The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-12 00:00:00

THE WAR.

Telegrams show that the bases of peace and the armistice
were signed at Adrianople on Thursday last, the 31st of
January. The order to suspend hostilities was to be
leg:latched at once. The con litions remade with those
reed • meek ago i I the House of C.Mtnone by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. Indeed, the only distinctly
ttew point is that ding to the evsettatton of certein
fortresees by the Turks—a matter belonging to the Armin
tire rather than to the Treaty of Pend*, fortre•ses,
ti, stated, being on the Danube and also E•zeroum, where
According to news from St_ Petersburg. 300 pmons or.
dying every day from typhus alone. The Turks haw.
repeatedly offered tosurrender, but insist upon the coedits
tion that the troops should be allowed to leave moth their
Irma Great satisfartion is said to prevail in Constanti-
nople in conseenenr• of the settlement of the pesos pee-
liminalies. in St. Petersburg the same feeling appears to
prevail. In reply to the despatch recently rent he the
Sultan to the Cslr the latter has tttlegraphed that be
t.qually desires peace, but that it must be a solid and
durable peace.
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We learn from Athens that • corp. of 10.000 Greeka
many thousand volunteers have crossed the frontier into
Theasaly. The troop. have orders not to attack the
Turkish forees. They are simply to prevent any massacres
from taking place. This has been annotinced to the
Turkish Miniver at Athens, who doe nt t, it is said,
siopear to consider it • sufficient mum for the rupture of
diplomatic relations, as he is making no preparations to
leave.

rh. Austrian Government Israel formal invitations on
quarter to the Powers to eend representatives to • Con.
ferenre to he held Vienna. A tel.gram from St Peters-
burg states that puhlie opinion there and in Moscow
meanie the prrionmi Claremore unfavourably. Some of
•he papers speak of It as • device by which the European
P owers, without spending • farthing or losing a man,
with to deprive Itti..sia of all that she has gained if ter
her heavy evitenditure of Mood and treasure
. . . . .

Tho itoaelanii have heen defeated in an attempt to take
Rttonm by .torte. Learning that 'Hobart Pasta had con-
veyed 8 000 teen to Conatantinople to ambit in the defence
the city. and believing, naturally enough, that the
iefen ling force would he very weak, they attacked the
works on the morning of the 3pili ult. In one place they
were sureeesful, but in the otheni they were received
with such • severe lire that they were compelled to
abandon the attack.
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It is deXiled-a-t-Nostantinnple that there were say secret
clauses in the peace prel,minaries with regard to an
aniline. between Route and Turkey, but the majority of
the Turkish Ministers are understood to favour such an
alliance. A Vienna new.paper in informed that arrange.
ments are leinit made for • meeting between the Sultan
and the Gean.l Duke at Tchstaldja The British shipo of
war have arrived In the Boaphorus. sad three Austrian
men of war have received orient to proceed thither. while
the Italian Tempel. which were stationed at Salonika have
left their mooring, for the same purpose. A Paris news
MP, publishes • statern(nt to the effect that the wending
of British sbipa to Constantmnple tuay induce Bowie m
consider heraelf no longer booed by her anterior engage-
ments. and contemporaneously with thin, the A filiog RUMP
publishes • special mpplement, declaring that the decision
of the British Cabinet restores to Ramis her liberty of
action. but adding that in any case Russia will regulate
her attitude by that of England. The 0/loil2 Weaserwre
of St. Peteraburgh explaine an apparent immtnistency in
see of the telerrams published last week, which named
Sebastopol or Odessa as the place where the future
negotiations were to take place. It elates that the
Armistice conditions were drawn up Met November, when
thou places were selected, bet sole as the peelimineriat
of peace have been signed at Adrianople, the future
negotiations will proceed at the Mane place.