Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-08
Foreign News.


THE CoN0REss AGAIN.
An associate press telegram of
Nay End from Vienna say the
government again expressed conf
dence in the prompt meeting of
congress, and is again urging England
to accept the congress A telegram
from st. Petersburg announces that an
imperial ukase has just been Issued, Or
dering the formation of 48 fresh battal-
ions in addition to the 48 called out q
fortnight ago. Three new artillery
brigades with IA guns are also forming.
Mr.. Cross in his speech at Preston,
last night, said the government were
not going to communicate to the public
their proposals in regard to the eastern
question before the meeting of the con-
gress.
ANOTHER TALK.
St. Petersburg advices under late of
April End, states that negotiations be-
tween London and st. Petersburg by
way of Berlin have been resumed.
Nothing is made known about their
progress. 1t is rumored an ultimatum
has been sent to the porte demanding
an evacuation of Shumla and Varnay
within certain time, and Prince Lo-
bruof Restoffski has been appointed
ambassador to Constantinople.
INDIA TROOPS OFF FOR THE FRONT.
A Bombay telegram of May End
states that the I'd detachment of troops
sailed yesterday amid great enthusi-
aSm.
A SERIOUS POSITION.
Constantinople advices under date
of May LIST, says that the Rus
sian position in front of Constan-
tinople is confronted by Turkish
army which is superior to anything
that the Turks had ever concentrated
at one point throughout the war-an
army, according to the lowest esti-
mate, numbering 10000 men. The
Mussulmans' instruction also appears
to be growing serious. 1t involves not
only the whole northern half of Rhod-
ophoerang, but according to one ac-
count is spreading 10 the Balkans. The
insurgents are endeavoring to gain
stragetic points which shows the exis-
tence of directing head.
GoRTSCHAKoFF's ILLNESS.
A Vienna dispatch says, accounts
concerning Prince Gortschakofrs con-
dition, represent that he 10 worse
again. He is very weak and above all
sleepless.
DETERMINED.
A correspondent at St. Petersburg
writing under date of May LIST about Rus
sias demand for Ressarabia, says: "Let
no one deceive himself as to what is conf
ing. A desire to recover Bessarabia is
only symptom wish peryading the
entire Russian nation to destroy the
Paris treaty. 1t is not so much Bess-
arabia we are striving for. What we
aim at is the cancelling of this treaty
whether the Bulgarian frontier re-
mains as defined in the treaty
of San StefanO, whether the
Greek element is allowed more
scope, whether Servia is aggrandized.
whether Austro-H Hungary is conceded
the temporary or permanent occupa-
ton of Bosnia and Herzegovina. All of
these ere of comparative indifference
to the Russian nation. Whether the
Encouragement of Turkey is regulated
by congress. conference or war, the
demands for the restoration oil Bessa-
rabia will always be pushed with the
same pertinacity. Suppose we should
be baked this time this would only
make us more eager to pursue our OBJ
ject in the future.
wARLIKR MOVEMENTS.
London advices under date of
April 3Oth states that a consider
able proportion of the first army
corps is likely to be dispatched to
Malta in the course of the coming week,
including portion of the guards.
Many thousand stands Of Martini and
Henry rifles are being removed from
the ranks in the tower of London, pre-
sumably for the equipment of reserves.
There is great activity at Portsmouth
in preparing fittings for conversion of
merchant ships into armed cruisers.
The manufacturing firm has received
from the admiralty an order for more
than one hundred torpedo nets for the
protection of ships from attacks of tor
pedoes. All the nets are to be deliver
ed during May. Immense quantities
of shot and shell are being issued from
Woolwich arsenal in all directions.
The first Indian expeditionary force
will embark from Bombay. Two d.
visions will leave to-day. consisting of
two batteries of royal artillery, Thir-
teenth and Thirty-frst regiments, Sec
ond Ghorkas, and two compan-
les of sappers and miners.
The second will embark rs soon
after as possible. 1t will consist of the
9th cavalry of the Bombay lanciers,