ENGLISH NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 827, 22 February 1878, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

The Budget of Russia shows a deficiency of 600,398,425 silver roubles. The Japanese ship of war Teki Kuwan, built and wholly fitted up in Japan, and manned and officered by natives, is about to start on a cruise to the Meditthranean. A fire iu the warehouse of Croksr and Sons and Co., Watling street, London, was the largest that has occurred for.years. The loss is 1/200,000. D. M‘Gregor and Co., merchants and ship-owners,, of Leith, have failed, with liabilities fiom LIOO.OOO to L 150.000. Joseph Anderson and Sons, provision dealers, of London, have failed for L 200.000. A Welsh colliery has received orders to immediately despatch a large quantity of coal to Vourva Bay for the British fleet. The Advertiser hoars, on reliable authority, that official information has been received in St. Petersburgh that the Chinese massacred 15,000 men, women, and children at the Keshariah town of Manao,' committing most frightful atrocities. The insurgents at Crete, if all Christians join in, are expected to number 15.000. THE WAR; Archibald Forbes, the War Correspondent, reports terrible sufferings by the army of invasion. Words cannot describe the misery of the situation on the Danube. The Russians suppress telegrams with a view to preventing the state of things becoming known in England. Tho Turks are bombarding towns in the Cripiea, and causing irritation at, Petersburg, seeing- that peace, negotiations are proceeding. , Tf peace negotiations fail, the Sultan Will Unfnrl the flag of the “ Prophet,” a\id : call on the faithful to rally tothe.'stahdanl.' Austria demands a voico ; in tho peace negotiations, and will not recognise a-peace concluded without her consent. The Austrian .position; is regarded ,as ah understanding With Engrand. A special says : Izzed Pasha conveys to the Turkish plenipotentiaries full powers, and will inform them England is not likely to go to war. Difficulties have already arisen. It is reported that Russia demands Adrianoplo to he included in Bulgaria j also the cession of Batoura and the opening of the Dardanelles to Russian and Turkish man-of-war only. A correspondent of the Pera says it is calculated that 20,000 fugitives arrived at Constantinople from Roumahia during the week. A train, crowded with fugitives, ran off the track near Chattalia, and about 50 were killed and wounded. The St. Petersburg Golos prints a special despatch from Vienna which contradicts the St. Petersburg despatch to the London Times that it was rumoured that Austria and Germany had vetoed tho idea of opening the Dardanelles to Russia, and consequently determined not to raise the question at all. The Golos telegrams say Austria has not discussed this question with Germany and Russia. A despatch from Berlin say* that Russia is negotiating with the other Baltic'powers

for the purpose of prohibiting non-Baltic Powei s from entering the Baltic sea. The Grand Duke, in a telegram to the Porte, very expressly asked that two Turkish delegates might be sent to meet him at Kesaalik, and that they should have the fullest possible powers. The Standard’s Constantinople correspondent states that the Prince of Reuse, a German, and Count Cortie, the Italian Am-, bassador, informed the Porte that if the British fleet were permitted to come to Constantinople, Germany and Italy will also demand permission for their fleets to pass through the Dardanelles. At Constantinople it is reported that the Grand Vizier assured the German Ambassador that the Porte was determined to make peace with Russia, leaving any Power which objected to the conditions to settle the matter with Russia. A Vienna political correspondent at Athens has the following : The Ministry does not intend at present to obey the popular warlike feeling. Important negotiations are pending between Greece and England, upon the issue of which will depend whether Greece shall or shall not at an early date play an active part with, and -at the side of England. A Times special from Gruyevo says : “The mortality among Turkish prisoners at Fralesclute is fearful. The station at Fralesolute is becoming a terror to travellers between Bucharest and the Danube. Even if there is nothing worse than ordinary typhus the mortality evidenced by the numerous graves in the plains surrounding the prisoners’ camp justifies the apprehensions of travellers. 1 saw Russian soldiers digging huge graves, and near them fifty corpses lying in confused heaps. A 8 they were emptied from the dead carts their forms were ragged and half-clad, and the frost bites were visible on their naked limbs, giving evidence of the hardships they had suffered on the march from Nicopolis. A Times leading editorial says that nothing more satisfactory to the country with respect to the immediate course of public affairs could well have occurred than the declarations yesterday made in the Queen's speech, as well as by the Ministerial leaders in the two Houses of Parliament, The alarm recently raised respecting the pos. aibility of a warlike policy being adopted by the Government may now bo finally dismissed. A movement is imminent on the part of Germany to obtain a sea-board under conditions which would seriously affect England. This consideration is having great influence in the Cabinet on tho side of those who advocate England reserving her strength.