European News.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1760, 24 August 1874, Page 2

European News.

Scotland won the Elcho, shield' at Wimbledon; England second; Ireland third. The English Insurance Company, hare lost the,.case, before the Court of Exchequer 'in which the question whether a policy-holder had a right to trarel without the company's permission was concerned. Dr. Beasley insured his life for ,£IOOO sterling, went to 'New Zealand, and died. His heirs were refused the money on. the ground that the Company had not allowed him,to go to New Zealand; but the Court compelled them to nay. Gladstone's wife nas inherited property worth £15,000 per annum by the death of her brother. , : London papers say the Liberal party will -lose their leader in consequence. Gladstone proposing to tajce his ease in Italy. - ' - If the statements contained in a recent letter from Berlin are to be credited Prince Bismarck ii preparing to take another im* portant step in »ac war upon the Church.

It ii said that Government-trill present a Bill during the present session, to regu■late religious processions,. and prevent them from using public highways. ' Nothing has yet been heard of the Au«trian expedition which started for the Polar seas in the Tegithoff two years ago. TheCongtadtMcssenger requests all travel* , lers and seamen who may hare learned < any new* about the expedition to communicate with the Foreign Office at Vienna, or the Admiralty at-St. Petersbnrghv — --•"? Thirty yictims of the, disaster of the yacht Foam were found on the Sls'fc on the American shore nearly opposite Niagara. ,In the House of Lords.en the 24g*jj£uly a membor asked whether 'inx'p> 3iU>^Y trance had been mttfe'to Frapca'):^7^t the connivance of'the auth"o'rjtiea^#v;fle violation of the .Spanish, frontier ti>'4he Spanith Carlists., He urged that jjy,the ordinary courtesy 'due from one nation fco another there should be.no unnecessary) delay in the formal recognition of the Spanish Government by Great Britain. ■ Earl Derby, Secretary ;o? " Foreign Affairs, said it would be better that suck recognition should, be the collective act of European Powers, > A London telegram of July 24 lay* :-*• An alarming outbreak of small-pox has occurred in Newmarket, -llpw^rds ,of ' sixty, cases are already ropwtea^, The' authorities have askod the Jpfeftey Club to permit them to convert .the-Grand Stand into a hospital where the afflicted persons maybe quartered. John Mitchell" arrived iri' Cofk* oi July 27th. He ft)ill, but will come td Dublin. The Fenian Amnesty Association are to walk in procession, and a torchlight demonstration and banquet will be given in his honor. Berlin Journals- say that war between Russia and China is inevitable, in con« sequence of the designs of the latter upoft Kashagar. ,', ■ '^ lJt , < A Committee of the Agricultural Laborers' Union in London have adopted resolutions declaring tha.t-r'lAs we are not justified in appealing, to' the 1 pulilic I for support for loeked-out laborers,m the eastern counties during the harreit, We therefore offer them the alternative of emigration or depending on their own resources. The Committee" are negotiating for easier terms of emigration !<>/ Canada." - —* Gaskell Brothers, cotton merchants of Liverpool, have failed. Liabilities i 480,000 dollars. , , - ' A special despatch to the Daily News reports destruction of property by floods in Moravia.. Two hundred persons died* Hpuses swept away. , .., /.