EUROPEAN NEWS TO 15th SEPTEMBER.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1614, 25 September 1874, Page 371

EUROPEAN NEWS TO 15th SEPTEMBER.

(PEE VICTORIA,) PARIS. 15th September, M. Guizot, the eminent French statesman and historian, is dead. A Republican has been elected to the French National Assembly, as the representative of Maine et Loire. President McMahon has been visiting the Northern departments. The .Journal des Debats has been warned for having said whoever was not a Republican was an adherent of the empire. MADRID. 15th September. The German and Austrian ambassadors have presented their credentials to Marshal Serrano, as Chief of the Spanish Executive Government, and have given expression to cordial good wishes and assurances of friendship. - MAIL ITEMS, TO 17th AUGUST. • [per s.s. macgbegor.] A thunderstorm in London flooded the streets, and several persons were killed by lightning. The Emperor of Russia has presented 161,000 for distribution among the metropolitan charities. The House of Lords struck out the Public Worship Regulation Bill a clause authorising parishioners to appeal to the Archbishop in the event of any Bishop refusing to suppress Ritualistic practices iu a diocese. Bradlaugh and others have addressed 5C,000 miners. Irish advices state that the reception of John Mitchell, the Fenian exile, on his return to Cork, was most enthusiastic. The streets were alive with bands of music and bonfires. There was a torchlight procession, in which 5,000 persons took- part. There has been a riot at Armagh, during a parade of Orangemen, which made it necessary for the militiary to clear the streets at the point of the bayonet, which caused the wounding of several persons. An immense Home Rule demonstration has been held at Glasgow, and a similiar demonstration took place at Dungannon. European crops are satisfactory. Eight hundered and six persons formely connected with the Commune have been arrested at Versailles. The Archbishop of Paris having published a pastoral offensive to Italy and to King j Victor Emanuel, President Macmahon apologised to the Italian Consul for its appearance. The Duke de Caza, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, has complained to the British Government that Germany is seeking to quarrel with France on the question of Carlist matters in Spain. He denies that Franc is conniving with the Carlists. After Bazaine's escape a knotted rope was found stretching from the top of the precipice to the sea, and stained with blood, as if from, Bazaine's hands. Madame Bazaine has published a letter stating that she alone, with her cousin, planned his escape. Bazaine is in Brussels, and his extradition will probably be demanded. Some assert that the rope was put over the rock with a view to mislead the authorities, and take off suspicion from the guards through whose connivance it is believed the escape was accomplished. A letter from Italy states that the country is completely bankrupt. The people are deeply attached to the King. The Government is harassed by floods, malaria, and bandits. Great distress prevails at Florence, and arrests have been made of persons connected with bread riots. Following Bismarck's attempted assassination, the German Government has instituted more vigorous measures against the Catholics, and has seized a large number of documents. The President of Spain has thanked Germany for being the first to recognize his Government. The inquiry into the assassination of Marshal Prim has resulted in the indictment of fifty more persons. A Republic general has been captured at Vittoria by the Carlists, who, however, have suffered several reverses. Three Carlist officers, concerned in the execution of a German, have been arrested at Paris. Don Carlos has expressed great confidence in his ultimate success, and in his intention to build up Spain to its former national grandeur. The accounts of the famine in Asia Minor ate of a very thrilling character. In one district 5,000 persons have perished. Numbers of persons have had to subsist on grass for many weeks. The bodies of the dead lay unburied for many days. Several villages are deserted, Advices from India state that the Bengal famine is still very serious. It will be five months before the rice harvest is gathered. The death rate is fearful, and in some districts the suffering is very great. Respecting the war between China and Russia, advices state that China has pushed forward 190,000 picked troops to the Cashar frontier towns, and intends attacking Cashar, in the event of which Russia will aid the latter State.