EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

Kumara Times, Issue 546, 27 June 1878, Page 2

EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

[press agency.]

London, May 10. The Queen is at Windsor, and in excellent health.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer informed the House that the cost of the Indian expedition would be born by the Imperial Exchequer and th»t the troops, while in Europe, would remain under the provision of the Indian Mutiny Act. . The Czar lately signed a decree callins? out 240,000 men of the reserve. 14,000 spades have have been sent to the Russian head quarters in Rouniaiiia. Twenty thousand cartridge chests have l»een ordered in Holland and Cronstadt, and Whitehead torpedoes are being steadily manufactured. One large factory was recently blown up. t The military situation aR regards Russia and Turkey appears to be improving. The attitude of the Russian army in the. neigborhood of Turkey is less menacing, while the Turks have been diligently employed during the past few days, in multiplying and strengthening, the defences around their capital, so that any attempt on the part of the Russians to seize the citv would certainly, provoke a stubborn resistance. Intelligence conies, from Armenia to the effect that the Russians are moving in eonsidm-.vile force into the district adjoining Bateum, with the intention apparently to attack the place if it should not yield peaceably. ' Tim Christian population are hostile to Russian rule, they flee from their '•lvSnu-s, and ai-aii-lon their fields, and have sent formal complaint* to the Porte of th<». cruelties of the invaders^