BULGARIAN AFFAIRS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3133, 18 November 1886, Page 2

BULGARIAN AFFAIRS.

[REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright,

SPEECHES AT THE HUNGARIAN DELEGATIONS.

(Received November 18, 1.45 p.m.) Buda-PesTH, November 17.

At the silting of the Hungarian delegations to-day, Count Andrassy made a speech in which he strongly condemned the admission of the fact of an alliance between the Emperors of Austria and Germany, He went into consideration of means of settling the Bulgarian difficulty as would [lnot] be opposed to the interests of Austria and Russia.

Count Kalnoky (the Premiei) expressed his concurrence with this view, and declared that Austria must uphold

Hip autonomy of Bulgaria. Russia, lie mlded, has no special rightu in regard to that country.

[special to press association.]

London, November 12. Russia is asking the Prince of Mingrelia to become a candidate for the throne of Bulgaria. [Mingrelia is a province in the S. W. of Asiatic Russia, south of the Caucasus and east of the Black Sea. Its area is 2365 square miles, and its population about 61,000. It is part of the ancient Colchis, and was governed by a Prince who was tributary to the sovereign of Imeritia, but in 1783 he put himself under the protection of Russia.]

November 14,

The Commissioners of the late Exhibition intend to piesent Sir P. C. Owen with a service of plate, in recognition of his services to the Colonial Exhibition. The Fisheries and Health Exhibitions, it is announced, show each a small surplus, and the Inventions a deficit. The Colonial Exhibition has produced a surplus which is variously estimated at from £70,000 to £50,000. The Prince has invited the mayors of the United Kingdom to cooperate in providing funds for the Imperial Institute.

The death is announced of Mr W. Calder Marshall, R.A., sculptor, aged 73. ,

M. Preycinet intends to ask for a vote for a penitentiary on the Island of Oleron, in the Bay of Biscay, where the recidivistes may be prepared for colonial life.