ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 213, 8 September 1877, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Disastrous reports have been received of the Indian famine. The situation is most critical, and there is danger of a general famine. Half-a-million have already died of starvation. At a meeting at Madras, resolutions, praying for assistance from all cities iu Great Britain and India, were passed. A coup d'etat is considered imminent in France. A rendezvous of Bonapartists at Chiselhu \st is announced. At Athens, crowds paraded the streets shouting for war. Greek troops are massinorou the frontier. Sickness prevails in the Russian army especially in the Dobrudscha. A camp of 70,000 is contemplated at Constantinople. The Russian cavalry attacked Lovatz, but were repnlsed. The Turks occupied Selvi unopposed The Grand Duke Nicholas was nearly captured at Eski Sagraha. The Tin kg from the Caucasus reinforced Sulieman Bey via Varna. An American missionary reports that all the male Christian population of Saghra are condemned to death by the Turkish commander as enemies, and a civil war of extermination has begun there. There are 300,000 Mussulmau Bulgariau refuges at Constantinople. The revolt in the Balkan villages has been suppressed and the Bulgarians disarmed. Fifty thousand Circasians, with 150,000 cattle, have been deported by Hobart Pasha j from the Caucasus to Trebizonde, in conse- i quence of the Russian re-occupation. \ The Russians lost 12,000 men south of the Balkans. General Iguatieff is charged with causing the disaster by misleading statements regarding the strength of the Turks— 90,000 men— beyond the Balkaus. Mukhtar Pasha claims to have surprised and defeated hyo Russian battalions near Ardahan.j