EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 99, 23 August 1879, Page 2

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

London August 2. Tn tie; Hoi se of Commons to-day the Chancellor of the Exchequer ridiculed the Paris Moniteur's statement that England has, for a year, been helping the Sultan of Morocco to prepare for a conflict with Spain. Gilbert Raymond who absconded from America and was arrested here, has been released. The American parties refused to proceed with tin; prosecution. Raymond is dying of consumption. Warwickshire miners declare that the award the umpire iu the dispute between themselves and the musters means st, r (.Con. The proceedings of the court-martial in the case of Lieut. Gary have been quashed informally. it is believed that Speaker Brand of the House of Commons will resign at the end off the present session, and probably be succeeded by Ridley, Cnder Secretary of State for the Homo Department. A dispatch from Simila says there has been no cholera among Hussars for seven week--, nor recently among the Seventeenth .Foot, though both regiments suffered from cholera in Peshawar Valley. Berlin - , August 2. In view of the success of the Socialists in Breslan, the Government is considering tie practicability of making the Anti-Socialistic law more vigorus. Leaders of tiie Liberals are discussing a programme to unite various suctions. Telegrams received iu this city to-day from Stockholm announce that the steamer Vega, with tho Arctic explorer Nordenskjoid on board, has I n deed from ice and safely passed Bullring's Straits. It is said that Russia has already issued or is about to issue a note to the Powers, claiming the credit of fulfilling her engagement under tho Treaty of Berlin, and arguing that, pressure should be used to obtain the fulfillment of other parts of tho treat;. The new law relative to the administration of Alsace-Lorraine goes into force on the Ist of Oct. Wii.iiLi.MsiiAVKX, July .'lO. A cannon burst on board the German gunboat Renown, to-day, killing live and wounding twenty-five persons.