TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 879, 19 April 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[per press agency.] LATEST EROM E h ROPE AND AUSTRALIA. EUROPE. War Feeling*at St. Petersburg. London, April 16. The war feeling at St. Petersburg is intense. The C’zar is going to Xicliener. Persia and Turkey. The rumor about Persia claiming Bagdad is denied. The Eastern Question. In the debate in the House of Lords on the protocol, Lord Granville criticised the action of the Government. Lord Derby vindicated the action as being the best step the Government could take under the present circumstances, to say nothing of the future. Famine in China. Rebellion in J apan. Sydney, April 18. Sailed —Rotorua. News via Torres Straits from China reports that thousands are suffering through famine. At Kiangsee rice lias risen to famine prices. Disputes are daily becoming greater. The relief is lamentably insufficient. People are reduced to the last stage of emaciation and exhaustion, and are dying by thousands daily. The rebellion at Japan is more serious than was at first anticipated, but the rebels aiv dispirited by defeat. Two thousand Chinese being dissatisfied, broke loose and left the camp, but were followed and a large nuiubei killed. Arrivals at Cooktown. Sydney, April 19. The steamer Bowen arrived yesterday al Cooktown with over 500 Chinese. The steamer Gilly Lorne is now in quarantine. She has over a thousand Chinese aboard. Provisions arc running short.