CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 550, 5 February 1878, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

LATEST WAR AND GENERAL NEWS. (i:ei"it.i:\s tei.eorams, per ruEss ackncy.) Loxdox. January 25. Consols, {IS.V ; market rate of discount. 2 per ociit. Wheat quiet : Adelaide, 57.-5 to 595: il>nr, 445. .Nov.- Zealand 4i per cents, 10: J. •January 20. Tiie Rus.siiin hcidquartei's lias been transferred to Adrianople. Tlie Russian troops have arrived at Sehortu, the population of which evacuated the town. Tlie Russians are marching against Turmurdjina. .Sir .St.->H'"rcl ISorthcoto stated in the House of Commons that, according to authentic information, lie found the conditions of Russia include the formation of Bulgaria into an autonomous tributary principality with Christian ride, the indepemh nee of Roumania. Bervia, and Monti -negro : the administrative autonomy of Bosnia and Herzegovina : the payment of a war indemnity ; and an ulterior agreement, protecting Russian interests in the Dardanelles. Tie declared that these conditions destroyer! the keystone of south-east Europe, and would alt'; et. both European and British interests. He further s;rld that. a. s-purite treaty between Russia, and Turkey was inadmissible, that the six millions were ask..:d for as a vote of confidence and to give England prestige at. the European C"nfor< nee. and added that t'>e orders ■„'iven to the fleet to enter the Dardanelles had been countermanded. Russia having agreed to refer tlie question of the S-taits to a European Conference. The Commons agreed to an adjonrninont of the debate to Thursday, January 30. The Russians are rapidly advancing on Constantinople. Ti;e French Mediterranean squadron and an Italian squadron have been despatched to the Levant.