The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-05 00:00:00

LATEST WAR NEWS.
THE PEACE.

On Saturday night a telegram reached Constanti-
nople announcing the signature of the preliminaries of
peace. Great satiefatrion prevailed In the Ottoman
capital on receipt of the news that the preliminaries
had been settled.
According to a telegram .r,f Saturday's date from
Constantinople, the preliminaries of peace embrace the
following six points : Establishment of • Principality
of Bulgaria; the payment of a war indemnity, or a
territorial compensation ; independence of Roumania,
Servia, and Montenegro, with an increase of territory
for each of the Principalities ; introduction of reforms
In Bosnia and Herzegovina; ulterior understanding
between the Sultan and the Czar in the question of
the Straits • and, Wetly, evacuation of certain fortresses
by the TAN.
Replying to the Sultan's demand for an armistice.
the Emperor of Russia's telegram was thus worded:
" I desire pesos as well as yourself ; but it is necessary
for me, and it is oecessarj for no, that it should be a
solid and durable ;ewe.
Telegrams are stated to have been exchange between
the and the Czar, expressing their mutual
satisfaction at the cessation of hoepitilities.
Players were on Sunday offered up in all the
churches in St. Petenburv, and salvo.., of artillery
were fired, on the occasion of the signature of the
armir ice. The town was decorated with flags, and
preparations were being made for brilliant illumina-
tions law night.
A telsgram of Saturday's date front St. Petersburg
was recshsd at the Russian Embassy at Perin on
Sunday, reporting that the Grand Duke Nicholas had
telegraphed to the Emperor Alexander that the
preliminary conditions of peace had been accepted by
the Turkish delegates, ant that the armistice was
signed at Adrianople at As o'clock on the evening of
the 31st

TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS.
Horrible sufferings, according to a telegram of
Sunday's date from Ran, publi•lisd in the Goina, are
being endured by the Turks in Erseroum, about 200
dying daily of typhus fever alma There are it is
stated, no provisions and no firewood in the plus, the
surrender of which has been frequently offered by the
Turks, who, however. insist upon being allowed to
leave the town with their arms.
Ten thousand Greek troops. and many thousands of
volunteers, after • Fe Dona had been celebrated out.
side the town of Lemma on Saturday morning, mewl
the frontier in three division. into Themaly. Orders
have been given to the Greek troops who have is. tered
Thesealy to avoid any attack upon the Turkish troops
The purpose of the Greek Government in mending an
armed force across the frontier is stated to be that of
preventing the mawacre of Christian., which Mr.
Layard had informed Lord Derby might be expected
to result from the outbreak of ineurrection. This
intention has been explained to the Turkish Minister ,
at Athens, who has not, in conalnence. taken any '
stops towarda broiling of diplomatic relations.
News had reached Athens on Saturday that Crete
haa thrown off the Turkish yoke and declared its =ion
with Greece confirmed

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The Timm Pere Correspondent telegralting Stmdsy,
rye : OfßaiU wired the signing of the bases of pesos,
arrived ben lam night t etbee with an agreement for
the enepomionboitilies, and the raising of the
blockade el Odors.