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Star (Christchurch), Issue 652, 25 June 1870, Page 2

The following it^raa are translated for Greviile and Co., Reuter's agents, from latest foreign papers :— M. de Bonneville, the French Ambassador, has returned to Rome. A firm of Marseilles has bought, with a I view to commercial speculation, a portion of territory on the coast of Arabia, opposite the Island of Perim. This territory extends six miles inland. The traffic on the Suez Canal increases constantly. Mr Lowe, replying to Mr Beaumont in the House of Commons, stated that Spain owes England £7,641,000 for provisions supplied during the Peninsular war, and that Portugal owes £2,489,000. The payment was never asked for, but England has not abandoned her claims. . ;^ General Prim has stated that the three candidates to the throne being Montpensier, Espartero, and himself, he would not take it, Espartero would not take it, and that the nation would not take any of the three. Many priests of Spain hive refused to take the oath to the New Constitution. General Cabrera has abandoned the direction of Carlist movements. The Portuguese Government is about to send new reinforcements to Mozambique, in consequence of unfavourable intelligence received from the expedition in Zambeza. A violent gale has caused great destruction of shipping and loss of life in the Tagus. The Neu Frei Press, of Vienna, states that the surplus of revenue, from last year is 10 millions of florins, in consequence of which the Minister of Finance intends to reduce, by half, the newspaper stamp duty. The Wurtemburg Government announces a reduction in the army ; but it protests against the suspicion of Prussian influence, and is resolved. to preserve the independence of Wurtemburg. !,, The organ of the North German Government states that the persistence of Denmark in asking for the boundary line of llensburg has rendered impossible any conciliation between the two countries.