LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 145, 17 June 1878, Page 2

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

.■; i| [Special.] London, June 16. The Lancashire strike is collapsing, andseveral mills are re-opening at a reduction in the rates. • - , ■ - = - -. The Blackburn weavers are organising a meeting to ascertain the feeling of the" strikers. .....:.. Lord ßeaconsfield hasurged upon the Con-' gress the necessity of the withdrawal of the Russian troops to prevent a collision. <."7 J ' The first innings of the Long Sight eighteen, closed for 63, and the second innings of the Australians for 67. Fred Grace and Gilbert are playing in the Long Sight team. Bombay, June 6. The Garonne, after being three days ashore, has been got off uninjured, . Kedter's Teleqbams per Press Agency.] •

Berlin, June 15. Count Schouvaloff and Lord Salisbury have agreed that the Balkans shall form the southern boundary of North Bulgaria, which is to become an independent state. The south of the Balkans is to be an autonomous province, but the frontier will be removed from the JEgean. England consents to the cession of Batoum and Bessarabia, and takes Armenia under her special protection; the control of the' neighboring States to be subject to* arrangements to be made by united Europe. Russia surrenders Byayiz, and the passage of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus aae to remain in statu quo. At the Thursday's sitting Earl Beaconsfield alluded to the dangerous proximity of the opposing forces at Constantinople, and hoped the Russian troops would be withdrawn immediately.