TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 192, 1 December 1876, Page 9

TELEGRAMS.

(From our Daily Contemporaries.) ■d - v *_„ . A , . London, November 16. Bussia has prohibited the export of horses. The Porte is preparing the Turkish forces, and a division of ironclads is proceeding to the Black Sea. Russian demands on Turkey are that a Christian Governor be selected for the Provinces, the appointment of Native -Officials, the expulsion of Circassian troops, and the residence of a permanent Consular Commission to supervise. Yielding to the pressing counsels of the Powers, the Porte has accepted the proposed Conference on Turkish affairs. Increased activity prevails at Woolwich and Portsmouth.

November 18.— At the wool sales competition continues extremely vigorous ; prices very firm ; 100,000 bales have been sold. The wheat market is firmer; New Zealand, 495. to 525. New Zealand hemp is in good demand at full rates. November 21.— The British Ambassador at St. Petersburg had a most cordial audience with the Emperor Alexander on the AaA November. The Czar urged that a complete agreement should exist between Russia and England, whose aims, he said, were identical on the Eastern question. He solemnly gave his sacred word of honor that Russia had no intention of acquiring the possession of Stamboul, and if he was compelled to occupy it would only be temporarily. The Czar deplored the feeling of viUwTi 1 * existed in England towards Russia, and further said that the idea which had taken possession of the British peo--pie that Kussia contemplated a conquest of India was absurd, such a result being impossible.— Russia is mobilising six arruy corps, ana lurkish troops are evacuating Herzegovina.— Earl Salisbury, becretaiy of State for India, and representative of England at the proposed Conference on Eastern affairs, will visit the Due de Cazes, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Trance, also Berlin and Vienna. il f-i? f ctlon of Presiden t of America is undecided, and the result still depends upon the counting of votes.