ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1355, 17 November 1877, Page 15

ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN NEWS.

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' , (Per B.B.ArawaUt, at the Bluff.) Leverrier, astronomer of the National Observatory at' Paris, is dead, Four large London firms have been invited to tender , for the supply of corrugated iron for huts to contain 100,000 EusaLun soldiers. The tats,an» t» be of four sizes, for 25, 50, 100, and sXXhmeii They are to be delivered at Antwerp, andjSent direct to Bucharest across tha continent by rail, and are for erection in the neighbourhood .qi Bucharest. Orders have also been issued, for e ?gkfc railway scations for a strategical railway.. These are to. be completed in every way,' • and ' provided ' with' heating apparatus. Deliyery"of the iron at Antwerp is to commence in ten days, and the whole is to be completed a fortnight; afterwards. The .interest excited in the Staunton and Alice Rhodes trial for the Penge murder was intense.' : 'The approaches to the Old Bailey, besides the 1 Court itself; were so closely packed as to render the 'atmosphere absolutely poisonous.,; The bench itself was packed vrithgor-' geously-dressed.ladies. The railway bridge spanning ths estuary of lhe^Tay,-,twD miles wide, and the longest rail-way-bridge in the world, was opened on the th. September. - V Tnreference.to the loss of the Avalanche, the T,oroner said the. duty of the. Jury in givingtheir, verdict would be extremely simple. It was clear ' that' the two vessels were brought into collision by the way 1 they were steered. The jury might form their own opinion as to who committed .the error in. judgment, but they cnuld^notjmake it ; a criminal case; also that' 'there was jio, liability attaching .to the Coastguards £ whether ' the • explanation which f the-' chief "officer had given was satisfactory or notlnfust be' a matter for consideratioß. ;i : Anyone .would hayettnought they would havo. availed, themselves .of . .the opportunity afforded them to^gi^e some .reason whyjihey were.abse'rft for mqre than, an hour on the morning" in!- question,- and 1 did not see the boats, wbichfi were discovered by private individuals. Captain Xpekhart had been, pat to the* closest ordeal asjto whether, he was right or the captain of tne^Avabnc£e,wrpng;and he was ghvi to say there' yas,ri6tpi&g in' the Evidence to show there had )f been l persoriaV 1 misconduct ■ or negligence. The'Jury^aftetifittding tbat'.the deceased were found drowned on Cbesil Beach, &c, added a rider stating they were much pained to see. the way in) which; the deceased had been' interred; an<| -added. tha£. had the least intimation been givearthey. .wpujdjjiemselves have followed. thereSDaSnstothegr^ve. m, „ 1 . It is stated that at Adriandpla 'every day, except on Fridftys and Saturdays; •Bulgarians are hanged byathe dozen,- even' in the public streets', on lie very BhopTjdworfcib ln ; the .neighbouring' Tillages^uie^ame, thing takes placet The people thus executed r *are mostly peasants, with come priests and schoolmasters. The correspondent Touches for the fact The-tortureis frequently applied to procure .confession, , -■ .. A meeting'of -thfc' clergy and laity of ' Bristol and^ Clifton has been-held, Bishop Anderson presiding, in opposition to the practice of auricular confession. A memorial to the Queen was adopted, and is to be circulated for sign*, ture'-lihrougnont th'i city? 'The menlpnal prays Her Majesty to be graciously-pleased' to take' such means as may ,be effectual to put down the practice or "auricular confession . within" the sphere of the Church of England. ThelUw; Fred,* Wfllett, Vicar of All Saurfg, Wertißnmswick, appeared at the Birmingham Police Court to 1 answer an' 1 affiliation summon« : tiken' 'out against, him .by, Maria White,-. 18 years old.^/ Defendant was said to be a member of fhe Socletyr of-.the JEioij' Cross, " and it was" 1 allege^hfthad corrupted and seduced the complainant through'the confessional"' A commission or^mcfhiry. presided over by the Bishop of Lichfield, has bben heldj and has declared the allegation^ oicomplainant to be unfounded. The present proceedings are understood to be, to some extent, prompted by the parishioners of the defendant. The case was partly heard at tbe Police Court, and adjourned. • ' '* A telegram from Constantinople, dated Sep-. tember 21st, says there has been much talk for some days of the probability of a mediation between, Russia and Tnrkey, although the rumour was without foundation. The Porte has been disturbed by* it, because it. dreads a demand being inadefor an armistice which it is firmly resolve to reject, but which might cause diplomaUc diffirajlies. It is for this reason that the Ottoman Ministers take every opportunity r f indirectly, giving- the. Ambassadors to tmderstand how little chance of success a demand of this sort wpuld have. ,