The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-22
FOREIGN.
The Anglo Russian Unpleasantness.

National Associated Press to the Star.
THEY BELIEVE A CONGRESS WILL ASSEMBLE.
LONDON, April 22.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent of the New York Her
aid telegraphs that the German and
Austrian Ambassadors at the Rus
sian Imperial Court give it as their
settled conviction that the Congress will
now assemble. This information was OBJ
tained from interviews had on Saturday
evening with the two Ambassadors by a
prominent diplomatist at the st. Petersburg
Court.
THE SITUATION AT coNsTANTINoPLE.
LONDON, April 22.-The situation In and
around Constantinople attracts much atten-
ton. The Times Vienna correspondent
says the Ministerial crisis is viewed with
misgivings as capable of introducing dis
turbing element into the negotiations.
Whatever may have been the course of the
crisis, and whatever may have so suddenly
determined the final issue, the removal of
Ahmed Vefyk Effendi is sufficient to indi-
cate the character of the change. II would
nevertheless, perhaps, be premature to say
that Russian influence has now become par
amount in the Cabinet.
1t rather seems as if the object of change
had been to check the two extreme tenden-
cies and at the same time the friction there
by caused between them in the Cabinet II
the decision of the struggle between Eng
land and Russia for influence in Constanti-
nople has thus been apparently postponed,
the relative position of the two can scarcely
remain unaltered, since with Ahmed
Vefyk EfJendi as Premier, England had the
key to influence in the Cabinet, and was
thus as it were In possession. Now, how
ever, this security is in great measure
gone. While there is some danger that If
in their endeavor to prevent a collision the
new Ministers should make some conces-
sions to Russia, the British Embassy may
be the last to know thereof. A far wider
field is thus open TO suspicion and misun-
derstanding, and consequently to accidents
AUSTRIA WANTS AN EXPLANATION.
LONDON, April pa dispatch from vi
emma says Austria has asked Prince Gort-
schakof for explanations concerning the
concentration OF Russian troops i'll Rou-
mania.
DISTRESSING RESULTS OF THE WAR.
New YORK, April 22.-Lamentable news
has been received at Vienna, from the AL
banian Coast and the Boyana Districts, oc-
cupied by the Montenegrins. From the
IdNdRcS NduS w VIC wal tlo lOhSOu oAeAS-
tions on labor by the Montenegrins to
strengthen their military position in the
coast district, and the almost complete ces-
sation of all commercial intercourse, the
Christian population and the few Moham-
medans who have remained are said to be
starving. This is especially said to be the
case in AntiYari, which, from the length OF
time it was exposed to the vicissitudes, has
suffered most The misery Of the people is
described as very great.
This is felt all the more heavily, as in nor
NAL times the population of Antiyari,
which is the outlet of Scutari and all, Upper
Albania, is prosperous, On the representa-
tions of the Austrian Vice Consul the Mon
teilegrin authorities have indeed endeay-
ored to do something to alleviate the dis
tresS, but they are themselves short of
means, and the people have therefore ap-
pealed to the Austrian Vice Consul, who,
during the siege of the citadel by the noun
taineers, proved an efficient protector, to
use his influence with his Government to
save them from starvation by distribution
Of -four. corn and other means of subsist-
ence The only difficulty is that this Gov
ernment has already on its hands some one
hundred and ten thousand refugees from
Bosnia and Herzegovina, who cost the
round sum of $150,000 month. In the
Turkish part OF Upper Albania things
are not much better.
The population, it is true, are not starv-
ing, but still they heavily feel the effects OF
two years war with all exaction and dis
turbanceS. The Military Commander Hus-
sein Pasha has no easy post, he having to
exc out subsistence for his men as best he
can. All through the winter the soldiers
were so badly fed that some twelve hundred
of them are in the hospital with dysentery,
which is attributed to the bad quality of
their food and the scanty allowance of meat,
the butchers, who have large arrears to get,
being unwilling to supply more.
Other Foreign News.
TO HURRY UP THE EXPOSITION WORK.
LONDON, April 22.-The Prince of Wales
will leave London for Paris ON Thursday,
the 25th inst, for the purpose OF entering
on thorough inspection of the British sec
ton of the Paris Exposition, and giving a
stimulus to the British exhibitors to have
everything ready by the 1st OF May.
GALE on THE COAST.
MADRID, April GA fearful gale pre-
vailed on the Spanish coast to-day, causing
numerous shipwrecks, and large loss OF
life isreported
THE COTTON sPINNERs.
LONDON, April 22-The Operative Cotton
Spinners' Trades Union have instructed
their members to accept the terms offered
by the masters.
Late Irish News.