, 1877-01-11

ncvcr aic't. that rirlil; that sl,o vii dsoatc il
to tho last drnp III her nluod; that she i'as an
arms u ;'0,0Wl nlcn. well provided With the
best WIZ material; TINT, with her fortrcs;cs on
The Tie pa""s n,o and H. th' as,ss of so ,sn kan
TINT ,alc will eonfront Russia, single.
handed, sire thai II first campaign will
srarrely have commenced te!erc GerHany,
Austria, an,l En.laMl fin! 1t necessary fur their
own sakes to is,!n fseF; and TINT, n short. net
only Is there En0u deal Of life tn the "2lck
Mnn" yet, Int that the breath In bis body Is
tlte yitnl ais un which alonc Enropc ITSELF can
xnsist.
'rlr Russon!,ohc1, on the other han,l, nro
quite s,tre that, abandoned to herself, Turkey
would bt nycrpuwcrcsl IN tho tttst cnr,,u.ltcr.
Turkey, TINY ray, r'ntl'l onlv bring !Ss',tNN men
!ntD the icl,! next January, against 9i, ,Hu we'll
trimmed Russians, 20,HU Muntcucg,i@s, G,uU
servians. aud as MANY Kou'sanian., even tlksne
no of ayeo,tnt the tarcrks VI the Hellenic King.
dom. THO meeting nf tic Conference, whWl.
Enrlant proposed, was only 4 Russian blind
army, and fnr the nyanta uf ttlat severe tcAson
wairl, ls to BE- kussia's iuust formidable ally.
t>sl the expiration Uf tl,c present artnisttcc,-
!. c.. IN innucchtte' Day,-thcte nlaIntsts tell
us, this mock Cunfcrerlle Will break up. In Fix
weeks attcr tho declaration Uf war Russian
army may rcacll tho lusphotns, and. II England
RflotliIl then wisl, to save curstantinoplc, bIs-
tory Will eecurd against her the fatal words,
Too late, too tatc!"
HOatMASfA.
v1kxvA, I}er. i5-ihc itsihrr Lloyd, in a
letter from bucharest, puts forth rather c,l-
r!nus arrangement, ny whlc, III tho event of m
tn lt.antaln their neutrality, hive 1t respected
by Russsa, nssl yet alow the passage Of a Rus
sian army through fsonmai,ta- For this purpose
la'nmanla woll! be divided into neutral mil
wpt.li he tho railway Ilnc, whlc'. would DO
Jeff to the nussians. By this arrangement the
line wul,ld l'cgin ut ung1lus!, on the Russian
frontier, and pass through Jassy to Ch!tllla,
small station to the north of Bucharest, and
t!'cnse OH to krajoya, whcro the, neutral zonc
would leave tho railway and pass .town t. Kata-
fns, 80 that the rest VI the line and tho Danube
district towards Turn Scvctin would remain to
tile Russians. Tho capital would thus remain
FREQ from isnssian. occupation. In retnrn,
itself To defend tho danube line, mud to
thus prevent the Turks FROM destroying tho
rntiway, which would form THO basis of opera
tiuns VI the Russians until tho Rnsa'atis Lad
The plan has, at any rate, n certain merit OF
originality, although It requires a0tc crchu!ity
tn lcllcve that the Russlan, OF, indeed. my
other army cxuosed to all sorta of accidents and
moment respect such an imaginary line II tue
operations required them to act otherwise.
THE NussIAN ARMY IN nEssARAHA.
v,zsxA, nc.. css s-TLe "S Xugsburgcr Augemein.
zeilung publishes letter from correspondent
In Detsarnl,ia which giTcs some interesting de-
tails OIL t % Russian ntms 20 iscntrat el there.
According To- 1t, the elective lorcc Of tho four
corps tl'armee Which arc erhc1oncd on tho
truth, Dnicstcr, Bug, and Dnelper has re-
lnaineu considerably Ecllntl that set down Ia
tho Nrdrc lc Batatllc. Measures hare been
therefore tnkcn to complete tue forco by
bringing tip troops from Lithuanla and
Eolul!a, and by railing out aud organix-
Ing tho militia. In tho meantime, the crowd
lng Of the troops on the Lower pruth IL such
Tint II is only with the greatest difficulty that
even the seanttcst shelter can he found for
them. and nh eye-wltncsa describes the cnor-
nous difficulties which the army ends even now
in getting up oil It's supplies. There are, In
deed, the railways, but thugs must bo brought
up to them, and hundreds OF vehicles, cot to-
gethcr by renutsitton aud escorted by Cossacks,
are seen toilii.g along tho roads leading to tho
railways. The vehicles anl horses are miserable,
and capable III conveying very little. Very large
quantities al provisions and forage hayn been
collected, hut theY llo In the various stores, and