Telegraphic Despatches.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XI, Issue 756, 16 March 1878, Page 2

Telegraphic Despatches.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. (Reviews Special) Lonmoy, March 11th French. Cabinet Councils are being held. Mr Gladstone will not be a candidate at the next general election. England and France have accepted the proposals for a peace congress to be held at Berlin. The Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, in asking for a grant of 60 millions florins, said Austria must demand of the peace congress that a limitation of the results of the war should be defined-, whereby European and Ausfcro-Hungarian interests remain uninjured. Any single power at« tempting a solution of the difficulty must be prepared to meet a European coalition. March 12th. It is semi-officially stated from Vienna that war is regarded as inevitable when Russia submits for consideration at the European Congress the whole of the conditions of peace. (Special to the "Melbourne Argus") London, March llth. All the Great Powers have accepted the

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proposals for a congress at Berlin. England demands a commission to settle the affairs of Greece. Anti-Russian meetings continue to be held in Hyde Park. % Mr Gladstone retires from the representation of Greenwich at the general election. By the burning of a steamer at Cape Elia 500 Circassians perished. March 12th. The Italian Ministry has resigned.. M. Carols, the new President of the .Chamber, is trying to form a Cabinet. Count Andrassy repudiates the occupation scheme. It is probable England and France will take joint action respecting Egypt. The Western Powers are supporting the admission of Greece to the congress.