LATER ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 3401, 19 June 1877, Page 2

LATER ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

(Peu ZeAlandix) General Kooeloff's Circassian Cossacks, intending to laud in advance of the invading army on the Danube, passed through Bucharest. The Turks made three attempts to cross the Danube and construct a battery at Tslatz, bub were repulsed by the Roumanians. The Porte has notified the European Powers that he has blockaded all the ports of the Black Sea. The Servians are making defensive preparations. It is said that the Servian Government have received proof that a convention exists between Russia and Austria, ICossuth has written urging an alliance between Hungary and Turkey to protect their independence from their common enemy, Russia. All the Hungarian papers urge action by Austria and Hungary. It is rumoured that Turkey will cede the sovereignty of Egypt to England for payment of a capitalised amount of tribute. . . All Mussulmans in Herzegovina and Bosnia between fifty and sixty have been ordered to join the army. Russia reports that an English steamer in endeavouring to enter Kertch without the necessary precautions, was totally destroyed by a torpedo. The centre of the Russian army, forty thousand strong, under Mel akoff, attacked Mukhtar Pasha, five miles outside of Kars. The Turks fought desperately. The Russians, supported by a powerful artillery, dislodged: them. Mbklitar called out his reserves, and attempted, on the 30th, to recover lost ground with sixty thousand men, but was defeated and driven back under the guns of Kars. The Russian lossos are considerable and the Turkish enormous. Bulgarian refugees in Rourriania are being armed. On bombardment by tbe Turkish monitors, the inhabitants of Reni, Ibrail, and Alenitzo, fled. Lieutenant-General Sir John Simmons will be Oominander.in-Chief oE the English army if sent to the seat of war. The Turkish forces sent to Sukhum Kaleh to aid the Circassians numbered ten thousand. The Russian forces in Roumania are estimated at 240,000. The Turkish force north of Ihe Balkans at 250,000. Turkish needle-guns are said to have caused the strengthening of the Russian army. 25,000 Northumberland colliers are on strike. There have been great fore,sb fires in Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Yermont, Maine, and Newfoundland ; and several frontier towns have been destroyed and many lives lost. In the revolt at Paraguay, President Boutesa and his brother were assassinated.