LATEST EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 289, 26 May 1875, Page 6

LATEST EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By the arrival of the Alhambra at Hoki tikafrom Melbourno on 19th inst., we have the latest Home and Continental intelligence up to May 10, and intercolonial to 13th. The following are the principal items : London, May, 8. The reported arrival of the Californian Mail on the 4th was false. , The steamship Schiller, homeward bound 'from New York, with Australian and New Zealand mails via San Francisco, and over 260 passengers, was • totally wrecked off Scilly Isles. Only a few passengers were saved. The Schiller went ashore in a fog, when 311 persons perished. Forty-four persons and a portion of the mails were saved. The passengers on the Schiller were principally Germans. There are no Australians traceable. 56 mail bags, chiefly newspapers, Were saved. . London, May 10. The Emperor of Russia arrived at Berlin to-day. The result of his interview with the German Emperor is anxiously awaited. The Italian Parliament were engaged during the week in discussing a motion blaming the Government for undue leniency towards the Bishops, and allowing the law of exequature to remain a dead lefter. Menghetti has promised to introduce legislation to protect the State and administer ecclesiastical property. He also stated that the relations with Germany were excellent. A vote of confidence in the Government has been passed. The Hon. Mr Bourke (Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs) announced that the Government had received entirely satisfactory assurances Germany and had no cause to fear a disturbance. The Brindisi mails were delivered yesterday. The colliers' strike in South Wales is ended, the men returning to work on the masters' conditions. The Czar and Prince Gortschoff interviewed Bismarck immediately on their arrival at Berlin. It is generally supposed that the Czar will exercise a pacific influence. Prussia has voted for the suppression of .religions orders. AUSTRALIAN. MeLEouENE, May 13. one of the three sailors who leaped overboard from the Carleton at Queenscliffe with the intention of deserting, and who was supposed to be drowned, turned up on the "9th. He was twelve hours in the water, and since then had been hiding with some fishermen. ' s The Insurance Companies have paid the sum of £'3700 to the Barwon Woollen Mill Company for losses sustained by the recent fire at Geelong. At the dedication of a new Roman Catholic Church at Gordon, near Ballarat, Archbishop Goold made .another attack on the Education Act. Captain Kay, for many years Clerk to the Executive Council, is about to, retire. The Mining Department has called for tenders for sinking bores in the best auriferous areas. The Rev. Charles Clark reached Melbourne on the 11th, and begins service at theAthenseuni next Sunday. The Irish intend to celebrate the O'Connell Centenary. The Rev. Charles Strong will succeed the Rev. Mr Menzies, deceased, at the new Scots Church, the spire of which is completed and is the tallest in Melbourne. The King of Siam, it is stated, will probably contribute an interesting collection to the Melbourne Exhibition. A mother and daughter, named Utting, were committed for trial for perjury at the trial of Frank Sperrin, who was sentenced to ten years and two whippings for a criminal assault on the daughter. A Victoria Permanent Fire Insurance Company has been registered, with a capital of one million. James Barker, labourer, committed suicide on the 10th inst., while in a state of delirium tremens, by throwing himself from the railway bridge at Williamstown. He was run over and killed instantaneously by a passing train. Sydney, May 13. R. F. Stubbs and Co. have failed. The direct liabilities are £IOO,OOO. Barlow, wholesale grocer, and Cohen, ironmonger, have called meetings of their creditors. The liabilities of the former are £23,000; assets. £IB,OOO. Cohen's liabilities amount to £IB,OOO ; assets, £9OOO. A large and influential meeting was held on the 11th, in favor of the annexation oi New Guinea by the Imperial Government. The Herald's Cooktown correspondent attributes the rush of Chinese to representations made to Canton and Hong Kong merchants. The Governor attended the Maitland races, the Cup at which was won by his horst Kingsborough. Murphy, charged with ihe murder of his wife by poison at Shoalhaven and acquitted, has been re-arrested. The Gothenburg fund at Adelaide has reached £8,900. The Postmaster-General received a tele gram stating that the Sydney mail bag was saved from the wreck of the Schiller.