EUROPEAN TOPICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIX, Issue 9926, 4 January 1893, Page 5

EUROPEAN TOPICS.

[Special to Press Association.] MADRID, Jan." 2. The Anarchists in Spain are displaying a violent attitude, and threaten to baptise the new year in blood. The Spanish Government has demanded from Brazil an indemnity for a subject who was killed in the Rio Grande rebellion. Princess Isabella will represent Spain at the Chicago exhibition. PARIS, Jan. 2. President Carnot, speaking at the reception of the Diplomatists of the Republic, reviewed the situation with calmness, and said what was being done was, he believed, for honour, right and truth. The explosion at the Prefecture of Police is attributed to Anarchists. The infernal machine was worked by a clock, which was concealed in a coal box. Jan. 3. M. Loubet, the late Premier, declares that the action of the Chamber of Deputies in connection with the Panama Canal scandals is an excessive outburst of prudery. Cholera has made its appearance at Dunkirk. ST PETERSBURG, Jan. 2. Twenty persons, connected with the cholera riots in Astrakhan, have been sentenced to death, Jan. 3. M. de Giers has resumed the portfolio of Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Russian Ministry. BERLIN, Jan. 2. A great sensation was caused in Germany on the publication of a statement alleging that a million and three-quarter marks of the Guelph fund had been distributed amongst ministers, newspapers and leading officials. The statement, however, lacks confirmation. Bebel, a Socialist leader, declares that he possesses proof of Guelph bribery.and that one hundred thousand marks were distributed during the time that Prince Bismarck was in office. Many documents, he alleges, were burnt, but some were left. Many intimate friends of Prince Ludwig of Bavaria are said to be implicated. Jan. 3.

Tie Emperor William hints that there "will be a dissolution of the Reichstag if the Army Bill ia rejected. Considerable excitement has been caußed in the city by the action of four soldiers in firing on an escaped deserter in a crowded thoroughfare. Fortunately none of the shots took effect on anyone. BUD A. PE3TII, Jan. 2. De Wockerlo, (he new President of the Hungarian Ministry, states that his (xovernment is determined to streugtuen the bonds between Hungary and Austria. He intends to uphold the Triple Alliance, and extend commercial treaties. War, lie considers, very remote. EOME, Jan. 2. King Humbert declares that he can foresee the surest auspices of peace in lOurope. The Pope, in an Encyclical on the opening of the Chicago Exhibition, appeals to the concord and energy of all Catholics. LISBON, Jan. 3. At tho opening of the Cortes, the King announced that special measures would he taken to increase the export of wines.