LONDON.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 82, 1 August 1877, Page 2

LONDON.

June 8. The Queen, is at -Balmoral in good health. • In the House of Commons, the JJnder Secretary, Mr. Bourke, in answer to a question, said that no proposals had been made by Russia for the localisation of the war ; that when the "question of peace came to be discussed it. was one that would concern Europe, and the European colonies, would consider that they had a right to share in the'delibera-^ | i tions respecting the future. Howard Vincent, the correspondent | of the " Daily Telegraph " after being cordially received at the Russian headquarters by the Grand Duke Nicholas, was peremptorily ordered away by instructions from St. Petersburg. Three hundred- English officers have offered their services to" Turkey. Dervish Pasha is appointed Govenor of Ears. The German and Austrian Ambassadors are united in endeavouring to influence Turkey in favour «)f peace. Morissa Bey- with 4,000 Turkish cavalry, was utterly routed at Kute on May 18, by the Russian movable column of cavalry, infantry, and artillery. They were attacked at. midnight on three sides. Several mountain guns, ammunition, waggons, and standards, besides prisoners wtfre taken. "

Temple Bey, nephew of the Bishop of Exeter, and physician to the Sultar, has been^summarily ordered to go to Batoum, or quit. the -Sultan's services, for' informing him that many of • 'the shells fired by his troops on the Danube contained nb powder.^ The military correspondent of the " Dajly Telegraph "states that the Bus r sian forces destined for the Danube consist of nine -corps, with a total : strength of 310,000 men and 970 guns, besides some battalions of engineers, ten regiments of Cossacks, a brigade of rifles, and two or three .companies of marines. Then there-is the' Roumanian army- of some 3,0,000 effectives. . The - Turkish army in Europe amounts to 412 battalions, 76 squadrons; and 590 field guns, a few batteries of mitrailleuses, '200,000 infantry, and about 12,000 horse of the irregulars. * There appears to be no, doubt of the numerical ( inferiority of the Turks at Ardahan. The Russians were repulsed five> times, but on the fifth occasion they began the attack with ' 40,000 men, and then the commandant at- Ardahan, a young man, lost courage and made his escape. ■ „, - The hereditary Prince of Bosnia has arrived at Constantinople for the pur--pose oi submitting a plan of attack on Russia, and enlisting Mussulmans. Italian papers announced the arrival at Rome of ''five cases of presents from - Queen Victoria to the pope, mk In the cricket match, Nort^^g^uth, W. G. Grace, in the first inning of t)ie South, scored 252 runs, not 'out.' <"At the first yearling sale '*t' Middle Park, 45 lots realised 12,285 guineas, or an average of 273 guineas each. The highest price was for a bay colt by ' Rosenruitan, 1,600' guineas. The heat in London ia most j intense. Early in June, Sir Henry Pelly,~ M.P. for Hurlington, received a sunstroke while riding in Hyde .Park, and died from its effects. ' — German papers state a league is being formed in Russia for the rejection^ afl English products until « England- shall abandon her sympathy with Turkey. A serious robbery of securities, principally English bonds, was conmmitted in an express train from Paris, between Calais and Boulogne. Scrip to the value of a hundred thousand pounds was stolen from the tan under seal. , Mr. W. H. Hodgson, one of the solicitors to the Treasury, was stuck, up on May 28, on Blackheath, 'when returning in a close carriage from Greenwich with his daughter and niece. The robbers, who were masked, presented pistols at the driver's head and compelled Mr. Hodgson to give up all tbe money he had about him. A similar outrage occurred in Yorkshire on the following day, in neither case is there any clue to the offenders. William Dufton, the well-known billiard player, has committed suicide by poison. r Several thousand, men are employed ♦throwing up defences at Constantinople. A resolution in favour of dis-estab- ■ lishment has been carried" by 460 to 78 votes at the meeting of the General Assembly of tbe Free Church of Scotland. At a large and influential meeting of clergymen, on 21st May, it was unanimously resolved to disregard the decision of the Judicial Committee in the Ridsdale case. .'• In celebration of his jubilee, the Pope received 5,000 pilgrims on the 2nd June. The brigand chief Looni, has been I killed in an encounter with gendarmes in Sicily. / Sir Julius and Lady - Vogel were amongst those present at Lord Carnar- l von's on the anniversary of the Queen's birthday. ■