From Europe.
From a summary of late European news, we select the following:Mr. Edwin James, the celebrated English lawyer, had left London suddenly, it was said, for a perpetual residence in the United States.
The Duke of Newcastle stated in the House of Lords that the British Government had not received any information as to the operation of the Morrill tariff on goods shipped from England to Portland for Canada.
Mm. Mires and Solar, the Paris bankers, had been sentenced to five year's imprisonment and a fine of three thousand franc each. Count Simon was adjudged as liable for the deposits made in the concern known as the Caisse des Chemins d' Fer.
The Sultan had inaugurated for Turkey a most wonderful reform, having abolished the harem completely, he having had always only one wife, as in Christian nations. He also ordered that the jewels and valuables of the late Sultan be sold, in order to raise a fund for the payment of his personal liabilities.
Serious disturbances existed in the interior of Russia.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Ferrara was spoken of as likely to succeed to the Papal chair in the event of the death of Plus the Ninth.
