Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-26
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THE EUROPEAN CONGRESS-.
DEATH OF QUEEN MERCEDES.
A LONDON SENSATION,
SENDING THE INDIAN TROOPS HOME.
EUROPE TODAY.
What Has Caused a Sensation i'm

LONDON, June 26.-A telegram from Ports
mouth says that orders have been received at
the naval station there to dispatch three
Indian troops ships TO Malta. The crcum
stance causes considerable excitement and il
Is reported that these vessels will be employed
to take back the Indian contingent.
An English AgitatOr.
BERLIN, June 26.-In the course of the eX
ANIMATION OF the case of Bishop, the English
man convicted and sentenced to Imprisonment
lof pllolng officials 10 obtain plans of German
lortf6sSeS. IL was discovered that he had been
sentenced TO ten years Imprisonment in 1854
by court at Turin for participating in a con-
Splracy IN favor of eN X ing Francis Of Naples.
Ii WAS also discovered that he corrupted a
PIuSSian sergeant at Net in lS77 in order TO
obtain information relative to the mubiliZa-
ton OF the royal engineers He was a Staumch
GlramOntaine and an enemy of Bismarck. of
russia, and OF Germany.
BomhaSt About RessaraHia
LONDON, June 26.-The Times Bucharest dis
paich says: The talk about resisting the re
procession OF BesSarabia by force is mere bnm
taNt. The Russians occupy the who,e OF that
territory. They have only to retire 10 the
south TO hold the line of the river. and the Rnu-
manlanS would 3e utterly p0weTleSS 10 dlfecj
tie MUScoyite position.
The Roumanian Cause Abandoned.
y Berlin dispatch 10 the Times saws: The
hGGllialildR cause Is apparently abandoned by
al The powers. The BratianO cabinet will prob.
ably 20 cut after the close of the Berlin Con
greSS.'
LONDON, june I6.-ihe CentrUl Nelr> is the
authority Tor the StatcmAut that Lord DUtterin
b@> consented Ia accept al extension of his
appointment as GUVeruOrIiemeral of the Do
minOn OF Canada.
Austria's Acquisition.
VIENNA, June 26.-The BeTliu correspondent
OF the Vienna PfeN&e States that Bosnia and
herzegovina are to De occupied by Austrian
troops within a fortnight.
The Congress Defining Boundaries.
BERLIN, June g6-While an agreement has
been arrived at in principle respecting the
southeast and northern frontiers of the new
prInclpalIy, the western frontier has not yet
been fixed. The task OF settling the ey1ct
dellmtatiOn of the frontiers has been entrusted
to European commission, which Il is believed
has been already. appointed. 1t has been
agreed also TO diSmautIe the fOrtreSSeS on the
Danube and in Bulgaria.
G0rtschakOf Failing.
BERLIN, June 26.-The health OF Prince
GOrtschakof being generally broken it will
probably be necessary to appoint his sue
CeSSOr.
WaIIachian FOrtiticatiOus
LONDON, June 26.-TeiegramS from Bucha-
rest report that progress is making in the con-
StructlOn OF earthWOrkS at the northern out
let's OF the Carr atSIan passes. II is also stated
that certain mountain roads are being made
practicable tor artillery on both sides of the
frontier.
The PapaI ConsistOry Postponed.
ROME. June 2n.-1he cOnSiStory appointed
for the fifth of july has been postponed until
the 18th of the same month.
heath of the Queen OF Spain
MADRID June 26.-The Queen of Spain died
this morning.