EUROPEAN ITEMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 832, 3 January 1883, Page 2

EUROPEAN ITEMS.

Mr Bi.igar, member for County Cavan, has denounced Earl Spencer, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, as being bloodthirsty, for permitting the execution of several Irishmen recently convicted and sentenced to death for murder.

The military activity recently shown by Russia on the frontiers of Germany and Austria, and the consequent strengthening of the alliance between those two powers, has caused a great fear of war to be felt. The Austrian Government Us endeavoring to allay the public alarm, and the German Government is making great : efforts to push forward the Prussian railways towards the Russian frontier. ; The garrisons: of the frontier fortresses are also being in-

A serious explosion has occurred at a cartridge. factory in Fort Valerien, one of the Paris fortresses. Fifteen women were killed.'

Oberdank, who was arrested for attempting to smuggle bombs into Trieste 'on the ■ occasion of the Emperor of Aus tria’s visit to that city in September last, and for being concerned-in a plot to murder the Imperial party, has been executed at Trieste.

M. Duclere, the French Premier, has. declined to formulate the French demands in respect to Egypt. Forty-five Socialists have been arrested at Prague. Eleven Socialist rieters at Montceau lea Mines, in France, have been sentenced to short terms of imprisonment. Lord Derby, who has assumed the direction of the Colonial Office, has placed the Agents-General of Colonies on the same footing as Ambassadors. The Government of the. Republic of Mexico is' seeking to attract a pdrtion of the Irish immigration to America. The International Exhibition to beheld next year at Calcutta will be opened on December 7th.

Two hundred and twenty branches of the Irish National League have been established in Ireland. The English and American Leagues are invited to amalgamate with the new organisation.