CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2962, 13 August 1878, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

LATEST.

(Rettteb's Special to Peess Agency.)

Vienna, August 11.

On the 6th the Austrians obtained a victory over J,he .Bosnian insurgents and captured a battalion of Turkish troops o£ reserve. A sanguinary engagement ensued nexi; day at Lyubinge. Constantinople, August 11. The Russians have occupied Varna. Greece is making efforts to obtain Crel c as a concession in the interests of peace. The Porte has refused to grant such a demand. ' London, August 12th. Safvet Pacha has been created a Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India. Much sickness continues ai Cyprus.

(Special to Pbess Agency.)

London, August 12. A portion of the Indian contingent has embarked for India.

There have been serious riots at Odessa.

Democratic meetings in Italy for the annexation of Tyrol and Trieste have

commenced.

Thie Irish Sunday Closing Bill has passed the House of Commons.

(Reuteb's Special to Pbess Agency.)

London, August 10.

Sir Julius Vogel has vindicated the municipal loan for Dunedin against the deprecatory remarks of the Times. The Queen reviews the fleet at S pithead on the 13th. ? ;,(i \. The Daily News reports the serious sickness of the troops at Cyprus, but no deaths. The armed population of Batoum are preparing to resist Russian occupation. Twenty thousand Turkish Volunteers have gone to the frontier. A tornado passed over Wallingford, Connecticut, and thirty persons were killed and many houses demolished. Martial law has been proclaimed in Bosnia. ■ Sir Stafford Northcote states that the estimates for the Kaffir war were within four hundred thousand pounds. Tepard's paper making warehouse in Covent Garden has been burned down, With a loss of thirty thousand pounds. Parliament is now expected to be prorogued on the 16th. H.M. corvette Cormorant, bound for the Australian station sprung' a leak in the English Channel and had to return to Chatham. . The money market is stringent. The bank minimum is unchanged, the bank charging six per cent. Australian securities continue depressed, with other stocks increasing. The value of money is producing teinV porary inactivity^ in the corn J ~ market, which is flat. •' ■ The weather is splendid for harvest operations. , Vienna, August 10th. The resistance to Austrian advance :n Bosnia and Herzegovina is increasing, and there is continuous fighting.