NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5295, 15 March 1878, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(REUTERS SPECIAL TO PRESS AGENCY,) UNEASY FEELING IN VIENNA. WAR STILL THREATENING. London, March 11. The special Australian January mails via Brindisi were delivered to-day. March 12. It is semi-officially stated from Vienna that war is regarded as inevitable, unless Russia submits for the consideration of a European Congress the whole conditions of peace. Frequent Cabinet Councils are being held. Gladstone will not be a candidate in the next general election. England and France have accepted the proposals for the peace Conference at Berlin. The Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, in asking for a grant of 60,000,000 florins, said he must demand of the peace Conference that the limitation of the results of the war be so defined whereby European Austrian-Hungarian interests would remain uninjured ; and that any single Power attempting a solution of the difficulty must be prepared to meet a European coalition. SPECIAL TO MELBOURNE ARGUS. London, March 11, All the Powers have accepted a Congress. England demands a commission on affairs in Greece. Anti-Russian meetings have been held at Hyde Park. Gladstone retires from Greenwich at the next election. There has been a change of Ministry at Quebec ; Jolly is Premier. A steamer has been burnt at Cape Elsa. Five hundred Circassians perished. The Brindisi mail hat arrived. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (REUTER'S SPECIAL TO PRESS AGENCY.) Sydney, Thursday. Mr. Swanson, now in Sydney, has been offered the Deputy High Oommissiouership of Polynesia, to be stationed at Samoa, and it is presumed that he will also act as British Consul. It is definitely settled that the Colonist, with the New Guinea expedition, is to start on the :20th inst. : ij: Melbourne, Thursday. Mr Jenner stated in the Legislative Council this afternoon that he would not proceed with his motion for a conference. Mr Cuthbert has given notice of a motion for Tuesday next, that he will move that the second reading of the Payment, of Members Bill.be restored to the notice paper. There is no probability of it passing. All present prospects of a compromise have ceased. The Ministry intend adjourning the Assembly next-week until the first week in July next.