EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 62, 7 December 1878, Page 2

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

(From tin- latest Colonial Papers.) LONDON, October •_'•'). Tli" Russian Press unanimously advocate' indirect aid to the Amir of Afghanistan. Tho directors of the Glasgow Bank have made an immoiliale call of £oooper shari'. A terrible gale has occurred at Philadelphia. Numerous editices, including tWunty-ltvo churches and hunilreils of dwellings, an- damaged. There is much loss to shipping. A great number of people were hilled and injured. October 20. Monc.xsi, a ('iiniiiiuiii.sl workman, attempted to shoot Don Alpboliso at Madrid, but failed, and was arrested. It is rumoured that Mr. Cairns, esGoverno. of Queensland, has been appointed Governor of New Zealand. October 21). Messrs. Casey, Ooonihcs, Booth, and Hodgson, Colonial Commissioners for the Paris Exhibition, were gazetted to-night Knights < bnmandtrt ol the Older of St, ilitiiii'.'! and S;. v/eur^e.

(1et.,1. I 30, In consequence ol the amount of the Daira debt of Egypt, negotiations have U-en opened between England, France. and Austria, to Ogres to the proposal for an European Conference. The Standard states thai England requites from all parties concerned a strict and literal execution of the Berlin pro gramme. The relations between England ami Russia arc disquieting, owing to the situation in Koimiclia, ami the t lie of the Itiissiau Press. An extraordinary Cabinet meeting was held to-day, October 31. England has sent to Amir of Afghanistan an ultimatum. November 1. Mr. Gladstone, speaking at n public meeting on the question of Afghanistan and the Eastern policy of the Government, said the course adopted caused commercial stagnation, and, taking higher ground, he considered it a violation of the Constitution. It is officially stated that the reply of the Amir of Afghanistan indicates avowed hostility, and it has been decided that this will be' Amir's last chance, AuAfreedeo tribe have tendered their services to the British. There is no cause for anxiety. The Amir's troops are Aliniuesede. The Northern Khelat tribes have rendered great assistance in furnishing supplies to the Quetta column. November 2. It is understood that the Cabinet regarded war with Russia as inevitable. Austria has promised active, ami France moral .support, (icrm.iny will remain neutral on condition that France is quiescent, with the view of averting war.

A di'Vivnc \ists between Knglaml ami Newfoundland and the fisheries Despatch Courts regarding certain occurrences when a settlement of the Halifax Award was effected. November 2. There is no truth in the statement that ICnglaud asks the Powers to insiM in enfoiving the Treaty of Berlin. New Orleans is now free from vedlow fe\ er. November 7. Bughiud and Austria have notified Russia that they have agreed on a treaty to compel her to evacuate Turkey, in accordance with tile Berlin Treaty. Russia is fortifying S,-nulla. Sillstria, and Widdiu, instead of removing the troops. November 8. At the Guildhall banquet, l&irl Beaconsfield said the evasiou of the terms of the Berlin Treaty was unfeasible, for it might embarrass the precautious taken ill our poliev to prevent the fatal supremacy of any individual Power. He disbelieved there was any intention on the part of Russia to evade the Berlin Treaty, but England was determined to enforce its letter and spirit. He refused to believe in the decadence theory, and believed that. Bngland was capable of creating, and not losing, an (Umpire. Karl Beneonsfield, speaking at the Lord Mayor's Banquet, regarded the invasion of India as impossible. As to the Berlin Treaty, ho said the Ministry believed that all the signatory Powers intended to enforce the treaty when the time had elapsed for its being fulfilled. At anv rate, England was resolved to maintain the treaty by all the foreo at its command.

November 10. London paper* approve warmly of Karl lieaeoiisliehl's sp hj.