LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA.

Evening Star, Issue 3248, 18 July 1873, Page 3

LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA.

London, July 8. Cholera prevails at Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and other Continental cities. The Sheffield engineers have struck. _ The salaries of the English and Irish civil service have been equalised. The new Judicature Bill covers ecclesiastical cases. A portion of the Geneva award has been paid. The Shah of Persia has left for France, escorted by the Anglo-French squadron to Cherbourg. Negotiations are proceeding between England and France for a treaty of commerce. The High Court of Appeal under tbo new Judicature Bill extends to Ireland and Scotland. A strike of Scotch miners is threatened. The Bank forgers have been committed for trial. The Quepn conferred on the Shah of Persia the Order of the Garter with diamond badges worth LI,OOO, < The Australian mails via Brindisi have been delivered, . The Bank Bill has been withdrawn.

July 9. Bank of Australia shares T/>2 10s. The exports in June were nineteen and a half millions, and the imports thirty millions. It is expected that 200,000 bales of wool will be offered for sale on the 10th. The market is brisk. A large attendance is expected. The demand for gold in Germany has ceased. Discount, 6 per cent.; money easier. Stocks dull. Tallow slightly declined. Meats active. Australian wheat unchanged, but American is lower ; arrivals moderate. Oils dull. Pig iron, 119s ; copper, L9l 10s to L 133. New Zealand consolidated fives, 104|; Victorian fives, 105 ; New South Wales fives, 1041; Queensland sixes, 108^. The ironmasters at Wolverhampton have reduced the price of finished iron. July 11. Arrived. —The Duke of Edinburgh. The Baro.la left Galle for Australia on July 6th. The Bangalore arrived at Galle on the Bth. A London telegram to Messrs Richard Goldsborough and Co., states that the next wool sale are likely to be well attended by Hoineand foreign buyers. About 200,000 bales arc to be offered. Improved prices are confidently expected. London telegrams to the London and Australian Agency Corporation state that the prospects of the coming season are favorable. Germany. Bismarck has retired to his estate. It is believed he has left the Prussian Cabinet owing to a difference between Von Roon and himself on the course taken by the Reichstadt in insisting upon an adjournment before voting the Military Bill. France. A Committee has been appointed to consider Thiers’s Constitutional Bills. Spain. The Carlists are approaching Madrid, The Republican Government is taking defensive measures, and occupying strategical positions. The irreconciliatory party has withdrawn from the Cortes, and the Constitution guarantee has been suspended. Russia. The Khan of Khiva has submitted to the Russian General, and is begging for mercy. Holland. It is denied officially that the Dutch will settle the Acheen difficulty peaceably, Washington. Cholera is spreading in Ncav York. Power, the sculptor, is dead. The International Exhibition of 1876 is to bo held at Philadelphia. The City of Washington steamer has been wrecked. All saved. UNPUBLISHED. London, July 9. The Tichbome claimant is seriously ill with erysipelas. The case has been postponed, the medical certificate stating that the life of the claimant is endangered by attending the Court. The Italian Ministry has been reconstituted under the Presidency of Signor Mingheki. The Carlists have been defeated. The insurrection is dying out, and the leaders will surrender in five days. The Shah of Persia was enthusiastically received at Paris; but the enthusiasm is now diminishing. SPECIAL UNPUBLISHED. Queenscliffe, July 11. The City of Washington was wrecked ten. miles from the scene of the Atlantic disaster. Mr Gladstone has withdrawn several Bills, and the Press comment on the barrenness of the session. Lord Cairns has called attention to the extension of the Appellant Judicature Bill to Ireland and Scotland, as involving a breach of the privileges of the House of Lords.