The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-01-22 00:00:00

THZ WAR.

1086•011 MOS RIZ MAJZOTT TO THZ SULTAIT.

C,ossrArnsort.; Wednoday Evening.

Lord Derby has Dent Mr. lAyard a de;patch
lag on behalf of Qnes Victoria to a message from the
&atm. This despatch erpreesed the sympathy of the
Qn•en with his Imperial Majesty, and says ohs will
follow the counsels or her Government

RITICIDI Or AX !IIGLI6H DOCTOR.

Dr. Radcliffe, an Raffish surgeon, who had been
attending the wounded in Armenia, has committed
suicide while being conveyed to Tiflis under charge of
• R.maian military doctor. Whilst on one of the battle-
fields in Armenia he received a rifle bullet in the head.
It did not penetrate sufficiently deep to muse death,
but the shock produced insanity, which necessitated his
resnaL At the poet-mate= the bullet was extracted.
It Li now officially stated that the number of
wisoners captured in the Schipke Pass wee 32,000.
The Ramie= also took 93 runs and 10 colours.
The committee of the London Conference on the
Redeem Question have at last taken a hopeful view of
the policy of the Government. At • meeting of the
=l committee held Let right, it was decided to
e, as the speeches of Ministers on Thursday
night warranted the hope that the intentions of the
Government were favourable to a strict neutrality.

TILE CAPTURE OF ADRIANOPLE.
The Turkish Plenipotentaries, Server, Namyk,
Nefnab, and Osman Paellas, arrived at Harmanli haM
Thursday. By order of the Grand Duke they were
received with military honours, and were escorted
thence to his head-quarters at Kezanlik, where they
were expected on Saturday. Prior to the arrival of
the envoys the Moscow dragoon. had captured
Hermanli, and the Russian forces had commenced a
further advance. This is not the greatest low the
Turks sustained last week. They have been obliged
to evacuate Adrianople, it haring been, according to
our Constantinople Correspondent, no part of the
plans of the Turkish leaders to defend that place.
Accordingly, some three hours before the expected
arrival of the Rurians. Mehemet All and the garrison
marched oat, after haring burned all the provisions,
blown up the ammunition store, and set fire tote
sera& The Russians, however, did not enter the
the town, until Sunday afternoon, for it was up to
then in telegraphic communication with the capital.
The Porte is much alarmed for the safety of that place.
and hem published a proclamation calling on all
patroitic citizens to enrol themselves for its defence.
An trade has also been issued ordering the enrolment
of all the free male population of the oity. The state
of the refugees is mist deplorable. Between Sunday
and Thursday last twenty-seven trains from Adria-
nople arrived at Constantinople bringing at least
twenty thousand persons in the last stage of misery.
At every station on the road to the capital corpses
were removed from the railway elr a
The impnadbility of defending has
already been hinted at, but the story that it has
actually been surrendered will strike most readers
with astonishment. ihe information comes hr
the correspondent of the Dailp Telegraph at P. It t
should be remembered, perhaps, that MOON of the mews
transmitted from this source 11111 been more remark-
able for its startling nature than for its strict
accuracy. The despatch is to the affect that the
Turkish Plenipotentiaries mat the Grand Duke
Nicholas on Thursday, and at once proceeded to
exchange preliminary notes Further negotiation
was, however, peremptorily checked by the statement
from the Russian Commander-in-chief that he had
decided to treat only at Adrianople. The immediate
surrender of that place waa thus necessary, and the
having recognised this, telegraphed orders
toststru rkish Commander there to *vacate the town.
It is further announced that this order will be
promptly obeyed, and that the Russians will arrive at
Adrianople in about two days. All this may or may
not he true, but if subsequent events should prove its
accuracy, It can only be Interpreted to mean that
serious resistance on the part of the Turks is at an end
If such a step is in immediate contemplation it ia
difficult to see why Suleiman Pacha should be allowed
to waste his strength in a struggle in Rounielia which
however it may end, can fulfil no useful purpose. The
=lt is thus told is not very pro The,
Renter's telegrams make no mention of •
meeting between the repreentstives of the hostile
nations. On the contrary, they represent that whilst
Ekornr and Namyk Pachaa were at the latest dates at
Adrianople, the Greed Duke was still at Tent
flaglus. It is very Wtely to turn out that the stater
manta of the Daily Tdegraph on the subject me
premature.