EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 166, 14 January 1873, Page 6

EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN.

o Passports between France and Germany are abolished. There is a threatened strike of 70,000 colliers in Wales. Mr Disraeli's early retirement from public life is rumoured. The Emperor William visits Czar William of Russia in May next. France is to pay Germany 200,000,000 francs monthly, until May. 17,518 toiis of Australian meats were imported into England during 1872. A Bill is before the Spanish Cortes for the emancipation of slaves at Porto Rico. An Inquiry Commission has reported in favour of a gold currency for Holland. 150 tons of Australian tin have been sold by tender in London at from £SB to £B9. Tenders are invited in London for laying a cable between the Cape, Mauritius, and I Aden. In Manchester, a boy who was suffering from hydrophobia, wr,s cured by Turkish baths. A Bill for the restitution of the property of the Orleans Princes has passed the French Assembly. Sir W. Gull, M.D. received a fee of £BOO for specially going to Cork, from London, to see one patient. There are in France 42 individuals out of 100 who are completely illiterate, there are 70 in Italy, 85 in Spain ! Germany will not interfere with French affairs under any settled form of Government which France may adopt. Mr Colfax has resigned the Speakership of the American Congress, and takes the post of editor of the Nciv York Tribune.

In the Ticliborne trial, the prosecution will attempt to prove the Claimant to be Arthur Orton. Witnesses are being obtained. The valley of the Thames has been flooded, and a large amount of property destroyed, including an immense quantity of grain. Jay Gould, of Tammany Ring notoriety, has refunded sufficient to cover the claims made against him by the Erie Railway Company. On the last passage of the Great Britain from Melbourne to London, Captain Gray committed suicide by jumping overboard, when the ship was thirty days at sea. Russia has had a disagreement with Khiva, in Central Asia. The Khivans have invaded Russian territory with 9000 men, besieging the forts on the river Emba. Russian reinforcements have been sent. An Imperial rescript relievos Bismarck from the Premiership of Prussia, but requires that lie shall continue to confer with the Emperor on Imperial matters and questions of foreign policy. He still retains a voice in the Cabinet Councils. A mixed Commission at Washington adjudicated upon 130 claims for compensation put forward by the Britith Government as counter claims to those on account of the Alabama and other vessels. A majority of the Commission rejected the claims. The Pope, in addressing twenty-two Cardinals, alluded to the continued persecution of the Church, especially in Italy. She was strongly assailed in Germany, where pitfalls were laid, and violence and calumny employed to destroy the Church.—Bismarck has since ordered (he German Charge d'affaires to quit Pome immediately. The Berlin Press vigorously denounces the language used by the Pope towards Germany as insulting. The newspapers in Prussian Poland are threatened with confiscation if thoy publish the utterances of the Pope.