The daily gazette., 1878-04-02
appointment OF Lord Salisbury
ms English Foreign Secretary.

THE CALL FOR THE REsERvEs-pIpLo-
MACY AND SPECULATION IN AUSTRIA
The RUSSIANS AND TURKS FRATERNIz-
ING, &c. l IT7
LONDON, April I, 7 d. m.-Sir Stafford
Northcote, chancellor Of the excbsnn,r =
announced in the House of Commo MS
this afternoon that Lord Salisbury has
been appointed foreign secretary. The
queens message for the calling out of
the reserves was read by the Speaker of
the House. 1t is as follows:
"The present state of public affairs in
the East and the necessity of taking steps
Ior the maintenance Of peace and for the
protection or the interests of the empire
havi ng constituted, in the opi inion of her
Majesty, a case of great emergency with
In the meaning Of the acts of Parliament
In that behalf, her Majesty deems it pro-
per. TO provide additional means for the
puohc service. Therefore, in pursuance
OF those acts, her Majesty has thought 1t
right to communicate to the House of
Commons that she is about to direct that
the reserve force and militia reserve
force, or such part thereof as her Majesty
may think necessary, ba forthwith called
out Tor permanent service"
Discussion of the message was post
poned until M ond ay next.
The Times has Vienna dispatch say
ing. I'm consequence of Lord Derby's
resignation and the calling out of the re-
serves, Austria has ceased her efforts to
effect compromise about the congress
feeling sure that Russia will not yield to
England's demand now, when doing so
would seeJq somewhat like submitting
before a threat. But what may not be
possible now may become so later, as the
interruption of negotiations in regard to
the congress and the order for the mobi-
hZation of the reserves in England need
not be followed at once by an actual col
llsion between the two powers, and the
convlctlon may be forced upon them
that, after all, the congress offers the only
possible chance of a peaceful settlement.
The impression is that whatever NAV
have been originally the object of GEN
eral lgnatieff's mission, he confined
himself, In fact, to giving and receiving
Information, and returns to st. Peters.
burg to report what he heard.
The Times prints Pera dispatch,
dated March 20, saying: "Although the
turkish policy may a short time ago
have been phllo- English, just now it is
philo- Russian. The Russians have ac-
quired over the Sultan and his advisers
what in Turkey is the strongest kind of
fuenee-direct and personal influence.
man and Reouf Pasha, have become
more Russian than English. Turkish
and Russian soldiers fraternize g, the latter
going about Constantinople in uniform
freely without evoking any an nimosity,
such as usually exists between the in vad-
or and the invaded. If war comes Eng
land must contemplate the posi- bility of
having TO fight Turkey and Russia. At
the best she would get from Turkey one
sided neutrality, of little or no substan-
tial use.
NJ m
MOVEMENTS
CoNsTANTINoPLE, March 81. Ill m.
The Grand Duke Nicholas had an ill.,
terview oftwo hours duration with the |
Sultan on Saturday. NJ. Onou, the Rus |
sian dragoman Qnterpreter) was the on
ly other person present.
The Russians are terrifying the of Cha |
,alj a and erecting entrenehments att all |
points. Osman, Fland and
keonf Pashas have gone to the Turkish
camp at Maslak. Moukhtar Pashaa has
been appointed chief of the general staff,
ind Osman Pasha commandant of Con.
The Russian Admiral Po-
)off has arrived here. The Egyptian
contingent from Varna are encamped
II Unkiar-Skelessi, a village of Asia
Minor on the Bosphorus, eight miles
of Constantlnople. 1t is
believed in military circles that Russia
md Turkey have arrived at an under
but there is no visible indica-
ions of this. 1t Is still hoped that De ace
will be maintained.
CURRENT NOTES.
LONDON, April Count Corti, italian
oreign minister, will explain to the
Ihamber of Deputies on the 9Th instant
hat Italy's policy is undoubtedly that of .
'bservant inaction and neutrality; that
he may be alarmed at Russia's igrswth
q the East, but home complications and
he Decessity of keeping on good terms
Nth Germany and Austria will keep
er quiet. L
The decree prohibiting the exporta-
ion of horses from Germany, which
vas to have been Cancelled April 1, re-
nains in force until further notice.
Lord Derby is reproached at ST. Pc
ersburg "for having misled Russia and
,ngland by going as far as he did FIN a