CABLEGRAMS.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 169, 5 October 1877, Page 6

CABLEGRAMS.

(Renter's Telegrams to Press Agency.)

London, September 22. Ignatieff is in disgrace, and has gone to Keivi.

Gambetta's sentence has been confirmed.

Nothing* official; has been heard of Mehemet Ali's movements.

September 24.. Plevna is nearly surrounded hy Russian forces. '

According* to a Turkish account, Sulieman -Pasha* renewed the assault at Fort Nicholas, Chipka Pass, last Frida} r , but . without * success. 20,000 Turks have been sacrificed in various attempts to. take r Chipka Pass.

The inquest on, the bodies- washed ashore from the Avalanche has terminated, the Jury' returning an open v,ei> diet. '■'.• ■*. . ■

Sir Julius Vogel -telegraphs that there were lost in the Avalanche besides the names already wired :---Ohief Oabin— T. W. Walton, HI T. Neale, W^C: Stow, A. Montgomery, W. W.B'arnett, I). ,R.: Farmer and/son.; ; Second; Cabin ■ —Annie and . Mary SpreadborOugh,.: Alex. Kelly, C. J. H. Prickman, ;J. C. ! Chamberlain and wife,, C. Brobin .and : son, W.,Wbitaker,,J!ojin. Winter, i-John ,-R. .Winter, L. D. Kirby, John W- 'Gra-,' ham, J. F.< Somerville, George Kern, James Wilson and wife. Steerage — Fred.!Lee,G: : F. G. Smith, WiEdmond-, .son* and .wife, -I. A. Blythe, Charles t LysVght, C Curr'ejy Max! John Bishop, .A. : Hernule,-'.Wt'..Charle.s Stock, Mrs Louisa Petterson,.!N.* !A. C. Ixworthy, --James Maxwell, .Frederick * Low.- The following, stook, .passages, but'did'hot go—E. Millard,! J. - Ewoes, Pi Wobderin.' ■ -:■•.•.-....'.■ . . .

--■•■-•■ -.--■ „-.-.: Bombay, September 24. ; , ' ' '" r; In" AsTai General* "Tefgussen" ' defeated*. Ismail Pasha' with : gfeat''lpss! *'' ; .*-*.-,,-,' '"A A .!& Turldsh ; ,pfficiar say s ! a large' Turkish , [ .convoy ! of A ammjurii|ibn? is * witjiiii.. .two. ..hgiir.gV.-qi^^ V '; = AAy.A, $ussiaja ;^ , iTurks re§u|p,ed .^tiie^bp.mbarding of ; jthe?

Nicholas; redoubtr at Chipkij, and -tlien assaulted* it ' uhsucc'essfullv/ •-Fip-htino-- --• K i '•• .Vi ■':*!!. *V *.;. -> •-*!..', r-i-'r'-'A- -AY-i '< ; *'->w-., - O, continues. ' *„; !,.=.'..*■.,-.!' -'*■'-•'•' <■ -The- -.result ; of the fig-h ting abßiela is ' st.il] indecisive.;. '"*•' ' 'A'A'A ! ' ; " '•',""' ■ Septeinbe"r^26. ■ The Turks -have "occupied rtbe natural 1 j^rprig-hbM'ih: Ro^mania,VQ{ipiqsite to Silistria. V..-, '•!,.;• *-"-,'•'. „'.,!. A.' A. t ' . r .

; ; The-Rnssian;and*;Rpiim at ,Pley.ri s a ; amounts;'' to. tivVn'ty-seven"thotf-'sand.:, .<---,-.■;• .-.'. .A ■ ■ A.-- ' ' [■' *' a-.- •- '

General Todlebeh; direcsts-the siege

-Tbe- .'.Sydney-. Morning*. Herald's A special of the -24th Se.p,teinber : says, the Mccountsybf last,' ''"FnfayMAti'gl^tih'g at Beila ■ were g-reatly, -exaggerated- ■■. :The Turks, themselves admit the action was .indecisive!;! Attacks; made on ,.t he. Russian entrenched" position^ at Gharking' arid* Chernov*^, commanding* the;' main road ; in Beila, .-',. were successfully repulsed. ' .* '"'••'•" - •*; : ' • ■•• - ..-■

. The Czai-eivitch is. receiving" large reinforcements. . ... .• ..'*...

Osiiian Pasha has b<3ehurg*ed'to make a sortie, in. order. to [effect a :j unction oi" th e two Turkish forces. "* : : • ;

The ' Times ' says the Austrian Am.bassador at Constantinople ' had a personal 'interview with>the Sultan-, and remonstrated ag;,ainst;"the continiiejl atrocities, hinted at mediation, and; showed moderation would be politic, declaring* Germany, would not be. indifferent tp Russian humiliation.

The following* is a special message to the Star : — - * .

"_" ... London, September 27. Mehemet AX has defeated the Czarewitch at Biela. The Russian loss was 12,000 killed' and Wounded, and 2000 prisoners. .■

There is desperate fighting* with varying success at Plevna, but the total defeat of * Osman Pasha is looked for, unless support arrives.