EUROPEAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 274, 23 October 1883, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

(PEB TTNO3SD , PBESS A^aOOTAMOK.) ' I (iPer at v th? Bluff.) ' r ' I ■■■"'■ ' Londohy October 10. ; Mr Dicey .publishes another letter m i theatres in '/reply „to that of Mr Mur- ' jriySiDQitlr m relation to ; the refusal of Ithe lyictbrian ! Governib r ent s allow the ! disembarkation' of the Irish informers. | Mr Dicey replies at length to the argu- ! ments'fobught forward 'by Mr.Shriitb: in supporting the Government^ and asserts that * he*retainß the views previouslyexpressed by him on the subject. He repeats that the Victorian Government have placed themselves m a serious position by their action, and adds that to protest them from the 'consequences it will be necessary; for the Imperial . Government to pass an* Act of Indemnity. The Times; discusses the subject; m a leading ar-ticle,tand joins with ivtr Dice^ m condemning the Victorian Government for their rejection' of the in-: former?, and asserts.! that the high- . handed actions ofc Mr; Service. -will aerU oasly affect' the. Imperial Giavernmeufc m carcying>out the Irish polioyj, as it; will inbreaSe, the?. difficult of punishing crimed in 'Ireland*. k"m ''■>■. ,\ •■.,■, -The' Times 'this ; morning a discusses the of the Victorian Coalition MiriiatryV -and expresses i< its warmest approbation 'of> their determination- to abolish' political patronage m -the: Government service. ■-' ■" - ' '■■ A rumor is current that tha German Government have formally demanded an official - apoib'ky^ from ; i France to ( Spaitf'tortlie irisnltsjoffered King Al-j fonso while m Paris.' ' cpj The Ohineße' ; Government- refuse to recognise 4 any treaties or Conventions which may' »be :( entt ! red 7 'into between France and! the^Black Elaga, of Toni. gum. ••■• •'- ■:..- ; Usibepu, the' Zulu'chief who receuiljr defeated t'etewit^ insists that Bng-j---land shouTd remoVe the latter chief • considerable distance ffpm the scene of the late cotifli^V ' lj/l i Latent advices) from Madagascar Tama/ave are .c6mplaining~bHterely r of the severity practised by'^the French authorities of [that place. i '■' ' '' Th¥sale of 'Gippsland hops.^fromithej Sambo estate has been effected atu-64 perwr/ ; ' : i^^H^ w.-. .TMi-.i,'.-' y- ■ ' i-:Ji. )"hV: ?•>;! ; ; PA.EIS/ o Oc^erJl. ! , The French (^vernment have formally jintimate'd that th^iy decline to ; mate further reparation for the insult , offered to Kuig Alphonso whenrecentjy ''in'jPans I ."^'^^ :ili: ■ h ; ! ~"' : ' ' " X '" : ' : '' ; ! i i A body of Austrian regular troops have liad a severe ehgagement -wrbh some Bfounianiah fdrdeis^ Ultitn-" ately, sixty ■ Eoumanians, who we're defending c territory, ti-faqce captured. lii; '' :- ' : \ ■ The Temps, .a Parisian journal, refemngto Jthe' kllegedlrisulting bbnauct of Commodore JBrskirie*commander; of of the fleet, aitl'the Australian nayai* statiorif' towards 'Captain McLeb'd;'charaoterised~his conduct as more arf ! rogant than : th«t of Captain x Pierre 'to- : wards Captain. Johnston at TamataW The Imperial Bluebook issued yesjter- ' day confirms that statement madej by Lord Granville m the^House of Lprds sometime ago to the effect that both' i'Bnglandiand Fran.ce "^puid iipjioid; the' neutrality of/v^ewiuHebrides, and that neitheri power, would.seek to annex the territory. , .1 i .r^ . - ir,; Madeib, Oq^ober 11. n The intelligence that, France has jre— fused any further reparation to ! this-: countrji.thanhas already been offered by- the official ;Cpnsrm.aticntt m . Grevy's apology 'has caused a crisis, jnj the Spanish Ministry. The members of theoabin^t have,been unable to agree laSitowhfttifuiLther.. action, shquld be taken.in ithevnAa|i^r ?; "and th^Premier :has consequently Rendered, h^s.rejiigna* , tion andtflftt ot. W* ooHeagvee, '

London, October It . Ldr^ BefbjrhaS officially defected the attention of the authorities m Queensland and Fiji to the statements "supplied m the Age by Morrison on the of native labor llafficU ■-i - 4 An increase is about to be made m number of ships on the Australian 'Wairal Station, and Commodore Erfikin^ wlio 1 is now m command of the station, -will be superseded hy an Admiral. • The revolution which occurred re..opntiyiampng the black population of Port au Prince, capital Hayfci, one of • tbe largest islands-of East lnaies,».has. assumed alarming proportions. The revolutionists have seized on the ports. -They --then, proceeded JtoJke r Qn r a,..Bri- , tish. steamer which was conveying the British Consul and a number of Euro - pean refugees from the island.