EUROPEAN TOPICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 9428, 1 June 1891, Page 5

EUROPEAN TOPICS.

THE JEWS. THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. [Special to Pbbss Association.] [Received May 30, at 10.35 a.m.] LONDON, Mat 29.

In the course of a speech to-day, Mr Gladstone, in referring to the expulsion of the Jews from Bussia, said nothing was to be gained by denouncing the revolting treatment to which they are subjected, and it would be better to appeal to the European public, after preparing a digest of the exceptional laws of Bussia.

In the House of Commons to-day, Mr Smith, in reply to a question, said the Government would consider the necessity of placing some restriction on the influx of destitute foreigners into Great Britain.

PARIS. Mat 29,

The French Minister for War has sent a grateful message of thanks to Lord Charles Beresford, Commander of H.M.S. Undaunted, for the assistance rendered by him to the French warship Seigneloy, when she stranded on a sandbank off Jaffa, on the Levant coast.

VIENNA, Mat 29.

The Emperor of Austria entertains the delegates to the Postal Conference at a banquet on Saturday.

BOMB, Mat 29. The Marquis Budini, the Italian Premier, has informed both the German and Austrian Governments that it is the intention of Italy to renew the Triple Alliance.

[Received May 31, at 5.50 p.tn.]

BT PETERSBURG, Mat 80. Thirty thousand Jews have been ordered to leave Warsaw.