EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1700, 18 February 1888, Page 1

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

London, Feb. 14, In (he House of Commons to-day Sir James Pergusson, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that there is no engagement for a military or naval coalition between Italy and England. Feb. 15. Prince Napoleon has been requested to order his eon, Prince Louis, to leave the Italian army, which, it is said, is being organised to operate against Prance. The Navy estimates include the sum of £450,000 as an instalment towards providing an auxiliary squadron. It is stated that the eagerness with which rumors of an Anglo-French Russian Alliance were discussed in Paris was due to the French people being entirely misled as to the object of Lord Randolph Churchill’s recent visit to Russia. St. Petersburg, Feb. 15. Over 500,000 troops, with 200 guns, are stationed on the western bank of the river Dnieper, The sanitary arrangements of the camps are bad, and large numbers of men are stricken down with disease. The whole ol the freight traffic has been stopped on the railways in Southern Russia in order to facilitate the conveyance of troops, which are being despatched to the various stations on the western (rentier, Constantinople, Feb, 15, It is feared that Russia meditates an early seizure of Erzeroum, in Armenia. The Porto, yielding to the representations of M. Melidoff, the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, has released the forty-one insurgents who were arrested for entering Roumelia with the object of instigating a revolt at Coirgas, Rome, Feb. 15, A statement made by M. Flourcns, Minister of Justice, in the Chamber of Deputies, to the effect that General Brainton was making an inspection of the Italian frontier in order to assure himself that the defences were secure, has caused a feeling of irritation throughout the country.