General European Summary.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 15, 15 October 1874, Page 4

General European Summary.

The * English Pilgrims " arrived at Pontigny on the 2nd Septeniber. the party numbers 313, and includes Archbishop Manning, Earl of Gainsborough, and other members of the nobility, A great German Sangerfest was held at Waterloo on the 2nd September. Tbe eruption of Etna shows no signs of abatement. The inhabitants are fleeing from the villages at the foot of the mountains, but it is thought no harm will be done, as the direction taken by the lava stream is remote from the cultivated parts of the mountain. The anniversary of Sedan Was observed throughout Germany as a holiday. The Prince of Wales was present at a banquet in the evening. Russia has sent special agents to Republican and Carlist head-quarters to report on the military pbsition of contending parties. , . It is repovted that an order will soon be issued at Berlin expelling frtim Prussia all foreign priests, monks, and nuns. There is a rumor that Spain purposes selling Porto Rico, West Indies, to: Germany. This has since been contradicted, but not officially. Bazaine proceeds to England shortly. Victor Hugo declines the invitation to a place in the Congress at Geneva. He says that peace cannot be established until another war is fought between France and Germany, and points to the hatred existing between the two countries. War would be declared between the principles of Monarchy and Republicism. There is a great strike among the cotton operatives. Bolton began. Four j mills, employing 13,000 persons, have i stopped. Tne Trades Unions throughput the manufacturing districts are collectingsubscriptions for- idlers. - Letters from the Marquis Desafraga, ! charge d'affaires of the Carlists, regarding the shooting of some Republican prisoners in Olothe, says Republican soldiers had previously shot and,bayoaetted Carlists when wounded and lying in the hospital at Olothe. No one regrets the sanguinary character the war has assumed more than Don Carlos; but when the enemy will not respect the ordinary usages of civil warfare, no means are left for the Royalist Generals hut retaliation. There are apprehensions of a second year of famine and of the partial failure of the crops in some districts in India, but no greater than in ordinary years. Newspapers in Paris publish an official despatch, acknowledging that ,the Royalists fired on the German gunboats Albatross and Nautilus. The despatch declares the vessels were endeavoring to effect a landing of armed men, under pretext of exercising, crews, and in conclusion says that the Carlists will recognise no combination of Serrano arid accomplices, but will exact respect for Spanish territory, and resist bravado, with which the German Government have endorsed the act of, the gunboats. , I The steamship Alexandra sank in the' Mersey, through collision with the Torres. She has been raised and taken into dry dock. She had only ballast on board. The Torres has also been docked. The ship Euxine, on a voyage from Shields to Aden, took fire and was destroyed. Twenty-one of the crew escaped. Two of the boats arrived at St. Helena after a voyage of 1100 miles, during which neither, boat saw the other. The third boat, containing remainder of the crew, not heard from* 500 laborers of the, English Agriculturists' Union, have sailed for Canada. .The German Government will not interfere with international affairs' in Spain. l ■■ • ; A letter from Bazaine reviews the late war between Germany and France. Bazaine complains that he was a victim of the army, and that' the nation had but two supporters, the Emperor | and Thiers, and says he would not have attempted to escape had MacMahon seen fit to* lessen the severity of his captivity, and considers now that during his trial he should have employed the same weapons as MacMahon, and shown how the latter was defeated and* evacuated Alsace, and was one of the first authors of army disaster. MccMahon was as. unfortunate at Sedan as he had been at Metz, as Trochu and.; Duprot were in Paris, and as .Bpurbaki > and Clin chart were in. the East, but forgot all this when he became President. * AMERICAN NEWS, ; / ; = - Operations Tor the Presidential election are again commencing. New York papers say that Grant's re-election is certain. ;;

ADDITIONAL £^ipri.-v i .■$ Details of the .Austrian Polar Expedition^ show that; after Abandoning the ship, the party travelled seven months | n _ sledges, and; spent two winters on the ice. " Only one died. The Belfast strike has ended; 10,000 ' men have gone back to their employment, at reduced wages. -•*■ There has been a fearful railway-col-lision near Norwich: 20 people were killed and 50 iniured. " Arch's agricultural strike s has ended in failure and disaster, the farmers getting labour for the harvest," and leaving the strikers unemployed. The Union announces its inability to support them, and many are emigrating*. '.. Ex-Governor Gore Browne has become a director of the New Zealand Trust and Loan Company. ' . h ' 4 An encounter has taken piece 'in Brazil between troops and rMigious fanatics. The troops lost foremen, and were defeated, abandoning their artillery.