honor's remarks have special reference to a large block of land, some 13,000 acres, we believe, in the Upper Thames district, near Te Aroha, purchased by Mr Mackay on behalf of Mr Thomas Russell and passed through the Native Lands Court at Cambridge this month. He says :— " I think I neither err nor exaggerate in stating that, to apply such a pre-emption to the poor and defenceless in a district, and to exempt from its operation tho powerful and wealthy in the same district, would be a moral crime of a grave character ; and if the powers of the Crown, and the authority of the Queen, should be used for the perpe tration of such an offence, then a crime would be also committed against the majesty and justice of the Empire. Your Excellency will, I feel assured, admit that the Crown's author ity should not be used for such a purpose as this, and that no Governor could venture, in defiance of the law, to attach his name to a grant of land, which, in breach of all public law and justice, was allowed to be obtained by an individual by the Ministry of the day on such principles."

COLONEL STEINBERGER'S CASE.

Colopel Steinberger's case has. excited great interest in America. The first informa tion'on the Bubject received in San Francisco was ■ conveyed by Frank Platt, the Special Commissioner despatched by the Kins; of Samoa to lay his case, before the President of the United States. He left Samoa the latter' part of January on a schooner specially chartered by the Government to take him to Honolulu, where he arrived two days too late for the steamer-last month, and was obliged to wait for the Granada. He said that the London Missionary Society in Samoa is at the bottom of the attempt to overthrow the existing Government, and at tributed their action fco fear that their revenue would suffer. He also said that they had been in the habit of charging 2 dols. 50 cents each for Bibles, and 50 cents for hymn books, but after Colonel Steinberger's ar rival on the islands the: natives were taught to clothe themselves^bb they had not been1 in the habit 'fit doing,,before, [and used their montey for this purpose. This was very offensive to the missionaries, and the princi

pal one left. He also preferred charges against the missionaries of being antagonistic to Stoinbergoi1 because he would not recog nise their land claims. He stated that the King, after counsel with the leading chiefs, had addressed letters to the President of the United States, asking protection of the United State 3 Government, saying that they did not wish the British flag hoisted over their island, and that being a weak power^ until the United States protected them, they feared the aggressions of the British. on April 12, the schooner Ada May arrived at San I'raeisco with Dr Steinberger, the Colonel's brother, who related the story of the arrest and imprisonment of Steinberger. The doctor complained that although he had not seen his brother for years he wa3 only allowed to see him on board the Bsrracouta for half an-hour in the presence of the First Lieutenant, and that the Colonel was not permitted to send any written communication. A private letter forwarded by the same vessel put a didecent complexion on the story, which says that the King of Samoa went to Capt. Stevens, of the .Barracouta, at night and said he was disgusted with the Colonel and wanted to give him up. The letter also states that since Steinberger was arrested documents have como to light proving: First —That the United States Government had really very little to do in the matter. Evidently Babcock got Grant and Fish in duced to appoint him as " Special Agent," and there is evidence of the " tip" Babcock got from y. to do the business. Second — That Steinberger and J. C. G-odclefroi and Son, of Hamburg, entered into a contract in September, 1874, arranging everything : (a) That S. was to come to Samoa, get ap .pointed to office, and then work into the hands of J. C. G. & Son. (b) All their land sales were to bo ratified, (c) They were to have a monopoly for twenty years of the paper mulberry, (a) All the taxes and fines were fco be paid in cobra,~pibre, etc. and all to go to J. C. Q. &, Son. (c) A sinking fund was to be established by making every man woman and child collect GO pounds of pibrej and GO [pounds of cobra per annum— all to go to J. C. G. & Son. (£) J. C. G. & Son to be the bankers of the Samoan Govern ment, (g) J. C. G. & Son to have the issuing of a paper currency or1 nickel, etc. (b) S. to get 2 dols per ton On all that J.C.G. & Son ship from Samoa, (j) S. to get 10 per cent for all they bought from the Samoan Government, (k) S. also to get 10 per cent on all the Samoan Government bought from them.

Tho matter was ultimately brought before Congress when the Government repudiated all connection with Steinberger. In an anawerjto a resolution of the House, Secretary Fish stated that he recognizes no responsi bility for Steinberger, whose mission was undertaken without any document from the American Government. Furthermore that the Amerioan Consul at Samoa has been so informad. And so the matter rests.

Ib is a rare occurrence for us to chronicle the robbery of a church, but one has been related to ue as having occurred on Saturday night or Sunday morning, in the Presbyterian church, Onohunga. It would appear that a petition signed by the lady members of the choir to the committee of the church was considered at the laat meeting thereof, and its prayer—for a low curtian to s be placed round the choir seats—granted. The curtain was made and paid for by a few connected with the choir, and the ladies on last Thursday's practice were delighted with the result. As already stated, some sacreligioua wretch went and stole the curtain, carrying away the cloth. It is not definitely known who did the deed but the name of one, who from age, connection with the Church, .and being a parent, would be supposed incapable of such a malicious action, is freely mentioned. The matter has been placed in the hands of tho police and we trust that the guilty person will have the crime sheeted homo. A new curtain will be provided and put up. On Sunday evening any one within a mile of the Scotch, churob, would have heard little knots of young ladita, aye, and old ones too, dis cussing with' great animation not the worthy pastor's sermon, nor the latest fashion in hats or bonnets, nor tho latest bit of local scandal, but " Who stole the curtain ? Who stole the curtain ?"

A Earnell tradesman, whose name is not mentioned, had a narrow escape of drowning yesterday owing t© the capsizing of a dingy, in which his body was. The said tradesman was in the act of settling himself down, but his corporeal weight was too much for the dingy, aDd over it went discharging its cargo into the water. James Conley, a boatman, came to the rescue, saved the tradesman, and landed him in St. George's Bay. The boatman received half-a-crown as the value of the tradesman's life.

Efforts are still being made by the Govern ment in favor of Auckland as the head quarters of the ships of the Royal Navy on the Australian station. The Commodore is also favorable to the change. Should the endeavours be successful, much good to Aucklandmust inevitably follow.

We learn that Messrs McDonough and Earnahaw, the proprietors of the Marion ettes, have acceeded to the request of his Worship the Mayor (B. Tonks, Esq.,) to admit the children of the Parnell Urphan Home, Industrial School, and St. Mary's Orohanage, on the afternoon of the Queen's Birthday, free of charge. Comment is un necessary.

Mr P. H. Kirby, who will be recollected here as the agent of Smith's Combination Troupe, is a passenger to Sydney by the City of New York. He ia bringing over to the colonies Mr and Mrs Meader, who are known in America as two of the best sensation artistea of the day. Mr Kirby has also re ceived the Australasian agency for Mr T. Maguire, the proprietor of three of the largest theatres in San Francisco, who has under taken to send several good companies to New Zealand and Australia. Engagements have already been made with the Georgie Min strels, Oates' Opera Bouffe Troupe, and Emerson's Minstrels, besides, with several stars. Among other sensations which are being negotiated with for a trip to the colonies are Montgomery Queen's Circus and Menagerie, Edwin Adams, the tragedian, ar>d Baker and Farren, the great Dutch Imperso nators. Mr Kirby will evidently have his hands full while he is in the colonies, but he is well up to his work and will, no doubt, arrange matters satisfactorily for all parties. Another interesting stranger who is on his way to Sydney in the City of New York is young Roberts the present champion billiard player of England. Ha ia about to play a series of entertainment matches with the best players of Australia. We trust that he will call here on his way home again, and give us a sample of his wonderful skill.

An unsuccessful hare-hunt was experienced by sportsmen at Papatoitoi on Saturday last. The Pakuranga hounds met at the appointed hour at the Raglan Hotel. The haro was started, bufc the dogs lost scent, and puss escaped. After beating about the bush for some time, the huntsmen returned to their quarters, resolving to meet again on Thurs day next at 11 o'clock at Panmuro Bridge, in stead of at the kennels on Wednesday, as previously determined.

Yesterday an accident occurred to a lady and gentleman while driving down Victoria street. Through the breaking of a shaft, the pony which was drawing the trap bolted, and for some moments the occupants were in considerable danger. Before any further damage was done, however, the gentleman managed to rein in the animal, when it was taken from the vehicle, and the party finished their journey, which was to church, on foot.

At the Victorian Art Exhibition, opened last month, New Zealand was represented by two of Mr Gullya landscapes,.several water colour drawings by Mr J. C. Hoyte, and some oil-paintings by Mr Jas. Peele.

A lad named Thomas Hawthorne m-twith a serious accident on Tuesday last at Whan garoa through the bursting of his gun. After lying for a long time in an insensible state, he managed to crawl home. He was quite unable to explain the exact cause of the accident. His wrist was shattered, also his nose, and the rim of bis hat was blown away. He is fast sinking, and but faint hopes are entertained of his recovery. There is no medical man in the district, so that the lad has not had the advantage of proper medical attendance.

The Naval Brigade have obtained permis sion from the city authorities to fire a royal salute in the Albert Barracks reserve, on the Queen's Birthday. The grand review spoken of by the Herald as fixed for that day, we can learn nothing about.

The school-ten.chers met on Saturday after noon in the High-school, Symonds-street, for the purpose of considering a telegram respecting a deputation of school-teachers of Wellington to wait upon Sir Julius Vogel to submit a series of propositions to the Govern ment with recommendations from the New Zealand School Association. Mr Worthing ton was called to the chair. The Chairman said ho only received the telegram on Friday, and had, therefore, advertised on his own responsibility. He had received the telegram from Mr Holmes. He regretted that so few teachers were present. Mr Worthington then explained the nature of the communi cation, and said he could only speak for the meetings and he would take their instruc tions os to whether hB was to decliino the offer of the Wellington Association to re present the Auckland teachers in their inter view with the Premier. Mr Grant said his thanks were due to Mr Holmes for his cour tesy in sending a telegram. Mr Josiah Mar tin was of opinion that the present small meeting could not speak for the teachers of Auckland. Mr Worthington was entitled to their thanks for his diligence in the matter. After some further conversation it was re solved, " That it was found impossible to confer with any considerable number of the Auckland teachers. Mr Holmes shoald be thanked for his courtesy, and informed that they wero sorry they could not give him authority to represent them at the proposed interview."

A local appears in to-day's Herald stating that Mr Archard is an applicant tor a license for Mr Riordan's Custom-house Hotel. This is quite a mistake. Mr Archard will be the proprietor of the new hotel in Custom-house street, and has applied for a transfer of the Sailors Home license to the new building named the Britomart Hotel. Mr Riordan continues at his old quarters.

Captain Symonds has returned from hold ing a sitting of the Native Lands Court at Otaki. We learn from the local papers that 111 cases set down were thrown out in con sequence of the survey's not being completed, thus involving the country in a large and useless expense. The Wellington Posl says : -*•' Captain Symonds has won golden opinions by his painstaking and impartial conduct on the bench, lie is, without doubt, one of the best Judges of the Native Land Court; and very popular with the natives."

In the year 1842, or thirty-four years ago Governor Hobson appointed twelve gentle men to act as magistrates in the colony. Amongst them were Colonel Wakefield, Mr Strang, Mr Beckham, and others. Of the twelve only one is now living, namely Major Nixon of Wanganui, who is consequently, the oldest magistrate in New Zealand. Major Nixon, for many years occupied the position of Sub-treasurer at Wanganui to the Welling ton Provincial Gevornment.

Not many years ago an unostentatious building was altered in Vulcan Lane for the purposes of a hotel and when completed Mr Edward Perkins applied for a license for the same. At that time, believing that fresh hotels were not amongst the requirements of Auckland proper we were opposed to a license being granted. However it soon became apparent that the conduct of the house was far different to what we had been led to anticipate, and we were perhaps the first to welcome host Perkins in his new house, and under his able management, a new order of things sprang up, and the Occi dental Hotel was soon the best patronised houso in the town. Year by year improve ments were effected and the house became moro and more attractive. "Good wine needs no bush," and it at once became ap parent that nothing but good liquors were dispensed at this establishment, he being the first landlord that ever introduced 3 star Hennessey's brandy etc. The restaurant was ably conducted and largely patronised. A museum of rare curiosities was odded, supplemented by a picture gallery with the addition of as fine a collection of photographs of the world's celebrities that is to be found in the colony. Host Perkins had always something new to shew his customers. Sporting records were kept with great care and for the latest sporting intelligence the Occidental was often in advance of some of the Newspaper offices. About twelve months ago Mr Perkins proceeded on a tour in the United States and let his house, during his absence. It is needless to remark that the public did nob take the same interest in the Occidental under any other management but his own. Lately he returned, and re taking possession of his house, at once set to work to put the Occidental in a position to regain its old name. The premises were closed for thorough repair, and refurnishing. This having been effected in an elegant style the museum has been considerably augmented by the addition of fresh curios and wonders picked up by the,proprietor during his tour through the New World. A gallery of some of the finest cabinet portraits that modern art could depict have been added, consisting of likenesses of the beauties of the da^ and notable personages. The bar is adorned with choice modern works of art and various other nic-nacs procurable only in the United States; Everything has been accomplished by the spirited proprietor to make the Occidental one of the best fitted and most attractive hotels in the province. The house re-opens to-morrow under his management and in its newly embellished state, the announcement of which fact is sufficient to cause it to be thronged throughout the day.

DISTRICT COURT.—This Day.

Before His Honor F. D. Fenton, 'District

Judge.)

WILLIAM EYRE V. PATRICK GLBESOK. Claim, £100; trespass

Mr Tyler for plaintiff, and Mr Richmond for defendant.

This case, the particulars of which have already appeared in the Star, was brought up to determine the question of costs. His Honor gave judgment in favor of the plaintiff. JOHII M'GARRTGLE V.-WILLIAM HAVES. Claim, £81 Is ; judgment summons. Mr Alexander appeared for plaintiff. Defendant, a draper's aseistant, pleaded in ability to pay. He only had £3 per week, and sometimes less. He offered plaintiff £1 a week to liquidate the claim, but it was re fused. Mr Alexander stated that there was an other defendant in the case, Mr Mandeno. He had not been summoned in consequence of the expense. His Honor made an order on each of the defendants for 10s, or in default three months' imprisonment. E. PORTER AND CO. V. HENRY C. EALNEAVIS, Claim, £100 damages. Mr -Laishley for plaintiff, and Mr Tyler for the defence. This case, in which his Honor was to have given judgment, was adjourned till to morrow. ' ' ',' .. This was all the busineas.

ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. AUSTRALIA WITH THE English and American Mails.

oub London Lsiraa,

LONDON, April 6th.

THE STRATHMORE DISASTER.

I send you the full report from the Times of the Strathmore catastrophe on the Crozet Islands. The skipper, poor fellow, is not hero to explain, but there seems to be a pretty general opinion that it must have been a case of unseaworthy sailors. It is probable that careless steering may have had a good deal to do with the ship being so much out of her course. Such occurrences as this are very bad in their effect on emigration. It is surpriaing how people rake up these stones of perils by the sea as arguments against emigrating to your Australasian colonies. Canada, they say, is so much nearer, but they forget that the proportion of accidents on the passage across the Atlantic is much greater than that on the Australian line.

GIG-ANTIC JEWELLERY ROBBERY'

One of the biggest things on recoid in the way of jewel robberies has Just come off successfully in London. Some of your readers will remember the Great Cornhill robbery at Walker's in February of 1865, when gooc'ness only knows how many watches were cleared out under favour of the concealment of the shutters. Then it was that shutters went out of fashion, and the jewellers took to iron gratings with gas burning all night, go that the_ shops might be open to the public eye, which was con sidered to be the best guard. This plan has now prevailed both in town and country for a long time, and it seemed as if it had the desired effect. Butjin spitu of gaslight and pnliftptnen's eves, Messrs Williams and Son, of H*tton Garden, have lost at one go, £25,000 worth of jewellery, a loss to which Mr Walker's £0000 was nothing at all. On the night on which the robbery took^ place the shutters were open, and the interior of the shop was illuminated by the gas. Neither police nor passers by noticed anything peculiar. Indeed, when the following afternoon, Sunday, the senior part ner entered the premises there was nothing to make him suspect anything wrong^ until he observed some empty jewel caseß in the window. Even then he knew nothing until, in therecular course, the safra were opened, and found to be rifled. No violence had been used. Everything had been opened in the most regular way. The robber must have secured wax models of the jeweller's keys, and so been provided with a complete bunch,and no'doubt'the crime was committed in broad daylight, for if anyone looked in and saw the work going on, he would sup pose that the robber was one of the people of the place engaged in his work. THE QUEEN ON THE CONTINENT. Talk of Royalty in England and its posi tion ! Can anything demonstrate better than another the aboolnte condition'of raree-show dom to which the whole thing has sunk than the fact that in the middle of a session^ of Parliament —to say nothing of the London season—we have not a single member of the Royal Family in the Island. Really, the whole concern might be shunted off into private life and no one would be a whit the wiser. The Queen and Princess are dilly dallying at Baden. The old girl's yacht was rapairod (i.e. t'ildnd and scentpd) at a cost to the nation of £5,000, to enable her to cross the Channel. Then she travelled in carriages made exr>rps«<ly for tier from Cherbourg to Bad on. Hfiiqh, ho ! For a tithe of the money this trin will cost, the old lady might build and endow a hospital. I wonder when she landed at Cherbourg if she remembered the last time she was there at the opening of the new docks, by the then Great Napoleon III? The Prince of Wales is not yet home from India. The Duke of Edinburgh is on the Continent, and so are his brothers Arthur and Leagold; and yet England actually manages tW crawl along and I am not sure that moia than one (person in a hundred would be able to tell an enquirer whether Her Majesty was here or in Now Zealand. PLAGUE AT BAGDAD. The Times is setting up a scare about the placue which, it seems, has broken out in Bagdad, and now threatens to spread west ward over Europe. Last year there was some of it in 'the Euphrates Valley, but it was believed that it was a mere flicker, and that the pestilence was practically extinct. How ever, it seems that so long as Eastern nations continue to consider dirt as one of the essen tials of existence, so long must diseases of this kind find a foothold and prove a source of trouble and danger to the West. In our sanitary condition, partial as it is, we all feel great confidence, for we know that all vessels from the Levant will be rigidly inspected, and that any case of contaeion will be in stantly isolated. In the East they are of course in great terror, as well they may be In Bagdad, in 1831. the plague carried off 4 000 victims a day for several days together, nnd in the month of April of that^ year 60.000 people perished out of a population of 150,000. Several times in the 17th,century England suffered from the ravages of the plague brought here by Dutch vessels, and more than onoe a fifth of the population of London was destroyed by it. Then in 1665 came the great plague, killing 7165 persons in one week, the bills of mortality for'the year being 68,000, out of a population of half a million. Since then no general visitation has been known in England. In 1720 half the inhabitants of Marseilles were killed by it, and in 1818 it visited Corfu. In the old days, however, people felt helpless before the plague. When face to face with the fell destroyer they became abject and drivelling. Now we shoiild brace ourselves up to battle with it, and though many might perish in the fight, more would be guarded and saved. MARRIAGE OF BETTINA DE ROTHS CHILD. Paris has been full of the wedding of M'lle. Bettina De Rothschild and her cousin Baron Albert, of Vienna. He is described as one of the most elegant members of high. Viennese society, an accomplished horseman and leader of ton. He is the richest of the German Rothschilds, and has a palace like that of an emperor. The ball-room is said to be like Fairyland. He tries to fuse to gether the Austrian aristocracy and the clever in literature and art—rather a hard task in that exclusive city. The bride is only 16, but is beautiful and clever. She has a fortune of £480 000, which you will allow is pretty fair doings even for a Roths child. Her trousseau has been the wonder of Paris, and as a signalising apt she has given handsome dowries to five girls of good family in reduced circumstances. THE ROYAL VISIT TO INDIA. Having had Prince of Wales and India stuffed down our throata till we were nau seated, the papers began to find out that even English people might have too much of a Prince, and for some time their accounts tapered off wonderfully. Now, however, that ELR.H. is beginning to near home, the Press is beginning to wake up again, and we are already excited about his reception in London. He is bringing home a regular menagerie of live beasts, and a tremendous reputation aa a jungle sportsman, and we shall- soon have tall talk about the return of the Hope of the Empire laden with the love gifts of the fair climf s of India. The visit must have done good in a political point of view, and in many instances, it is no secret that the personal condescension of the Prince in shaking hands with, and treating as equals many of the native aristocracy, has won over wavering affections to our side. Probably no man in the empire knows better how to make himself agreeable (the Marquis of Lome would probably* Bay I meant disagreeable)

when he likes, than this same Albert Edward. "We thought," Borne of them said, "that the Queen's son would be haughty, but we found he treated us as gentlemen and loyal subjects." On the other hand, a small section of the native press lias been trying to foment a nasty feeling, by inserting that the object of the Prince's visit w,as to replenish his empty coffers at the expense of India, and that he has taken away with him an enormous amount of wealth in the shape of jewels &c, presented to him. I need scarcely say that this—l mean about the presents—is all bosh. It is true he has got some handsome things, but it was widely understood that he did not wish for expensive presents, and so, few were given. On the native stage in Calcutta they have been ridiculing in an insulting manner the Prince's visit to some Zenana ladies in the City of Palaces. So offensive was the libel that the viceroy has had t& put a stop to the performance. On the other hand Sir Albert Sassoon of Bombay is going to spend £5000 in an equestrian statue of the Prince. The Daily News Indian correspon dent, Mr Forbes, has been trying to get up a little sensation for his journal by writing to say that our hold on India is very slight, that the people don't like us, and that were a mutiny to break out, as it might do any clay, we should be irretrievably lost. All right, Mr Forbes, we'll chance it. You are a nice fellow and a really capital correspon dent, but you must not expect us to swallow all you say about Indian politics.

Terrible Explosion.

THE POWDEE MAGAZINE AT SALT

LAKE CITY BLOWN UP.

FIVE LIVES KNOWN TO BE LOST.

THE CITY OF SALT LAKE ALMOST

A WEECK.

Ogden, April C—Three distinct reports followed each other in such quick succession that the people had merely time to get out of their houses. The windows in nearly every building in the city were simultaneously shaken out, and chimneys fell in. Many teams on the streets ran away. Everybody and evertbing for a few minutes seemed terror-stricken. Dense columns of smoke rose with wonderful velocity at each succes sive explosion and spread out grandly into a cloud that stretched nearly across the valley. When the people recovered their_ equilibrium great crowds on foot and by various convey ances started for the immediate scene of the explosion. On arriving there they found that where four magazines had stood, four holes \ were left, and the ground was strewn with small fragments of the buildings, an iron door being the only whole thing from the wreck. For half a mile around had fallen a perfect shower of stones of all sizes, pieces of boards, powder cans, and a few mangled fragments of the unfortu nate man or men who. were blown into eternity by the terrible explosion. A portion of a human scalp, with hair on it, was first found, then the foot and a portion of one leg, nearly to the knee, was picked up. Finally, another foot and leg, to above the knee, with a boot and some fragments of a pair of pantaloons on it. Other small portions of flesh and clothing were found strewn pro miscuously along the fresh earth and stones —not enough picked up altogether to weigh twenty pounds. The buildings in City Creek Caffon, immediately below the magazines, are almost completely demo lished. Brigham Young's Empire Flour ing Mill was blown to ruins. The hill, from the explosion down to the creek, in the canon, was thickly strewn with the fragments of wood, while on the west side nothing but rocks fell. At the time of the explosion thirty boys were playing ball on the Deseret base-ball grounds, behind the old city wall, down the hill, westerly from the magazines. They say that two or three boys were noticed at the magazines a short time before the occurrence.. Their attention was directed that .way. by the firing of a gun, which was immediately followed by the first explosion, the concussion of which knocked them down. About the time they were picking themselves up to run to a place of safety the second explosion occurred, knock ing them down again and showering about them rock of all sizes. Some of these boys say the shot heard immediately preceding the explosion was fired at a flock of wild geese that happened to be flying over. The appearance of the city after the explo sion bore strong testimony to the power of forty-five tons of powder, there being scarcely a house not more or less damaged by the shocks. The windows of the Emporium Buildings are all more or less shattered. The Exchange Building, Deseret National Bank, Colder and Careless', Dwyer's, W. F. Bay bould's, Wasatch Drug Store, and the Co operative Store, each lost from one to three large lights of plate-glass by the shocks. The city presented a worse appear ance than it would if it had been shelled by veterans of the war. The losa on the powder buildings is estimated at 26,000 dols., while the damage done the buildings in the city cannot be calculated. Five lives are known to have been lost, and possibly more. Two boys were blown to pieces—Mrs Vannetta's little boy, Raddon, and a babe. Joseph H. Raddon, aged five or six years, a son of James Raddon, of the 20th Ward, was sitting in his father's back yard playing, when a stone weighing four or five pounds struck him, passing through his chest and cutting out his heart and lungs, killing him instantly. A boulder weighing fifty pounds struck the roof of Mayor Little's new house, and passed through three floors. A rock went flying through the roof of Gee. Saville's house, in the 20th Ward,, and knocked the chimney down. Matthiesson and Johnson's wagon depot on First East-street, near the theatre, was visited by a ten-pounds rock, which went crashing through the roof. Mary Jane Vanetta was struck by a boulder, and instantly killed. In one of the upper wards a baby was killed in its mother's arms by a falling rock. In Camp Douglas, four miles distant from the explosion, the build ings were terribly shaken j no damage done. Pieces of human flesh, resembling inked sponge, were brought to the Tribune office last evening. One of Brigham Young's daughters was sitting near a bay window at the time of the concussion. The glass was shattered, and a piece fell on her head, in flicting a severe scalp wound. Heber P. Kimball's house, Main-street, had a close sail from a hundred-pound boulder, which passed through the roof and floor into the cellar. Most of these are over a mile from the exploded magazine. Yesterday, Archie Hill, aged 16 years, with a companion, hunting on the beach, failed to put in an appearance. Both were seen at one of the magazines shortly before the explosion. It is supposed that one fired a ball, which, passing through the door of the building, penetrated a keg of powder, and through its heated condition ignited it, thus causing the explosion.

RESULT OF THE EXPLOSION. Salt Lake, April 6.-The fragments of the human bodies found show the horrible effects of the explosion of the magazines recently. A woman was cut in two at a pump. A child's head was blown off, a roile away. Four men are supposed to be lost. Two boots and one shoe were found, with the fragments of legs adhering to them. Many women are in a critical condition, from terror. Boulders were thrown two miles throughout the city, penetrating the roofs to the base ment. The damage to property is over dols. 100,000. The supposed cause of the ex plosion was the firing of bullets through the iron doors. By the doors was stored pack ages of powder of all kinds, aggregating five to ns, exclusive of the Giant and Hercules powder. The distance of the magazines from the heart of the city is one mile.

SSKIOUS MOT^IMBO, London, April 17th.-A desperate fight took place in the streets of Limerick to-day It appears that Butt and O'ShauehneßHv members of Parliament for the city had an nounced their intention of addressing th« people from the base of O'Connel'a monument A procession numbering some thousands consequently marched to the place and a body of Nationalists, armed with sticks who had previously taken possession of the monu ment, attacked the procession. The Nation* alista were overpowed after a severe fight in which many persons were badly injured. The police and military were under arms, hut ab stained from interference. The London Standard correspondent at Limerick says that the Home Eule procession num. bered 4,000 and consisted principally of trade guilds with bands and banners The Nationalists were only a few hundred in number, but they were well armed with stones, bludgeons and knives, and had evidently drilled for a fight. The Nation alists in the first onset succeeded in smashing the musical instruments and destroying the banners of the Home Eulers, but they were at last driven into a public house, which was completely wrecked. The cause of the riot was the discontent of the Nationalists who form the remnant of the Fenian party' at what they declare to be the utter neglect of the Home Eule question by the so called Home Eule leaders during the present session jf Parliament. The intended demonstration of Butt was a failure. The crowd which was expected from the country did not come in. More fighting was feared during the night, and there was considerable alarm, as the Nationalists were known to have revolvers. The police consequently patrolled the streets. At 10 o'clock some arrests were made. It is thought over 100 persons were wounded in the riot, of whom forty were seriously and six fatally injured. At a meeting, Butt spoke hopefully of the prospects of the cause. He pointed to the efforts of the party during the session to obtain reform. la connection with Parlia mentary and municipal franchise, he declared that if Ireland had a native Parliament to foster Irish industry, Galway and Limerick would each have transatlantic packet stations,

MELANCHOLY BOAT ACCIDENT.- THIRTY DROWNED.

On April 5 a boat accident, involving the loss of at least thirty lives, occurred on the river Dee at Aberdeen. The day was a sacred holiday, and a favourite resort on fast days is the fishing village of Torry on the opposite side of the Dee from Aberdeen, and large crowds went across by the ferry and the bridge. In the course of the afternoon one of the ferry-boats was so overcrowded with passengers that the watermen refused to pro ceed until a number of them should leave. Notwithstanding the assurance that it was dangerous to proceed, some of the passengers seized the machinery of the boat, which is worked by a wire apparatus, and before any thing could be done to prevent it they pulled the boat into the stream. As soon as it reached midstream with sixty persons on board, it was swamped and all were thrown into the rapid current. The scene was heart rending. Before any boats could be launched numbers were swept away and disappeared, and the rapidity of the stream made attempts at rescue almost futile. Out of the sixty in the boat, only - twenty-eight have been saved, and two of these have since died. There are thus thirty missing, all of whom it is feared are drowned. GRAND ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS. New York, April 2.—The present erup tion of Vesuvius is said to be exceedingly grand. At first the lava began to overflow in a long stream toward Pompeii. All the day following a tremendous column of white vapor hung over the abyss. The fires in tbe mountain cast upon the clouds a splendid crimson tint, which mingled with the delicate pink. Large quantities of cinders were ejected. It is expected that the eruption will bo protracted for weeks. ANOTHER MEDITERRANEAN DIS ASTER. Athens, April 4.—The steamer Agrigenti, from Paracis for Italian ports, collided with the English steamer Hylton Castle off Cape Malta on the South coast. The Agrigent, immediately sunk, and of the sixty-four persons on board, nine of _ the crew and twenty of the passengers were drowned. Thirty-four persons in all were drowned by the collision between the steamers Hylton Castle and Agrigenti, near Perius to-day, j THE STRATHCLYDE DISASTER. London, April 4. —The inquiry into the cause of the collision between the steamers Franconia and Strathclyde was concluded to-day. The jury found a true bill for man slaughter against the captain of the Fran conia, it being proven that his vessel ran down the Strathclyde. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN GLASGOW. Glasgow, April, 21st—A fire broke out^ to night in Buchanan-street, one of the principal thoroughfares of this city. The whole square of buildings is now burning. The flames have reached the office of the Glasgow Herald. All the available engines are at work, but produce little effect. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT IN SOUTH

WALES. London, April 22nd.—An explosion of powder to-day during operations in the new railwny tunnel in course of construction near Nath, Glamergan county, South Wales, caused the roof to fall, burying all the work men. Thirteen dead bodies and a number of wounded have been recovered. Search .lot victims continues. . SERIOUS EIOTS IN BAEBADOES. London, April 24.—A dispatch fiom Bar badoes says riots have occurred throughout the islands. Plantations and' houses are sacked, and animals destroyed, and an enor mous destruction of property has taken place. Over forty of the rioters have been shot. The troops are actively employed. The city of Bridgetown is threatened. Busineßflia snspended, and families are seeking the Bttip ping for safety. The rioters say they have the Governor's sanction for their action. The immediate recall of Governor John Pope Hennessey is requested.

London, April 18.—There has been further fighting between the Egyptian and Abyssin ian troops, and it is alleged that the Egypt ian army is in great difficulty; that King John demands the. abandonment ot the country and the cession. Hull, April 18. — The loss of the ship Victoria, from Shields, for San Francisco, is now proven beyond doubt. She had on board besides Captain Jones, whose body was found yesterday, twenty-five hands and the pilot, all of whom were undoubtedly lost! A painful sensation has been caused throughout Glenisla by the fate of James James Robertson, residing at Brewlands.who was missed last week. -■■ He had paid a visit on business to Dalrulzion, and left Peraie Inn in the evening for home, five miles distant. Nothing further was seen of him, and search parties were organised, who were unsuccessful in finding traces of him till duak on Sunday last, when his dead body was found among the snow on the top of the hill of Kilry, several miles from the right track. Mr Robertson had evidently lost his way, and had wandered on m the snow, sometimes, as the marks showed, on hands and knees, till he had succumbed to cold and fatigue. He was shoeless, and tne stockings were worn to the skin. J-fle deceased has left a wife and five children. Ihe naval estimates, the Merchant bmp ping Bill, the state of Ireland-in which country agrarian outrage has revived-ana the Education Act have been among tue chief subjects before the House of Commons. The Budget was introduced on Monday, April's. There is a deficit, which is to be= made good by the addition of a penny to tae income-tax.

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