New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-02
THE PARTITION OF TURKEY.
MEHEMET ALI INDIGNANT.

ALL
THE POWERS ACTING IN OPEN DEFIANCE OF TuR-
KEYS CIAIMs-BEssARABIA REcEDED TO RUSSIA
AN AUSTRIAN ARMY READY TO MARCH.
Decided progress was made yesterday by
the Congress, which coded Bessarabia to Russia,
the Dobrudja to Roumania, and declared Servia
and Montenegro absolutely free. Austria
has armies, 10000 strong, prepared to
enter Bosnia and Herzegovina. She
intends to establish civil administration
in each province. Mehemet Ali, the
Turkish plenipOtentiary, is greatly dissatisfied
at the proposed seizure of the two provinces,
and considers that the Powers have combined
to despOil Turkey. He asserts that she is as well
prepared to go to war in defence of her rights
as any of them.
THE CONGRESS ACTING VIGOROUSLY.
BEssARABIA CEDED TO RUssLA-RoUMANIA AND MON
TENEGRo FREE.
BERLIN. Monday, July l. 1878.
The Congress has decided to cede to Russia that
portion of Bessarabia which she lost in 1855, ex-
tending from the Pruth to the Kia Valley. The
Congress has also decided to transfer the Dobruda
TO Roumania. The frontier Of the new territory is
to be advanced as to from the
neighbOrhood of Silistria, without including that
town, to Mangalia on the Black Sea. Roumania
will thus acquire fertile tract of country, and be
established both banks of the Danube. Tho
Congress has recognized the independence Of Rou-
mania and Montenegro. 1t demanded that the
former should establish religious equality
Count Schouvaloff and Count Andrassy have
rived at an understanding with regard TO the from
tiers of Montenegro
sERvIA's CLAIMS ALLOWED.
meeting OF the servian Commission appointed by
A. ala
ing The commission confirmed the independence Of
servla and also guaranteed her addition her ter
rtory of 1872 square miles and $4,000 Inhabitants.
MEHENET ALI MAKES A BOLD PROTEST.
HE COMPLAINS OF DIsCoURTEsY FROM PRINCE BIS
MARcK, AND DENoUSCEs THE PARTITION OF
TURKEY.
lBY CABLE TO TRIBUSE.l
LONDON, Monday, July /, 1873.
A dispatch from Berlin says Mehemet Ali
in conversation this morning said he had teleRraphed
10 his Government recommending that he and his col
league be directed make protest against the DIS
memberment OF Turkey, and withdraw from the Con-
gress He said that he treated CURLY and harshy
spoken to by the president OF the Congress for endesy
oring to maintain the rights OF Turkey; that secret
understanding evidently existed between Austria Eng
land. Germany and France respecting the work 10 DC
accomplished by the commissions to be appointed Dy the
Congress- these would each provide for some further
spoIiaon Of empire The protest against the sur
render OF BO and Herzegovina had been almost con-
temptuously dsregarded.
GREECE TO RECEIVE LARGE SHARE.
The demands Of Greece 20 be granted, he be-
Ieyed to an extent which would amaze any one. The
Greek representative had asked for the cession or
Eurus and the shore the Egean Sea far Mount
Atlas "a well as the cession OF Crete and Rhodes He
had laid before the Congress memorial representing
mat even Constantinope should become Greek and an
etSnographical table showing that the Greek Bugaran
Seryan and Montenegro populations Outnumbered all
the other inhabitants of Turkey.
RUSSIA TO RECEIVE FURTHER CONVERSATION.
even Persia" continued Mehemet Ali, " is TO have
slice of the empire the commissions will give Russia
some further compensation In the East set-Of to
Austras gift OF Bosnia and Herzegovina" When asked
what hope Turkey could have OF successful resist
ance he replied that she the only Power Europe
to-day that was really not afraid to war. He ex-
poets to receive the reply Of the Porto ~ his dispatch TO-
night.