EUROPEAN NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 190, 1 July 1873, Page 7

EUROPEAN NEWS.

The following cable telegrams are published jn late Dunedin papers :—• London, June 17. Mr Russell has introduced a Bill in the House of Commons for the better governipent of Ireland. f The Shah of Persia has arrived in London, and has been introduced to the Queen. The Czarewitch and Czarina are now in London, in view of the approaching marriage between the Duke of Edinburgh and the daughter of the Emperor of Russia. The Alexandra Palace, near London, together with several valuable works of art, has been destroyed by fire. The building cost £600,000, and was insured for £120,000. Mr Macarthur’s motion in the House of Commons, for annexing Fiji to the English Colonies, was lost by 86 votes to 50. Mr Gladstone said England did not require any extension of territory. One hundred and ten witnesses have been examined for the prosecution in the Tichborne case. About forty will not positively swear that the Claimant is not Sir Roger. About as many declare him to be Arthur Orton. M. Thiers has retired from public life. The ex-Bmpress Eugenie is in Switzerland. Prince Napoleon has arrived in Paris. His Holiness the Pope is rapidly recovering. The Emperor of Germany is ill. The conflict still continues between the Russians and the Kbivans. The latter defeated the Russians, who lost severely. The African slave trade at Zanzibar has been abolished by the Sultan. The new French Ministry have a majority of seventy. Count Arnim, the German ambassador to France, has been received by President M'Mahon. ,