Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-02-02
The European Sick Men.
RUSSIAN OFFICIALS INDIGNANT.


The Turks are preparing 10 defend their
capital if attacked. The Russian official Jour
mails are highly indignant at the suspicious
upon Russia good faith regarding the pro-
longatlon OF the armiStice regulations. Ii is
asserted that orders were repeatedly sent TO
headquarterS TO negotiate an armiStlce imme-
dlateiy the bases of peace were accepted. Rus
sia'S answer TO Austria's note states distinctly
mat the present or future StipulationS between
Russia and Turkey are subject TO modifica-
Ton, and not definite until approved by the
THE ANTI-RUsSIAN EXCITEMENT IN LONDON
is mounting TO fever heat. On Thursday at the
Stock Exchange copies OF the Times and NeicS
and other Journals opposing the government
were burned amid storm of groanS and wells
An address then was signed declaring conf
dence In the government. similar scence
occurred al LlOydS. Several out door meet
lngS IN the country, called TO protest against
the vote of supply. were taken possession of
by the adherents of the government and con
Yerted into anti-RuSSian demonstrations. The
Prime Minister was cheered vociferously by
several thousand persons yesterday while en-
tering the House of Lords. The debate on the
motion for supplementary supply was con
tinued yesterday in the House of Commons
and adjourned until Monday.
NOTES OF THE SITUATION.
-, The Porte has requested the Car TO arrest
the advance on COnStantin0ple. The foreign
ambassadors in Turkey have asked the Porte
to order the departure of the CircaSSianS from
Constantlnopie, and he Is taking steps TO en-
force good order i'm the city. Ii is definitely
settled that the Congress to pass upon the
peace StipuatiOnS is TO be held i'm Vienna. No
official intelligence of the actual signing of the
basis OF peace and aTmiSiice has been received,
but there IS reason 10 believe that the signing
will take place to-day. The Servians are dis
satisfied with what is known of the peace Stip-
ulatlOnS, and they manifest a disposition to
disregard them until they repOSSeSS all of Old
SerTia. The Greeks are pushing matters Wig
orOusly, and are about TO occupy TheSSaly.
EplruS and Macedonia to protect the christian
inhabitants from massacre.
CAPTURE OF $1,000 TURKS.
A Russian official dispatch, dated Adrian
Ople, Jan. 2. SayS:-"On the 18th inst Gen
Slrutfof occupied Lulet BurgaS and ChOrlu
lie overlook convoy of between 10000 and
l3,aN wagons and $1,000 armed MuSSelman
1ugli1VeS The latter were dSarmed and
escorted to ROdOStO, from which place they are
to be transported 10 Asia. Demotika and
osunkoprl were occupied on the 2Sth inst
The WRECK OF THE METRoPoLIs.-The
steamer Cygnet is to bring the survivors of
the wreck 10 Norfolk. where they viii be pro-
Vlded Tor by the chalitable organizations, and
be sent north by the Baltimore or Clyde line
and hfty-elght persons are reported as saved,
reducing the actual loss of lire to about one
hundred. Mr.. Collins, one of the contractors
who dispatched the Metropolis on her ill-fated
voyage, declares that she was perfectly sea-
worthy, and so convinced was he of thai fact
that he effected but a light insurance, and Mr.
Hand, the president of the Delaware Insurance
Company. who underworld her for S2l.Ugl
states that he made an examination before
issuing the policy, and considered it a very
fair risk.