EUROPE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 207, 6 September 1860, Page 3

EUROPE.

' There is news‘.from England by telegraph to 4th July; The weather had improved, and prices of grain were down. • The New .Zea-land-Government Land bill had been brought

nito-the aji.il about j2*Q| liberal members had declared; their oppositiqi to it. , ■;. ;/ At the first, great Prize meeting-,..'0f .tip National Rifle. Association the shooting hat begun well. . 30,000 volunteers were re viewed .by'her Majesty on the 23rd Juneu Hyde Park ; 50,000 spectators, were present the vveatlier very unpropitious. . ' •• / ■ Prices of Wool were maintained, -at tlic Liverpool sales. • By. the. death of General John, McKenzie, Colonel Geld is promoted "to-the rank of Ma-jor-General and in consequence .of his promotion Major and Brevet Colonel Wyatt be comes Lieut.-Colonel ; Captain and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Murray, Major; Lieut. Buck, Captain; and Ensign Talbot^.Lieutenant. A Sicilian Parliament is to bo convoked. There has been a serious rising .in Naples, which has been placed in a state of siege. A liberal ministry has-been formed, and the king has promised a constitution and a general amnesty, and proposed an alliance with Piedmont. This scheme is said to be approved by France. 7\vo steamers under foreign flags, with 900 volunteers for Garibaldi on. board, had been captured by two Neapolitan war steamers, but they were afterwards given up, all of the passengers having'passports for Malta.