The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-05-08
GladstOns's Resolutions in ParIia,
ment---He Participates In
the Debate.
A Searching Review of EngIand's s
Eastern Policy.
Torpedo Fixtures.

val column reports that the dock.yarC
authorities have ordered the torpedc
gear for the Menelaus to be compi etet
by the 25th Of the month, sooner thar
originally arranged, so that she may pro
Ceed to Plymouth and Join the Other
ships Of the squadron June lst. Should
any fittings not be complete by the tim,
fixed, abe will take working parties with
her 10 Plymouth so that the work may
be completed during the passage. There
are no boilers in the Royal yards ready
to replace the worn out ones belonging tc
the Triumph and Leonidas. It has beer
arranged that new sets shall be provided
by the contractors. The new boilers will
not only have to be delivered at Ports
mouth on or before a fixed day, but are
to be actually placed in position by the
contractors.
DvAECIEG.
LONDON, May IA special from Widir
says it is reported that the Russians have
advanced rs far as the river Aluta, ant
forwarded war material to Turnsyein,
The French Benevolent Society OF Mos
COW subscribes $4,000 roubles for III,
woupded.
RUSSIAN DEFEAT.
PERA, May The news Of the Rus
sian defeat at Batoum and the capture o.
three oftheir guns has been confirmed BY
letter received yesterday. Everything
tends to show however that the Russians
are very strong iu Asia, and are likely tc
advance quickly.
LARGE REISFoRCESlENTs.
TREGA2oND, May NO further fght
ing reported. Moukhtar Pasha main
Lains communication with Kars. The
Russians are apparently awaiting the ar
rival Of reinforcements. Strong workint
parties are loading large quantities o
krupp guns, which are being forwarded
to EEzeroum. Fresh troops are arrivins
daily and going TO the front.
BoMBARDMENT.
PARIS, May LA France publishes (
telegram from st. Petersburg, dated Sun
day, which says the bombarlment O
Kara commenced yesterday. The assault
will take place to-day.
CAPTURE OF KARs.
NEW YORK, May IA dispatch from
St. Petersburg says that the Russians
have taken Kars. The Russian army
attacking numbers $4,000 men. Seven.
teen thousand Turks we're captured
The Turkish iron.clads are reported tc
be guarding the Black Sea before Odessa.
SPIRITED ATTACK.
IsAHIA, May S.-Two Turkish gun
boats attacked the Russian batteries A,
Tomrova, below Galatz on Saturday, and
destroyed portion Of the battery, dis.
mounted gun and drove back the Rus,
SLAMS. The Turks we're greatly elated
Their gun boats were uninjured. The
Russian camp was fired by a shell.
PoNTooEING THE DANUBE.
LONDON, May IA Vienna special
says that so Russian pontoons, for bridg.
ing the Danube have already been com.
pleted at Cherbesti, a few miles up the
river Sereth, and so more are progress,
ing.
There was heavy rain all day satur,
day.
The news OF the English armament
causes alarm. 1t is reported that Tur,
key is endeavoring to secure the British
Intervention in return for a cession oil
the harbor in Crete, for establishing q
naval station, commanding Suez Canal.
THE TINES,
in u leading article, says: ave think
Russia's assumption OF the concurrence
OF Europe in her action made formal
protest imperative. Earl Derby's dis.
patch makes this protest with effect and
dignity. Our hands at all events are
free"
THE TURKISH BLOCKADE,
CoSsrASIrNoPLE, May THE block,
ade Of the Black Sea ports will be main,
tained by twenty Turkish vessels.
NEUTRALITY DEcREED.
PARIS, May THE Official Jairnq
publishes the neutrality decree and the
official notification Of the Black Sea
blockade.
A FLANK MOVEMENT. ...
ERzERoUM, May THE Russian right
wing is marching through Geules and
Tchilder, evidently with the purpose d
turning the second Turkish line OF de,
tense at Lsghaule, The Russian centre
in the plain OF Kars seems waiting the
result Of this move and OF the mannu.
vre OF the left wing, which is trying TO
force tts way from Bayased, BY way oil
Surikoy.
AGESERAL UPRISING.
PARIS, May The Biea Public says
A general rising Of the Mohammedans Of
Tunis, Tripoli and Morocco il imminent
The French Government ia about to dis.
patch strong reinforcement Of troops a.
we'll as a leet to Algeria.
coHcrLIAT1SG AUSTRIA.
LONDON, May IA Pesth dispatch
states that in order not to afford an occa,
sion to Austria to depart from her neu.
tEality, the Russian commandera have
received orders not to cross the Danube
near Kalatat, nor Join anywhere with the
Servian army. For the same reason, the
Car notified Montenegro that she must
remain on the iafapsiys Sary;, Intend.