STAR TELEGRAMS

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1714, 1 July 1874, Page 2

STAR TELEGRAMS

PER ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH ; , AGENCY.

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(Pee Tababua.) London, June 20. Owing to tha elections for North Durham haying-been declared void on petition, a fresh election was held resulting in the return of Mr. CM. Palmer, Liberal, and Mr,Elliott, Conservative, in the room?of M. Lothian Bell and Mr. C. M. Latimer, Liberals.

The deaths are announced of the Rev. J. C. M. Bellew and of M. Jules Gabriel Janin, the French critic and author.

The Sublime, Porte has refused to ratify the contract for a Turkish loan/of nineteen millions on terms announced.

The failures are reported of Mr. Snelgrove. merchant, of Mark Lane, for £300,000, and of a Belfast linen manufacturing firm for nearly a million. The Turkish ship Ean gunk in the sea of Marmora; 320 persons were drowned.

Paeis, June 20. The Assembly rejected further important clauses of the Municipal Bill, but the Government proceeded with the 'measure and claimed the right to nominate Mayors. The Assembly eventually adopted an amendment by 358J;0 329, prolonging for two years the Government prerogative of nominating Mayors.

Kome, June 20. The Pope on receiving the congratulations of the Sacred College on the anniversary of his accession, said he refused a proposal from high personages for reconciliation wtth the King of Italy, because any concession he believed would be equally injurious to the Church and to society. Garibaldi is seriously ill at Caprera. Madeid, June 20. The Carlists are concentrated at the fortress, with entrenches at Mote Juro near Estella, Navarre, but the weather has hindered the operations of General Conoha, the Republican commandant. London. June 22. The Agricultural Union has resolved on a vigorous course of action to defeat the lock-out, and has invited Mr. Arch to take the labourers to Canada.

In the House of Lords the judgment in the Mordaunt cause authorises the continuance of divorce proceedings.