LATER AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 68, 28 March 1870, Page 2

LATER AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN NEWS.

THE POPE ATTACKED BY EPILEPTIC FITS.

The brig Galilee arrived in harbor this morning from San Francisco. We have to thank Messrs. Henderson and Macfarlane for late papers, from which we extract the following —

London, February Ist. —Half the cotton mills at Wigan, which were recently compelled to close on account of the strike of the operatives, have resumed.

The shareholders of the Anglo-American Company, had a meeting yesterday, to consider a scheme of amalgamation with the French Cable Company projected some time ago. The matter was postponed, and will be subjected to a vote at another meeting. The Russian Loan recently put on the market here is a great success. The shareholders in the Anglo-American Cable to-day voted a majority of 3347 in favor of the proposed amalgamation with the French Cable Company. Portsmouth has been chosen as a plsce of call for the steamers of the new American line between New York and Havre.

London, February 15th. —Mr. Moddington goes to Canada to urge the Dominion Parliament to complete the railroad through the provinces. Paris, February Ist.—Many American residents temporarily sojourning here, have petitioned Postmaster-General Cresswell, asking for the formation of new postal arrangements between the United States and France,

London, February Ist. —Lord Cairns has reassumed the conversative leadership of the House of Lords.

Mr. Porter, American Consul at Tripoli, is dead.

PAtas, February Ist.—Rumours of the death of the Pope are again current today. It is ascertained, however, that his Holiness has been afflicted with epileptic fits, and is not regarded as seriously ill.

There has been a remarbable increase in the nuu;ber cf cases of small-pox within a few days.

Yesterday, a sharp debate in the Cords Legislatif on the decree for temporarily admitting iron aad cotton fabrics. On the vote being reached, the Government was sustained.

Vienna, February Ist.—Struleyer, Banhaus and Walker have accepted positions in the Austrian cabinet.

London", February 2. —According to the proposition of tho Act of Parliament empowering the Government to take possession of the telegraph lines of tho Kingdom, the Treasury Department yesterday paid £726,000 for the cable connecting England and Germany by way of the Island of Nordeng. Paris, February 2.—ln the Corps Legislatif, the proposition that the Presidents of the Chambers have a right to demand an armed fprco vrx_m.,- pr-An itnitta. freedom of deliberations, was debated. Jules Travrerecalled the fact that a similar demand was made in the Chamber ten days before the coup d'etat of 1851, but was then rejected after an exciting debate. M. Grevis' proposition was defeated—2l7 to 43.

Zurich, February 2.—Dr. J. Dubs, of this city, has been chosen President of the Swiss Confederation.