OPENING OF THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
ARRIVAL OF RUSSIAN" SAILORS IN j AMERICA. PEACE MEETING AT MANCHESTER. BETROTHAL OP THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT. WAR REGARDED AS INEVITABLE. RISING OP MUSSULMEN. PROBABLE OCCUPATION OP HERZEGOVLNA BY AUSTRIA. [The following message was received at 3.40 this morning.] London, April 25. A large meeting at Manchester adopted a resolution against the British Government being an obstacle to the maintenance of peace, and protesting against the employment of Indian troops in Europe. Lomxh*, May 1 The' Duke of Connaught ia betrothed to Louisa, daughter of Prince Frederick Charles of Germany. Pabis, April 24. The opening of the Exhibition a brilliant affair. May 1. The steamer Cambria arrived in the harbor of Maine from the Baltic, with 60 officers and 600 men of the Russian navy, under tho command of Count Grifenburg. It is believed she is destined for privateering. Vienna, April 30. It is reported that an early Austrian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina may be exj;e t.d. Constantinople, April 30. An affray has taken place between the Turkish and Russian troops near Constantinople. St. Petkrsbtjbs, May 2. General Todleben has failed to arrange the withdrawal of the British Ironclad Squadron, and the Russian army regards war as inevitable. The Mussulman rising continues.
AUSTRALIA.
Melboubne, May 6. The Alhambra arrived in good condition, after a long passage, caused principally by want of fuel.
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Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 3988, 7 May 1878, Page 2
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