RUSSO-TURKISH WAR.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2777, 8 January 1878, Page 2

RUSSO-TURKISH WAR.

London, Sunday.

Before replying to the Sultan the British Government will endeavor to ascertain the conditions on which Russia will conclude peace.

The Standard states that the British Government will not tolerate the complete orcrthrow of Turkey, nor allow a separate treaty of peace between Turkey and Russia. ■ ; ; December 28. The weather 13 excessively severe in the Baltic. The James Ferguson and Contest, of Greenock, have been wrecked. December 19. There ha.ro been strikes and riots at Montreal. Several persons were killed or wounded. December 22. * A fire, during which there was an explosion, has taken place in a New York confectionery factory. Seventy persons were killed and thirty injured. December 11. The following loans are announced :— Chinese, £1,604,000; Turkish Defence, £5,000,C00{ and Otago Harbour Trust, £120,000.

Ifc is announced that Messrs Green, Anderson, and Anderson have purchased the Pacific Mail Company's steamers with a Tiow of establishing a mail service to Australia. December 11. The French crisis is aggravated. The President of the Senate, after consulting M. Dufaure, entreated Marshal MacMahon to give way. MacMahon refused, stating that it was no longer a question of conciliation and compromise, and the Orleanist party in the Senate would probably refuse to dissolve.

Count Chambord has written a letter advising the Legitimists not to support MacMahan's policy of resistance, as being likely to lead to the success of the Bonaparte party. The Heft resolved, if the Assembly-dissolved, to arraign the Marshal for high treason. December 14 The French crisis is ended. M. Balbie failed to form a cabinet. Marshal MacMahon submitted as a new Ministry the following :—Dufaure, Premier; March ere Minister of Interior; Waddington, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Say, Minister for Finance; Bbrel, Minister for War; Potbnau, Minister for Marine. The Ministry inspire general satisfaction.