[Reuter's Special Telegrams.]

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 246, 18 January 1878, Page 12

[Reuter's Special Telegrams.]

London*, January 12th'. '' IW, CivA Duke Nicholas has replied to liaouf Pasha tlifit all' n •£ ilus'.ion-. l'.i'iii be direct with him, and that an armistice is i'mIvjsm'iV; wit'> Ail the basis' of 'y'caoe negotiations beitf* "first settled. ' j 2\l-a.a f >: titled town to thd souih-west of Widdin, h'as'capitulatcd. liu^'.vi tro ■>[.■( have arrived af'Teni Saghra aiid Bardduk,' two' 1 p.,>.;ii..ii^oi.i'hof the Balkan-*. '' - ' J " "' '""i>"< '"' '(l 'i'ho civilian population I ' o'f Adrianople h'a.s been dvdered to'lea've." A iio\>' Turkish Mii.i ?try has b?ou formed, with H&met Pasha as" <!...i i Yo'.irr aud Hn\ ut Pallia ns Slinister of Foreign AJFairs. an^ J ' l( T':;o Jlu^-iaus took 8000 ])Us6ner.s at the surrender of 'Nissa.' '«" t( y Ai'tiMiri fe'jnvn.led on Tlmr.sday with '38,000 men J a'nd 1092 "iiii-. (.'") Tl\c town of Chipka has also I >eeiv captured. <iJ ' J r - '' - 1 "' | It is now provable that Adi'ianople will be abandoned, and that, iV.e Turks will lotxeat on their lines at Tchckembdeha. The" CWil' ( in , 'ii-nment <if Adrianople his bocn remjved to Pod'osta. II is alleged that tb.c llus,-'ian military authorities 'are avers3 tl to the aiuii-tifo ])rop'>^als ; they have 'in view the boWi^&tidn' 1 of Adiia- ' nopln'ind CJallipoli. - v ~" ''■''"■' J '"' ' : iJii^ht.id has protested against the iiori-fiilfil'mcht of the' promise that an orlor would be sent to the linssi an' "Comriiandcv-in- Chief for; an ariiii-tice with a previous .stipulation in reference to peace con'-^ ditiuns. The Daily News regards this. H.s__tho "ocj-'inning of the intrigun to involve England in the war. Three Cabinet Councils have been held this week. • •<• ' j \; nni.'jo i< J.i oa • :-. 1 . ■' '"'•'-' > < J"'jSYp3?i-:l r i January Hth. :; r ' The investiture of -Archbishop "Vaitgh'an'Svith 'rhe^palliuln- pre!-' 1 seated by the Pope proved a very imposiiig"'ctePeWibny-. 'There \va's^'a v congregation of :?000 persona. ■- ; , ,' N r 7 /' ; 1 ' ■ Mei/BOURNB, January rlith, [•/ It is announced that thel > Obtmaster I Qpnpral,haa ( dcclincd to allow, any officers oE his deptwinent to be dismis-sed^ , „/ tj , , ,p 1 j In some churches (prayers M have beennQfEeredi f^oir xhe wives sand ! children' of Civil servants a-ccantly dismissed,, , ys ,\ .j^ „,^ tr; , < 0 \ The dismissal pf other. piiblic SQrv^nifj ,i^\ expected; ne-yb week. - l^,_