The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-06-23

the assaults Of the Russians, was invested on
every side by their troops, and was consequently
in q very critical position the command Of the
garrison had been taken by the Turkish general
Mukhtar Pasha. Either our telegrsphic news
from Asia is very neagre. or very little fighting
has been done, since our last accounts, in that
battle-ground. The siege Of kars seems to en-
gross the Russian forces operating in Turkish
Armenia. Indeed, the capture of kars by the
Russians would be ID event fraught with the most
momentous consequences, and might form the
basis Of peace negotiations, which Russia Is re-
ported TO be disposed to undertake, after having
gained some important victory, Germany mani
testing a dispositionto advance the way towards
a paciHcation between the belligerents.
From the seat Of war on the Danube, no in
portant news whatever has been brought By the
latest kilograms. The only item of war news
from that quarter Is the announcement of hos
tile operations betven the two fortresses of Kali
afat and Widin, oropposite sides of the Danube,
between which thee was a brisk interchange of
cannon shots, Kaafat being on the Roumanian
side, and Widin or the Turkish side Of the river.
No great advantag, seems 10 have been gained
BY the cannonade for either foe. No attempt
has yet been MADDEN maSse by the Russian army
TO cross the Danibe. There is no Geographic
news whatever concerning the operations of the
Turkish feet unde. that British = tar, - the Hon.
Captain Hobart, a kinsman of the Earl of
Buckinghamshire. There has been a debate in
the British Parliament about Hobart Pashah's
position as Turkih Kapudan PaShah, and he
has received motto that he cannot continue to
hold a commission n the Royal Navy, simultane-
ously with his present command, as long as Tur-
key is at war. Although the telegraph is silent
on the subject, we nay conclude that the Tur-
kish Black Sea Fhet is causing the Russians
serious trouble along all their Euxine coasts.
As far as the Diplomatic situation is concerned,
the only novelty is the announcement conveyed
by n telegram of day Both, that the Russian
Ambassadors at Beiin, Vienna, and London had
gone to st. Petersburg, that is, having been pro-
badly called home to deliberate with their gov
eminent. Had th Russian Ambassador at Lon
don alone been recalled, it might be presumed
that the Gar intnded to declare war against
England but the return of all three Ambassa-
doris to st. Petersburg cannot be taken as an in
tention to break Of friendly relations with Ger
many, Austria aid England. What grounds
could Russia have o declare war against the Kai-
ser Wilhelm? tbs diplomatic incident appears
much more likelyto favor the supposition shat
Russia is disposed % enter upon negotiations for
peace, and that he Russian Ambassadors were
recalled to receive verbal instructions on the
matter, as, if conveyed by telegram OF letter,
there would be danger of the Cars peace
policy being prenaturely d~ivulged.
We hear no news of any attempt as yet at a
revolution in Poland but. as it is well known
that a strong revolutionary party prevails in that
dismembered Kingdom, this circumstance may
have some weight With the Car in determining
his Autocratic MajSty to renounce for the pre-
sent his championship of the Russo-Greekc chris
tians of Turkey Les the Catholic Poles should
think the occasion favorable to fling off their
Russian letters. Inconclusion, even the shadow
of a probability of toe re-establishment of peace,
for which our latest kilograms afford some grounds
to hope-must be truly consoling to all sincere
believers in the gospel of peace preached upon
earth by the divine founder of Christianity.