Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-04-23
FOREIGN NEWS.
England and Eussia's War
like Preparations.
Great Uneasiness by the English
Press.
POINTS IN VIEW STILL WIDE
APART.

LONDON, April %.
The Daily NeUS correspondent, at
Berlin. says that not much Importance
is attached there 10 the present nego
tiations, AS long as England and Rus
>la continue warllke preparations.
The English papers abound in sig
niticant items concerning The prepara-
tons. 1t il understood that five batter
les OF the Royal artillery, now at W o
wich, have been selected to proceed to
Malta. A gunboat and a hotilla are to
he prepared Immediately for the de-
Tense of the British coast. Officers OF
the pension district we're ordered on
Saturday to transmit to the Admiralty
forthwith, the addresses of all the re-
tired naval artiticers and stokers, pre-
>umably, in view of a possible call for
volunteers, and all men belonging to
tie first army corps, who were under
going punishment for disciplinary of
fences, have been liberated aud sent to
their regiments.
The Cronstadt messenger announces
that the equipment of the Russian
Baltic fleet Is proceeding with all haste.
1t will go to sea as soon as the ice
breaks 40. 1t consists of seven vessels,
including the Peter the Great, one OF
the most powerful vessels of the Rus
sian iron-clad navy. Peter tie Great
is a mastless, double turret ship of o.
$40 tons burden. She carries iour
thirty ii v tor guns. Her arinor in
thick ness, at the water line, is fourteen
inches. She WAS launched in 1874, and
resembles in design ard construction
the three great mastless turret ships oil
the British navy, more especially the
Dreadnaught, though of larger size.
la spite OF the negotiate ms concern
ing the withdrawal of the English
fleet and the Russian forces from the
neighborhood of Constantinople, the
prevailing opinion of the English press
il ore Of great uneasiness. 1t is notice
able that all the Berlin specials to thu
English papers are couched in a very
Respondent tone; they dwell upon the
difficulties which will be. encountered
in settling the details OF The scheme for
a withdrawal. The Vienna core
spondent- write in the same tone. One
saws: The aspect of affairs is neither
better nor worse. The course OF nego
tiations makes il more and o APP
parent that Russia means to make
some concession relative to the con
gress, dependent on some arrangements
a, to the relative position of her own
and the English forces. The fact that
the Russians did not reject the idea 0i
withdrawing to Adrianople, and that
negotiations are now pending on that
basis, shows thai they would set greal
value on the withdra wal of The British
fleet beyond the Dardanelles. 1t APP
pears that both the English and Rus
sian Cabinets are willing to accept the
principle that the congress Will meet u
examine the changes necessary i'll the
existing treaties; but England insists
| on a clear aud formal recognition OF
the wide principle that all the great
changes in the East, such as those pro
posed by the treaty of san SteftnO,
constitute the European and not mere
ly the Russo Turkish questions. Rus
| sia'S acc-p tation of this princii lie will
| greatly depend on the u in which
| it is formulated. There may be a secret
admission that the JEALOUS exclusion OF
Europe from all knowledge of the me-
goliations bet ween Russia and Turkey
was a grave mistake, but there certain
w will be no avowa To that effect
Meanwhile, the Austro Russian negu.
tiations are going on. The points in
view are still wide apart, hut are said
to he approaching each other. Austria
does pot wish to annex territory, bur
wishes to extend thu sphere of her po-
litical, military n comm ercial inter
ests, particularly in the direction of
Salonica and the Mitiovitza Railway.