EUROPEAN.

Clutha Leader, Volume XVII, Issue 834, 11 July 1890, Page 6

EUROPEAN.

The Czar has published an order in the Gazette sbating that' the rumours that Grant! Duke Alexus was being deposed from his position as High Admiral ix\ favor of Grand Duke Vladimir are without warrant Senhor Saghasta, Premier of Spain, has resigned, and Senhor Oanovas has been summoned. It is reported that Turkish and Montegrin troops have come. into collision near Lake Scutari, owing to Turkish incui\sions. M. Stambouloff, Regent and Premier, threatens to stop tribute to the Porte unless the latter accedes to the terms of the Bulgarian Note demanding the recognition of Prince Ferdinand- to the throne. Italy gives up Somaliland, and England in return cedes Leila/ Four women at Buda-Pesth, Hungary, have been sentenced to deathone to imprisonment for life, and three to 15 years — for poisoning their husbands. , . . .---,-- At the trial of the Nihilists in Paris: three were sentenced to five years-im-prisonment, and the women were acquitted. The prisoners alleged that the Russian police agents instigated the manufacture of bombs. Belgium proposes to grant 20,000,000 francs (LS00,000) for the purchase of the Congo Free State.

Senor SagaSta, the late Premier of Spain, has 'a large majority- in 'the chambers and in 'the country, but resigned because 'he/did not possess the confidence of the Grown. ' It is difficult to form a Tory^government, ;ancl the crisis , is still , unsettled., . - ( ' SenprCanbvas, has succeeded ; ; SenoriSagastaj with the> • Duke of Lintaii! as Foreign ' Minister. ' Colonel Mantmovis, a cousin 1 of theGrand .Duke- Nicholas, ;antt ; commander ■ of the Bocly '^ukrd^has' been" killed atthe Cettinie' market place! ''The' deed' .is attributed- to private • vengeance and the people lynched .theinurderer. „ .; ; 'Owingutoaiienacing. attitude of the friends of the late Major : Paiiitza, M. [ Sfcambobioffhaa T left Sdfiai ;: ; ; ,;; ' . Senor Canoy-as 1 has succeeded iii" form- '. ing a ■ Government .- in" Spain... .. The iliberal.policy of his predecessors will be -continued. •■ , -'-.-• ■•<; :<•.., . Cholera is spreading at Valencia. ; Heavy rains- and cold nights are damaging all the "European crops, and causing gra;ve anxiety.