The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-07
More Than One Hundred Thousand
Turks in That Vicinity.
ROUMANIA DEFIES THE LIGHTNING.
lOminous Silence About Eng
lands Next Move.
ARRIVAL OF THE PORTSMOUTH.
IBx CABLE TO TIE HERALD

IBy CABLE TO TIE HERALD.1
LONDON, April z. 1878.
The Eastern question is trembling in the
balance. England, while praying and hop
ing for peace, is hopelessly and steadily
drifting into war. A parallel to the
troubled state Of affairs here is only to be
found in the uncomfortable war fever
which swept over the Northern States i'm
mediately following the firing upon Fort
Sumter. England, which has been free
from general war since the stormy days of
the Crimea, is now in the hands of a new
generation of men DESTROYS only to emulate
the glory of their ancestors.
THE WAR SPIRIT GROWING APAcE
The peace feeling grows weaker in oil the
upper circles of society and the tension
of war grows stronger from day to day.
Court circles are undeniably warlike.
Among military men the argument most
in vogue is that it is easier to whip Russia
while she is still weakened after the recent
war than when she has had time to recover
from its effects. .
ALL CLASSES ANXIOUS FOR TT.
Lord Beaconsield is anxious to redeem
the disgrace Of the disastrous and
humiliating diplomacy Of last year,
and the working classes rejoice at
the renewed activity in the dock
yards and arsenals Bankers and merchants
see large profits accruing to them from the
new loans and new contracts for supplies.
THRUST INTO DANGER. ausr4e II
All these interests are combined to
press on to war, which is now resisted
by Gladstone, Bright and few brave and
gifted men who only hold q relation to the
mass Of the people which the Hartford Con.
vention held to the American people of
1912.
DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT..
Should Beaconsfield now dissolve Parlia-
ment the conservatives would win by in
creased majorities
sTATEsMAN's OPINION.
distinguished English statesman said
to HERALD correspondent that the Anglo
Saxons are naturally blood-thirsty and fond
Of war. He feared that England was now
on the scent and could not be held in.
EXPORTS FOR PEACE.
Peace can only come from the powerful
influence Of Germany. Count Andrassy is
anxiously striving to revive the Congress
In the meantime friends Of peace will
make gallant and strenuous efforts. Ger
many is using her utmost efforts in favor Of
general accommodation.
RUSSIA DEFIANT
Russia holds defiant attitude, and
argues that if it should cost hundred
thousand men to hold San Stefano, she
would not leave until after a general, gen.
aine peace.
THE LATEST scHtMP.
The Vienna correspondent Of the HERALp
telegraphs that q scheme has been
proposed for O settlement Of the diff
GUILTY, whose origin is attributed to
the Archduko Albrecht OF Austria.
Count Andrassy told General Ignatieff, at
their recent conference, that the security
of the Austrian Empire was incompatible
with the Treaty OF San Steiano.
AusTRIAs PLAN
There is no room in the unstable
condition OF Austro- Hungarian equi-
librium for a single additional Slav.
Austria therefore submits the fol-
lowing compromise, which is now con-
sidercd in London as the first recognition
Of the integrity Of the Ottoman Empire in
Europe:--
/. Russia to seek territorial compensa-
ton in Asia Minor.
Ito divide European Turkey into
three parts-namely, Northern, Western
and Southern. Each part IL to DO
granted autonomy and administrative
reforms. The northern section. Bulga-
ria north Of the Balkans, to. be
under the patronage of Russia. The
western section, Bosnia, Herzegovina
and Albania, under the patronage of Aus
A.. The aanlLarr aactian includinr