EUROPEAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 54, 21 May 1873, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

(JTAVA CABLE.) London, April 30. Mr., Hamilton, member for Dublin, moved a resolution having for its object the purchase by the State of the Irish railways, Mr. Gladstone opposed the motion, which was rejected. Sharp frosts have taken place in England, Italy, and France. The vines of Bordeaux and .Wtffitady have been much damaged. William Charles Macready, the actor, is dead. • . ' London, May 1. The House of Commons rejected, by a majority of 252 against ISSrthe Bill for giving suffrage to women. The Two Thousand Guinea Stakes were won by Crawford’s Gangforward; Saville’s Kaiser second; Gretton’s Sulliman third. The race was run on the 30th of April. Vienna, May 1. The grand Liternational Exhibition was °P ene^ I to ' d *y > splendor. Hie whole spectadjLwaa most imposing. The Prince of Arthur were; present, with a mniMr of German Princes, Archdukes, and State dignataries. , The Tichbome claimant, has arhanafari Ha means, and appealed to the Sfreasury for assist anee. Helmuth Schwaitse reports that five thou««>d bales at wool yen sold. There is brisk annpetition on the part of the French buyera for greasy sorts, on which an advance is-main-tamed; half-bred wools realised three half-pence under March aalre; superior fleece isapemrecheaper; good to medium, slightly lower. Borne. May 4 France hro completed the Jf the fourth Londcsi. May 5. The Engliah Government has proposed that a mixed Commiasitm should ait at Washington to determine the Canadian frontier.