GENERAL EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 399, 14 October 1874, Page 3

GENERAL EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

The English Pilgrims arrived at Pontigny on the 2nd September. The party numbers 313, and includes Archbishop Manning, Earl of Gainsborough, and other members of the nobility. A great German Sangerfest was held at Waterloo on the 2nd September. The Anniversary of Sedan was observed throughout Germany as a holiday, The Prince of Wales was present at a banquet in the evening. Russia has sent special agents to Republican and Carlist head-quarters to report on, the military positions of contending parties, There is a rumour that Spain purposes selling Porto Rico, West Indies, to Germany. This has since been contradicted, but not officially. Bazaine proceeds to England shortly. There are apprehensions of a second year of famine and of the' partial failure of the crops in some districts in India, but n^reater than in ordinary years. ' '."■ The steamship Alexandra-sank in, the Mersey, through collision with the Spanish steamer Torres. She has been -raised,' and taken into dry dock. She had only ballast on board. The Torres has also been docked. The ship Euxine, on a voyage from Shields to Aden, took fire and was destroyed. Twenty-one of the crew escaped. Two of the boats arrived'at St. Helena after a voyage of 1100 miles, during which neither, boat saw the other. The third boat, containing remainder of the crew, not heard from. 50© labourers, of the English Agriculturists' Union, have sailed for Canada. ' I

A letter from Bazaine reviews the late war between Germany and Franco. - Bazaine complains that he was a victim of the army, and that the nation had but two supporters, the Emperor and Thiera, and says he would not have attempted to escape had Maclfahon seen fit to lessen the severity of his captivity, and considers now that during his trial he should have employed the same weapons as MacMahon, and shown how the latter was defeated and evacuated Alsace, and was one of the first authors of army disaster. MacMahon was as unfortunate at Sedan as he had been at Metz, as Trochu and Ducrot were in Paris, and as Bourbaki and Cliuchart were in the East, but forgot all this when he became President. . Details of the Austrian Polar expedition show that, after abandoning the ship, the party travelled seven months in sledges, and spent two winters on the ice. Only one died. The Belfast strike has'ended ; 10,000 workmen have gone back to their employment, at reduced wages. There has been a fearful railway collision near Norwich. 20 people were killed, and 50 injured. Arch's agricultural strike haß ended in failure and disaster, the farmers getting labor for the harvest, and leaving the strikers unemployed. The Union announces its inability to support them, and many are emigrating. Ex-Governor Gore Browo has become a director of the New Zealand Trust and Loan Company. Outrages are reported at Dundrum, Ireland, against farmers who use agricultural machinery. An encounter has taken place in Brazil between troops and religious fanatics. The troops lost, forty men, and were defeated, abandoning their artillery.