THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1834, 29 December 1888, Page 1

THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.

Belgrade, December 25. The Radicals have thanked King Milan for framing a new constitution. The situation is improving. December 26. King Milan having conceded to the National Assembly the right to conclude a alliances, a majority has been secured for his constitution scheme in the Assembly. .Ristics, the Servian Premier, has admitted his friendship towards Russia, and has said that apart from his personal feelings it was as a matter of State necespary to retain tho friendship of Austria. Vienna, December 25. The North Wiener Tagblati; states that King Milan, of Servia, hss drafted a Bill providing for his abdication in j favor of his son Prince Alexander, and that he will ask the National Assembly | to pass the Bill if his Constitution j scheme should be rejected. I December 26. A despatch from Malta states that the Russian Consul there who was placed under arrest in consequence of the alleged discovery of a Nihilist plot against the j life of the Duchess of Edinburgh, has been released. St. Petersburg, December 26. Salabrachoff Toueheff has boon appointed Russian Minister to Bulgaria. London, December 26. Lord Salisbury, in the course of a speech, denounced the embargo laid upon the trade with Persia by Russia as an attempt to Ipvv blackmail.