Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-11-15
Conflicting Statements rs TO the Confer
enCe of the Powers on the Eastern
QuestiOn-The Situation
Less Pacific.
Russia's War Preparation Considered a
Bluff-LOndOn Press Comments
England's Proposals.
General Tchprnayeff's Return 10 Russia
FOrblddPn-Russia Increasing her
Tariif-Large Orders Given for
Military Supplies, Etc.

StTuctlOnS not to engage IN the meeting un-
til further orders. One cannot but view such
preliminary meetings with suspicion, for the
programme Of>the conference being accepted
by all the powers, and the elaboration Of the
programme being the work Of the principal
conference, it is difficult to see what may be
the use of the preliminary meeting, except to
furnish an opportunity for destroying the pro-
gramme itself.
The Times correspondent at Berlin, Oh
the contrary, asserts that the powers have
agreed to the preliminary conference. Tr-
key having repeatedly declared that the con-
templated reforms cannot be confined to her
rebel provinces, reply has beer gwen that
the sultan may extend the reforms to other
territories, but Europe viii supervise their
application only In Bosnia, Bulgaria and Her
zegovina. The same dispatch states that
Russia proposes to levy all duties IN gold
from January. This IS tantamOunt to m
creasing her tariff twenty-five per cent.
The Times Berlin dispatch says Russia 5
war preparations are too public to cause
alarm.
The TinreS's correspondent at Paris, re-
viewing the situation, says the inmOst con-
victiOn of the most intelligent observers ls
that the apparently disinterested powers are
resolute to cause an embodiment. The ques-
ton whether the conference is to be warike
or pacific viii be decided when the time ar
rives for Count Andrassy to speak His
words Will prove whether Austria is ready to
run fresh risk by obeying her neighbOr and
master. Every one says Austria is being both
solicited by Russia and urged by Germany to
Join action with Russia.
A dispatch from Belgrade to the Daily
NetcS says the Russian consols are being with
drawn from the interior of Turkey.
The Daily TelegrapH'S Vienna special re-
ports that in the highest quarters it Is con-
sidered that the situation has become less
pacific. The sultan will not refuse assent to
the preliminary meeting of the ambassadors.
The conference will follow in due course.
The writer adds: Il hear on the best author
ity, that the cars speech was intended to
take the national movement out Of the hands
of the SclavOniC societies, and not as a
menace.
The other newspaper correspondents take
gloomy view Of the state of affairs.
The Posts Berlin dispatch reports that the
Russian journals say war IS resolved on.
Large speculative purchases Of sugar con-
tinue to be made, mainly because Of the de
fciency of the beet-root crop. On the stock
exchange Russian securities are greatly de-
pressed, almost to the extent of panic.
mornings highest point.
A special from Berlin to the Pail Mall Ga
fCtIsslet l.s..1 ley, ,..-,Ie,s
to Berlin houses for military exports. Should
Russia persist in her warlike policy, there Is
reason to believe that she will be perfectly
isolated. Germany is understood to be pledged
to the Observance OF neutrality as against
Austria, with an engagement to watch the
Polish provinces, presumably to assist IN re-
pressing any Polish rising.
The Times has a strong pro- Russian leader
on the eastern question. 1t first notices the
slow progress toward an agreement about
conference, and it bases facts which are clearly
not promising for It's success, but declares
that the worst symptom Is 4 disposition TO
prescribe beforehand conditions incompatible
with the ends of negotiation and compromise.
It cites as thus inconsistent with the idea OF
conference the stipulation that there must
be no limitation of the sultan sovereign
will. But those who labor for peace, it says,
will not lose heart because the prospect Is not
perfectly clear The Times condemns the
past British policy, and says: ''If Austria
and Great Britain had known their interest
last year they would have arrested any exten-
sion of this difficulty by promoting what was
then a comparatively easy sentiment. 1t
then proceeds to forecast the future IN this
wise: ''SuppOsing the arlniSice expires
without a conference, or conference fails,
the ear would declare war, disayOwing,
probably, a desire to add to Russian
dOminions, or any other object than securing
good government for his SclavOnlC brethren.
Many would say this was mere hypocrisy and
falsehQOd, but it is clear that England would
find no pretense for interference until much
more had happened than the outbreak OF such
a war for such an aVOwed purpose. The tune
might come when We, declaring to the sultan
our regret at the inevitable partition OF hls
dominions, might be obliged to demand that
he should resign COnstantlnOple to power
able to take care of It.
The Times says it does not suppose that it
would come to this. The ezar would, before
he provoked a crisis, call for England 5 inter-
vention. With Servia aggrmidizeti and IN
dependent, with ROumania independent and
aggra.ndized south of the Danube, IN ex-
change for the territory ceded to Russia on
the north, he would stop, well contented with
what he had done in work, the completion
whereof must be left for another time. But
what a result this would be Of u policy
having for It's first note the maintenance of
the independence and integrity Of the OttJ-
man empire. What we have described is the
probable course of events to which we must
look forward if the armistice expires
without peace being proclaimed. Without
saving that under no circumstances could u
shot be fired from English cannon, this much
may be unhesitatingly declared: That if Rus
sia took up the war from SerVla 5 falling
hands, English opinion would no more justify
armed opposition to Russia than it did justify
armed opposition to Servia; and the diploma
cy of Russia would show itself altogether de-
fcient in the sagacity attributed to it if it did
not describe the objects of the war, and re-
strict its operations 50 as to prevent the OC-
curTence Of any sufficient reason for our IN
reference.
The Pail Mall Gazette, referring to the last
paragraph Of the foregoing article, says:
with such evidence as this affords of the at
titude of England, Russian opinion IS only
too likely to be content; that it will be utterly
and most dangerously mistaken we need not
say, but mistake of this kind has already,
once in the history of the two nations, been
deferred too late, and in any case 1t IS dis
ouieting to find that Russia is entering upon
a difficult and critical negotiation under as
profound a delusion as to the temper of this
country as that which precipitated the Crl-
mean war.
The Times's article concludes with an ar
Qument in favor of the conference, and that
It has not committed an inevitable failure. 1t
believes that guarantees satisfactory to Russia
and, possibly, to Turkey, may be arranged.
If Russia rejected all attempts at settlement,
which the Times does not believe likely,
England would be free in the future and have
the satisfaction of knowing she was not re-
sponsible for the failure. The experiences Of
the past discredit the suggestion that Turkey
might resist the proposals recommended by
the Joint authority of Europe; but should it
be realized, Russia would be only too ready
to act as executive officer of the confederation
of European powers.
A messenger from Iivadia passed through
Dover to-day with dispatches from the car
to Queen Victoria.
A dispatch from Nisch to the Standard re-
ports that Abdul Kerim Pasha has been or
dered to return to Constantinople, and start
ed thither Monday.
The Standards Vienna dispatch says that
quarters for twenty thousand men are beng