The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1878-04-09
THE SITUATION,

British neet has heen abandoned, so as
not to excite foreign jealousy.
The 1eiegraphs Vienna correspond.
ent says that Count Andrassy has assured
NJ. Bratiane, the Roumania Premier
that Russia should under no circumstan
ces keep military road open through
Roumania for two years.
The London Times, in its column of
"Naval and Military Intelligence" says: i
THE Admiralty has made an urgent
requisition on contractors who are manu-
featuring large number of picks and
shove's at W Wolverhampton, and demand
ed to know when they will be ready.
although the Turkish policy mav,a
short time ago, have been philo-E English,
Just now 1t is philo- Russian" says tele-
gram from ConstantinopIe. "The Rus
SLAMS have acquired over the Sultan and
his advisers what in Turkey is the stron-
gest kind Of infnence-direct and per-
sonal influence. Some military men Of
high rank, as Osman and Reouf Pachas,
have become more Russian than English,
kilograms from Vienna received in
Paris state that Count Andrassy told
General Ignatieff that Austrian neutral
ity, ifnot co operation, might be secured
by altering the southwestern boundaries
of Bulgaria so as to make the Ottoman
territory continuous, and by securing
Austrian military and commercial su-
premacv in Servia, Montenegro, Bosnia,
Herzegovina and Albania.
The Daily Te1eqraphs correspondent.
says that up to the lst inst. thePorte had
refused all proposals for the Russian oc-
cupation of any heights near the Bospho-
rus The Grand Duke Nicholas has as
sured the Porte that he will not advance
on Constantinople without the Sultans
| assent. ,n,,,-
A correspondent at st. Petersburg
writes: The Gar is determined that the
outbreak of war shall find him in the
midst Of his troops, and his departure for
the front may be regarded as the signal
for the recommencement Of hostilities
The preparations to meet the emergency
here are on an enormous scale, and the
greatest activity prevails in all depart.
ments of the army" 70 ssatsa .4nd
The Circular sent to tile Powers by the
British Government, dated the 1st inst
contained this emphatic language !:
Large changes will doubtless be neces-
sary in hitherto existing treaties. Eng
land earnestly desires good government
and peace and freedom for the popula-
tons to whom those blessings have been
strange. She would willingly have en-.
tered a Congress in which the stipula.'
tions could be examined as whole; hut
neither British interests nor the well
being Of the Turkish provinces would be
consulted by the assembling of q C5n-
| gress restricted by Prince Gortsehakoff .
latest reservations.
4
| The following is the Queens Message
to the English Parliament: ''The present
state of public affairs in the East and the
necessity of taking steps for the main
tenance ofpeace and for the protection of
tue interests of the Empire having con
stituted, in the opinion of Her Majesty, q
case ofgreat emergency within the mean
ing ofthe acts of Parliament in that be-
lief, Her Majesty deems ii proper to pro
vide additional means for the public SER
vice. Therefore, in pursuance OF those
acts, Her Majesty has thought it right to
communicate to the House Of Commons
that she is about to direct that the re-
serve force and militia reserve force, or
such part thereof as Her Majesty may
think necessary be forthwith called out
for permanent service. YIasssgas sesrs
| LONDON, April 4-The full text of
Lord Salisbury's circular bad not reached
st. Petersburg or Vienna yesterday eye-
ming. At st. Petersburg the circular is
regarded as proof that the Congress
lcould not have succeeded if it had met.
| At Vienna the efsctis so satisfactory as
to almost compensate for the failure OF
4 the Congress negotiations. and Austria
now awaits the effect ofthe English com.
munications at St. Petersburg.
4 vienna, April 4-Advices 4 from Get
Itinje state that Russia has requested
Montenegro to prepare for renewal OF
lhostiities. Prince Nikita is taking mea7
sures accordingly The reported rupture
between the Russians and Roumanians is
exceedingly probable. The latter, in
spite of their numerical inferiority. are
! Ideterminedto to resist any attack, believing
that the excitement in Hungary would
compel Austria to interfere. ss9i'q 81
Additional Eastern correspondence is
published. Lord Oio Russell, q British
Ambassador at Berlin, telegraphs March
18th, that, Prince Bismarck has ,reques-
ted him to state that Germany will not
participate 10 the conference without En-.
gland, and that he B smarck] ] cannotunt
derstand how a Congress for the revision
of Europern rights could be held when
England, one, of the chief contractors,
was absentss v,sauee It's .bgei atacs
The Vienna Nsw Free Press says: +:
The renewal Of bIoodsaed will be Rus.
sia's fault. England is ichampioniRg
linternationald rights. Tie Fremsndsr-
blan says: II Russia mitigstes7 The