12 JANUARY 1878, page 1

Lord Beaconsfield Has Lighted Another Coloured Fire To...

The Gazette of Friday week contains a decree creating another Order, this time of women only. It is called the "Im- perial Order of the Crown of India,"—by the way, is that......

The Prince Of Piedmont Has Been Proclaimed King (january 10)

as Humbert IV., an assumption characteristic of the dynasty, Which never forgets that though Italy is new, the House of Savoy is old, and he has issued a proclamation to the......

The Turks Have Resolved To Seek An Armistice. Their Friends

say they have acted on British advice, but as they never take British advice except when they please, that must be regarded merely as one more effort to claim them as British......

The Turkish Chamber Has Passed A Vote Condemning The Whole

management of the war by 54 votes to 30. The most severe comments were passed upon Mahmoud Damad and Edhem Pasha (the Grand Vizier), and the resignation of both was de- manded.......

Iv The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Manuscript In Any

case.......

The " Feeling " Of Constantinople Is Not Known Since

the last disaster to the Turkish arms. Generals Mirsky and Skobeleff, after desperate exertions, succeeded in cross- ing the Balkans by the Trojan Pass to Kezanlik, and sur-......

News Of The Week.

V ICTOR EMANUEL, first King of Italy, died in Rome, at 2.30 on the 9th inst., from a brief but severe attack of fever, caught at his hunting palace of San Rossore, and......