Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-11-17
THE EASTERN HJUDDLE.
The POrte'- Objections 10 the Conference
Not Het RemOVed-The Turkish
Army DepIoyed-
the British Ordnance
Department, Etc.

LONDON, November Is: The authorities of
the lleyOnpOrt dOckyIrd have received orders
to prepare the IrOnClad turret ships CyclOp7
. and Hydra for immediate active service
\ Berlin dispatch reports that the entire
Polish contingent Of the Russian army ha4
been sent out of the Polish provinces for Ser
wee III the field. Russian garrisonS remain
IN Warsaw and other large towns in Russia
and Poland. The enrolment 1f the Polish
reserves took place on the fourteenth and fl,
ternth nstants; and was characterized by
great rigOr. At Warsaw the men werr taken
from their beds at night and escorted to the
trains.
A correspondent telrgraph- the Porte that
IN view of 4 winter campaign he intends to
keep forty thousand men in MOntenegrOHand
liergoyina, forty thousand on the borders Of
tireece, and eighty thousand to watch Servil.
Inc company OF royal engineers, recently
placed under orders for foreign service. i
having a course OF instruction preparatory to
rnbarking
Great activity prevails in Woolwich arsenal
An imperative order was issued Yesterday that
the production of rifle ball-cartridges be IN
creased to two million per week The usual
quantity manufactured weekly Is half
million.
The Duke of Argyle, in u long letter in the
u
tween the papers published hv the foreign
office assertions in Lord BeacOnsield's speech
rs He calls attention to the fact that the re-
sumption Of hOstilitieS in September was not
caused by British Indignation meetings
against Turkish atrocities. but by Turkeys
refusing the terms agreed upon by the pow
'ers.
Soldiers on furlough in Ireland have been
ordered to JON their regiments, and all fur
lOughs are temporarily suspended.
There Is every probability that the Porte
will consent to the conference.
A Vienna dispatch states that Il large num-
Der of Russian officers who intended to quit
Belgrade have been ordered to remain. A
third of the Servian army Is to remain under
arms during the armistice. The Grand Duke
Nicholas NicOlaivitch is expected at Kissce--
nief Monday to take command Of the Rus
sian army.
The Globe this evening announced that It
hears from a trustworthy but unofficial
source that twenty-One battaliOns of infan-
try, seven regiments Of cavalry, and eighty
guns, have already been told off as the first
British force for the east should the govern
ment consider their services necessary for the
protection of British interests.
LONDON, November l6.-The Pail Mall
Gazette this afternoon states that ap to this
morning the Porte S objection to the confer
ence had not been removed The same Jour
nal, IN a leading editorial, says It believes
Russia intends war. She Is prepared to IN
sist upon claims which she believes the Porte
Will refuse, and Is getting ready to impose
them by force. The situation, it says, Is but
little different from what it would be if forthe
word ''armistice' the words Russian de
mands of reform were substituted, and the
Ignatieft ultimatum, thus modified, were still
lying before the Porte
a telegram from Ragusa says the Turkish
army of Albania has scattered. The portion
under Deryish Pasha has been ordered to
Bulgaria and the Danube, and fifteen bat
tahOns to COnstantinople. The remainder
stays in Albania. Mukhtar Pasha has left
Trebinje for Albania