The New York herald., 1877-03-22
Europe Olutohing for a Substance
and Finding Only a Shadow.
AMERICAN ARMS IN TURKEY.
Growing Curiosity to Know What Terms
Montenegro Will Get
THE POPE DECLARES WAR.
icy CABLE TO THE HERALD

notifications, and requires before considering them
distinct pledge OF dcmobizaton. Tho government
is asked not only to submit to an amended version
Of the protocol, to which IL Is disposed
10 ngrec hut also TO concur in arrangements by which
they would find themselves alter the signature Of the
protocol, bound to ask Turkey 10 dsarm be-
fore Russia would demobilizc Its army. This
condition has seemed inadmissb!c The state.
ment is fatty contradicted in St Petersburg.
that England will sign The protocol only on condition
Of Russia disarmiDg. Russia can only promise 70
demobize when peace is concluded between the Porto
and Montenegro, when Turkey has first disarmed and
when moderate degree OF tranquility is restored
throughout European Turkey. The correspondent
points that Turkey will probably object to dsarm
before Russia tho result Is deadlock, the only
escape from which is coercion, which would mean
order and tranquility in Turkey and peace twenty
or thirty years. As the contemplated protocol audes
to the intention Of tho Powers discuss matters again
should Turkey fail In reform, Turkey II asked TO sign
It is expected to assent upon the understanding thas
her Independence 10 not 10 be infringcd.
oa'i no SIGNATURE YET.
The announcement that the protocol has not yet
been signed, finds confirmation in the Times Of
this morning. 1t says, in lcader:-"Our government
is understood have urged or demanded tnat II Eng
land signed the protocol Russia should IN turn with
draw her troops from tho frontier. II is quite possi-
BILE that Russia is unwilling 10 mako such an uncondl.
tional pledge. The difficulty may vanish In
few days or even hours To all appearance
TO retreat from her pcrilous position. The European
Cabinets are anxious to aid her far as they can
without compromising thomselves. According 10 our
Vienna correspondent Russia is willing disarmament
should be simultaneous both sides. II 10
TO be hoped tho difficulty will be ar
ranged Safvet Pacha, In thanking the foreign
Charge dAnares for their presence at the opening OF
the Turkish Parliament told thcm they had heard the
Intentions Of the Sultan, who hoped ho would not be
called upon give any positive utteranccs OF bis
sincere intention TO amooratc the condition Of tho
people, The correspondent remarks " this Is correos
it indicates purpose foreslali any demands which
might be made to induce Turkey to sign an inter-
national obligation.
rHY CENTRE CURIOSITY.
Suspicion still centres about Montenegro II the
Porto does not make peace with that province
on somo terms within few weeks at most,
tho question Of peace will hare
settled itself for over. despatch from Vienna
declares that the Montenegrn government is about To
address circular 10 the Consus Of the Powers at
Ragusa declaring that Montenegro cannot rcnounee
the territories che has conquered. Shc will
continue to occupy them and dcfcnd thom
against any attcmp. at rceapturc. military
council Las been held at Cettinje. Some insurgcht
chicis who urged immediate action were told they
mus. wait whlc In the event OF u renewal "
Vbn uor iutoa
insurgents intend offer tho Prince Of Montenegro
the chief command A Cons,antinople correspondent
announces, however, that the Montcncgrin delegates
have received a despatch from the Prince OF Mon.
tcnegro in which no abandous tho claim TO
spizza, tho right bank OF the Moratcha River,
the fortified islands In Lake sculari and
some other points, and besides the territory
already conceded by the Porto, merely asks for the
districts of Nicksich and Kautch and portion Of
Koaschn and the right Of the Tree navigation OF tho
Boyana. Ho docs not agree TO ccdo Vassoyewitz to
Turkey. The delegates communicated these reduced
conditions TO safvet Pacha and the Council OF Minis
ters considered them this afternoon 1t Is stated that
the Porte persists refusing tho Princes demands
especially as regards tho ccsson OF Nicksch satvet
pacha will communicate tho Porto's decision 10 tho
delegates. These dispatches, utterly contradictory
are given as sample Of the kind OF news havo to
deal WITH The only way to be right Is to send both
stories.
ARMS FOR Tns BASH nAzorKs
| il may be interesting to tho Providence and
| New Haven companies who have furnished
the arms and ammunition to know tnas
many cases of the rifles ana cartridges upon
which so vast q part of Turkeys shrunken
resources arc wasted have beon sent into tho prov
inces, especially tho European districts and along tho
eastern frontier, and distributed TO tho Mussuman
| s~o,uv al M.
tionai guard. which Is only another name for
Bash Bazouks The only task assigned those Irregular
bands can be to and II need bc, crush and
annihac the Christian population, for this is after
| ALL the real war TO which long continuance OF armcd
pcace is likely lead. II Odessa telegram be true
somo OF the American guns will nevor
bo used to butcher Christians with 1t 10
stated that an English steamer. with arms and
ammunition from New Haven for ConstantinopIc has
been lost. We know OF steamer which has left New
Haven for Constantnoplc with or without arms that
has not arrived. Tho King Arthur arrived on
January 2S; tho Lotus reached tho Golden Horn
on Fcbru1ry II, after tempcstuous voyage; aud the
J. r. Walker, the last to sail, landed her cargo on
March 49, Unless tho J. B. Walkers arrival was In.
correctly reported, unless she foundcred of the
Golden Horn whilo at anchor the news Is probably Inc
correct
| THE DISQuiEr.
Despotcbcs from Vienna intimate that the fee ~
dlsau,ct in the East spreading among aIi classes.
Whether II Is because OF delay after understanding
has already been pronounced as perfect and tho sigma
turc OF the protocol impending or because OF some
| other cause which Is not yet made pubic
certain It is that tho prospects nre not now looked
upon as quito hopeful, and fear seems to have
arisen lest tho advantages expected from the protoco
might prove deceptive In tho first place, grave
doubts entertained Of tho Porto giving It's adhesion
In any shape to tho protocol, which is sait
TO have already been sent TO Constantinop
through tho Turkish Ambassador at London. Tn
Porto stll to defend the position which u tool
up during tho conference, and Will point to the const'
iuticn and to the newly opened Parliament II think
itself 40 much more justified IN so doing, as has,