EUROPEAN.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2494, 3 January 1877, Page 2

EUROPEAN.

London, December 26. All the European Powers represented at the Conference agreed to withdraw their ambassadors from Constantinople unless the proposals of the Conference, assented to by the Powers, are accepted by the Porte. The Porte is to reply on the 28th of December. The aspect of affairs is now more pacific. It is expected that Porte will not reject the proposals of the Conference absolutely, but that it will probably meet them with counter proposals. The British fleet is leaving Besica Bay because the anchorage is unsafe. The Grand Duke Nicholas is seriously ill. The reforms agreed to by the Conference will, if accepted, effect a compromise. They are the division of Bulgaria into two provinces upon Bosnia and Herzegovina, the nomination of three Christian governors, subject to the approval of the European Powers; the appointment of a mixed international commission, to be protected by a corps of foreign gensdarmes, to supervise the carrying into effect of the proposed reform; the revision of the Servian frontier, and the enlargement of Montenegro. Lord Salisbury demanded from the Sultan the acceptance of the proposals, stating that in case of refusal he ia instructed to leave Constantinople and withdraw the fleet. The City of New York, with the colonial mails of November, reached San Francisco on the 12th December, two days before contract time.