LATEST FROM EUROPE.

Ashburton Herald, Volume I, Issue 241, 8 January 1879, Page 2

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine Cable.]

[SPECIAL TO THE “ PRESS ASSOCIATION.”]

London, January 1. Government is understood to have arranged a scheme of University education with the Catholic Bishops of Ireland. Jannary 3. “The Provincial Correspondence,” the Government organ at Berlin, regards the political horizon as clearer now than it has been for a long time past. Confidence is gaining ground that there will be a strict execution of the Berlin Treaty. At a reception of Ambassadors by the Sultan, most friendly assurances were exchanged on behalf of the several Powers. Consols, 95. Wheat, flour, and Colonial securities are unchanged.

[SPECIAL TO THE WELLINGTON POST.]

Dec. 31.

The Pope appeals to the German Bishops to inculcate the duty of obedience to the laws of the land, and also directs the Bishops and clergy to pray for the welfare of the secular Powers, including the temporal sovereigns of Europe.

Another intended assassination of a European sovereign has been discovered, a plot to murder the Prince of Servia having been detected. The report of the liquidators of the City of Glasgow Bank is of a very unfavorable character.

Jan. 1,

General Hill has for the present stopped all traffic through the Khyber Pass.

Four of the Amefcr’s regiments have deserted his standard.

Three-fourths of General Biddulph’s division' have taken up a position on the plain of Candahar, aud there is a general advance of the British troops on that city.

Jan. 3,

One of the 38-ton guns on board H.M. turret ship • Thunderer hurst, destroying the turret, killing seven men and wounding 40 others.