The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-29
FOREIGN NEWS.
THE EASTERN QUESTION
Drags It's Slow Length Along,
And Nobody Can Tell Whether
War or Peace is to Come.

MAHcHEsTER, April N.-A dispatch
from London says great enthusiasm was
manifested In military circles, last night
on Its becoming know that the whole oi
the staff and commissioned officers ut Al
dershott had received stringent orders
from the War Office 10 hold themselves
In complete readiness for immediate &C
tive service. In addition 1t was stated
that all the principal officers had received
important secret instructions for certain
contingencies.
THE SECOND ARMY CORPS TO BE FORMED.
LONDON, April 27.-It Is said orders
will be shortly Issued for the immediate
formation Of the second army corps, and
the raising Of the battaliond Of that corps
10 the war establishment.
DISTURBANCE, FAMINE AND FEVER IN
sEBvIA.
A special from Belgrade ssys: Disiur.
Dances have broken out at Nisch and
Prot between the inhabitants and the
servian authorities in consequence Of the
Russian summons for recruits. Afamine
is raging at vranji, caused by military
regulations.
4 Rustchuck correspondent telegraphs
that out OF six thousand Russians here
forty or fifty die daily OF ordinary and
spoiled typhus. Al Adrianople, sistoya
and Tirnova, It Is reported hundred
die daily.
BERLis, April 27.-The Nsr& German
Gazette says: "The interest Of diplomacy
centres 10 the answer OF England to
Italy's inquiry as to the English pro.
gramme. At the outbreak OF war, Eug.
land honorably laid down her interests as
guide and measure OF her attitude.
Since the conclusion Of peace she has been
exclusively parading In the interest Of
90 called European interests. No one
knows how these interests are to be de.
scribed.
@Her programme, the color OF which
England must, sooner or later, make
known, and which has already assumed
very various asiect. fran the ltnyutge
OF different English Mini,ters, will ulli.
mately be decisive OF the Eastern crisis
ENGLAND GOES BACK on nEssELF.
VIENNA, April 27-The political cor.
respondent at St. Petersburg. under date
OF April %, says the negotiations relative
to 4 mutual withdrawal from Constants
nople had then TAKEN an uniavorable turn
in consequence Of England suddenlyclaim.
ing that the fleet should not retire outside
the D,rdanelles, and thus going back
from the principle which she had already
accepted in the same way ss she had
Withdrawn from the principle Of pre-
liminary conference, which she also at
one time accepted,
LONDON, April ga Paris cores
pondent states that the report has been
revived that Germany Is seeking to Sc
cure the naturalization Of the Baltic in
the event Of war.
A Standard Coas,antinople dispatch
saya that the great Russian review an-
nounced for Monday has been counter
manded.
The Tfme' correspondent at Vienna
says, all sides are willing to continue ne
gotia,ions, although there Is some mo-
mentary Ill humor in 81. Peters
burg at the difficulty concerning
the mutual withdrawal from Con-
stantinople. This is caused by the
questions Of detail and not q change Of
mind on the part Of Great Britain. Et.
forts te arise at an understanding on this
point are not considered abandoned.