LONDON.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 104, 17 October 1877, Page 2

LONDON.

miA -n X October 6. ...- -the -Bank 'reserve has been reduced to nine and three-quari«r millions; Consols, 95^ Discount, L_ per cent. The "-Herald's " special correspondent says Mehemet All's recal and Sulieinan Pasha's transfer to the command-in-chief of the axmy 'on a the Danube, is generally-condemned. Kotzebue is adting as general adviser at the Russian head-quarters. The Grrand Vizier's organ scornfully rejects proposals of mediation, and upbraids England for refusing monetary A helpA Ghefket Pacha's corps, powerfullyj x^i^ced, has reached West Plevna. *3WRussians unsuccessfully, attempted with a cavalry force and two rifle bridges to intercept the convoy. Russia has ordered seven hundred Krupp guns, to be delivered m April next. The Servian hesitation is ascribed partly to.feafof a rising m Belgrade arid a proclamation, of a rival dynasty. The Tr_nsylvahiari. plot has two objects— the,, invasion of Roumania and a rising of the *Poles. The Hungarian deputy Helfz is under police surveillancei The Montenegrin campaign .concluded with the occupation of Beja. Prince Nicholas has writ--ten to the Czar stating that he has attained his principal, object in delivering "the population of Upper Herzegovina, and he expresses, a hope that the Czar will, on conclusion of peace, secure the incorporatiprL of the district of Bejani with Montenegro. Four hundred prisoners, en route for Siberia,- have perished through a railway accident. Four powder magazines exploded m the Sea of Marmora. Many workihen were injured.