EUROPEAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 956, 18 July 1877, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

[by telegraph, pee press agency.] (Per Albion via Hokitika.) The polling for Tipperary has resulted in the returning of (fray, sou qf the lale Sir John (fray, Home Ruler. For Montgomery, the Hon. Fred. Haubury Tracey, Liberal, has been returned. An anti-Russian demonstration took place in Hyde Park. About 15,000 were present. Resolutions were passed demanding the fulfilment of the tripartite treaty of 1556. Mr Pierre Lepont, the American Minister in England, who lias become exceedingly popular during his short stay, is announced as about to leave. The Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot died suddenly on May 11th, from disease of the heart. • The Queen has granted a pension of £75 each per annum to three old maiden ladies,

descendants of Daniel DeFoc, who were in greatly reduced circumstances. It is stated that the Khedive intends to send a further contingent of 10,000 men.

The entrance of European volunteers into the Turkish army is meeting with great opposition. The people are distrustful of everything European, and the war is taking more and more a religious character, in which all Islam wishes to take part. The gifts of money which are arriving from all quarters, and particularly from the Mussulman population of India, reach a very considerable amount.

The want of cavalry prevents the Turks from taking advantage of their success. The town of Tultcha has been abandoned by the Turkish army, after which it was pillaged and burnt by tha Bashi-Bazouks. No bloodshed took place, but the 20,000 inhabitants of the town, both Mussulmen and Christians, lost all their property. A Turkish gunboat endeavored to pass Kalafat, but was driven back by the fire of the Roumanian batteries. She contrived to slip past on Sunday morning however. Whereupon the commanding officer at Kalafat telegraphed to the next military station, a small place not marked on the maps, and on the gunboat arriving there, she was received by so heavy a fire that she was compelled to surrender, and was taken possession of by the Roumanian authorities. She is stated to have been built for the Turkish Government either at Vienna or Pesth, and had not received her armament when captured. The explosion on board the Turkish monitor Lufti Adgbill was entirely accidental. It appears that some of the men were arranging cartridges in the magazine, and a cartridge caught fire and instantly a terrific explosion took place, almost the entire crew were killed and the splendid vessel was destroyed. The monitor was of English build, and cost £160,000. The works for the defence of Constantinople are being constructed by the inhabitants. The Turks are said to have captured 200 Russian vessels since the war commenced. The Russian Government, to prevent any insurrection in Poland, is calling out all the Poles capable of bearing arms. A correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph ” writes that five leading Circassian chiefs started from Constantinople for Batoum. Their names were Hadji Hassan Bey, Mandkambekat Bey, Mancman Bey, Hadji Ali Bey, and Mchmet Bey. They had arranged a carefully considered plan of action with the Ottoman authorities and their own country men. Arrived at Batoum, they went on board the squadron of Hassan Pasha, who forthwith sailed with five ironclads for the Russian port and fortress of Sukkum Kalch. The Turkish men-of-war made their destination in the darkness of the early morning, casting anchor a little after three o’clock, and they at once landed the Circassian Chieftains, with a party of men carrying 600 muskets and ammunition, which were speedily distributed among the expectant and willing people. The neighboring country was so thoroughly and quickly roused that by broad daylight the Beys had got together as many as 3000 Circassians. Hassan Pasha then landed an additional force, composed as Hearn of other Circassians, Kurds, and Turks ; and while the ironclads opened a vigorous cannonade upon the fortress, the Beys with their volunteers and auxiliaries attacked the place with desperate resolution. The Russians offered a determined but vain opposition, losing terribly. After this the insurrection is described as having spread like wild-fire. The inhabitants of the surrounding districts gathered by thousands, with weapons of all sorts, to the Turkish standard. They drove the Muscovite garrisou and guards all over the district, chasing them to Gangara, which they also destroyed. When these successes were reported, Hassan Pasha landed a new supply of rifles and cartridges to equip the Circassians, and a formidable local force was organised to march upon the railway line to Tillis, aiming at the direction of Katais. Another large band was despatched to raise the country in the rear of the Russian columns which are attacking Batoum. Great importance is attached to the rising in Circassia. A large force of Circassian emigrants, with Government stores of arms and ammunition, has been shipped from the Bosphorus for a point on the Black Sea.