EUROPEAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 68, 9 July 1873, Page 3

EUROPEAN NEWS.

<FBOM THE NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION AND ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAM COMPANY.) LONDON. June 2. Buckingham Palace has been fitted np with great splendour, and will be occupied by the Shah •■of Persia. The betrothal of the Duke of Edinburgh to the Russian Princess is regarded with public favour. Great dissatisfaction is expressed at the mild awarded to the captain of the Murillo (which ran <down the Northfleet), his •certificate being suspended for only 12 months. The crew were released.

The evidence against the Tichborne claimant is •overwhelming, but popular sympathy is with him. Dissatisfaction is felt iin mercantile circles about •the neM Bank Act, which empowers the Bank of England to make an extraordinary issue of notes under certain contingencies. The Irish packet foundered off Holyhead, and 15 persons were drowned. Adelaide wheat, 61s. The market is well supplied. The Russians captured Kojohanli after hard 'fighting, and subsequently captured the city of Maughit. The Russians are now within two ■days’ march of Khiva. It is believed that the ex-Empress Eugenie is plotting for the restoration of Imperialism and an •uneasy feeling exists in French society. A great deficit in the French revenue is expected dn consequence of the change in the fiscal policy.