EUROPEAN CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 243, 30 January 1875, Page 2

EUROPEAN CABLEGRAMS.

London, January 6. Upwards of half a million of the New South Wales loan has been taken up at aud above the minimum ; and the balance has been taken up by the Stock Exchange at 90. The Adelaide loan was a failure; only £28,000 were tendered for. January 8. The embroglio in New Orleans has induced separate legislation and the intervention of General Sheridan. The Conservatives have constituted a separate Legislature, aud Sheridan recommends that the white leaguers be declared banditti. January 11. The Australian mails, via San Francisco arrived here yesterday, and were delivered this morning, one day under contract time. January 14. President Grant sent a message to the Congress to-day in relation to the New Orleans embroglio. He vindicates his intervention in the affairs of the State of Louisiana on the ground of the lawlessness which prevailed, and asks for instructions from the Congress. January 15. The Carlists attacked and plundered a stranded German vessel, and Gennanj’ has denjanded satisfaction from the Spanish Government at Madrid. Paris, January 12. The attempts of Marshal MacMahon to obtain a new Ministry have failed, but the Cabinet have agreed to remain in office provisionally. The crisis still continues. Madrid, January 9. Prince Alphonso landed at Barcelona, and was received’ with great enthusiasm. There was an imposing religious procession in honour of the occasion.—Russia, Germany and Austria have agreed to recognise Prince Alphonso as King of Spain. The report that Germany had recognised Don Alphonso as King of Spain is found to have been premature. The recognition has been deferred until a decree by the Spanish Government suspending two Protdstant journals and closing a protestant chapel in Cadiz shall have been rescinded.

President Grant’s policy with regard to affairs in the State of Louisiana threatens a disruption of the Cabinet' Singapore, January 12. The intervention of General Sheridan in the New Orleans embroglio has caused great indignation ; and the American Senate has requested President Grant to furnish explanations. There has been a gigantic conspiracy in Russia, though officially denied. It was intended to assassinate the governors of fourteen provinces. Some of the best families in the country are implicated. Young ladies have been arrested aud sent to Siberia. The inhabitants of two whole villages have been also sent there.