CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 807, 12 November 1878, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. [RKOTKII'S TELEGRAMS PEil PRKSS AGKNCY.J London, Nove?nber 10. Tho Times says that several thousand Russian military officers and soldiers have been permitted to volunteer for Afghanistan. The Emperor of Russia is in an unsatisfactory state of health. •-/■*;'; ■.,' : :-u Hovember S. At the Guildhall banquet Earl Beaconsfield said the evasion of the Berlin treaty was unfeasible, for it might embarrass the precautions taken in our policy to prevent the fatal supremacy of any individual Power, He disbelieved there was any intention on the part of Russia to evade the Berlin treaty, but England was determined to enforce its letter and spirit. He refused to believe in the decadence of the theory of England being capable of creating, and not losing, an F.mpirc. [SPECIAL TO PIUS.SS AGENCY, j Lonpo.v, November 7Samuel Phelps, the actor, is dead, aged 72. November S. The treaty referred to in yesterday's telegram was made secretly at the time of tho Congress, and contained a proviso that in the event of Russia claiming, on tho ground of humanity, and to preserve order, to re-1 main in Turkey beyond tho date tho Congress specified, that England and Austria ] should undertake police duties and compel Russia to evacuate. This was intimated at the timo to Russia. Four thousand Bulgarian militia have massacred the population and burnt several villages near Demotion. Tho Times' telegram says several thousand of the former, with Russian officers and soldiers, have been permitted to go as volunteers to Afghanistan. November 9. Count Schouvaloff has left Livadia for Loudon. The Czar's procarious health has not permitted tho solution of the jsolitical difficulty.