EUROPEAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 89, 20 September 1873, Page 3

EUROPEAN NEWS.

(from THE ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS COMPANY.) London. French, the jockey, is dead. Admiral Yelverton has captured insurgent vessels at Carthagenaand taken them to Gibraltar. The insurgents threatened to fire upon the British fleet. The English residents left the city, and insurgents threatened to confiscate their property. They are greatly exasperated, and a conflict is expected. The King of Italy visits Berlin and Vienna. Cholera has appeared at Havre. Mitigatory measures are being adopted in France in the matter of the deficiency of the harvest. A large fire has taken place in Belfast, Maine. A million dollars’ worth of property has been destroyed, and 130 families rendered houseless. 139 medals and numerous diplomas were awarded to the Australian exhibitors at Vienna. Two steamers are loading arms and ammunition for the East Coast (Africa) The Atlantic cable of 1865 has been picked up in good condition. There are fresh difficulties between the French princes. For the defence in the Tiehborne trial, some witnesses declare, from personal knowledge of Orton and Castro, that the- claimant is Castro. Eighty vessels went ashore in a gale at Cape Breton. * A large number of officers are volunteering for the Ashantee service. A native force of 12,000 to 15,000 is being organized. The Journal d' Debats declares the Republic has become impossible, a liberal monarchy being alone possible; and insists on the necessity for the Com pte de Chamboard granting a chart er. The bank-forgers have been sentenced to penal servitude for life. Three passengers were killed and forty wounded by the railway collision at Retford.