ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 393, 22 September 1876, Page 3

ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL.

DEPOSITION OF THE NEW SULTAN OF TURKEY. LATER NEWS FROM THE SEAT OF WAR. ■ AN ARMISTICE PROPOSED. London, September 10. Sultan Murad Effendi has been deposed, and Abdul Hamid was proclaimed Sultan to-day. General Schermaifer urges the insurgents to continue the war, as there is a marked improvement in the efficiency of the troops. : The Servians report a successful attack on the Turks on the right bank of the Mororedo. The insui gents occupied the Turkish trenches, and Myklutar succeeded in reinforcing: TreiSnkel. Sydney, September 16. A London cablegram, undated, says : _ The Turks warmly attacked the Servian troops on the right and left of the Morava, turning the Servians' position. The Servians still hold Alexsinatz, but the town is destroyed. To prepare for the winter campaign, the Great Powers have made a peace proposal to the Porte.

The Turks occupy the left of the Morava above Alexsinatz. The Turks have invaded Montenegro. England has proposed to the Porte a month's armistice. Popular indignation lp expressed at the atrocities, which are increasing. In a letter Earl Derby states that the Government will seek to ascertain the exact truth of the reports for the purpose of doing justice,*and to thie end an armistice is proposed. In a pamphlet Gladstone has proposed the autonomy of the provinces.