The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-01-27
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Eastern Question.


AS foreshadowed in our last, the maj
meeting of the Conference at Constantlnopie
on the Eastern question took place on oatur'
day, the GOTH The proceedings were opened
by Safvet Pasha, the Turkish representative,
reading ro'p stating that while the porte
was ready 10 come to an understanding on
certain points, it peremptorily rejected the
appointment of governors by the powers for
the provinces, or their supervision by an in
Iternational commission. Thereupon Lord
Salisbury declared that the porte having
refused the two chief guarantees demanded
by the powers, there was no longer common
basis for discussion, and the conference must
be regarded as at an end. And the confer
ence broke up
On Tuesday most Of the ambassadors took
leave of the sultan, starting for home, Gen.
! Ignatieff, the Russian envoy, alone lingering
it is limited, TO resume the negotiations be-
tween Russia and Turkey alone. At all
events, no apprehensions are felt of an imme-
diate collision. Gen. lgnatletf only says, if
Turkey violates the armistice, or takes any
action hostile to Montenegro and Servia
then Russia will act. Meantime Russia
claims that the rejection of the proposals of
the conference by the porte is h defiance of
all Europe, and the conference having been
substitute proposed by England for the
Berlin agreement OF the three Emperors, and
having failed, the case reverts back to where
it started from. Turkey and Russia, how
eyer, appear both to be vigorously preparing
for war, while the former, to avert an imme-
diate outbreak, is making an earnest effort to
make peace with Servia and Montenegro.
Meantime England, that ought to feel humil.
lated, one would think, at the utter failure Of
her diplomacy, affects to be rejoiced at the
breaking up of the conference, for the reason,
as the Daily Ne,cs says, that it lends the old
fashioned policy which accepted Turkey as
an hereditary responsibility of England.
Henceforth Turkey must patch up Its own
credit and fight Its own battles"
England.
Stringent regulations have been issued
against the importation of cattle, sheep and
goats from Germany, France and Belgium,
on account Of the rinderpest
Fifteen miners persisted on the 23d by the
breaking out of fire in the Stone Hills colliery
near Bolton.
The American ship George Green, Captain
Wilcox, has been lost with all on board
The Captains wife was picked up and identi-
fled at Kingston, Devonshire.
Market reports represent grain as quiet
with weather unsettled.
i Miscellaneous.
Some uneasiness is felt on account of q
growing distrust and bitterness between
France and Germany. The German paper:
are filled with expressions of resentment
against France because of her supposed hos
tility to Germany at Constantinople; and thu
French papers accuse Germany OF bad faitf
in repairing the Notifications of Metz, &C.
A dispatch from Rome on the Gath says
the Pope had tanning fit on Sunday ant
another on Tuesday, but held reception OF
Wednesday.
), A landslide occurred on Sunday on the
railroad near Steinbruck, between Vienna
and Trieste, by which the railroad was cover.
ed to depth of so feet tor 200 yards, the riv
) er choked so as to overflow Its banks, and
several houses with families IN them were
overwhelmed and buried.