The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-19 00:00:00

Till GLOW( Or WAIL

A telegram from St. Petwrsborh states that the
total Rumble been aim.* the outbreek of the war
aunount to 89,879 men.

SHAD ,WS.

Several hundred additional men and boys have been
engaged at IVoolwich Arsenal this week. and there are
signs of increased activity on every hand. In the
naval yards of the Kingdom work is being
pushed forward with the utmost energy.

In a letter to a Liberal of Lambeth, Mr. Gladetone
my. be had ointeuiled all aling th tt united Europe
ought to have enforced the Dive... Airy deliverance of
the I •hrt,th. Provinces id Turkey, that • England
wand, I.revented this uni in. aid that by doing so we
had secured to Russia immense advantagee which she
ought cut to have

• AWITIIIJOS POLICY.
The imnunediate question is whether and how far
England is likely to have the co-operation of Austria
in any course of policy which ahe may have to pursue.
It is clear enough, from the experience of the Vrimean
War, that Austria will not be very likely to help se
In doing anything conducive even to her own intsmete
which slue thinks wear. for any reason likely to do
without her—that is to may, without her having any
rink or trouble in the matter. To commit ourselves
very far to • certain conies of policy is not by any
means the most likely way of inducing Austsia to
share it. cost and peril. We sinoerely wish we could
bring ourselves at such a crisis as the present to •
greater faith in the wisdom and the enlightened pur-
pose of her Majesty's Ministers All Is committed
now to their hands, and assuredly we have no wish to
thwart them; but their policy has led so far only to
embarrassment and difilculty, and in that fact is not
much eu..cragement for bettor hope as to what Ls yet
to oume.—Daily News.

THE BRITISH FLEET.
St. Prztassaaa, FILIDLT.
The forcing of the Dardanelles has produced here a
profound impression. Many people are delighted with
it, thinking that it annihilates the hated Treaty of
Paris, frees RwMa from various inconvenient obliga-
tions, and enables the army to enter Csargrad. Some
even conclude that the Conference is now no loncer
necessary, but this view is not likely to be adopted by
the Government. The., who have the direction of
foreign affairs declare that they cannot understand
the policy of England. Their vkws were to-day thus
explatu to ma.

THE SECRET TREATY.
We hear from excellent authority at CourtlinthlOPko
that the very first proposal made to the Turkish
delegates at Adrianople was the negotiation of a secret
treaty offensive and .lefensive betireen Runde and
Turkey. This was rejected by the Turks, who
proceeded to sign the hard terms imposed upon them
for the preliminaries of armistice and of peace. The
Ottomans clung to hope to the last moment, and at
length heard that the British fleet was ordered to the
Dardanelles. When, however, it received counter
orders from London and turned back the last chance
of rescue vanished, and the Sultan's Government at
length consented to embrace the Russian alliance,
The first proof of this is the protest against the entry
of the English ironclad, into the Dtrdanelles. Other
results remain to be developed.—Moraing Post.

THI DUMAN ADVANCE.
Vtiatta, Friday.
Up to five p.m. yesterday the Ituaidans had not
entered the Ottoman capital, nor was there any
authentic information in the city as to whether or not
they had overstepped the neotral zone, and wine
advancing in the direction of Stamboul or Gallipoli.
To judge, however, from the language of the Russian
papers, the Government will have the full support of
public opinion if it orders Um troops to enter Constan-
tinople.
A telegram in the Prase from Tirnova mays that the
Maidens are advancing in two columns towards Con-
atantinople, being only eight verde from the.town.
The western column is marching in the direction of
the Adrianople wate, the other holding for the
aqueduct of Ju.tinian, near Pyrgos, and the ?delimit-
mama population is living before them. Should this
turn out to be true, the approach and—more serious
still—the entry of the enemy into Stamboul might
create the very disturbance to prevent which they are
supposed to be wanted.

CONITLYTINOPLZ,MIS], 10 p.m.
It is said that the Russian. are coming. A. 6 I have
already telegraphed you, General Skobeleff, whose
troops had been distributed through the village, for
convenience of quarters,han to concentrate instantly
on receiving new, in provision of an oraer to advance.
When I left General Skobeleff at eleven o'clock on
Tuesday no order had been received, and be began to
believe that the forward movement .4 the fleet had
been countermanded. General Skobele!! can be here
with two divisions in 36 hours, and two m .rean/Isiona
can follow in two successive days. It is currently
reported here that the ('sr has informed the Sultan
that in case the English fleet comes he will be obliged
to send his army, but not as a inemure against the
Porte, with which he hopes for peac The fleet alone
cannot keep the It siphorus ..pen. The Russians can
probably, if they like, seise the heights .4 Buyiik.lere,
build redoubts, and mount heavy gum, which they
can obtain from the Turks, and thus block up the
Hosphorom In spite of the fleet. The weak spot in
Russia's armour, the Black Sea, will thus be covered.

WITLILINO THE IMILDAMILL3II.

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The British Beet entered the Dsrdanelles on Wednesday,
and met with no active opposition. Two lronclads have
been left at Gallipoli. Four are to he statiened off Prince's
Island. A telegram front Vienna states that the Sultan
requested 1.1 wen Victoria to relinquish the Intention of
sending the British Beet to Constantinople, and her
fLijesty is siii to have replied that the Beet entered the
Dardanelles with • pacinc object. The Sultan tel mean.
while informed the Czar of his 11.1re•aie to the (4Lieen, sod
requested that the entry of the }UMW] troops into
Constantinople might he deferred until her Majesty
rsplieil In ...war to this, the Czar merely repeated
Prince Gortachakors declaration of the 10th inst.
• TIAN OCT.

Wednesday the 'Turkish Parliament was dimolved by
the Sultan, on the ground that under present circumstances
the step was necessary. His Majesty hopes to be enabled
to summon a new Parliament shurUy.
The Houma newer-ape's point out that the entry of the
British Bret into the Dardanelles has been effected despite
the protest of the Sultaut, and it consequeucetly • violation
of the Treaty of Paris of 1866.
The North Genmn Unsafe, which is suppoeed to be
Prince Bismarck's organ, in an article on the *tat, of
adsirs in Europe, says that ta..t only are the relations
between the three Imperial rourts such as to place
idea of coolness between them out of the question, but
also such as to offer • sure guarantee for the maletenance
of the general peace

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