The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-03-28

England has obtained permission from
the porte to disembark some troops on the
Island of Tenedos, and send four more iron
clads to the Sea of Marmora. NJ. Onou,
drsgomsn of the Russian legation, has pro-
tested against these concessions.
Prince Bismarck has notified the Au-
strian government that Russia, in oOnse
quence of his intervention, has consented to
submit all the peace conditions, without
should the congress make demand to that
effect,
Russian troops have crossed the river
between Makei Koi and st. Stefano and
occupied three villages, by the advice of
Mukhtar Pasha. He has not yet assented to
the Russians occupying Bujukdere. The
Russians, nevertheless, have arrived at De-
mousdere, behind Bujukdere.
A special from St. Petersburg says
the treaty leaves a good many points open.
1t reserves the question of the straits for
congress, and leaves the southern frontier of
Bulgaria to be determined by the inter
national commission according to the ma
tionality of inhabitants. The question OF
the annexation of the port of Kayala is left
to the same commission, and thus serious
difficulties on that point are avoided.
The latest phase of the difference be-
tween Russia and England seems to be that
gress to discuss all points of the treaty, de-
clines to be ultimately bound by the decision
of the majority of the powers. A wellin-
formed st. Petersburg correspondent states
that Russia will not allow interference with
the points concerning the war indemnity OF
Armenia and Bessarabia.
The political news from Central Amer
lea is u1favorable. Costa Rica and Guate-
mala are both preparing for war. The presi.
Aapf Of Cosfo Rico hoS VN1robaSod
in San Francisco and had her fitted out a
man Of war, and has sent to Europe for a
large supply of arms. He is determined al
any cost and by any means to carry out his
scheme of Central American confederation,
and the president of Guatemala is equally
determined to oppose him.
A correspondent explains the new diff
6culties in regard to the congress. He SAYS
that England demands that a formal engage
ment of all the clauses of the treaty shall be
submitted for discussion. Russia holds that
such an engagement is quite unnecessary, as
the whole treaty will be known before con-
gress meets, and the pleDipOtentiaries may
discuss which clauses shall be submitted for
consideration. The whole discussion turns
rather upon diplomatic prestige than on real
interests. The feeling is such that some
members of the official world in st. Peters
burg declare that England has decided Oh
war, and is simply caviling to gain time.
A leading editorial of the London
Times, after considering the terrible cense>
| quences that would follow great war, and
the terrible responsibility on the power
which brings it on, concludes as follows
Nevertheless. England must adhere to the
| demand that the entire treaty of San StefanO
| be admitted to the congress. The alterna>
tive plan suggested by Russia would raise
the previous question in every clause of the
treaty except those which Russia of her own
accord brought before the congress. But q
far more important issue than the interests
of any power is at stake. We take our stand
OF the existing treaties. The one hope OF
statesmen for the future peace of the world
must be founded on the development Of 8
| system of public law and upon the mainten
ance and increase of the authority of treaties
If the public law of Europe be valid unit
! formally repelled, any new arranl ement be
| tween Russia and Turkey falls, ipso facto
| by its very tHrS, within the scope of thu
| treaties o a56 a-d 1871. 1t is not in th'
power OF Russia, and it is not even within
| the competence of the congress, to decide
whether or not certain clauses O. the Lev
! treaty fall with the recognizance of the sig
| natures of the old treaty. 1t is bound t.
take the new il ErUment into consideration
| as whole.