Heads of Intelligence.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2833, 14 March 1878, Page 2

Heads of Intelligence.

(FIOU THE HOKI NEWS.) The Imperial Parliament was opened on January 17th at Westminster, the Queen not being present at the ceremony. In the Speech from the Throne, read by the Lord Chancellor, the progress of the war, and England's interest in it up to the present time, are tracrd. .No money vote was then asked for, but it was intimated that it might be necessary. The menacing, contingencies contemplated in the Queen's Speech hare, in the opinion of Her Majesty's Ministers, arrived, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer aanouncf i in the House of Commons, Thursday, Jan. 24, that a Supplementary Estimate, fixed by ramor at five millions, for increasing our naval and military sticnclh would bo asked for on Monday, Jan. 28. In deference to the wishes of the Opposition leaders, the discussion on the vole was adjourned till this crening, Jan. 31, when it will again be brought forward, and Mr W. £. Forster will meet it with an amendment declaring that it. is unnecessary.

Adrianople haa been surrendered by the Turks to the Russians, who are now apparently nurchin£ both on Gallipoli and Constantinople. Since the capture of Sofia the Russians hare continued their march towards Fhilippopolis and Adrianople, and are said to be intent on getting to Gallipoli. There is great distress in Eourr^lia— now virtually in possession of Russians — and refugees are flocking in groat quantities to Constantinople. . The Turkish envoys armed at the headquarters of the Grand Duke Nicholas at the end of last wee!,-, bat as yet no armistice has been concluded.

The Russian conditions of peace are generally regarded' as inadmissible, and

as contravening the whole spirit of the Treaty of Paris. It is expected that a European Conference will shortly consider the whole question. Austria and, it is said, Germany, as well as England, disapprove the llussian terms. . ><- Irish business has thus far, after the Eastern Question principally occupied the House of Commons. The insurrection in Thensaly seems' likely to involve Greece in war with the Porte. 1 On Jan. 22 Mr Lowthor announced that the Gibraltar ordinance was withdrawn for the present. ,„. The marriage of King Alfonso of Spain with the Princess Mercedes was ceiebreted with great rejoicingx and enthusiasm, onJan. 23, at Madrid. The funeral of the. late King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel, was celebrated on a : very imposing scale, Jan. 17. Lord: itoden attended as the representative of England. ' The Prince of Wales has visited Cam*' bridge, atid unveiled a statue' of the Prkee Consort in the Fitzwilliam Museum. - : Cleopatra's Needle has safely reached England, and is now on view at the East India Docks. . ' ! The Bishopric of Queensland has been conferred on the Rev; G. H. Stanton, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Lincoln's Inn: '••■ Mr H. M. Stanley has arrived in* London, and will nhortly give an account of his k frican explorations before the Geographical Society. '. , Obituary of the MoNTH.—King yictor Emmanuel; Lord Kinnaird; Marquis of Ailcsbury; General de la Marmora; the Hon. JK. Harbord; Dowager Lady Darell; Dowager L.dy Lurgan; Lady Catherine O. Tollemache; the Hon. Mrs O. St. John Mildmay ; Lord-Cecil James Gordon, son of Marquis of Huntly; J. Forster, lute M.P. for Berwick; G. Duncan, late M.P. fur Dundee; Lady Lluellyn; Mr Win. Cobbett; Mr jfi." Wilsou, of the Melbourne Argus; Andrew Murray, F.L.S.; Sir W. Stirling Marwell ; Sir Edward Creasy; Lady Beckett; Dr Doran, F.S.A.; Lady Knollys. .