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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 251, 1 September 1874, Page 7

EUROPEAN NEWS.

The Scotch team won the Elcho Shidd at the Wimbledon Meeting. England wis second, and Ireland third. The English Insurance Company havj lost a case before the Court of Excheqmr,in which a question whether the policy holder had a right to travel without the Company's permission was concerned. Dr Beasely insured his life for £IOOO sterling, and wmtto New Zealand and died. His heirs were refused the money on the ground that the Company had not allowed him to go tc New Zealand, but the Court compelled thsro. to pay.

Mr Gladstone's wife has inherited property to the extent of £15,000 per annum, t>y the death of her brother. The London papers say the Libe'ral party will lose its letder in ■consequence.: Mr Gladstone is propping to take his ease in Italy. London telegrams to July 24th saythat an alarming outbreak of smallpox has t'afen place at Newmarket. Upwards of sixty caies were already reported. The authorities asked the Jockey Club to permit them to concert the grand-stand into a hospital, where afflicted persons might be quartered. Mr John Mitchell arrived at Corl on July 17. He is ill, but will go to Dubin. The Fenian Amnesty Association waked at a torchlight procession. A. banqu«b will be given in hiß honour.

In the Berlin journals they say that war between Russia and China is meltable, in consequence of the designs of the latter on Kashagar, The statement that the yowg Duke Nicholas was sentenced to bahiament for stealing his mother's diamonds*'has been officially denied. His. case is stil under the consideration of the Czars. The American: womkn who indiced him to commijt th« crimes proves to be J>sey Mansfield, who'caused the shooting of fames Fisk by Stokes.

The Freemasons of Italy expelld the Pope from tlieir order, ; which he had jined in his youth. The ground of expulsion was his refusal to answer certain charge preferred against him in 1865. ■ Mrs Eliza Ann Young, Briglam's legitimate wife, has been lecturing on jlormonism, and created a strong feeling agaiist that sect.