EUROPEAN NEWS

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1261, 29 February 1872, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS

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London, January 23,. Llewellan Dawson, leader of the Livingstone expedition, will detail his plans before the Geographical Society to-night. The Chancellor of the Exchequer refuses the expedition aid. The Vojuuieer review is, fixed, to take place at Brighton. The. Queen opens Parliainent on the 27th February with a public state ceremonial. The Crystal Palace festival will take place on ls,t May. it is rumored that the French Government has entered into, negotiations with leading financiers, pledging jteelf to allo.w them a tobacco, monopoly for thirty years, for guaranteeing the indemnity and the evacuation of prance by April next. A new trial in the Firebrace case has been refused. It is rumored tha,t the Prince of Wales will go to, Ventnor, isle of Wight. Mr Roebuck, when speaking at Sheffield, violently attacked Mr Gladstone. It is. rumored that Mr Scudampre. is to. be appointed Director-General of Telegraphs. The decrease of the army estimates has been discussed in the Cabinet. The Queen hopes to a'tend St. Paul's Cathedral on the 20th February, on the occasion of a special public thanksgiving for the recovery of the Prince of Wales. The opposition in France to the proposed duties on raw materials is. becoming general. The King of Denmark has congratulated Queen Victoria on the reco.yery of the Prince of \Vftlett, The treaty ceding Guinea, to. England was unanimously adopted; by the Dutch LegislatureIt is rumored that the restoration of the gold currency in Holland is contemplated. The first train to European Turkey entered Stamboul on the 16th. The Eniperor of Germany formally invested the Crown Prince with the order of the Black Eagle on t% 18th, England submitted to the arbitration of the" Emperor of Germany a memorandum on the San Juan question. It is officially announced that there i*-; a considerable decrease of insulation of the Atlantic cable of 1865 G 6. A direct cable is projected from England to New York. Ministerial correspondence declares the re establishment of diplomatic relations between France and Germany, proof of the desire of the Governments to strengthen amicable relations The (Jraft address of the Upper House of Vienna notices the increased dissatisfaction at the recent misgovernin en t, and opposes increased military taxation. The Marquis ot Lome and the Princess are on the continent, and the Duke of Edinburgh is visiting them fit rJfolkhim. The town councils throughout the kingdom congratulated the Queen on the recovery of the Prince. The Prince left his loom for the first time on the Bth. The Princess Alice returned to Darmstadt on the T-Oth. The Prince will remain at Sand ringham until his complete recovery. It is expected that he will shor% drive out. The accouchement of the Princess Alexandra is expected in February. Further action in the Mordaunt diyorce case is expected to be taken. The late Speaker, the Right J. E Jpenison, is to be created a visequiit.

A oomplete system of military organisation is contemplated. Mr Gregory has been gazetted Governor of Ceylon. He leaves on the 21st. Sir Seymour Fitzgerald will be succeeded shortly at Bombay by Sir P. Woodhouse. The P. and O. Company have proposed to the Government of Itaty to establish a weekly mail service via Madrid, Venice, and China, at moderate rates. The officers of the Indian Staff Corps are transferred to the British establishment A Eoyal warrant fixes the pay, and half-pay allowances of lieutenants and sub-lieutenants. A slight shock of earthquake was experienced at Sheffield on the 4thA violent thunderstorm, occurre4 at Manchester. The Geographical, Society voted .£SOO for the. Livingstone, search expedition, and is, inyiting public, subscriptions. The Times and other English journals are giving increased, attention, to the Alabama arbitration case. TMie formerconsiders all demands fully a^w^ed. The American Goveminen.l'% claims, for the prolongation of the war are estimated at $.400,000,000. There has been a great meeting of the employers to concert measures to, resist further encroachments on : the part of the workmen. The December trade returns, are- less favorable. A prospectus has been issued of an Australian Oriental Coal Company, Capital <£ in connection, withthe new Lamberton collieries. The compulsory winding up of the European Assuiance Company has been, ordered. The Great Britain, with emigrants to, Melbourne,, put back to avoid the. gale in which the. steamer Delaware, was lost. The. Windsor Ca«tle came. inAo, collision with a French barque with emigrants, bound for South America. The latter foundered, and several lives*, were lost. Mr William Purday has again written to, the, Times on "Australian mail, service. He advocates powerful steamers on, the Suez route, and economy in the. time spent a,t coaling stations. Sir Daniel Qooper an, add Kess. fiom the. Agricultural Society o£ Queensland. ' Two thousand midland employes aii Perby struck work for % few days. The threatened strike of ironworkers, at Staffordshire has been abandoned The greyhound Master M'Grath (lied, pn Christmas day. The steamer Delaware, froni, Liverpool to Calcutta, was totally wrecked; in a gale, of Scilly. Forty-five liye* were lost. Two mates vera saved. The Geographical Society offers a, hundred guineas to any messenger bringing a letter from Livingstone* The University of Oxford, has,accepted the Cambridge challenge to, race on 23rd March. The survey ojf th,e proposed r/ailway through Uppev Egypt hM heen, com-, menced. The Madagascar bishopric schema has been re\ived. The French farmers' seed fund, amounts to £51,582, and the Persia famine fund to. £II,OOO. The Empress Eugenie, has to England. The proposed Orange celebration at Derry wa.s checked by the presence of soldiers and police. A bank manager and his clerk have, been shot at New Nenagk Five hundred telegraphists at Liverpool and other large tP.wns resumed after ten days' strike. They gained, nothing by the movenieut. The Ministry are imperilled by the threatened revolt of {he Nonconformists, on the education question, ancl by the liquor trade registration. The Irish Fenians' republican clubs. passed votes of sympathy for the Queen and Royal family. The outburst of affectionate loyalty has bee.ii astonishing, and the progress, of republicanism is arrested. Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Parsees, and Mahommedans rallied round the throne in the Ipo\iv of peril. America and Canada were, profoundly stirred. European Emperors., Kings, ana< resi * dents sent messages of anxious syn\-

patby to Sandringham. Meetings for political discussions were postponed, social discords stilled, and festivities were unheard of during the week of suspense. The 14th, the anniversary of his father's death, was universally dreaded; but the Prince was relieved by sickness. On the 15th some sleep relieved him from the delirium, though he was fearfully prostrated. Since then the improvement has been steady. "Henceforth," says the Times, " the fatal 14th will commemorate the restoration of the Prince as well as the death of his father." The watchful skill and energy of Drs Jenner, Gull, and Lowe, and the unwearied devotion of the nurses, including the Princess Alice, humanly speaking, saved the Prince.