17 JUNE 1876, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

ATELEGRAM received in London on Friday morning, announces a catastrophe which may have a great effect on Eastern affairs. The Ministers were assembled on Thursday night in the house of Midhat Pasha, when an officer, recently dismissed, entered the Council-room with a revolver, and killed Hussein Avni Pasha, the Minister of War, Reschid Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and an aide-de-camp, and a servant, who presumably tried to arrest him. He also wounded Kaiserli Pasha, Minister of Marine. He was arrested, and his crime is attributed to revenge ; .but no details are known, and he may be an agent of the Softas, whom the Ministry were threatening to curb.