The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-04-09 00:00:00

THE WAR.

There is no longer any doubt that in ClBe of
between England anti Howie. Italy and Germany wai
observe the strictest neutrality.
We are informed, but cannot von& for the coriect.
nessof this i formation. that Prinos Gortsch.kily h
about an r,airi his post as Chancellor of the liresh4
Empire, and that he will be succeeded by C
schoilvaltiff, at present Ambassador in Loudon._
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The British fleet has received orders that in chis
the Ruwinn troopt attempt to occupy the lines
Boulair, in the Peni-sula ot Gallipoli, the commander.
of the vessels stationed there are at once to open hr.
upon them and to take such other means as by.
ap ear advisable in order to resist any such
Account' received from the Stafford House aoci„;
and others who have returned within the lam fn
days from Bulgaria state that there is neither Nod [lot
forage left in the country, and that, with the sole es.
oeption of one or two of the valleys on the south sids
of the Balkans, the whole of Bulgaria is eaten har,.
the result being that the Russians are heurforth
entirely &pendent for their supplies on that which eu,
be sent either from Russia or from the west through
the Meditearanean.
, In consequence of the European political crisis the
' Indian Government has under consideration tha
adoption of mea-ures which are, however, of a purely
prenatal, nary character.
The discussion of the English Note is dill proceed.
ing throughout the Continent, especially in fit.
Petersburg, whence we hear that. from • Russian
point of view, General Ignatiers mission was SUCCOIS
NI. because he achieved his object of ascertaining chi
Austrian objections to the Treaty of San Stefano. The
Avows Ream regrets that England has not lollowed
the mine course as Austria, and made k. nwn
proposals as well as her objections, to ascertain which
wee precisely the object of the Congress. If, adds ,b.
Agence, the British Government would now eau wbst
it proposes, then the proposals of England and Austria
might serve to pave the way for a C. ,111M00 under.
standing. The Nora Gerona aiessiat &icier,* that
Germany's special interment 11,11 not effected by tha
Treaty, and expresees a hope that the common
for peace will bring to a reconciliation Interests which
are now conflicting. Throughout Hungary there is
an increasing sympathy for an alliance with England
A Constantinople correspondent has recieveol from
a trustworthy source a resesse of the statement'
which have been received there as to the existing con.
dition .4 things in Bulgaria, Macedonia. and Thrace,
and of the cruelties committed on the Greek populs.
tin. The Bulgarian language ha. been made the
official one, though it is unknown to the bulk id the
remaining inhaldtanta. The name of Philippopilia
has been changed into Ploydir—a Slav word The
Russians, it is added, appear determined to assert the
authority of the Bulgarians In everything, and will
not listen to any complaints against them.
, The suggestions that • Congress may still aseemble
Inc tosequencs of the yielding .4 linssia ore increasii,e.
While the Joserna/ de Se. Aviv-stare describe, the
acid in of the English Cabinet as "the wavering of a
nervous policy," and leder,. that Russia maintains
an unmoved position; and while the general pre.. of
, loth St. Petersburg and Moscow state that it loin.
possible for Russia to yield to the English demands,
we have very different news from both Berlin aad
Vienna. Lest night • report reached Berlin that the
m Aerate piny in Husain is prevailing. awl that the
i is about to address an autograph letter to the
' German Emperor soliciting his mediation "dal the
Powers, in or ler to bing about a,. agreement on the
understanding that Rust& would submit the whole of
the Tre.ty of San Stetson to a Congress. and would
' accept such alterations as might be made by the
Powers which signed the Treaty of Paris, offering to
, admit modifications as regards the new Bulgaria. It
is bought at Berlin that this change has been p D-
I dined by the appointment of Lord Salisbury as
! Foreign Minister, The Po'iticei Correspondence et
Vienna publishes • letter from St. Petersburg which
is regarded as foreshadowing the Russian reply to the
Engish note. The writer sketches • programme for
the solution of existing difficulties, and make sugges-
tion, for meeting the views of both Enaland and
Au.tria. At the NOM time the idea of an alliance
between Russia and Turkey seem, to be fading. A
Guistantinople correspondent telegraphs that the
Khedive has inf .rtned the Porte that if each an
alliance be made aa against England Egiorpt will ha
inediately declare her independence. This questkr.
is regarded as depending upon the question whether
any change be made in the Turkish Ministr7-5
matter which is placed in abeyance by the apparently
serious indisposition of Ahmed Vefyk, who seems to
have sent in his resignation to the Sultan, though there
is no announcement iif its having been acospted—a
step against which Mr. Layard has spoken to the
Sultan. The Asiatic subjects of the Porte bass
rendered the situation somewhat critical, the inhabi-
tant, of the important province i.f Lasistan having
protestel against the evacuation of Bstourn. General
ilelikoff, however, is urging on Turkey the execution
of that part of the Treaty, while the commanders of
the Russian trio ip. near Co istantinople h.ve renewed
their demand to be allowed to embark their men at
Buyudere, and state that they have given up the idea
of effecting that operation at San Stefano.