LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS, VIA. SUIZ.

Lake County Press, Issue 70, 4 October 1872, Page 2

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS, VIA. SUIZ.

The Melbourne steamer has arrived with the Suez mails, the dates being, from London, August 19th ; from Galle, September the Ist ; besides telegrams from Loudon to August 29th. The following are the principal items : Indignation meetings had been held throughout England, especially in the North about the high prices of meat. Thousands pledged themselves to abstain from using meat till the prices were reduced. Australian meat was selling freely, and an immense demand was expected. A Company for the import and distribution of Australian meat has been projected. The Tichborne demonstrations continue. In Belfast, the houses have been sacked, and the constabulary fired on, by the rioters. Ihe troops were called out, and some lives lost. The Geneva Arbitration award decides that England must pay between three and four millions. M. Theirs will propose the establishment of a second Chamber. Tranquility has been restored at Drogheda, but it is rumoured that a

massacre of Protestants is intended at Belfast on the anniversary of St. Bartholomew’s Day. Extraordinary precautions are being taken. Professor Anderson, when on a visit to the North, recognised the Ticbborne claimant as De castro. The Germans are to evacuate France in September. Gladstone and Co., London, have failed for one million and a-half. Martial law has been proclaimed m Belfast. The riot lasted four days. There has been much bloodshed. Latest telegrams from America stale that there are greater probabilities of Greeley’s election. A National Bank of New Zealand) with a capital of two millions, has been announced.. It will, absorb the . Ban* of Otago.