The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-03-09
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
THE RUSSIANS OCCUPY BESsA-
RABIA.
ROumapia Will Protest-Fbe Sftua-
tiOn in Austria-Reorgani.
katiOn Of BuIRaria-Brit-
ish Naval Movements.
The Russians occupy BessarabIa,

| VIENNA, March 8-The Political Cor
reSpondenec publishes, under reserve, the
following from Bucharest: 1t is said that
the Russians, on March 9Th, occupied the
Bessarabian towns of IsmaiI, Cshul and
Bolgrsd. Roumsnia at present keeps
this secret, but Cabinet councils are said
TO have been held under the presidency
of Prince Charles to frame protest.
British Naval Movements.
LONDON, March 8.-A dispatch from
Malta, dated TO day, says that the chan
nel squadron ls still here awaiting orders.
The troop ships Euphrates, homeward
baund with LOGS troops, and the Sersph.
is, outward bound with twenty-nine OFF,
GERS, have also been detained here since
March 9th. -Four smaller men-ot-war
have gone TO the Dardaneiles and one to
Creta.
The Cretans Accept an Arrnistiee.
An Athens special says: By advice
from foreign consuls, the Cretan lnsur-
gents have accepted the armistice offered
by the Turks.
A Thessslisn advices state that the In.
surgents hold all of the province except
the towns.
organization of Bulgaria.
A special from Vienna says it ia be
lleved in well informed quarters that the
reorganization of Bulgaria will be en-
trusted to a more moderate partisan than
the late Prince Tcherkassky, thus remov-
ing all suspicion of classification or
lengthened stay OF the Russians.
British Parliament.
LONDON, March SIN the House
of Lords this evening Lord Derby
said that Persia had assured
the government that she has no
understanding with Russia regarding
the cession of the district of Caspian
in exchange for the district Of Bsyazid.
In the House of Commons Sir
Stafford Northcote in reply to question
put by Lord Harrington, SAID the
government had informed Austria
that it did not object TO Berlin as the
place of meeting OF the conference. Sir
Stafford Northcote also said that Lord
Lyons will doubtless be the British
plenlpotentiary. Lord Darby also said:
The government Ia now communicating
with the other Powers principally Aus
tria, regarding the basis on which the
conference should proceed.
The situation in Austria.
LONDON, March 8-A correspondent
at Vienna says it is believed that Count
Andrassy has abandoned his original in
ienton OF making vote of credit by
the delegations Cabinet question. The
project will encounter strong opposition.
A msjority OF the Hungarian delegates
think the credit is intended for the occu-
patton OF Bosnia and Herzegovins, which
they consider only justitiable in the
event that Servis or Montenegro
raise pretentions TO those provinces.
The creation parties are also
agitating in the direction of their re-
spective wishes and sympsthies. The
agitation is probably iomented from
without for the purpose OF creating in
ternal difficulties for the governmeut a.
q moment when grave decisions may
have to be taken, Many well informed
people believe the occupation scheme
must be abandoned, which opinion seems
TO be substsntiated by the fact that the
war office has not concentrated troops
on any point OF Turkish territory.