ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1494, 24 November 1874, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[BY THE MAIL.]

!T3JfP> Germania newspipe* B t a t eß *h,f «. a>ope has peremptorily refused to fS r European powers m the recognition of«! • ' _M. Jule3 Favre was married recenfc Mdle. Welter an Alsatian Protesta?^ mistress at Versailles, at the Evan^r » \ Church in the Rue St. Hoche-IIK Oa? A that the Banque de Paris has notified tw unless the 30,000,000 francs due inJnlv f paid in coin, -tha bonds given as gnat ant by the Spamsh Government will be realised Thirty persons, in addition to those a l rea 'Z charged with complicity in the circomstanop attending tbe assassination of Marshal Prim have been indicted by the judge conduct^' the official investigation—An antoararff letter has been addressed to Prince lon JS'apoleon by the Czar, inviting him to tlr Russian autumn manceuTxe«, Du t the Prim* has excused himself from attending them o account of bis studies at Woolwich.—toy. missionaries to India and Egypt, under the auspices of the United Presbyterian Board of Missions, have sailed W New 'York.—The Lord Mayor of Dahlia recently visited the Normal College V number of public schools, and 'tha ' Jmnvgration depot at Castle Garden.— Eecuniary aid is asked for Garibaldi, who^g represented as in very poor circumstance often without the means to obtain the neces' sar'tes of life. —At the final sitting of the Conference of Spiritualists, held at the (W tal Palace, a novel feature formed pa-i of the proceedings—no less than.:an: address by a spirit. Tne address, which was dictated.^ Mrs Tappan (who was unable to be present) by her "spirit gaide," «rasa ver? solemn and slightly metaphysical essay on Spiritualism, shewing the gobil which it was dr s^'r.e ! to exorcise oyer he;i^. ers. It c ncluded «itb a rhapsodical per,^ tion calling to mmd the f at, that there jj a vine growing in the tropics which tlitntj best upon th^s ancient iuins which it gradtailj eats away, just as iv our less poetic clime't» have thar, rare old plant, the ivy gre^n, makesrthe stateliest building that | aen aa raise its somewl: at indigestible fooa at last, Yet the spirit said that ."-piritualism is to thei"| future humanity what this v ne isto ft» M ancient ruia. In the face of thesie facts it I was startling to hear one of the speakers J i-ejoiciog to think that Heaven was npea tqjl ih'e Spiritualists .■wi;hoafc any kU?venmg* barrier.