EUROPEAN.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3828, 5 April 1881, Page 2

EUROPEAN.

The Royal Spanish Academy has decided to open a poetical competition in London, to celebrate the forthcoming second centennial anniversary of the poet Calderon De La Barca. Contributions are to be in the English language. The Archbishop of Dublin and James Russell Lowell are appointed jurors. The successful competitor is to receive a gold medal of the Academy and a diploma. Le Printemps, a great drapery establishment on the Boulevard rtaussmann, is burned. Several lives were lost. The total losses of the Insurance Companies amounted to 7,000,000 francs. Seventysix persons were injured by the fire.

Whole villages in Posen, Prussia proper, and Schleswig are represented as deserted, the residents emigrating to America. The Government are doing all in their power to check emigration agents from the United States, but in vain.

The Boers, by order of Joubert, have dispossessed all the inhabitants of Utrecht loyal to the British, and ordered their homesteads to be burned.

Portugal has adopted Marquez's treaty with England, which gives the latter country a right of way for military and commercial purposes, but makes no concession of territory.