CABLEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 448, 17 November 1877, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

(Bronx our Duneiiiu correspondent.) London, October 31. After a \ictory at Dubrik, the Russians on Mtuday (2Xth) advanced along Sophia road, and surrounded a fortified position at leitciiie. After two hours' cannonade with sixty two guns, the lurks smrendered, with seven battalions, one Pasha, and two gaas Only 300 escaped. A large Kussian force, with siege guns, is advancing on silistria from Madjidie. The relations of the Porte with Greece are improved The .Sultan informed the Belgian Ambassador that he (the -ultan) intends studying the institutions of Bel ium with a view of adopting reforms at the close of the war. M atters at Pievna are almost unchanged It is considered the .Russian Generals made a mistake in attempting to take the redoubts The Kussian losses d..ring the various unsuccessful assaults have been 30,000. Chefket Pasha has successfully supplied Plevna from Orchanie. The Russian Generals are blamed for not attacking the least defended parts of I'ievna.

'I here have been extensive floods in South Wales. Cardiff is inuudated. Ceneral Giant is being lionised in Paris. In the second ballottiug for the French elections on Sunday, the -28 th, the Conservatives gained eleven votes and the hepublicans four. The total liepublican majority is now 117.