The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-30
FOREIGN NEWS.
EASTERN QUESTION.
Crisis in. the Cotton Trade in
England.

EAbIEktN kUEoIlVN!
Crisis ins the Cotton Trade in
England.
LONDON, January 29.-The EelOe says:
There Is q great panic in the cotton
trade Of Blackburn on account Of fear
Of the prolongation and extension Of the
Eastern war, which has hitherto greatly
depressed the cotton manufacturers.
Should the crisis continue the mill own.
ers will attempt q reduction Of ten per
cent in the wages Of the operatives.
EXCITEMENT AT cossrAsTlSoPLE.
The vote Of the supplementary esti-
mate has become purely party ques-
iion, and the Liberals will contest Il as
such and accept the result OF the decis-
ion as decisive. Lord Derby last even
ing, in opposing Lord Strathedeus' reso-
luton, that opposition TO any occupation
OF Constantinople would not be breach
Of neutrality, very strongly intimated
his personal conviction that temporary
Russian occupation Of Constantinople
would furnish no ground for British In
reference. Adyices from Constantine
pie up to 1:S0 last evening say there is
no news yet from the Trrkish peace
plenipotentiaries, and that the concentra-
tion OF Russians at Adrianople contin-
ues. Scouts have arrived near Lorlu,
about seventy miles west Of Constantine
pie. Suleiman Pasha Is at Boulair. Me-
hemet Ali is at Constantinople, but re-
turns to Chatalga Immediately. There
are ten British ironclads in Besika Bay.
The Egyptian garrison has evacuated
Barardy and retreated to Yarna. The
Turkish government Ia having difficulty
in maintaining order in the capital.
Among tens Of thousands Of refugees
from Roumania are many armed Circas.
slams. These have already plundered
Laleh, Baurgas, Chorln, Rodosto and
other towns and are now flocking into
Constantinople laden with booty. The
government wishes 10 disarm them and
send them into Asia, but It Is doubtful
whether they will be able 10 do SO.
Appalling misery prevails from the Bos-
phorus to the Gulf Of Salonica. The
whole coast is crowded with terrified
Mohammedans seeking transportation
across the Straits. Hundreds are perish
Ing from cold, hunger and exhaustion
and no succor is possible until the panic
and confusion in the capital has abated.
Advices from Athens up to last night
say order has been re.established but the
Of the people Is increasing.
Their disposition is very warlike. Many
volunteers are crossing the frontier.
ABOUT PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
LONDON, January ga correspon.
lent at Vienna telegraphs that among
he rumors current Is one, that no regu.
ar armistice will be concluded, but that
Immediately after the arrival Of Grand
Duke Nicholas, with the Turkish pleni.
and General Ignatieff in
de6nitive peace negotiations
will be entered into on a basis Of prelim.
naries accepted by the Porte. There is
nothing improbable in this preliminary.
The questions are go general, by elastic
hat they will only receive their real sig.
lifcance by their, definition in the final
peace instrument. They may be made
Infinitely harder than they are already,
,r else soitened down so as 10 leave TO
Turkey a semblance Of existence as
European Power. He would be bold
nan who would now venture TO affirm
What will ultimately best suit the pur-
poses Of Russia, whether she will aim at
i radical solution or merely the way for
I. Much will doubtless depend on the
course Of the four Powers with individu.
Il Powers, which seem TO be going on
with the negotiations
With Turkey, whether Russia may think
{ more advantageous to crush Turkey or
,rotect her. An armistice with an affixed
late would certainly be more in the way
han that sort OF taoit suspension Of hos.
ilities, which seems for a moment 10
xist, but which Russia may put an end
o at any moment. II
vienna, January 29.-A special from
;ons,antinople says that the delay in
igning the conditions Of peace Is attrib-
tied to the Porte's opposition to the tenn
,orary occupation OF Constautinople.
LONDON, January 29.--Additional cor
relative 10 the Eastern ques.
ion Is published which contains the fol.
owing: Lord Derby, telegraphing Lord
Ioftus, the British Ambassador at ST.
Petersburg, January 18th, states that
>ount Schouvelofi on that afternoon com.
nunicated a telegram from Prince Gort-
chakof authorizing him 10 affirm cate
orically that the government considered
he passage Of the men.of.war through the
and Bosphorus a European
question, which they did not intend to
ettle by themselves.
10 GROUND FOR DEPARTURE FROM NEu-
TRALITY.
LONDON, January 29.-The following
3 a text OF Forster's amendment: Having
zen informed in Green's speech that the
onditi0ns on which Her Majesty's neu.
rality Is based, have not been infringed
y either belligerent, and having since
eceived no information sufficient to Jus.
lily departure from the policy OF neu.
rality and peace, the House sees no rea.
on for adding 10 the peoples burthens
" voting additional supplies.
The Press Association authoritatively
ontradicts the rumors originating in the
obbies Of Parliament Of dissensions in
he Liberal party. To.day's meeting was
thoroughly unanimous.
BUCHAREST, January, 29.-General Ig-
latief has arrived here with an auto
,raph letter from the Gar 10 Prince
Jharles, Of Roumania. 1t is feared that
he Gar will refuse to abandon his claim
o Roumania and Bessarabia.
GREECE.