CABLEGRAMS.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 193, 22 March 1878, Page 6

CABLEGRAMS.

<e> London, March 11. French Cabinet Councils are being held. Mr Gladstone will not be a candidate at the next general election. England and France have accented the. proposals for a peace congress to be held at Berlin. The- Austrian Minister for Foreign Affair-?, in asking for a grant of sixty million florins, said Austria must demand of the peace congress that a limitation of the results of' the Avar should he defined, whereby EnroI pean and Austro-Hungarian interests remain uninjured. Any single Power attempting a solution of the difficulty must be prepared to meet a European coalition. The Australian. January mail via Brindisi Avas delivered to-day. (Special to Melbourne Argus.) London, March 1 1. All the Great Powers have accepted the proposals for a congress at Berlin. England demands a commission to settle the affairs o f Greece. A nti- Russian meetings continue tobe held in Hyde Park. Mr Gladstone retires from the representation oi Greennich at the general election There has been a change of Ministry at- Quebec. Mr Jolly becoming Premier. By the burning of a steamer at Cape Elia 500 Circassians perished. . The Brindisi mail has arrived. j March 12. I Tt is semi - officially st-ited from Vienna that war is regarded as inevitable when Russia submits for consideration at the European Congress the whole of the conditions of peace. I'he Hungarian Delegation has agreed to grant 00,000,000 florins for' Avar purposes. Pussian troops are moving on Constantinople. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, replying to a question, stated that the Government had no information that Russisn troops were fortifying Bulair, but had heard that they were still distant 12 miles from it. j The Tanjore arrived at Galle to-day. The Italian Ministry, h«s resigned. ' Carlos, the new President of the Chamber, is trying to form a Cabinet. Count Andrassy repudiates the occupation action schemeIt is probable that England and France will take joint action respecting* Egypt. • The Western Powers are supporting the admission of Greece to the Congress