SUMMARY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 66, 1 August 1874, Page 10

SUMMARY.

There have been extensive inundations in Hungary. Many villages •re swept away. Copies of the ' New York Herald,' containing Rochefort's letter, were seized in Paris owing to its attack upon MacMahon. The Turkish steamer Ears, with 330 persons on board, was run into, in the Sea of Marmora, by an Egyptian vessel. She was sunk, and 320 lives lost.

The Emperor of Austria has summoned an International Congress, to consider sanitary measures for the prevention of cholera. _ Despatches from Algeria stale that the insurrection at Fez was extinguished by the Sultan bombarding the town. Ninety inhabitants were killed.

Despatches from India announce famine riots at Darjeeling. Tbx troops fired on the rioters, several were killed. A letter from a China missionary, published in Paris, states then were 80,000 Christians, in that country, but that 10,000 have beet, strangled, burned,} r drowned. He adds he does not expect to escape from martyrdom. The Pope, ir answer to earnest solicitations from exhalted political personages for ie?onciliation with the Italian Government, said he would yeild nothing. The Spanish Government solicit a loan of fifty million reals, ■*• London special despatch from Berlin says that the Government of Germany in the interest, of Servia and Roumania, confidentially inform the other European Powers that they have concluded an agreement to mutually protect their interest against the designs of Turkey.

Despatches to the ' Daily Telegraph,' from Berlin, asserts that the differences between the Khedive of Egypt and the Sublime Porte are serious, and intimate that grave complications in the East are probable.

The ' Times ' Berlin correspondent says the Congress which assembles at Brussels next month, to consider the subject of international rights in time of war, will first codify the recognised usuages of international law, 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 76 clauses, stating the rights and obligations and mutual claims of belligerent States, and individually specifying what arms may be legitimately used. They are making a regulation for the treatment of prisoners. A banquet was given in honor of the agricultural exhibitors. The Crown Prince William Frederick of Germany, in reply to the toast of the Emperor William, expressed the hope that foreign exhibitors ■would, on their return home, convey the assurance to their countrymen that nowhere was the wish for peaceful continuance of labour and civilisation stronger than in the re-united German Empire.