EUROPEAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1888, 25 August 1874, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

Scotland won the Elcho Shield at the iiVimbleton Meeting ; England, second ; [reland, third. The English Insurance Company lost i [case before the Court of Exchequer n which a question whether a policybolder had a right to travel without the Company's permission was concerned. Dr Beasley insured his life for LIOOO sterling, and went to New Zealand, where he died. His heirs were refused the money on the grounds that the Company had not allowed him to go to New Zealand, but the Court compelled them to pay. Mr Gladstone's wife has inherited property to the value of L 15,000 per annum by the death of her brother. London papers say the Liberal party will lose a leader in consequence of Mr Gladstone proposing to take his ease in Italy. ' - If a statement contained in a recent letter from Berlin is to be credited, Prince Bismarck is preparing to take another important step in his war upon the church. It is said that the Government will present a Bill during the present session to regulate religious processions and prevent them from using public highways. Nothing has yet been heard of the Austrian expedition which started for the polar seas in the Legthoff two years ago. The Cronstadt " Messenger " requests all travellers and seamen who may have learned any news about the expedition to communicate • with, the Foreign Office at Vienna, or to the Admiralty at St. Petersburg. Thirty viclims of the disaster of the yacht Foam were found on the 31st on the American shore, nearly opposite Niagara. In the House of Lords on 24th July, a member asked whether the Government had made any remonstrances to France against the connivance of the authorities in the violation of the Spauish frontier by Spanish Carlists. He urged that by ordinary courtesy due from one civilised nation to another, there should be no unnecessary delay in the formal recognition of the Spanish Government by Great Britain. Earl Derby, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replied that the recognition of the Spanish Goverement at present would be premature. He said it would be better that such recognition should be a collective act of European Powers. London telegrams dated July 24, mention an alarming outbreak of small-pox at Newmarket; upwards of sixty cases already reported. The authorities asked the Jockey Club to permit them to convert the .Graud Stand into a hospital, where afflicted persons may be quartered. John Mitchell arrived at Cork on July 27. He is ill, but will come to Dublin. The Fenian Amnesty Association are making arrangements for a procession, torchlight demonstration, and banquet to be given in his honor. The Berlin journal say war between Russia and China is inevitable, in consequence of the designs of the latter upon Karshgar. ; The Committee of the Agricultural Laborers' Union, in London, have adopted resolutions declaring that— "As we are not justified in appealing to the public for support for locked-out laborers in the Eastern countries during the har--vest, therefore we offer them the alternative of emigration, or depending on their own resources, Committee is negotiating for easier terms for emigration to Canada." Goskell Brothers, cotton merchants, Liverpool, have failed j liabilities, 480,000d01. A special dispatch to the "Daily News " reports destruction of property by floods in Moravia ; two hundred persons died, and houses were swept away.