ARRIVAL OF THE STAD AMSTERDAM.

Grey River Argus, Volume 21, Issue 2936, 11 January 1878, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE STAD AMSTERDAM.

[MELBOURNE LEADER.] The arrival of this magnificent steamship has placed us in possession of English newspapers to the 30fch of October.- Although running in conjunction with the Lusitania, Chimborazo Cuzco, she does not belong to the same line, being owned by the Nederlands Steamship Company, for whom she was built in 1874, by Messrs A. and J. Inglis, of Glasgow, and received the class of 1 00 Al. The Stad Amsterdam left Plymouth at 4.30 p.m. on 31st October ; arrived at St Vincent's at 9 p.m. on the 9bh of November, and left again on the following day at 8 p.m. Reached Table Bay (Cape of Good Hope) on the - evening of the 25th, and resumed her voyage on the 27th at 6.30 p.m., anchored off Glenelg oa the 18th inst, and left again at 2.15 a.m. on the 19th, and on arrival in Hobson's Bay shortly after 11 p.m. on the 20fch was at once berthed alongside the Sandridge Railway. Pier to discharge the Melbourne portion of her cargo, after which she proceeds to Sydney. Amongst the passengers on board were old colonists, including the Rev. W. 1 Henderson, of Ballarat. From her files ' we take the following : — Constantinople, 25fch October. — A Bulgarian named Deli Yovan, or " Mad i John," was hanged here this morning in the crowded street between the Stamboul and Karakeu bridge and the mosque of Yeni Djani. On hia own showing this ' man was a savage of the worst kind. He • confessed to having violated and afterwards mm dered live Turkish girls at 1 Yeni Saghra. He confessed to having murdered from fifteen to eighteen Turkish V. -oMldxen. J .jwith his own hand, and it was proved fftac ne ana comrarae_riroirectecr the blood of some of their victims in 1 pitchers and then broke into the Jewish synagogue and forced the Jews who had taken refuge to drink the blood. One [ thousand leading Mussulman inhabitants 1 of Constantinople have presented an address to Mr Layard expressing friendly sentiments towards England. Berlin, 25th October.— Several Russian newspapers — at their head the Imperial Advertiser— publish correspondence 1 from Tiflis, according to which several documents seriously compromising the neutrality of England have been found in Mukhtar Pasha's tent. Although the official organ of the Government deems it proper to publish such news, yet three of the leading Russian papers, acting more cautiously, think it more convenient to await information of an authentic nature before they raise accusations of such gravity against England. Constantinople, 25th October.— On Monday last the Alexandria branch of the Ottoman Bank sent to London a number of documents, signed by th 9 Khedive, with the authorisation of the Sultan, whereby the regular payment of L 280,000 yearly is secured, this amount to form the basis of a proposed Turkish loan of L 5,000,000., 000,000. Raghjsa, 24th October — Vladimir Jonin, the President of the Bosnian Provisional Government, under date the 13th inst., has issued a proclamation to the people of Bosnia in which he declares that the Sultan .is no longer their ruler ; thafc Bosnia has freed herself from the Turkish s^ackies ; that the occupation of Bosnian soil is usurpation and violence so long as her national and political claims remain unsettled ; and that the Provisional Government is the only authority, and pledges itself to fight to to the bitter. end. Jonin calls upon all Bosnians to take arms, orders all able-bodied men to join his standard, and requests the people to ' offer fcheir wealth for the national benefit. ' He promises his countrymen the aid of all ' Christian nations ; assures them that the ' Czar will aid them, as his Majesty recognises the necessity of the uprising of all Christian slaves against the Mahometans ; ' and, finally, he promises the protection of the lives and property of those who reI spond. The proclamation is dated from \ the camp at Tischkovac, and bears the • signatures of twelve voivedjj and two Greek popes. s Vienna, 24th October. —The Turkish l troops stationed on the Servian frontier v under the command. of Faizy Pasha have € set out for the Herzegovina, to be em- a ployed in the operations against Monte- v negro. J Bucharest, 23rd October.— The army before Rustchuk is composed of six divisions of infantry and five divisions of cavalry. The Czare witch still remains at a Brestorica, and has a general of his staff a permanently attached to the Council of n War at Gorny Studen. I believe that °J the moving spirit of all the manoeuvres " before Rustchuk is General Docboureff, t( who was the last chief of the staff to * General Tchernaieff in Servia. The Czare- " witch himself is very particular in seeing ? to all the arrangements. The condition of the troops of his army is very good. They have not so much suffered as the Q others. The victory in Asia has infused a new courage. The Czarewitch himself ** announced the news to the troops. Suleiman Pasha remains still in position on the Black Lorn. It is said thafc his army a is more than 100,000 strong. The centre S { oi his position is at Ablava, and the line I at from Kadikoi is»foll of tents. ■ L

Billa, 24fch October— General Zimmerman has been ordered to harass the whole line in Sulieman Pasha's rear. Since yesterday the Cezarewitch has been pushing forward against Rasgrad, leaving one corps under Genoral Wannoffski to operate against Rustchuk. Vienna, 23rd October.— Although diplomatic efforts have been made at Constantinople t respecting the granting of an armistice, the Porte has hitherto only expressed the conviefcfon that an armistice would be an advantage to Russia alone, and that it would require the safest, and strongest guarantees from elsewhere. It was urged that an armistice of no longer duration than Ist April, 1878, could not be employd by the Russians in forwarding operations, even on Roumanian soil, but the Porte made ie clear to the several ambassadors that in any instrument of armistice Roumania should not even be mentioned, and that the armistice should not interfere with any Turkish action that might be deemed advisable towards Servia,^.Montenegro, the Bosnian: insurgents, or even. Greece. \