EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 96, 2 August 1879, Page 2

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

(From the latest Colonial Papers.) London-. 1 ('implying with tlie order of the Sultan, the Khedive has abdicated in favor ' of his son, tlie hereditary Prince Tewflck. Tin' abilioation of tho Khedive of Egypt is continued. Thr (chancellor of tho Exchequer, in reply to a question said the misgovernmi.'iit, was the ohief cause of his deposition, iiihl tho non-compliance with tho financial engagements ban also ointributedtoit. The Chancellor of tho Exchequer has promised to produce the papors at mi curly date. Juno 27. Thu udniinistnitiiiii of Egypt will ho conducted by Ministers aprs intedby England and France. Tho Khedive it guaran-

teed 240,000 a-yeor, out of the revenue of Egypt. Syzran, a town in Russia, has been utterly destroyed by tire. Everything is quiet commercially. June 20. Advices from Cape Town am to Jnne I'ltey state that General Newdegate has advanced to the Selfe River, and taken up an entrenched position. Major-Genoral Crealook has crossed the I'mbalazi liver, ami established n base of operations with Fort Durnford. A fresh attempt by the Colonial troops to take Moirise's stronghold was unsuccessful. .rune .'SO. The Homeward English mail via Britldisi was delivered in London on the 2.Sth. Latest advices from the Cape report that Cctawayv is disheorted, and has retired to the bush fastnesses. The body of the Priuco Imperial his been enblamed, and scut to England. In the House of Lords to-day, the Right Hon. Lord Cairns, Lord" High Chancellor, intr.duced a bill as a Government measure to supersede the one brought in by the Irish members in the House of Commons, to establish a Catholic University i'i Ireland similar to the London University, with the power to grant degrees and to receive the eadowments 'of the Queen's University, which, in some cases should be virtually «»W" "1July 1. In tin' amse of Lords last night, in . , ,im .(ion. Ihe Ch: neellor of the would lie accorded a public funeral, and be buried in Westminister Abbey. News from the (.'ape reports that the British troops have raised a memorial to the Prince Imperial. Profound sorrow is fell at his death. Cairo, June ..<>. In compliance with a request from the Ureal Powers, tl x-Khedive lsina-1 Pasha, Prince Hussein, and l'rince Hassan, his secud and third sons. left Etrvpt to-day, and have gone to