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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1732, 22 July 1874, Page 2

Summary.

An extensive inundation has* occurred fin Hungary: !many villages have been .swept away.i '•..•; ' Copies of the New York Herald containing Rochefort's letter were seized!in Paris, owing to its attack on McMahon. The Turkish steamer Ears, with 340 persons on board, was run into in the Sea of Marmora by'an Egyptian vessel and sunk, 320 lives beinjj lost. f The Emperor of Austria has summoned the International Congress to consider sanitary measures for the .prevention iof cholera, a / . t ; from Algeria state that the insurrection in F«z has been extinguished by the Sultan bombarding the town. Ninety inhabitants were killed. Despatches from India announce famine riots at Darijeling. The troops fired on the rioters—several were killed. A letter from a China missionary, published in Paris, states that there were 80,000 Christians in that country, but that 10,000 had been strangled, burned or drowned, and adds that he does not -expect to escape .martyrdom. The Pope, in answer to urgent solicitations from exalted political personages!for a reconciliation with the Italian Government, said he would yield nothing. ' The Spanish Government solicit a loan of fifty million reals. London; A special dispatch from Berlin says , the Governments of Germany, Servia and Eoumania confidentially inform other European powers that they have concluded* an agreement to mutually protect their interests against the designs of Turkey. Berlin assert that the differences between the Khedive of Egypt and the Sublime Porte are; serious.. They iatimate that grave complications in the East are probable. ThejTimea' Berlin correspondent says the Congress which assembles at Brussels next month to consider the subject of in- ; ternational rights in time of war will first codify the recognised usages of international law which affect actual conduct ; in ; war, and then, enact a new code in the form of an international treaty, which promises to become a first law common to the whole.. A draft of ■ the treaty has been made. It has seventy-six' clauses, stating the rights, obligations and mutual claims-'of belligerent ■ States and individuals, and specifying what arm 3 may be legitimately used in war, and making regulations for the treatment of prisoners. A banquet was given in honor of tjie agricultural exhibitors. The Crown Prince ■Frederick .William of Germany, in reply to the toast of "The Emperor William," expressed the wish that foreign^ exhibitors would on their return home, convey to their countrymen the assurance that nowhere was the wish for a peaceful continuance of the'labors civilization stronger than in the rehabitated German Empire.