LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 378, 28 August 1875, Page 2

LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA.

[Per Press Agency.] Bluff, August 27. The Albion, with the mail, left Melbourne at 8 30 p.m. on the 23rd, and arrived at the Bluff at 1 p.m. on the 27th. She brings thirty-four saloon, fifty steerage, and 550 tons for all ports. Passengers for Lyttelton —Miss Bolton, Mr and Mrs Hill, three steerage, eighty tons cargo. She sails for Dunedin at 8 p.m. to-night. [Cable News.] London, August 17. The London wool sales opened this evening. The arrivals amount to 298,000 bales ; upwards of 8000 bales were offered. The attendance of home and foreign buyers was large. The bidding commenced with spirit, and the prices, as compared with last series, show a slight decline. Sydney wool is a penny lower. London, August 18. The insurrection on the northern frontier of Bosnia is of a serious character ; 2000 Turks are operating against the insurgents at Herzegovina. Apprehensions are felt of religious war between the Moslems and Christians. MAIL NEWS. The Golconda has arrived at Glenelg. She reports that the Ceylon arrived at the Sound on the 22nd of July; after repairing machinery, she left again on the 24th; The Gth company of the Royal Engineers has embarked in the Whampoa for Fiji. An animated controversy is proceeding respecting the credibility of Captain Lawson's discoveries in New Guinea. They are generally regarded as a pure invention. The Australian United Gold Mining Company is to be voluntarily wound up. Travelling under the title of the Countess Van Buren, the Queen of the Netherlands is visiting England. She has been entertained. The Queen and the B Empress Eugenie have again exchanged visits. The Prince and Princess of Wales have been visiting Strathfieldsaye, the seat of the Duke of Wellington. The Duke and .Duchess of Edinburgh have proceeded to Copenhagen, en route to Russia.

The Court is in mourning for the death of the ex-Emperor Ferdinand of Austria. The present Lord Mayor nobly maintains the hospitalities of the present Mansionhouse. At Dublin the Lord Mayors were splendidly entertained. The Sultan of Zanzibar has been the lion of the month. He is an indefatigable sightseer, and has been entertained by all the leading personages, from the Queen downwards. He speaks in terms of supreme delight of the places he visited. Sir Douglas Forsyth's mission to Burmah has failed. The King refuses a passage to the British troops through his territory. Sir Douglas returned to Simla. A Shanghai telegram announces that Chinkiang is now quiet. The Chinese authorities have partially satisfied the demands for reparation made by the British and American Consuls, in consequence of the late outrage.

Thirty thousand pounds have been received at the Mansion House, on account of the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday fund. Mr Gladstone's ceramic collection has been disposed of in four days' sale for £9329.j In consequence of the adverse decision of the Court of Exchequer, the Brighton aquarium is closed on Sundays. The Government is unable to deal with the question this session, and the Home Secretary finds himself not empowered by law to remit the penalties.

The Lower House of Convocation has been discussing the question of vestments ; meanwhile a memorial, signed by one hundred and forty thousand persons, has been presented to the Crown, protesting against the eastward position aud the legalisation of the distinctive dress of the Communion Service.

Owing to the suspension of Mackonochie, Holy Communion is no longer celebrated at St Albacs. After the sermon by the curate the congregation form in procession and proceed to a ritualistic church in Cheapside, where ritual mass is said by a lay Catholic. A testimonial of £6500 has been presented to Cardinal Manning. The Duke of Norfolk subscribed £IOOO.

The Echo has been purchased by Albert Grant, who will convert it into a Conservative mcrning organ. Arthur Arnold retires from tke editorship. It is rumored that Mr Sampson succeeds him. Counsel's opinion on the question of the legaliiy of Church of England clergymen preaching in a Nonconformist pulpit, is decidedly adverse to those desirous of fraternisation.

Sir Charles Reed is promoting a movement for systematically teaching swimming in public schools. The Lyceum season has closed. Mr Irving has irtimated that in September " Macbeth" will te produced and Mr Tennyson's " Queen Mary." Maishal MacMahon, as arbitrator in the protracted dispute between England and Portugal, respecting Delagoa Bay, has decided in favour of Portugal. A :housand Mormon proselytes, in charge of Bfigham Young's sou, sailed from Liverpool Five hundred consist of Germans, and the lestare English, Scotch, and Welsh. A3ome Rule conference of Irishmen, resided in England, was held, with closed doon.

At Crewp, Dr Kenealy narrowly escaped a seveie handling, by a. body of indignant miclanics.

Tlree Bedford gentlemen, one a clergyman, hava been committed to trial on a charge of marslaughter, in connection with the suspicion death of a young naval lieutenant, while travelling by night in a Pulman car. 3rutal outrages are reported in Lancashire—two men kicked their wives to death. There have been some formidable strikes abioad—in Belgium three thousand colliers reftsed to enter the pits at Perum ; in Moravia eight thousand woollen weavers strick for an advance.

k serious dispute is impending in the iron trade. A rupture is anticipated. 7he annual picnic of the Northumberland Miner's Union, at Morpeth, was attended by two thousand persons. A resolution was adopted, affirming the principle of manhood suffrage. Mr Merry's Doncaster, the winner of the Gold Cup at Ascot, after having been sold to hi 3 trainer for ten thousand, was re-sold to th Dike of Westminster for thirteen thousand Mr Merry intends to sell all his horses now

in training. Fifty Middle Park yearlings were sold for eleven thousaud five hundred guineas. Macaroni was purchased for seven thousand one hundred.

The Jockey Club have resolved that any touter detected watching a trial, or a person proved to have obtained information surreptiously, shall be warned off Newmarket Heath and all race courses,

A three days' cricket match has taken place, Gentlemen v Players. The former won by 202 runs; the scores were 536 against 334. Floods and destructive inundations have happened in various parts of the Continent. Hungary is suffering dreadfully fiom the watery scourge. At Pesth, sixty dead bodies have been recovered. In South France, disasters are appalling. The water at St Agpreau was ten feet in the streets. At Toulouse alone 2000 were drowned, 3000 houses were destroyed, and 20,000 persons made homeless. The calamity has excited the greatest sympathy, and large sums have been subscribed for the relief of the sufEerers. The damages amount to nine to twelve millions sterling alone at Toulouse. The American papers describe a terrible earthquake at Cuchuta Valley, Republic of New Granada, which was entirely destroyed. Only a few families were saved ; fully 16,000 perished. Obituary—Viscount Molesworth, the exEmperor Ferdinand of Austria; Michael Henry, editor of the Jewish Chronicle ; Morgan O'Connell, nephew of the Liberator ; J. B. Baines, of the Leeds Mercury ; John Robertson, journalist. Sir W. Lawson's Permissive Bill was lost by 371 to 86. SHIPPING. Sailed—July Ist, Border Chief, for Wellington; June 17th, City of Auckland, for Auckland ; June 20th, Elizabeth Graham, for Otago; June 25th, Helen Denny, for Napier; July Ist, Invercargill, for Port Chalmers ; July sth, Kinfanus Castle, foi Wellington; July Ist, Merope, for Canterbury : July 3rd,* Taunton, for Otago ; June 18th, Waimea, for Otago; June 25th, Waikato, for Canterbury. Loading—For Auckland—White Eagle, British Empire, Star of Germany, Ocean Mail, Waitara. For Canterbury—Himalaya, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Bee, Waitangi. For Napier—lnverness, Queen Bee. For Otago—Jessie Readman, Zealandia, Carmarthenshire, Calypso, May Queen, Otago, Mataura, Celestial Queen. For Wellington —Howrah, St Leonards. For BluffAdamant. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, August 21. Ministers have changed front a little since the Chief Secretary's speech at Geelong, which was not well received by the country. Other speeches by Ministers give a more definite policy. The lands are to be taxed according to valuation and not by area, and it is proposed to invite, at a conference, the other colonies, to consider the tariff question and the relations of the colonies with the Imperial Government. In all this the finger of Mr fliginbotham is plainly visible. The nominations have passed, and all the Ministers are elected.

Very great anxiety is felt about the mail steamer Ceylon, which left here in July, and has not yet reached Galle. "We learn that she repaired a defect in machinery at the Sound, and left there on 24th. She has a number of passengers, and a very valuable freight. Judge Molesworth has issued an attachment against Dr Bradford, who eloped with a ward of the Court to New Zealand, and is now settled at Wellington, and no further sums are to be paid to the young lady until she returns to the colony. A settlement made by Dr Bradford in favor of his wife, the Judge refused to recognise in any way. The Hospital election created a most unusual excitement. Dr Moloney headed the poll for the honorary physicians, and Dr Blaney for the surgical side. The Winton Cup coursing finished yesterday, Mr Wagner's Sandy being the winner, with Lucy as runner up. Baratta won the Waterloo Purse. lima di Murska continues to charm and draw large audiences. A man named Octavius Baker has been committed to trial for personating a father, and sanctioning the marriage of a minor. A private London telegram, dated August 17th, states that .the wool sales opened about three half-pence lower. It is believed the prices have touched the lowest figure for the present. The markets are unchanged. Breadstuff's are firm ; wheat 5s 7d. Large sales have been made of tobaccos, at full rates. News reached last evening of the arrival of the steamer Ceylon at Galle, on the 19th, after having been seventeen days under canvas. The Chanticleer, forty-three days out from New Zealand to Hobart Town, has not yet arrived. The MacGregor arrived at Sydney yesterday. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, August 27. The John Rennie made the voyage in 116 days. She brought thirty-three passengers, and no immigrants. RIVERTON, August 27. A fire broke out about twelve last night, in a tailoring and saddlery establishment. The buildings are in the centre of a crowded block, but on account of the closeness to the river, and the aid of plenty of willing hands, with unlimited quantity of buckets, the conflagration was confined to the buildings mentioned. The stock and buildings were completely destroyed. They were insured in the "Victoria office, stock £6OO, buildiDgs £IOO. The fire is supposed to have commenced in the tailor's shop, but the origin is as yet unknown.