Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-18
WAR MEASURES WELCOMED WITH
ENTHUSIASM BY ALL
CLASSES.
TIE First Russian Success Of
Magnitude the Occasion for
Intervention.
Attack OF the Russians on Are
dahan BraveIy Repulsed
by tLle Turks.
Marshal MaeMahon and the Forming
Of the BrOglie Cabinet.

OF the BrOglie Cabinet.
NEW York, May lS.-A special to the
Sun from London. says: The absorbing
interest in Russian operations is for the
moment transferred to the diplomatic
world. Emboldened by his triumph in
parliament aad certain Of support from
the nation, Disraeli is believed to be pre-.
pairing to precipitate England, joined
by Austria, into a conflict with Russia
Diplomatic circles confess that Eng
lands participation is a f~oregone con
c%lusion. Extraordinary preparations in
the armament Of both land and naval
forces are reported in all parts Of the
kingdom. All home transports from the
distant colonies are under orders for
troops. Great fleets Of troop.ships are
preparing from all naval rendezvous.
Orders have been sent to India to mobi-
lie the Musselman contingent. Under
these signs the markets have become I'M
settled, and corn, anticipating cavalry
demands, has reached extreme prices.
War measures are welcomed with en-.
thusiasm among the great body of the
merchants whose business is crippled by
the blockade Of the Black Sea and the
cessation of traffic with that region. In
Eagl,sh homes, even among the lower
ranks, o feeling of intense hostility
against the Russians is marked. They
charge upon the Cars coveteous am
bition the hardships arising from the rise
in the price Of bread, s~tagnation in bust
ness, and all the miseries that accom-.
pany war without its advantages. Eng.
lands interests will be the pretext, and
the FIRST Russian success of magnitude
will be the occasion for Intervention.
That this will be the end the best in
formed men in parliament express and
in public life concur in declaring,
Disraeli and the government officials
have been necessarily in cabinet council
since the defeat of Gladstone's peace
resolutions. To make this defeat so
signal their management contributed
greatly. The war party press clamor for
the instant instruction Of England's in.
terests. The Russian ambassador has
gone home to warn the Gear Of impend
ing danger. Couriers follow him in
rapid succession with reports Of the stu
alton, which are too compromising to be
entrusted TO post or TO telegraph.
A correspondent of the Suns London
bureau, expelled on Monday from the
Russian army, telegraphs from Vienna
that ouly meager reports from the Dan
ube are allowed by the Russian staff.
Matter by mail even 10 scrutinized, and
not & line is permitted to pass mention
ing numbers, disposition or identity Of
the forces. Civilians approaching the
army are kept under rigid surveillance
and all coniraband statements are burn.
ed, writer or writer's being warned at
once. At Gslaiz the Russians had pro.
jected prodigious lines Of notifications,
behind which we're assembled thirty bri-
gades Of iRfantry, %eggregating IT'S, 900
mem $4,000 cavalry and a great mass Of
artillery face soutbwestward to Often.
TIA The army forms a continuous
front in Eohelon, embracing q total Of
100000 men, to the westward Ct this, at
d stances Ct from one to three miles from
the Danube, A thinner line is carried
to Widdin, the extreme Rassian right.
Endorsements were pouring in mainly
on the left and center. The Roumanian
leyics we're used to mask the Russian
movements and every artifoe adopted to
lall the Turks into the belief that no for.
midabls movement would be attempted
on the Danube.
1t was open talk in the Russian camp
that the Russian army of the Caucasus
was to advance steadily toward the Bos-
pborps, drawing off the Turkish forces
in that direction and leaving the army
Of the Danube and easy road through the
Balkans.
The slow advance Of the Russian
army OF the Danube is caused by diplo.
matte rather than by military considera.
tons. The Gar is anxious to hold Aus
tria in check by the presence on her
frontier Of half a million Of men. Should
this army push too rapidly across the
Danube and into the Balkans Austria
you'd be ires to attack the Russian rear
aud thus paralyzs the campaign. In the
Russian camp it is believed that England
and Austria are joined in coalition to
intervene as soon as q decided Russian
success shall ~endanger the formers
Eastern and the latter's Danubian inter-
esis. Russians speak OF their forces on
the Danube as the army Of England, i'm.
plying its use against England, It's com.
mander is eDioined to take no irretriey.