ENGLISH CABLEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 998, 14 November 1878, Page 2

ENGLISH CABLEGRAMS.

[special to press auency.J LONDON, November 8. The treaty referred fo m yesterdavV telegrams was made secretly at' the time of the Congress, and coutaiiifd a proviso that iv the even v of Rust-ia claiming, on the ground ot humanity, to preserve order and 1,0 remain iv Turkey bayond the date ; that the Congress specified, England and Austria were to undertake tlu police duties, and to compsl Russia to evacuate. This was intimated at the time to Russia. LONDON, November 9. , Four thousand Bulgarian militia have massacred a large portion of the Mussulman population, aud burnt several villages near Demotica. The ' Times' telegrams state that several thousand of the former Russian officers and soldiers . aye been permitted to volunteer their services to the Afghans. LONDON, November 10. Count Schouvaloff has left m the Livadia for London. The Czar is m a precarioue state of health, and is not permitted to take" part m the solution of the political difficulty. Probably a revision of the Berlin Tieaty will be proposed.

[rbuter's speoiat, cablegrams. I LONDON, November 10. The Emperor of Russia is iv an unsatisfactory stafco of health. LONDON, November 7. Mr Sainnel Phelps, comedian, died at the age of 72. The Board of Trade returns for October show the exports to amountto £20,000,000; the imports for October, £26,250,000. The exports show a decrease ot £1,000,000 ; the imports, £3,250,000. LONDON, November 8. At the Guildhall banquet, Earl Beaconsfield. said the evasion of the terms of the Berlin Treaty was unfeasible, fov it might embarass the precautions taken m our policy to prevent the fatal supremacy of any individual Power. He disbelieved there was any intention on the pait of Russia to evade the Berlin Treaty, but England was determined to enforce its leiter and spirit. He refused to believe m the decadence theory, and believed that England was capable of creating, and not losing, an Empire,

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