GERMAN.-UNKNOWN DISPUTES.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1675, 2 July 1875, Page 4

GERMAN.-UNKNOWN DISPUTES.

Cardinal Manning has assured the German Bishops of the sympathy and concurrence of the English Catholic priesehood with them in their couflict with the State. Several more Bishops have been exiled, imprisoned, or fined for ecclesiastical offences. Riots have occurred in Western Prussia, occasioned by unpopular clerical appointmets, which were repressed by the military. Press prosecutions are increasingly numerous. Tne Daily Telegraph correspondent has paid a second fine of 5U thulers. A conspiracy against Bismarck's life has been discovered. Polish priests are implicated. . ITALY. The Tiber Commission has reported against the exclusion of the river from the city. The plans subject to a slight modification ' for creating a port at Fiumicino are approved by the Council of Public Works. SPAIN. The Governor of Madrid has summoned the Commander - in - Chief of the Northern Army to the capital, to confer on the military situation, a fresh change of generals is anticipated. Some Spanish papers declare their King will shortly open a new campaign. 42,000 .conscripts of the last levy have joined the army. fSCabrerai's defection from the cause of Don Carlos dots not seem to have promoted conclusion of war tbe pretender plirckily per*severed in his hopeless and cruel crusades ; money flowing in from mysterious sources, and his troops continue to be armed and fed. In a recent manifesto, he declares that he is waging a war of regeneration of which the country approves. Don Alphonso, the pretender's brother, who, with his wife, had retreated to Gratre (in Austria), has been the object of riotous manifestations, with difficulty suppressed by the military. This hostility is a protest against the atrocities of which he was guilty when in Spain.