EUROPEAN NEWS TO 20th JULY,

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1598, 31 July 1874, Page 306

EUROPEAN NEWS TO 20th JULY,

[by electric telegraph.] .'.' LONDON. ■' 16th Julyi': In the Houso of Commons, the Ritualistic Bill, which passed the House of Lords, has been read a second time without a division. . ■ 18th July. Fijian Annexation—Earl Carnarvon stated in the House of Lords, that the King and chiefs of Fiji make seventeen wholly impracticable conditions. England can only accept absolute and unconditional cession. He states that the Australian institutions are insufficiently developed, to enable the colonies to undertake the responsibility of the government of the Islands; Sir Hercules Robinson, the Governor of New South Wales, has been instructed to proceed to Fiji to explain matters. During the discussion in the House of Lords, oh the Fijian quesion, Earl Belmore, the Duke of Manchester, and Earl Kimberley, approved of the annexation. Viscout Canterbury, and Earl Granville, argued as during the previous Parliament, against its being constituted a Crown colony of a severe type. F. A. Weld, Esq., formerly Premier of New Zealand, and now* Governor of Western Australia, has been apppointed Governor of Tasmania. The death has been announced ot Lady Gipps, widow of Sir George Gipps, a former Governor of New South Wales. PARIS. 16th July. The proposal of Mague, the Minister of Finance, to increase the salt tax, has been rejected by 360 to 256. The Assembly subsequently passed a vote involving re jection of Hague's whole financial scheme. A Constitutional Bill has been framed by the Committee of Thirty, as a substitute for that suggested by the Left Centre. The Bill submitted to the Assembly maintains the title of President of the Republic, and establishes Ministerial responsibility with Legislative Chambers. Macmahon alone possesses the right to dissolve, and no modification of the constitution can be made during the septennial, unless President Macmahon proposes. The debate is fixed for Monday next, the 18th July. Mague has resigned. 18th July. Dissensions have occurred in the French Ministry, relative to the general policy to be pursued. Fourton, the Minister of the Interior, has resigned. The Constitutional Bill has dissatified everybody. 19th July. A Ministerial crsis is expected at Versailles. A new Ministry will likely be formed. 20th July. General Latour, an Orleanist, has been appointed Minister of the Interior, and Bodet, a Moderate Deputy, has accepted the post of Finance Minister. The other Ministers remain in office. The Assembly has determined to give the Cabinet time to deliberate on their measures. The debate on the Constitutional Bill has been postponed. BERLIN. 20th July. A priest who was arrested on suspicion of being an accomplice in the attempted assassination of Prince Bismarck, was released yesterday. MADRID. 19th July. _ The Carlists have captured Euena, in the province of New Castile, eighty-tliree miles from Madrid. The Governor has called out 125,000 men of the reserve, and proclaimed the whole of Spain under martial law, and confiscated the property of Carlists.