European News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 50, 23 January 1883, Page 2

European News.

THE CZAR DISMISSING HIS GUARDS. RUSSIAN ADVANCES IN CENTRAL ASIA. FAILURE OF THE FRENCH VIiNE CROP, SOCIALIST MOVEMENT IN ROME. EMIGRATION PR-JM. IRELAND. f Age Specials.] (united pbess association.) London, Jan. 10. Bismarck has proposed that t*>e Geiman Government should expend the sntn ot 600,000 marks in relieving the sufferers by the recent inundations. It has been decided by the Suez Canal Co. to expend the sum of twenty millions in widening and otherwise improving the Canal. The works are to be commenced at once. The Czar of Russia has dismissed his secret society guard, by which he had bean surrounded, and hag discontinued many precautions which he has hitherto taken to frustrate the designs of the Nihi'ista. Sir Charles Dilke, the new President of the Lacal Government Board, is at

present at Nice, whither hs has gone to attend the second lnner.il of the late 21. Gambetta, whose remains are to be finally interred there to-morrow. The Russian advance in Central Asia is -still strenuously resented by the Inhabitants, and it is now reported that the people of Meva have murdered a Russian surveyor and three Cossacks a his employ. Sir Saul Samuel, AgenkGeneral of New South Wales, has been presented with a hadsome souvenir by colonists and others resident in London, as a mark ot their satisfaction of his recent elevation to kniphthood. Since the death of the late M. Gambetta, dissensions have sprung up in the ranks of his followers, and it is believed that a general eruption of the party is likely to take place. It is reported that the English Go« vernraent are about to despatch a rein* forcement of troops to Natal, in view; of the generally unsettled state of South. Africa. v A Socialist agitation of an alanAig character has strung up in Rome, with ramifications throughout Italy. The . Government have determined to take stringent measures for the suppression of the organisation, and wholesale arrests are being made in consequence. The United States Congress have revised the decision arrived at a short time ago in favor of the abolition of a portion of the protective duties previously in force.