EUROPEAN NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 200, 24 August 1874, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

The Scotland team won the Elcho Shield at the Wimbledon meeting, England second, Ireland third. The English Insurance Company have lost a case before the Court of J-xehequer. in which the question arose whether a policyholder had the right to travel without the Company 8 permission. Dr. Beasely had insured his life for £10,000, and went to New Zealand. His htirs were refused the money on the grounds that the Company had not allowed him to go to New Zealand, but the Court compelled them to pay. Mr Gladstone's wife has inherited a property cf £15,000 by the death of her brother The London pap; rs say that the Liberal party wid lose their leader in consequence of Mr Gladstone proposing to take his ease in Italy. According to the statement of a recent letter from Berlin, Prime Bismarck is preparing to tflke another import mt step in war upon the Church. It is said that the Government will present a Hill dorim? the present session to regulate religious processions, and to prevent them from using the .public highNothing has vet been heard of the Austrian expedition which started for the Polar seas two years ago. All travellers or teamen who may bave learned any news about the expedition are reqnp tH to communicate with the foreign offi ♦ atVLnn- or to the Admiralty at *->t. Petersburg-. Thirty victims of the disaster^to the yacht Foam were found on the Am.rican shore, nearly opposite Niagara In the Home of Lords oa the 24th of July, a member asked whether the Government had made any remonstrances to France against the connivance of tbe authorities in violation of the Spanish frontier by the Spanish Carlists He urged that by the ordinary courtesy due from one civilised nation to another there should be no unnecessary d«-lay in the formal recognition of the Spanish Go* tram- nt by Great Britain. Earl Derby, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replied that the recognition of the Bpani.h Government would be premature. He said ic would be better that such recognition should be the collective act of the European powers. A London ttlegram of July 26 reports an alarming outbreak of small-pox at Newmarket, upwarda ot sixty cases were already reported. The authorities have asked the Jockey Club to permit them to convert the Grand Stand into a hospital, where the afflicted persons may be quartered. John Mitchell arrived at Cork on July 27. He i* ill, but will come to Dublin. The Fenian Amnesty Association propose a torchlight demonstration and a qanquet to be given in his honor. The Berlin Journal says that war between Russia and China will be the inevitable consequence of the designa of the latter upon Kashagar. A Committee ot the Agricultural Laborers' Union in London have adopted resolutions decsring that as we are not justified in declaring (?) we are not justified in appealing to the public for support for the locked out laborers in the Eastern counties during the harvest. They therefore offer them the alternative of emigration or depending on their own resources. The Committee is negotiating for easier terms for emigration to Canada. Luskttt Brothers, cotton merchants of Liverpool, have failed. Liabilities, 480,000 dollars. A special despatch to the Daily News reports great destruction of property by floods in Moravia. Two hundred persons had died, and houses had been swept away.