LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 120, 21 May 1878, Page 2

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

[Reuter's Telegrams per Press Agency.] London, May 1 6. There have heen serious riots amongst the strikers at Blackburn and Burnley, and the military were called out and fired on tho j mobs, of whom five were wounded. Mills were burnt, and windows smashed hy the rioters. At a meeting of the employees at ' Manchester arbitration was refused, and the original terms insisted on. By a destructive earthquake at Venezula, six hundred persons were killed. At yesterday's sittings of the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies, there was a debate ou the Eastern question, when the President of the Hungariau Ministry said tbat the Government had lately found it necessary to take further precautions for the conservation of the Austrian-Hungarian interests. They had strengthened the troops ou the notheru, southern, and eastern frontiers. The British Government have purchased ten acres at Port Said, as a coaling station. The Turkish Government maintain that the Treaty of San Stefano stipulates for the surrender of the Shumla and Varna fortresses to Bulgaria, aud not to Russia. An explosion at the powder mills at Paris, was followed by an extensive fire. Twenty persons were killed. The Australian cricketers have arrived and are all well. The Emperor of Germany was congratulated from ali quarters on his escape from assassination. Canada is taking precautions against the Fenians. The Queen has reviewed sixteen thousand troops at Aldershot. At the wool sales, prices as compared with the last series, show a slight relapse. Combing wool, unchanged; cross-breds, faulty, a halfpenny per pound lower. Lord Russell is alarmingly ill, and is not expected to recover. The Russian army at San Stefano has been re-inforced with thirty battalions. The British squadron remains at Constantinople. The intensity of feeling between the Porte and the Russian Coininander-iu-Cbief respecting the evacuation of the fortresses is increasing. Baker Pasha and other English officers in the service of the Prote are actively employed in the defence of Constantinople. Sir Stafford Northcote will submit an estimate for the Indian expedition ou May 27th, when the Marquis of Hartington's motion will be taken. The latter expresses no opinion on the policy of Government. New Zealand four per cents, 108; the others bave risen a half por cent. Adelaide wheat 595., aud flour 40s. Arrived— from Lyttelton, the Opawa and Glenlora; from Bluff harbor, the Waimea and Jessie Readman, London, May 17. The Secretary of Stato for Foreign Affairs, in referring to Lord Hartington's motion, said that the control of the forces was seemed to Parliament by its right to refuse supplies. St. Petehsbdrgii, May 17. The Russian press has assumed a more moderate tone.