LATER EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 257, 6 February 1874, Page 3

LATER EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokkika,. January 30. " v ** The s.s. Claud Hamilton arrived -at,' 7*''' , this morning'from Melbourne. , CABLE MESSAGES.- '**' l '- ' si London, January 30. Cape' Coast advices state that the troopV landed on the 3rd, and s'tarted to cross" the Prahe. Captain Glover's expedition was ad- '' vancing, in concert with, the troops just landed. The Ultramontane French newspaper, the' Univers,' has been suspended for two months, for publishing the pastoral of thecBishop of'Perigueux. This was in conse— . quence of the representations of Prussia. January 21. The Siamese: twins are dead. The French Government declared itspolicy was to show the Pontiff a < pious re- * spect and filial solicitude, whilstmaintahi- ,- v ing more amicable relations withltaly. AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. January 24. Governor Bowen has returned fronvTasmania. , Governor Weld, after visiting.Ballarat," '"* and all places of interest in Victoria; pro— , t , ceeded to Sydney this afternoon. * • - Parliament is to be dissolved at : the--" end of February or beginning of "March. The new Parliament is likely to meet af- . ter the general election early in May. The Land Department is to be>-tho-roughly reorganised by the creation of" new branches , - The English cricketers were received..- ■ enthusiastically at Sydney. Play, com- 3 " mences to-day. The odds at preseriV? \ are on the Englishmen. , t "T,"