MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1689, 17 July 1875, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Sixty persons were drowned by the cap-., sizing of a lighter in the Tagus river, nearV/; Lisbon. La Republic Francaise reports that Count Yon Perpoucher, the German Ambassador at \ Brussels, has made fresh representations to the Belgian Government in regard to Catholic/I processions. The Pope, ip reply to an address presented : lo him from students of colleges in America, thanking him for the elevation of Archbiihop Mc'Closky to the Cardinalate, said: "Tha,,: harvest in America is ripe, and' labourer. | alone are wanting. You are preparing your selves for that work. Preach, especially b./-. example, in order to convert that great nation.^ jB The authorities of Santander, Spain, seized y a lot of Protestant books imported from the/ United States for its American mission in •> Spain. # ~( A tribunal at Posen has sentenced Bishop ra De Foerster of Breslau to m fine of two thousand marks or one hundred and thirty-three v days imprisonment for illegally excommurii-"• ating a priest. A dispatch from Paris to the London Stan-,j dard says it is asserted that Russia has with- cdrawn from the alliance of the : three Emperors, and that a new one has been formed between Germany and Sweden. '.. g^The Upper House of the Prussian Diet .ad- ; journed after finally passing the bill, withdrawing State grants from the Roman'Ca*' tholic clergy, and reading for. a second .time the bill abrogating three clauses of, the?./ Constitution. Of half a dozen negroes who took seats in|| the parquette of a theatre in Charlotte, m N.C., the other night, two or three were kicked out during the play, and the rest W were glad to get off without broken headi. f 4 At one of the Sankey gatherings in London m Mr Gladstone, as he left, congratulated Mr 1 Moody on his broad, deep chest, from which m he could speak audibly to such multitudea, m "Ay," said Mr Moody, "I wish d'd yout§ head »top of it." * >r tgi

KlaUttle dojs in Montreal have been \ Zei to three years in the Reformatory "_ _ for stealing pigeons and plucking all I .feathers off the birds while living. Their for indulging in such cruelty was that i%ea .;__ to see the birds '' hobble about B!,K Pope StinW*__^*om lumbago. He t confined to \fPo,'Ax& holds audiences 1 ~„ vet much n»**ty prevails. 83 °i Federal Union of Agricultural t rprs of Great Britain have appointed la /elecates to visit the Mississippi Valley tff0 nort on its adaptability for emigrants. *»jS, Pacific Mail Company, the contractors the San Francisco mail service have f°r _ed a second steamer called the City of York 3,500 tons, with saloon accommo- ?^.« fnr 'IVo. and every modern appliance d 8 v__ life in case of wreck. A third f. iShiD called the City of Washington will inched on 4th July. t replY to a deputation to Lord Derby • 3 intei vention in the bloody insurrection nr^ D°_n. at-Cuba and measures for the ___3of the coolie traffic, Lord Derby the present time was not favourable to %Vifthe erS cc of New York extended an area of twenty miles. Thousands of „ flars worth of timber were destroyed and __c were engaged day and night fighting l__t_e flames from their dwellings. The Austrian Government threatened to 1 c t he University of Gratz because of Zonstrations made there by students nstUon Alfonso (brother of Don Carlos rtrSpanish Pretender,) who is accused of _v_fi murdered some Germans in Spain 'tbout excuse or provocation.--Don Alfonso • _ relative of the Emperor of Austria who ! s * indignant at the student's conduct. U Affairs in Spain continue as unsettled as Asitation for the re-establishment of _c Kepnblic is manifested at Madrid. A __rjetent authority officially reports that the Carlists muster 45,000 good soldiers besides an equal number of second rates, and vill continue virtuous so long as the war is roßclacted as at present. General Saballes Seated AHo'nsiit troops at Blanes aftei-two days fighting, capturing three guns and stores, and 140 prisoners ■ Forty prisoners have been arrested at St. Nicholas, near Brussels, for taking part in an affray growing out of interference with a religious procession. Tie Persian Eailroad Commission to Faltcnhagen has lapsed because the contract was not fulfilled. The Archbishop of Canterbury has written approving generally of the revival movement conducted by Moody and Sankey, and hopes tha clergy will endeavour to deepen the salutary impressions produced by the reyivalists.