The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-01-29 00:00:00

THZ WAR.

Midbat Paaha has sent us a stirring appeal on behalf
the Turkish refugee, whom deplorable condition has
been fully described. We heartily echo Hi. Highness's
appeal. Whatever differences of opinion there may be
among Englishmen respecting the Government of
Turkey, there are noes aa to the patience, the devotion,
and the heroism of the people. The Turk, as Mumma
Pasha pointed out the other day, le no more •
Mahommedan by choice than is an Englishman a
Christian. Each owes equally the vice or virtue, as it
may be regarded, to the accident of birth. Added to
these negative considerations are the positive ones
evoked by the marvellous heroism with which an
mantled people are defending against overwhelming
Mlle and unspeakable treachery their national
existence. And now, to complete the picture, come
then harrowing records of terrible sufferings of men,
women, and children, whose innocence and inoffensive-
ness are admitted even by their persecutors. There
can be no doubt of what will be the result of Midhat
Pasha's appeal to the English nation. His Highness,
as long as he remains in London, will himself take
charge of and forward to trusted friends in Constanti-
nople for distribution any subscriptions sent to him at
De Keyser's Royal Hotel, Blackfnan.
THI ACTION OF INGLAJID.
The semi-official Russian agency says the British
Government, on learning the Russian conditions of
• peace, became convinced of the moderation of Russia.
THE DUADICL DISTRESS IN TUREST.
Refugees continue pouring into S2humla by
thousands. They are destitute of every necessity and
of fooL On Monday some twenty died from the
effects of the col.L One child was frozen to death in
the mother's arms Such scenes are of daily

-I,47;iiiin—g. can equal the heroic endurance of these
people under their suffering.. The Bulgarian. look
on with the most callous difference, never offering to
render the most trifling all.
A secret sitting of the Turkish Chamber of Dept'.
ties was held on Saturday afternoon, when the Sultan
made known to Ma Parliament the c ,nditions of
The.e teems, however, have not yet town
telegraphed to London. The Russian head-quarter.
have been removed from Kezanlik, and it as thought
that when the Grand Duke and the Plenipotentiaries
arrive at Adrianople • treaty will be signed. Various
further reports as to the Russian terms are telegraphed
from several quarters, and they seem to agree mainly
on the point that all questions, except as to the pay-
ment of a war indemnity and the occupation of
Turkish territory by Russian troops until that step is
completed, will he submitted to a Conran of the
Powers who signed the Treaty of Paris. At Berlin
It is suspected that the Russians are wilfully prolong.
lug the negotiations in the hope that an insurrection
may break out at Constantinople. and that the
dethronement of the Sultan may afford them an op.
portunity to realise their desires. The Gatos is already
writing on the financial position in which Russia will
find herself at the close of the war, and recommends
various meamures of retrenchment, the imposition of
additional taxation, and partial disarmament.
So intense a feeling WM caused at Athens by the
news about the progress of the peace negotiations that
the Chamber of I ties suspended its sitting on
Saturday. A disorderly crowd numbering, it is
estimated, ten thousand persons, paraded the streets,
and in the evening went to the residences of several
Ministers, smashed the windows, and did other
damage. After calling on the Minister President, at
whose hotel they fired pistol shots, the crowd went to
lb. Palace, where the King addressed them and urged
them to be calm. In the end they had to be dispersed
by the troops.
TelegrapNng from Trebizond &special correspondent
.2=is the position in Asia Minor to be not so
as has been supposed. The Russians can do
nothing at Erzerount,_where they cannot get a single
siege gun forward. He haa been told by an Austrian
doctor that after the capture of Kars the Russians
pillaged the town for three days, and eves robbed the
sick who were lying in the hospitals.
A large number of public meetings were held on
Saturday in various parts of the country to topsider
the position of England in respect to the war, and at
nearly all resolutions were passed objecting to the
proposed vote of six millions.
A statement was issued on Saturday showing the
servioss to which the sum of six millions required for
additional naval military expenditure will probably
be applicable. The intm of three millions sterling Is
apportioned to the Army, two millions to the Navy,
and one million to contingencies.
Intelligence has been received at the Admiralty that
tii• Mediterranean Fleet has roweled Balks Bay,
wNsre it remains.
The Tines Correspondent telegraphing on Sunday
afternoon says up to that time the Porte had not
eageisved news that an armistice had been signed.
VAIINA, Monday.
Russians have taken possession of Osman Bazar, and
established Russian administration there.
CONOTLFTLIMPLZ. Monday.
Persian Ambassador distinctly denies existence
of treaty between Ramie and Persia.