THE WAR

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 847, 20 November 1877, Page 2

THE WAR

EUROPEAN NEWS.

PANIC IN RUSSIA . TERRIBLE MORTALITY IN > RUSSIAN ARMY. REPRESSION OP OUTRAGES BY BAStfl-BAZOCTKS. [Per as. Rang irooma at the Bluff.] It is stated iu a telegram, dated Cracow, September 21, that a general panic has been produced in Russia by the last war news, and that the peasauts are filing into the forests for fear of fresh enlistment, Tnere is a general feeling of hostility to the Government. The Russian army are said to have lost 62,000 by disease since entering Turkey Their sanitary arrangements are described by all correspondents to be as bad as possible. Mr Layard, military attache with Sulieman Pasha's army, his died at Kasanlik, and been buried with military honours. Several of the Turkish com man. ders are taking stringent measures to repress outrages by the Circassians and Basha-Buzjuks. The commanders at Silistria has five hundred of them working in chains.

THE HEALTH OF THE POPE. GREAT FIRE IN LONDON. MARRIAGE OF THE KING OF SPAIN. NEW EXPEDITION TO THE NORTH POLE. THE AVALANCHE DISASTER. [Por s.s. Raugarooma at the Bluff]

The condition of the Pope's health has assume J a nev aspecD. He is suffering from very great..prostration. He easily and qumnlyfre fills asleep, and has barely strength enough to ijive attention to any business. A camari Lieommauds at die Vatican, and acts in tue name of the Pope, and a period of confusion and intrigue has commenced, whioh is preparatory to a crbis. some of the Cardinals are holding meetings to provide for an emergency. Admiral De Horsey has been ordered home to explain his attack On the Huascar.

One of the largest fires in the East of London that has taken, place for some years occurred on the 24th September, at some oil and colour manufactures, Millwall, The loss was very great. Fourteen land besides three water eugines were brought into requisition, and over 1,000 firemeu were preseut.

A collier strike has occured in the province of Haiuauit, Belgium. Fights took place at Naisens, and troops and gendarmes had to restore order. The mairiageof Don Alphonso, King of Spain, with the diiighter of the Duke de Montpensier, is definitely arranged. Hostilities have again broken out between the Dutch and the natives of Achcen. A new expedition to the North Pole, to be conducted by private enterprise, with a steamer pro visioned for three years, is proposed. Commander (Jhevne, R. N., has initiated the affair.

The crews ot the British fleet in jgosika Bay has been undergoing a co urse of military drill for defending the ships against torpedoes. The Admiralty has ordered thirty torpedo-boats from Mes rs Thoneycraft's yard at Chiswick.