, 1876-10-01

The Christians and Mohammedans, re-
freshed by their temporary rest, are at each
others throats again, the Servlens taxing the
responsibility Of breaking thetruce, evidently
with the hope Of winning victory winch
would influence mediation more tavoraoly IN
their behalf. The peace was broken On
Thursday last, and the two man armies
hurled themselves upon each other arounu
Alexinatz, where the Servians met with sucn
a disastrous defeat about two weeks ago. AS
nsnal. the reports are directly contradictory
of each other. Dispatches from N'tsch, ema-
mating from Servian sources, represent that
the result of the fighting On Thursday was to
force tho Turks back long distance, and
that on Friday they were threatened on
;; ZEE sides,-by TcHERNAYEFF, with the bulk
of the army, in front; by PoPoV11cH on the
left and HARvArov1rcH in the rear. Ii this
be true, the Turkish army is III
critical condition; but, PER contra' me
london Standard, which is an ultra-Turk1sh
orpnn and the apologist for the Bulgarian
atrocities, reports that Thursdays battle re-
suited in IS q glorious victory for the Iu1ks'
the latter, utter having been exposed to
heavy artillery fire ali the forenoon suddenly
assuming the offensive in the afternoon and
defeating the Servians with enormous loss'
It will require considerable time to ascer-
tain the real victors in this fight; but this
no;nt is not as material now as it there we're
no peace propositions pending. The relar
tions Of Turkey and Servia are now IN the
hands of the Great Powers for adjustment
and, although the two combatants have re-
snmed hosti1ities, the peace negotiations are
still progressing, although rapidly drawing
to n c1ose. The Powers have presented
their propositions to Turkey, and tut
Porte is required to give an an
swer to-day. Upon that answer nang
the question of peace or war between
Servia and Turkey, perhaps the peace OF al
Europe. The London Standard 1namate
that the reply of the Porte will be perteetl
satisfactory, This would be an assuring an
nonncement, if the Standard were a rellabl
naper on Turkish matters, but, unfortunatel
, for its credibility, it has over and over agar
; shown itself ready to allow its prejudlces
, hind its ewes to the truth. If Turkey shoul
r decline the propositions, OF course tne wt
q will be renewed, with the almost 'neVltab
t nrospect that Russia must be party to
There is great force in the remark OF tt
london Times that it will be idle for Russ
i to talk of neutrality, with Russian army
n Seryia. If, On the other hand, Iurkt
= should accept the propositions Of the Po'
n ers, then Russia will be compelled to aho
,. her hand. If she il for peace, she must co1
q pel servia to accept it, notwithstanding h
# strange conduct if for war, her relations
d servia will be explained After to-day 81
t. must proceed openly in the servian matt*
# There will be no further doubt about b
a policy, and it may be remarked with eq9
L truth there will be no doubt of the polel
C. Of the other Powers. The dlplomatists
D. through with their work. If peace 1s Z
n accepted by the Turk. the sword alone MI
N solve the relations of the two hostile rao
or Perhapsit will involve the settlement OF Il