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FOREIGN.
Prince Bismarck has left Berlin for
Vnrzn.
The Daily News st. Petersburg cor
respondent telegraphs as follows: "The war
feeling here is intense, There was never
such a popular war as this will be- We
| have no brag, no bluster, no excitement in
the streets, no professions, no singing, no
shouting, but quiet resolution is depicted on
every face, and is manifest in everybody's
language.
The Telegraph's Vienna dispatch re-
marks: 1t is feared that Austria will not be
able long to remain an indifferent spectator,
The attitude she is spreparing to assume is one
of defensive neutrality. The influence of
Russian Sclav committees extends almost to
the Austrian frontiers; and Austrian states
men, who consider its vicinity permanent
peril, are bent on checking its progress and
taking steps to annhilate its affects OH the
Scav population.
A telegram from Constantinople says
Russian yacht arrived to-day to take the
members of the Russian embassy to Odessa
the moment they receive orders to quit Con-
stantinople. The porte believes that the
rupture will be delayed until Russia has COM
municated her intentions to the powers, but
no hope of peaceful settlement is enter
taipd by Russian subjects in Turkey, who
are to be placed under the protection of the
German embassy Constantinop!e will be
declared in state Of siege Immediately after
the rupture.
1t is officially confirmed that the Rou-
mania troops will oppose the passage OF the
Danube by the Turkish army and will allow
the Russians to cross the Pruth. The cor.
respondent of the Daily Telegraph says: al
have just inspected the Ottoman feet in the
BospOrus, and find that the condition Of the
sultan'snavy isreally splendid The vessels
are fully manned and the discipline is as
good as possible. Admiral Hobart Pasha
has been formerly appointed commander of
the Black sea squadron, which comprises
fifteen ron.clads. The forts on the Bospo
rus are also ready and reports from the
armies are satisfactory. Mehamit Pasha, the
sultan's first aid.decamp. has left the capi.
tai to inspect the troops and munitions Of
war in Anatalia and superntend the final
arrangements along the Adriatic frontier"
Lord Derby has sent the following dis
patch, dated April 18th, to the British charge
ddfdireS at Constantinople: "Sir-The
Turkish ambassador called to-day and LETT
copy of the circular on the subject of the
protocol. depressed my deepest regret to
MuSurus Pasha at the step the porte had
taken. thought it unnecessary to enter on
any further discussion of step which had
been adopted by the porte, after full consd.
era ion, and could not be retraced, / said,
however it did not seem clear whether the
porte would send on an ambassador or not to
St. Petersburg to treat on the question of
mutual disarmament. Musurus Pasha stated
that Turkey was not prepared to adopt any
such measure, and expressed the opinion
that matters could not be settled satisfacto-
rily unless the powers should consent to an.
nul the protocol. replied that the diver.
gence between the views Of the two govern.
ments appeared so wide as to render fur
ther discussion useless, and said could
not see what further steps England could
take to avert war which appeared inevita.
BILE. Musurus Pasha answered that the atti.
tude of his government was simply Defensive
that they did not desire war, but they would
prefer 1t to the sacrifice of their national in.
dependence, which appeared to be involved
in the acceptance of the protocol"
A Times dispatch from Vienna, dated
the 18th says there are grounds for believing
that the idea exists of making the eight arti.
Gle of the treaty OF Paris the starting point
for fresh negotiations. This idea is now
taken up by England, and brought forward
at st. Petersburg; but it seems as if the era
of negotiations is there regarded as closed
Sanguine people may still derive some hope
from this uncompromising attitude so osten.
tatiously displayed, but Russia has all along
shown her unwavering purpose to set aside,
or, at any rate, to ignore the very existence
of the treaty of Paris; still, she will not care
to raise discussion on the point as to how
far its stipulations may be deemed valid,
knowing that such a discussion might per-
haps bring her into opposition with one or
more other powers besides Turkey. As the
czar's arrival at Kishenev is only announced
for the twenty.second instant it is supposed
his majesty will stop at Moscow, and he may
use his stay there to make another declara.
tion or possibly issue the expected manifesto
therefrom. Intelligence of the movement of
the Russian army is confirmed on many
sides. 1t is believed in well informed circles
that much time will be lost in crossing into
RoumanIa. Such movement may be made
simultaneous with or perhaps befoIe a reg
ular declaration of war, so that movement
would have the character of menace. This
would be following the precedent of 1853
The Turks may not be disposed to allow such
occupation to pass over in silence, for trust
worthy information indicate that they mean
to consider the crossing of the Pruth de.
claration of war, and intend crossing at the
same time into RoumaDia at Kalafat and
Nikopoli.
TIE neglect of Capt. Mares to issue
lime.iuice rations to the sledge parties
of the arctic expedition is still the theme
of much discussion in the English news
papers. The Sanitary Record approves
the opinion of Surgeon Colan, that if
ANYTHING should have been omitted, the
rum and not the lime-juice should have
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