Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-06
FOREIGN NEWS.
GREAT A R.
England Taking off Her Coat
in Earnest.
PREPARATION EVERYWHERE.
Kars Surrounded and the Russian
Guns in Position.
RumOrs, Opinions ard Miscellane'
Gus War Notes.
TnNDON Nav K

Gus Var Notes.
LONDON, May 5.
1t is stated that Russia has effected a
loan in Paris OF 100, 600, 900 francs.
The Cabinet will meet to-day. 1t is
said the Cabinet is thoroughly united
about protection. British communica-
ton with India will be imperiled by
the movement of Russia in Asia. The
British squadron at Corfu has been or
dered to Cretes.
MANCHESTER, May 5.
Information has reached here that
Austria has determined to occupy Bos-
MIA and Herzegovina. The movement
of troops for that purpose will begin
within two weeks.
VIENNA, May ).
The PaSt'S st. Petersburg advices
say great distrust prevails against
England. Batteries on the Baltic are
being repaired and armed, and hun
dreds of torpedoes are ready for the
Gulf of Finland, and a number OF
houses have been reserved for quar-
ters for the troops.
BUCHAREST, May 5.
The official journal publishes a letter
from the Prince to the President of the
Council announcing the contribution
of $40, 600 from the civil list toward
campaign equipments for R%ouInania
officers. The Senate had adopted a
bill postponing the payment of conf
mercial acceptance unit the end of the
war. The Chamber of Deputies have
adopted a bill for The recognizing Of
the militia and the National Guard. A
meeting of the European Commission,
appointed for the It'll instant, can not
he held. Turkish and Russian dele.
gates decline to attend, and the British
and French delegates left Galatz before
that port was closed and can not re.
turn.
LONDON, May 5.
Thos. Carlyle, on the Eastern ques-
ton, says: Rumor prevails that Dis
rdeli, despite the Queens neutrality
proclamation intends to send an En-
glish fleet 10 the Baltic and do some
other feat which shall compel Russia
to declare var against England. Lat
terly the runor has shifted from the
Baltic and becomes still more sinister
on the Eastern side of the scene where
the feat is contemplated, that will force
not Russia only, but all Europe L de-
clare war against us. This latter, he
saws, he has come to know as an indis-
pensable fact. Carlyle protests agains,
newspaper cutlery for neutrality.
BERLIN, May 5.
Intelligence received from Odessa
states thai Kars is completely sur
rounded by the Russians, who have "A
siege guns in position. The lombard
ment of kars will begin Immediately.
HALIFAX, May 4.
The forts in the neighborhood OF
this city are being supplied with i'm
proved guns and ammunition. Much
activity is displayed by the military
authorities. Three ironclads are to be
stationed here. Another regiment
of the forty second Highlanders is
exp ected here shortly.
LIVERPOOL, May s..
A London correspondent says:
Greenwood, editor of the Pull MAI
Gazette, is about to take "A position as
correspondent of the Times, This in
dictates a change in the Times attitude
on the Eastern question, Greenwood
being strongly anti Russian.
LONDON. May 5.
The importance attached to the
bombardment of Ibrail is. which
party committed the first ~belligerent
act. If Turkey, then Rounania has a
valid excuse for joining Russia, and
will embrace it. Austria hesitates tn
protest against the closing of the Dan
uba, which violates the Paris treaty.
The blockade of the Black Sea by the
Turks begins to-day.
The fact that the Russian cavalry
has lett Wladikawshaw and occupied
Bayazid, - miles south of Mount
Ararat, and the fact hat the Turks
have withdrawn to Rostock, is gravely
significant.
Considering the treaty lately con
cluded between Russia and Persia,
Armenia Christians sympathize with
Russia.
Various large meetings were held in
English cities Friday night to protest
against England's Indifference and to
sustain Gladstone.
Sir VIM. Northcote, the great trav-
eler, has just arrived. He says the
Turkish strength is largely underesti-
mated. She has nov over four hun
bred thousand soldiers in European
Turkey alone. we'll armed, drilled, dis
ciplined and wildly enthusiastic.
Arrangements are making to receive
General Grant, toward whom a warm
and friendly feeling prevails among all
classes.
LONDON, May 5.
Seligman, the banker, will give a
dinner TO ex-President Grant next
Tuesday.
A letter from Eouis j. Jennings to a
friend in this city says that ex Mayor
Hall refuses 10 receive letters sent in
his care or to see any American news
papers.