LATER.
(Special to Pbess Agency.)
More Fighting.—Brieroum
Invested.
The City to "be Starred Out.
Austria Declines to Support
England.
Rumoured Split in the British
Cabinet.
London, Saturday.
A severe engagement took place at Teteben. Eussian loss, seven hundred. ' The Turks retreated with a loss of six hundred, Baker Pasha covering the retreat. Erzeroum is completely invested. The Russians will not bombard, but reduce it by famine, owing to the majority of the population being Christians. Austria declines to support the action of England. - There is a great agitation throughout England against war. Numerous extra Parliamentary speeches. ■ It is stated that the Cabinet is divided, the Premier, Mr Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Cairns favoring the war section, and Lord Salisbury, Earl Carnarvon, Mr Cross and Lord Derby against; the others doubtful. Mukhtar Pasha has arrived at Stamboul.
Cardinal Manning has proposed a conclave of Cardinals at Malta. The Italian Cardinals object.
The Queen has created a new order, the Imperial Crown of India. Females are eligible.' Hemp is firm.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2776, 7 January 1878, Page 2
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168LATER. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2776, 7 January 1878, Page 2
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