15 DECEMBER 1877, page 1

After This, Everything Seems To Have Gone As Smoothly As

marriage-bells. M. Dufaure was recalled and his terms absolutely agreed to, and the list of colleagues submitted by him accepted. M. Dufaure himself, it is said, takes the......

The French Crisis, After Lasting All The Week And Going

through a great many phases of hope and fear, appears to be at an end at last. On Saturday it appeared that M. Dufaure, after receiving satisfactory written assurances from the......

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The Turkish Parliament Was Opened On The 13th Inst., Amid

a splendid ceremonial, with a speech from the throne of the usual kind. Turkey had been compelled to defend herself from aggres- sion, and had defended herself so as to call......

News Of The Week.

T HE war has entered into a new phase, for Osman Pasha has sur- rendered. According to an account by the correspondent of the - Times with the Russian head-quarters,the Turkish......

The Effect Of The Intelligence In Constantinople Is Not Yet

accu- rately known. The telegram-makers at once forwarded assurances that Turkey would fight on to the death, and it is possible that the Sultan, the Pashas, and the "......

No Official Statement Has Yet Been Made Of The Terms

of peace which the Russians would accept, but the most vraisemblantes rumours point to the independence of Roumania, increased by the Dobruclscha ; the independence of Servia,......

The Advantage To The Russians In This Triumph Is Immense,

for it releases 120,000 men for further operations, but the numbers in Plevna were found to be unexpectedly small. Osman Pasha had originally, by all accounts, 30,000 Regulars,......