EUROPEAN NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 985, 17 January 1883, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

,1 (PKE PRESS ASSOOIATIOK.)' (Per s.s. Arawata at the Bluff.) LONDON, Dec. 28. It is reported that there are 60,000 Russian troops concentrated at Kars* in Armenia, > Mr Duke, President of the Local Government Board, speaking at Chelsea, stated that the Government programme for next session would include measures for the establishment of country Boards, the assimilation of the County and Borough, promise reforms of. the London Corporation, redistribution of seats, renewallof'fthbd^ballot, i clicking/corrupt practices at elections, and amendment of the Patent and _ Bankruptcy Laws of Ireland. Dec. 29.. Mr Porter, Solicitor-General for Ireland, has been appointed AttorneyGeneral, in place of Mr-Johnsoh, who has been raised to the Bench. Mr Naish, law adviser to the High Court 1 Justices, succeeds Mr Porter as Solicitor-General. Alexb Pasha, Governor-General of Eastern Roumelia, has declined to have any relations with Kitchel, the Russian Con-sul-General, at PhijipopoHs,\ owing to an arrogant demand made By the latter. Strong objections are made by the distressed Irish to going to the workhouses. It is urged that relief works should be established by the authorities. Bismarck, who has been recently suffering severely from neuralgia, is better. * The. Senate of the United States has passed a Bill for removing appointments to the Civil Service from the sphere of politics. Intelligence received in India from Cabul states that the Ameer of Afghanistan has succeeded in suppressing a rising which has broken out in Gabul. The newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Benson, will be enthroned after Easter. 'Viscount Enfield, Under-Secretary for India, has resigned.