EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 66, 4 January 1879, Page 2

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

(From the latest Colonial Papers.) London - , November 12. Large body of Russian troops is advancing from Turkestan in the direction of lialkh. in Bokhara, close to the northem frontier of Afghanistan. Lord Northbrook, forr. icrly Viceroy of India, in addressing a political meeting at Winchester, attacked the Ati'ghan policy of the Government, and expressed a conviction that an extension of the BritishIndian frontier would eventually be rendered necessary by the occupation of Quottah, which would increase the ditliculty of defending the Indian Empire from invasion.

The Russian Government has adopted a more pacific tone in their communications with England, and the political situation has improved. The Czar has assured the British Government that he will faithfully conform to the provisions of the Treaty of Berlin, November 13. The Russian Government, is sounding the other Towers on the subject of another Conference. England has rejected the idea. November 20. Parliament has been siimmonotl for despatch of business on sth December for a short winter session. November 22. Aii-Musjid, a Fort in the Kyi,, r Pass, eight miles from its entrance has been captured. The British forces are advancing. The amount of S'>,soo,ooo,awarded by the joint commission at Halifax to the British Government in the Newfoundland Fisheries' case, has been paid by the UnitcdStatoa Government under protest.