LATER EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 247, 24 October 1872, Page 6

LATER EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN NEWS.

Auckland, October 18. The following special message to the New Zealand Press Association contains one. day's later European and American news via San Francisco, being up to the day the steamer left that port.

Londox, September 11. Pere Hyacinthe has written a letter defending his recent marriage. He declares it to be the farthest thing possible from his intention to renounce nis tugn calling, and ne endeavors by many arguments to snow the justness of his claim that marriage and the priesthood are by no means antagonistic. New York, September 11. Yesterday morning two freight trains came into collision with each other on the New York Central Eailway, demolishing both engines and six loaded ears, and burning the other cars. The loss is estimated at 25,000 dols., and none of it is covered by insurance.

At Parsac, a village in New Jersey, Messrs Watson and Son's bleaching cotton and flannel manufactory has been burned. The loss amounts to 125,000 dols;

The Emigration Commissioners have made a report with reference to the emigrant ship Charles Marshall, showing the perpetration of fearful cruelties to the passengers on her recent trip to New York, at the hands of the insubordinate crew, the captain having died on the voyage. Gold opened to-day at 113. At Liverpool, wheat is. quoted at 12s lOd to 13s per cental.

We take the following items from the Oamaru Times' telegrams :—: — It is rumored that the Board of Arbitration have awarded the United States L3,000,00Q damages. The London News says Bismarck doubtless counted the cost when he resolved on the expulsion of Jesuits from Germany, though he knew he was dealing with an order which has evidently perplexed or baffled the arts of the ablest statesmen of Europe. At Berlin a disorderly political population on the 9th created many disturbances. One party who vrere opposed to advance the prioo of beer, attacked a brewery which was completely wrecked. The police vrere compelled to charge the crowd with swords. Many were wounded, and a large number arrested. The Times expects, when the Conference at Berlin is over, that a circular note will be issued explaining its pacific nature. Lnsh and Co., Bankers. London, have failed ; liabilities, L 200.000. The strike mania prevails all over England. The chairmakers, of Wycourt ; cobmen, of " Lowestoff ; silkweavers, of Sadbury ; stonemasons of Preston; bakers, of Dublin; engineers, of Birkenhead ; China aud earthenware manufacturers, of Staffordshire, are all on strike.

The Post Office employes have petitioned for an advance of wages. The journeymen butchers of London have formed a union for the purpose of getting 'higher wages. Six hundred Mormons left London Sept. ."» for Utah.

The inhabitants of. Sedan are drooping their houses and avenues, anticipating an anniversary capture by the Germans. Tho troops now occupying the place threaten forcibly to remove such emblems.

Professor Agassiz' is in California. Tli>recent exploration of the deep-sea sounding in the Atlantic and Pacific has been successful. The Professor gathered inumerable specimens.

The award to America is now stated at three and a quarter millions. English papers express dissatisfaction at the r^alt of their labors,_and say that the plain English. of it is the British' Government allowed the Ameri.oanstp bully us out of three millions to curry foYor with them.

I The delegates to the Congress of tho International, Society number 69,', including three women. A lively discussion was held on the sth, on the question of the abolition of the Gorman Council. Tho report presented to I Congress says that' Bi9marck is the spy-in-chief of the German Empire. It declares that th 3 Government of ' Berlin' projects " another war, while the Congress has for it 3 object the preservation of peace. It also declared that never since 1848 have the masse s of the people been so united as now under the flame of Commune.

No Egyptian force entered Abyssinia a3 reported.

CinuSteKUKCH, October 19. Mr Pownallj-^* ..Wellington, to-day exhibited his new flax-dre^ing machine befuie