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Star (Christchurch), Issue 671, 18 July 1870, Page 2

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London, June 10. The Paris physicians have reported favourably of the praotical value of vaccination as a preventive of small pox. Seventy-three deaths from smallpox took place in Paris during the first week in June. The Examiner recommends a feder^T union of Spain and Portugal. Twenty-one thousand immigrants, mainly Irish, left Liverpool for New York during the month of May. The Skipping Gazette calls for the interference of the English and American Governments to prevent extortion in Cuban ports. There continues to be considerable alarm at the discovery of ramifications of the Eenian movements in Dublin and the large towns of England. The wheat crop in "Prance is very short. Arrests continue to be made in Paris. The High Court of Accusation is to sit on June 30. Wachtel, the tenor, has been dismissed from the Paris Opera House for undue familiarity with Patti. The American Prelates in the (Ecumenical Council oppose the Pope's infallibility. ; The Emperor of the -French is suffering from rheumatism. :'■ The adherents of the Due de Montpansier are very active. The debates in the Spanish Cortes have raised the issue of a republic or a monarchy. The Cuban insurgents have offered to surrender if their lives be spared. Nbw Tobk, June 7. Cable despatches report that the French have defeated the tribes in Morocco. A rising in Algeria is feared. . A meeting of French Canadian settlers was held near Fort Garry, to assist the Bed Driver expedition. Two companies of United States infantry have arrived at San Joseph.