MAIL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2540, 26 February 1877, Page 2

MAIL SUMMARY.

A;number of Bashi Bazouks crossed the Danube and plundered the Roumanian outposts. The Commander of Silistria has been ordered to punish them. The cost of relief works and measures to relieve the famine at Bombay and Madras' -is' estimated at six and a-half millions sterling. The Servian General, Tehernaieff, was received at Prague with incessant orations favorable to. Russia. The authorities interfered* and the .police escorted him over' the Saxony frontier^ aodas he showed a disposition to resist force waii' threatened, - , ,- , , -"-, The British ship Ada Iredale, bound for 'Friseowith coal,'was totally destroyed by fire. The crew, numbering twentythreer setout forMarquesar Islands, orer two thousand miles distant. . One boat wag capsized in a gale, but all were saved except one. After being twenty-six days in open boats and undergoing great Buffering they arrived safely. In the event of war a split is expected

,in the British Parliament. The Liberals are dividing under the opposing leader* ship of Hartington. and Gladstone, and the Conservative^ are dividing through I known differences oetween Salisbury and üßeaconsfipld. r A, . a ,- Jn V'^he Porte has warned, Servia thai no. I armistice I was granted beyond the first i^oCMarchi ' . " , i 4_, \ • ' . Countess Howe, through grief at the death of her husband, threw herself from the window and was killed. fifteen persons are known to have been killed' -^ilil'l ■■] -.y-Av.'ViOU .-■'-

... ,-Cqmnjcrciil^int©rcpflr|fi between Jtwfia and China is suspended, owing to Chinese suspicions, excitedt S#J?'"tKtf Kussian «x----ploring expedition.

I It is saiji that^SerTiaan;^ Turkey haw agreed to accept the statuqiib ante bellum as the basis o?;a [treaty for peace negotiations.

I It- is! reported Cfhlt *Sußii»<-wift^nbt oppose the Servian .peace negotiations in oirder that, should war arise,' i SerVia may be invaded as Turkish territory. . . . .

The Porte has sent a despatch to it■ representative lb^«i^mii| $biicVbf th^e appointment of three Christian. Go;Tierabrs r^^'jth^fc',re|araw .^re li; pr(wet>d-. ing nnremittingijssjv ■: .: 7/0J ; s .;

; The«steamers ;<3fiio*g<B GrdtnweU from- i Hull la^i^tla^ forinftrwith tKirtjP, krid t&5 lalte* with thirty-one passengers —hayefjbeen totally lostf hA no ;£ JtuSu' 1-: > ISfr* ! The Roumanians,are erecting,redoubt* opposite jfche Turkish fortress at Wadpin.^ oiwing to the Emperor lunwiUingneai to