, 1876-11-15

hAS OtouQluR WILL
Russia.
It was reported in Belgrade yesterday that the
Turks have taken Djunis and Saint Nestor. after
a determined fight, which lasted ten hours. More
than half the entertainments on the banks of
the river, near DjuniS, also fell into their hands.
II this is true General Tchernayeff's army will
be in great danger.
The mobilization Of troops in Roumania pro-
ceeds very slowly. At Jassy hardly a third
Of the inhabitants liable to military DUTY
have appeared. The people seem to be utterly
Indifferent.
The same despatch says the resignation of
the hungarian Premier, Tisza, is mentioned as
imminent, in consequence of his dissent from
Count Andrassy's Eastern policy.
English public feeling has been aroused TO an
extent almost unparalIeled-at least since the
early years ofthe present century-and continues
to run high. The %atrocity excitement has been
succeeded by a graver public Iuyoye. Like Mac
beth, John Bull has supped full with horrors and
has had a d" turn" from which he wants to reco.
YER at his ease. The Tory journals are, of course,
highly pleased at this symptom and are shak.
ing hands over the subsistence of the popular
agitation. Meantime there cannot be the
slightest doubt that unceasing preparations
are being everywhere made for the eventuality
Of war, and there is a large section of the pub
lie which believes in war as a certainty, The
English fleet will be maintained In Mediterra-
mean waters. and the WoOlwich Arsenal will
turn out many eighty-one ton guns during the
winter the four which will be mounted on the
latest thing in iron-clads, the Inhexible, are
almost ready, Diplomacy will be active, too,
no doubt, and may or may not succeed in dis
perSlng the thunder clouds which hover so
darkly over the East. One thing is certain,
howeVer-the maxim, 1T you wish peace pre-
pare for war" will be carefully observed by
every one concerned. One of the signs Of the
times is the evident interest taken in matters
connected with gunnery. The performance of
the eighty-one ton gun, whicn has been ex-
perimented with at the great artillery training
GROUND, Shoeburyness, at the mouth of the
Thames, has been watched with the keenest
interest.
But if England have her Shoeburyness, Rus.
sa has her Otschakof. This small port in tho
Black Sea, hitherto a peaceful, half deserted
village, has now exchanged its quiet looks for
the grim visage of war. There is being con-
structed at Otschakoff q floating battery suoh
as has never been seen before or heard Of in
Russian military history. OF such Importance
is it that NJ. Mi'jntino himself the Minister Of
War, is experimenting It's construction in per-
son. The battery is to have twenty monster
guns, and its first tenant has already arrived in
the shape Of an immense Krupp cannon, which
required a special steamer to carry it. Il is
said that l6, 700 men are organized on q war
footing in BeSSarabia and that SO, 900 more are
concentrated between Bender and the Media
Wan frontier. A purchase Of 50, 900 breech-
leaders in Vienna has been made for the Rus
sian government. The goods trains on the
central railways will he stopped for a longer
period than has already been stated, in oonse-
qaence of military transports, and it is Eeported
from Eastern Prussia that for eight days past
the trains from Russia had arrived with a re-
duced number Of cars, as the military trans
ports to the south had absorbed so many. All
this does not look very pacific, and it will be
indeed a miracle Of diplomacy if all Russian
troops pack up and return to their homes and the
big KruppS' on the battery at OtSchak0ff
have the plugs # in their mouths.
The iron>clad Peter the Great was recalled
at the moment it was leaving Cronstadt for
the Mediterranean Ii is believed that even
now Russia prefers to effect the semi-indepen-
denoe of Bulgaria by negotiations rather than
by declaring war, or that at all events she will
endeavour to defer war until winter.
Arrests continue to belmade in CONSTANT
nople on account Of the last conspiracy. It is
alleged that the purpose Of the oonspiratOrs
was to %forcibly depose the reforming govern
ment. A former Grand Vizier, Mahmoud
Daoba iS poDlioofo1 Tho mamhara of tha,