EUROPEAN ITEMS.
London, Oct. 19. The Liberal Congress which has been sitting at Leeds for the last few days hasbeen brought to a termination. The Right Hon. John Bright, the senior member for Birmingham, in the coarse of an address, contended that the powers at pcs*, sent exercised by the House of Lord* were inordinately great, and suggested; that the right possessed by the Chamber of vetoing a measure should be placed under some limitation.
The Governments of England tod France have formally re-afficmed their previous agreement that neither Power should annex the New Hebrides, and ' that they would both uphold the neutrality of those islands. Mr Thomas Archer, the Agent-General for Queensland, has a letter in the Times this morning, in which he emphatically denounces General Mclvor’s scheme for the colonisation of New Guinea. *
Oct. 21. ; The Irish national journals insist that A the Roman Catholic Archbishopric' of Sydney, recently rendered vacant-by the death of the late Archbishop Vaughan; ■ should be conferred upon an Irishman. ,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1089, 1 November 1883, Page 2
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166EUROPEAN ITEMS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1089, 1 November 1883, Page 2
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