AMERICAN SUMMARY,

[By Telegraph.] (Per steamer at Auckland.) Auckland, March 2. The following is a summary of news by the Zealandia : — San Fbancibco, Jan. 27. The Bteamahip Alaoieda of the new Aus tralian line arrived here on January 23rd. Her log shows her time from Sydney to San Francisco, including stoppages at Auckland and Honolulu, to be 22 days 15 hours. A movement is on foot m New York and Philadelphia to publicly manifest American sentiment on behalf of Irish self-government. It is asserted the movement is distinctly American, having no connection with the Irish -American League. Grave charges against the United States Consul, Mr Ureen Baum, m tbo Samoan Islands, were forwarded on by the steamer Alameda which arrived a» San Francisco on January 23rd. They were sent immediately to the Secretary of State, Mr Bayard, at Washington, together with a petition for the Consul's removal. It was signed by Messrs Grovis, Malil, Crawford and Company, P. S. Parker, If. P. Gum, H. J. Moors, H. Batison, and R. Johnston, Americans, doing business m Apia. In addition to charges of extortion and his conduct not becoming his office through over indulgence m liquor, there is a heavier one of an attempt to flood California by Chinamen evading the restriction law by chipping via the Samoan Islands under his affidavit there. They had been resident there under American protection for some time. Ah Sue, a Chinese merchant of Apia, takes oath that Mr Green Baum made a proposal to htm, but he declined to have anything to do with it. The Hon. Randolph, one of the New South Wales delegates who arrived m San Francisco by the steamer Alameda, on January' 23rd, will remain m that city until his colleague, Bir Alexander Stuart, arrives by the steamer Mariposa about the 21st February. These gentlemen are interested m the proposed cable line direct from San Francisco to Sydney and New Zealand via Honolulu, New Cale donia, and the Sandwich Islands. It is asserted m San Brancisco that if the Com pany establishes its line, Mackay, the Bonanza capitalist, with James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald, now in terested m tbo Transaltantic cable, have promised to meet the Company on a fair and reasonable basis. It is rumored Germany is making overtures for a partition of the Samoan Islands. 