The Portland daily press., 1878-01-30
FOREIGN.
The Turco-Russian War.
Terrible Condition of Things i'm
ConstantinOple.
FEARS OF AN INSURREOTION
IN GREECE.
Misunderstanding Between Rus-
STA and Austria.

Suleiman Pasha is ct Boulair. Mehemet
Ali is at Constaptinople, but returns to Chataja
Immediately. There are ten British iron-clads
in Besika Bay. The Egyptian garrison has
evacuated Bazardiik, about twenty-five miles
north of Varna, and retreated to the latter
place.
The Turkish government is having difficulty
to maintain or Ter in the capital, Among the
tens of thousands of refugees from Roumelia
are many armed Circassians. These have al
ready plundered Tuleh, Bourgas, Chorlu,
R0dosto, aud other towns, and are now flock
ing into Constantinople laden with booty The
government wishes to dsarm them and send
them into Asia, but it is doubtful if it will be
able to do SO.
Appalling misery prevails from the Bos-
| phorus to the Gulf of Salonica. The whole
coast is crowded with terrified Mohamme-
dams, seeking transportation across the straits.
Hundreds are pershihg from cold, hunger and
| exhaustion, and no succor is possible until
l the panic and confusion in the capital have
| abated.
LONDON, Jan. GA despatch from Athens
/ today says horrible threats against the ex-miD-
| listers are heard on all sides and scarcely less
1 violent against the King. Demonstrations in
/ all the principal towns favor war and the peo-
| pie of the country are fdriousy exasperated.
| and though today things are quiet it is feared
before long there will be much bloodShed.
/ Nothing could be more contemplate than the
present conduct of the Greek rioters. The
| Chamber gives no encouragement to them, and
Il
passed an almost unanimous vote approving
| repressve measures of the government. Trl-
coupis made speech which had good effect.
/ pointing ont the evil impression the conduct of
| the rioters would produce in Europe
1 The Times correspondent at Vienna tele-
/ graphs: Among the rumors current is one that
no regular srmistice will be concluded, but that
l Immediately after the arrival Of the Grand
| Duke Nicholas with the Turkish plenipoteutia-
| ries and Gen. Ignatietf in A1rianople, definite
| peace negotiations will be entered into on the
basis Of the preliminaiies accepted by the Porte.
There is nothing improbable in this. The pre-
/ liminary questions are SO general and elastic
that they will receive their real Specification by
| their definition in the final peace Instrument.
| They may be made infinitely harder than they
are already, or else softened down so as to leave
| Turkey.the semblance of existence as an Euro
| pean power. He would be bold man who
| even now would venture to affirm what will ui-
| timately best suit the purposes of Russia,
| whether she will aim at radical solution or
| merely prepare the way for it. Much will
| doubtless depend on the course of the pou1pdr-
| leTs with individual powers which are now CO.
| ing on, simultaneously with the negotiations
/ with Turkey, or whether Russia may think il
| more advantageous to crush Turkey or protect
her. An armistice with fixed date would
1 certainly be mora in the way than that sort of
1 suspension of hostilities which seems for sthe
4 moment to exist, but which Russia may put an
| end to any moment she likes.
LONDON, Jan. 20, 30 p. m.-In the Com
mons this afternoon, Robert Bourke, under for
| eigu secretary, in reply to question said Crete
was not in a state of instruction but much dis
turbed.
Sir Stafford Northcote, in response to an in
curry, said he had no knowledge of an alliance
between Russia Germany and Austria for the
partition of Turkey. Regarding one of these
powers he has strong reason to doubt that it
has entered Into any alliance. A few weeks or
months will probably prove this
! VIM. Edward Foster, Liberal, gave notice
tnfo mo 4 q nj Qrndit 10
1t is rumored in the lobby of the Commons
that the Marquis ofHartiugton Liberal leader, re-
| fused to move an amendment to the credit vote
and the duty developed on Forster. If this is
| well founded it is likely to occasion split ia
the Liberal party.
The Standards Vienna correspondent states
positively that Austria does not object to mod
crate territorial aggrandizement of Servia and
| Montenegro.
The Standards correspondent at Berlin says
it is reported that Count Andrassy has already
informed Prince Gortschakoff of Austria's OBJ
jections to Russian peace conditions, stating
| at the same time that Austria would never ac-
cept the extension of Bulgaria SO as to include
Phillipopolis or Adrianople
Additional correspondence relative to the
European question is published which contains
| the following:
| Lord Derby telegraphing to the Lord Lotus,
1 the British ambassador at ST. Petersburg, Jan.
18th, states that Count SchouveloH that after
| noon communicated a telegram from Prince
| GortschakoH authorizing him to affirm cate
| gorcally that the Russian government consul
cred the passage of men-of-war through the
| Dsrda1elles and Bosphorus a European ques-
ton which they did not Intend to settle by
| themselves.
The Times special from Pera says o lessa is
named as the place for the signing of the peace
conditions, hence the expectation that the Grand
Duke Nicholas would pass with his escort
through Constantinople. The same correspon-
dent says he has been told as the possible ex-
vii Of Ao1a Si fha
! Eliminates, that the orders to sign were tele-
graphed to Shipka via Vienna and Bucharest,
and would thence go to Kezaplik by courier,
| who might take some days for the journey if
he found that the peace delegates had staTtsd
| for Adrianople.
| The Vienna correspondent of the Times tele-
/ graphs as follows: 'Whether the preliminary
1 conditions have been signed or not has become
| OF purely secondary importance. The Porte at
| any rate has approved them, and according to
all accounts is quite ready to accept almost any
| thing else the Gar may propose, merely to pre-
vent the Russians executing their threat of
| marching on Constantinople. The population
| OF the capitol are kept in constant state of
alarm by daily rumors spread by those working
| in the interest Of the Russians, of project of
| the Turks to burn the town, blow up the
mosque of st. Sofia and make general massa-
| Gre of the Christians and foreigners
very much as if all further steps in the
negotiations with the Turks in great measure
| will be made dependent upon the issue of an
| interchange of communications among the
| powers. The mysterious delay in the sigma
| ture OF the prelimnaIies may have been
prompted by the wish to see the view Europe
would take of the matter
ATHENS, Jan. 29.-The Turks attacked a
body of Thessalian insurgents on Mt. Pslion
and were repulsed with a loss of CO. The loss
of the insurgents is trif1ng An instruction
| has begun in the district OF Armyros in Thes-
sally.
BUCHAREST, Jan. 29.-Gen. Ignatieff has
arrived here with an autograph letter from the
Gar to Prince Charles of Roumsnia. 1t is
feared the Gar refuses to abandon his claim to
RQumanian Bessarabia.
VIENNA, Jan. ga special to the Political
Correspondence from Copstantinople says the
delay in signing the conditions of peace is at
tributed 10 the Porte's opposition to the ten-
porary occupation of Constaptinople.
LONDON, Jan. 30.-The Standards Berlin
despatch says it is reported from Warsaw that
the managers OF the railway companies of
western Russia were recently summoned to ST.
Petersburg to confer relative to the organiza-
ton Of train service to the Russian Baltic
ports in the event of the Russian Baltic ports
being blockaded by the English fleet
The st. Petersburg correspondent of the
Times says there is no longer any doubt there
has been what is called here little msunder-
standing between st. Petersburg and Vienna
Austria it seems expected that the conditions
of peace would be submitted to European
congress or at least communicated for the ap-
proval of the members of the triple alliance.
Her suspicious were aroused by Russia's ex-
treme reserve.
When this misunderstanding occurred the
Russian Ambassador at Vienna, who was on
furlougb, was ordered to return to his post and
took explanations and assurances by which it
was hoped the little misunderstanding would
be completely removed. How far his efforts
were successful has not yet traEspired, but
there is reason to believe they were not the in
Simultaneous efforts which were anticipated.
Foreign Notes.
1t was stated in the House Of Commons yes
terday that despatch had been received from
Cape Town saying that the Gaika rebellion is
spreading and that it cannot be suppressed till
the arrival of disbursements
The London Times Paris despatch says the
Senate on Monday unanimously opposed the