LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3972, 17 November 1875, Page 2

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

London, November 2. President Grant has-mu > no e to Madrid, urging the settlement .'f the { 'ubvn question and recommen Tnc * .uhan independence. America and Spain are stlengthening their fleets. November 5. General Ignaticff, in an interview with the Sultan, distinctly pointe 1 out the financial dilapidations of the Turkish k ngdom, and that the maladministration of the Gove una> nt will have the effect of discontenting th>- population unless urgent reforms ire carried out. The Admiralty slave circular has beeu withdrawn. Mr W. E. Forster M.P.. yesterday opened the session of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institute with an ail Iress on the Colonial Empire. He pleaded for an impartial policy in the Colonial Office, and strongly deprecated the separation idea. He said fu ! ure statesmen will arrange the details of some federation scheme. A memorial to the late Commodore Goodenough is proposed. Wheat dull; Adelaide, 53s to 55s : flour, 33s to 395. November 6. Lord Derby has declined to interfere offioi* ally on behalf of the Turkish bond holders. November 9. A paragraph has been communicated to the ‘ Times ’ that a conference held of the reprepresentatives of Austria, Russia, and Germany resulted in a detenu nation to ask Turkey what guarantee she can give fo- the fulfilment of administrative reforms Russia has acquainted the Western power* wi f h the steps contemplated, which point to the occupation of Bosnia and the Herzegovina by Christian troops. Bombat November 8, The Serapis, with the Prince of Wales on board, entered the harbor amid the royal salutes of the squadron, and the Prince landed in the afternoon and met with an enthusiastic reception. _ November 9. The Prince of Wales landed at Bombay amid thundering salutes fiom the squadron and shore batteries. He was brilliantly received on lauding by the Governor-General, the highest officials, and upwards of seventy native princes and chiefs. After addresses hy the municipality, a grand procession was formed to Government House. The imabitants received the Prince loyally and enthusiastically. There was intense excitement aloiu the whole route ; immense crowds of all castes, and splendid decorations throughout the city.

N ovc-mber 10. The Prince of Wales has received the Rajahs at government House, and will return tiieir visits to-morrow. The city was gorgeously illuminated at night.