GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 377, 29 July 1874, Page 4

GENERAL.

There have been extensive inundations in Hungary, and many villages swept away.

Copies of the ' New York Herald,' eontaininjj RochefortV letter, were seized in Paris, owing to its attack upon M'Mahon.

The Turkish steamer Kars, with 330 persons on board, was run into, in the sea of Marmora, by an Egyptian vessel, and sunk, 320 lives being lost.

The Bmp»ror of Austria has summoned an International Congress, to consider sanitary measures for the prevention of cholera. Despatches from Algeria state that the insurrection in Fez was extinguished by the Sultan bombarding the town. Ninety inhabitants were killed.

Despatches from India announce famine riots at Darjeeling. The treops fired on the rioters, and several were killed.

A letter from a China missionary, published in Paris, states there were 80,000 Christians in China, but that 10,000 have been strangled, burned, or drowned. He adds he does not expect to escape from martyrdom. -The Pope, in answer to urgent solicitations from exalted, political personages for reconciliation with the Italian Government, has said he will yield nothing.

The Spanish Government solicit a loan of fifty million reals. A London special despatch from Berlin says that tbe Government of Germany, in the interest of Servia and Koumania, has confidentially informed the other European Powers that they have concluded an agreement to mutually protect their interest against the designs of Turkey.

Despatches to the " Daily Telegraph,' from Berlin, assert that the differences between the Khedive of Egypt and the Sublime Porte are serious, and intimato that giave complications in the East are probable. The 'Times' Berlin correspondent says the Congress which assembles at Brussels next month, to consider the subject of international rights in time of war, will first codify tho recognised usages of international law, which affect the actual conduct in war, and then enact a new code in the form of an international treaty, which promises to become a first law common to tho whole. A draft of the treaty has been Made. It has seventy-six clauses, stating the rights and obligations and mutual claims of belligerent States, and individually specifying what arms may be legitimately used. They are making a regulation for the treatment of prisoners.

A banquet was given in honor of the agricultural exhibitors. The Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany, in replj to the toast of tha Emperor William, expressed the hope that foreign exhibitors would, on their return home, convey the <is*uranc« to their countrymen that nowhere was the wish for peaceful continuance of labor and civilisation stronger than in the re-iinited German Empire. _________^__^__