The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-12-31
FOREIGN NEWS.
WAR NOTES.
England Armlng.

England Aemlnks
New YoRK, December pa London
special sayS In English military circles
war is considered almost inevitable. Ar.
rangementS are completed and regiments
allotted for an army Of 10000 men, and
steps are already taking toward the for
nation Of nucleus for a reserve army
Profound uneaSiness prevails here, and
there Is great depression in I de and
finance.
A SERvIAN CAPTURE.
IBELSRADE, December 2O.-The Servian
troops have captured Pisot, about IS Eng
liah miles southeast Of Nisch, with a
quantity Of guss and ammunition. No
details Of the capture have been received.
TERRIBLE SUFFERING ON ACCOUNT OF THE
SNOW.
LONDON, December 2O.-A special dis
patch from Bucharest to tile Times says :
ut is impossible to procure full informa.
tiOn regarding the condition Of the Rus
sian and RoumRniHn soldiers and Turkish
prisoners who were on their way to
Bucharest during the snow storm, but
from Disconnected details at hand it is
evident that terrible suffering hAa been
caused among them."
A FEELER PROM THE LONDON TIMES.
The Times to-day, in leading article,
says the announcement that the Sultan
has invited her msjesty'a government to
approach the Car with view 10 bring
ing about negotiations for peace, will
tend 10 calm some Of the fears that have
been existing in the country, and 10 hold
out hope that dreadful war may be
brought to close more quickly than BY
the shock OF battle. The Sultan has taken
the only course consistent with cAlmer
review Of what war has already done,
and what II must do II 1t should last much
longer. Circulars 10 powers showed that
the peace party at the Porte had for some
time got the upper hand, and 1t proposed
terms which would no doubt hsye been
unNdvisable, even before the war, and
which would not bear disCus-iun after
the terrible battles OF the last six months,
but the Porte did not intend the circular
to be taken at its word. Now that all the
powers have consented, but :irmly de.
clined to approach Russia withimpV,, ihle
conditions, the Sultan has wisely asked
this government TO use ia good Offices to
bring about negotiations for peace. Ills
important that the government should
conduct negotiations in spirit absolute.
ly free from partlsanship. We are not
parties TO the present contest as media
iors. Our essential duty is 10 convey u
message from one power with which we
have no quarrel to another with which
we have no quarrel. We have doubtless
great interests at stake, political az well
as commercial, and they will he urged al
the proper moment, but in the meanwhile
it il our duty to act as friendly informed.
iators and not Ss the rulers Of the Indian
empire. To take sides with one OF tie
two powers which We must bring into
contact would simply be to make our mis-.
sion useless and destroy the prospect Of
peace. Our government will have TO as.
certain whether Russia il willing
to open negotiations and what are
her conditions Of peace. It will then
have to offer Turkey such advice
as may seem proper and to present her
answer. 1t may have to reason in an
earnest spirit with the beIligerents in
order TO secure common ground. 1t may
be obliged to urge the Porte ON the one
hand to be wise in time, and Russia on
the other, not 10 demand such terms az
would goad the Turks to desperate
courses and thus multiply the periIs Of
Europe. While the mediator may seem
to act ~ an advocate now Of one power
and now Of the other, arguments must be,
dictated purely by the spirit Of cOncIlia
ton. No doubt the government would
have to consider the interests oi England,
but the presentation oil them would come
In god time, and there Ia not the slight
est son to fear that they will be ne
glecled.
The Daily NtOI says that the Ottoman
government declares its desire that nego.
tiatious for peace may be brought about
on the present basis Of facts, and as its
professions must be accepted as sincere,
the public will wish it success in
It's new policy. 1t cannot be nee
essary TO point out that even on the
most limited Interpretation Of the Office il
has assumed, the Queens Government has
assumed task OF great delicacy. The
present war primarily concerns Russia
aud Turkey, but the Eastern que-tion Is
one that must be considered by Europe.
By its present action our Government has
taken upon itself the character Of an in.
tercessor for one unfortunate belIigerent
while acting also oeb"iously for Europe,
But it has TO harmoLizs this new charac.
ter with the declarations which il has re.
peatedly made, and With the whole course
Of conduct Of which the least that can be
said is, that il has Dw prepared the
world for the part it has now undertaken
to play. On her Majesty's Ministers may
very much depend whether the EAs.
tern question shall be now settled, at least
for many years TO come, or that this war
will be followed by mere truce-the
prelude 10 war even greater and more
disastrous than that OF which we are now
spectators. We are bound 10 hope that
bilities.
B:SMARCK HAS A WORD TO SAY ON THE
SAME SUBJECT.
BERLIN, December 29.-The North Ger.
man Gozstn says that il England merely
seeks to sound Russia az 10 her willing.
ness to make peace and the chances Of
direct application OF the Porte to 81.
Petersburg, credit may be awarded En-
gland for her meritoriOus intention. In
any other case the theory Of the Aycnce
Ru8Se, that mediation unless aolicited by