EUROPEAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 4, 19 June 1883, Page 3

EUROPEAN NEWS.

AOB SPKCIAIiS. (pee triiriTKD peess association.) London, June 6. The English Government have intimated to the promoters of the second Suez Canal that they will insist, as a condition of allowing the work 1.0 be undertaken, :that there' shall be a considerable reduction in the charges, and an increase 6t control exercised by the English Government. Huge preparations are being made in Germany to celebrated c four hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther's birth, which occurred in November 1483. The fc«ho, a London evening paper, states that the Du-ke of Albany has been offered theJGbvernorship of Victoria at tKe termination of the Marquis of Normanby's appointment. It is xeporjjqd .that "No. 1," of the Assassination = Committee, has been poisoned in America, in consequence of his, 'having expressed' his willingness to give himself up to the English Government.- • '■■■ ' A publican in Dublin, who had rendered himself obnoxious to the " Invincibles," has received a letter containing some explosive substance. Other cases of a similar character are also reported, and the police are making inquiries. A major in the Russian Army stationed at Moscow, has been banished to Siberia for having publicly expressed an opinion in favor of certain social reforms being necessary in Russia.