Age Special.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3559, 24 May 1880, Page 2

Age Special.

London, May 12. MORE ATROCITIES BY BUL-

GARIANS.

It is stated that affairs in the remote districts of Roumelia are causing much anxiety. Bands of Bulgarian soldiery have been indulging in. the utmost exesses in defiance of the authorities, and have in numerous instances assailed the Mahomedan; population. Intelligence has been received that nine Turkish villages have been. attacked and given up to pillage The women were outraged, andthe males, young and old, were slaughtered without mercy. ' The famine in the provinces of Persia is owing to the failure of the late harvest and the oppressive system the Government is daily extending. The rural population have been left without means of subsistence, and 600 deaths have occurred from the effects of starvation.

London, May 13. The Health of the Empress of Russia continues in a critical state. By latest intelligence very little hope is entertained of her recovery.

Bradlaugh has addressed a written protest to the House of Commons against the decision of the Select Committee. The question raised is exciting considerable interest.

Prince Leopold has left Poland for Canada, where he will remain for a time the guest of the Governor-General ard his sister, Princess Louise. The Prince purposes making a tour through Canada and the -Western States.

The strike amongst operatives at Blackburn and Oldham, in Lancashire, is assuming serious proportions, and greatly interferes with the state of trade. Several mills have been closed, and a thousand men are out of employment.

Much disquiet has been occasioned by the state of affairs in Turkey, which, it is feared will lead to az. open rebellion of the Albanians, who are up in arms, and have offered forcible resistance to the attempts made by Montenegro to occupy territory ceded under the Treaty of Berlin. Acting under pressure from the powers, the Grand Vizier has exerted his authority to prevent further conflict between Albania and Montenegro, but up to the present without success.

London, May 14. THE EMBASSY TO THE PORTE

The Honi G. T. Goschen is the Special Ambassador appointed, and has been instructed to proceed first to the principal European Courts in order to confer with the Powers upon the position of affairs. He will visit Paris, Berlin and Vienna in order to ascertain the views of Foreign Ministers, and arrange the carrying out of the unsettled provisions of the Berlin Treaty.

Great indignation is felt in Ireland owing to the proposal of the Gladstone Government to bare recourse to coercive measures in dealing with political and agrarian agitation. Home fiule meetings hare been held denouncing the renewal of the system of repression contemplated, and violent attacks have been made upon the Ministry by the National Press. The authorities remain firm and intend to execute a flagrant instance of seditious language. "\ CHILL Intelligence has been received of a serious defeat inflicted upon the Chilians whilst advancing upon Moguezna. The; were entrapped into an ambuscade and outnumbered, having to fight at a great disadvantage. They were defeated with heavy loss.

The feeling of irritation between Austria and England, caused by Gladstone's indictment of the Russian policy has been allayed, and an explanation offered. The Austrian Premier has declared" that Austria will be prepared to co-operate with England in any measure calculated to bring about the satisfactory settlement of Turkish affairs. London, May 18th. The Irish Home Rule members have held a meeting to consider the line of policy they will adopt in the new Parliament. They have elected Parnell their leader, and have resolved on a systematical press upon the Imperial .Parliament on the redress of Irish grievances. Intel ligenca has been received at Madrid of a serious outbreak at Cabul.