EUROPEAN NEWS.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 8, 27 August 1874, Page 5

EUROPEAN NEWS.

The Scotch team won the Elcho Shield at the Wimbledon Meeting. England was" second, and Ireland third. Mr. Gladstone's wife has inherited property to the extent of L 15.000 per annum by the death of her brother. Mr. Ghdstone is proposing to take his easeln Italy. In a recent letter from Berlin i£ is said that Bismarck is preparing to take another important step in war upon the Church. Nothing as yet has been heard of the Austrian expedition which started for the Poltr Seas in the ship Legthoff two years" ago. '. London telegrams to :July :24th *,say" th.it. an alarming outbreak of smallpox has taken place at.Nqwmarket., Upwards of 60 cases were already repotted. '-' •' - In the Berlin journals they say that war between Russia and, China is inevitable, in consequence of the^ designs of the latter ou Kashagar. '■ J " : v - f Messrs Goskell Bros., cotton merchant*; Liverpool; have failed. Liabilities, 480,000 V dollars,. „, ' . _ A ispecial despatch to the D>aily News/; reports destruction, by floods in Moraviar ' Two hundred persons died, and many houses were swept away. ' . :>T f it is announced from Beyf odt that a large party of .Prussian explorers bad begun excavations at Tyre with a crops of overr 100 workmen. .- ■ ', \ ','-.'■'' * ".*-■' At a fireiri the Jewish quarter, aj; Staniboul,- over five hundred bouses 'weie burned. •— -. '.-.,.•- --, -The Sultari had. twdpPashas thrown into, prison and their estatescohfiscated'bepaiise they-did-ndtseerrf-cbncerriedabouut. Tne nett proceeds, however, were hot turned over to the homeless families, but to aT; favourite Sal? ana.' V - • \ *y .■ ■ . A ; fire in Galatdi Constantinople, wa«i ; v brought under, control alter jr aging six hours' J About Q.Op'.hotises weredestroyed. Thelpasft;; 1 ; 'amounts 'to L500,000\ ';-. \:^' : „V<: r '>; ;^^ .A^cblJiery, explosion at rWiganvfifte^ty pe¥«or/s were klllecUf - A \-.-'.S'^ '■^■^•'.'k\-;'l /njS : is souhwdfasj'aptyp^:^ be v abJe*tp v ho^ fhisai;in9.*£^ ; his/mbntb;. aiidirideedic^ v/rie.nds.^:^ ; ;.^. Sl^%^^f^ :: M^'^i^^ r \ .MrsAEljiiKt^^ matt>wifesh^ lira; and created :^9^Jo^^^f^§^^^^