The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-19
FOREIGN NEWS.
European Status Still Warlike
Bismarck VIII Call the Convention
Under a Technical Change
Of Purpose.
English Shipments of War Material
Continue.
Diverse interpretations of the Par
liamentsry Adjournment.
The EASTERN QUESTION.

LONDON, April 1S.-The dispatch oi
troops from India TO Malta Ia the leading
topic Of political discussion. The sup
porters Of the government regard IL as
the only natural accompaniment Of other
precautionary measures, and not indicat.
live Of belligerent intention. The op,
ponents Of the, government regard II AZ
another step In the deyelopement Of u
warlike policy. They point to the fact
that the NeuJ announced the day after the
adjournment Of Parliament for Easter,
that Il prevented criticism or explanation
OF the measure for three weeks. Opinion
IA expressed that this Is one Of the deter
nations OF the Cabinet that Lord Derby
referred to in his remarks In the House
Of Lords on the Sth inst. as inducing his
resignation OF the foreign Secretaryship.
The royal yacht Osborne has been or
dered to the Mediterranea eau immediate.
ly to bring home the Duke and Duchess
Of Edinburg.
A chartered steamer left Plymouth
yesterday with 2, 800 tons Of ammunition,
stores and q steam launches and torpe.
do boats for the Miditeraneau feet.
Accounts from Berlin and Vienna are
still hopeful. The Congress will meet
shortly.
Bismarck left Berlin Last evening for
his Lauennaburg estates, but It rs not
thought that this will interfere with the
diplomatic negotiations.
The persistence with which England
and Russia are maintaining their posi-
tions concerning the Congress is held to
mean that the difference ia aradical one,
and that each power sees in the others
proposal an attempt to prejudice before
hand the character Of the Congress;
hence probably the willingness Of the 81.
Petersburg Cabinet TO revert 10 Bismarck's
original idea OF the Congress discussing
the treaties Of 1855 and 1871 rather than
the treaty Of San steiano.
II this suggestion Is acceptable to Eng
land, the difficulty OF the assembling Of
the Congress without wounding Russia's
dignity may be overcome; but the belief
does not gain ground that the Congress
will succeed in ayerting war even If It
ever meets.
The Cabinet crisis at Constantinople
continues. Il il believed that Ahmed
Veiyk Efendi, President OF the Council
OF Ministers and Minister OF the Interior,
adheres to his resignation, but this Is not
certain. A reconstruction OF the Cabinet
Ia said to be impending, but no successor
to Ahmed Vefyk Efendi Is mentioned.
The contest Is between Russia and Eng
land for supremacy. The Turkish peo-
pie and army are said 10 be bitterly hos
tile TO the Russian alliance.
The Turkish Ministerial Council yes.
terdsy delibsrated on the reply TO the de-
mand Of General Nelidoff, Russian
Charge d'Affaires, for the evacuation Of
Shumla, Varna and Batoum.
Count Zichy, Austro-Hungafian Am
bassador 10 Turky, has left his post Tor
Vienna, on q months leave of absence.
This afternoon the Echo says: We are
able to state on authority that Invitations
to the Congress will be issued tonight.
The treaties Of $50 and II will be laid
upon the table aud compared with the
treaty Of San S:efano.
ST.. PErERsBuke, April 1S-It ia an-
nounced that General Todlebein will leave
to-day for San stefano charged with a
special mission from the Gear.
The Journal De 81. Petersburg says Ger
many continues her nediatory efforts
with discretion, zeal and disinterested.
ness, encouraging the strongest hope.
BISMARCK WANTS sEsERAL cosaEST.
BRussEIs, April Isle Noni's Berlin
special says: Prince Bismarck, at the
pressing request Of Count Andrassy, has
consented 10 resume negotiations for
the Congress- op the condition that
he be simultaneously solicited TO do so
by Austria, England and Russia. The
good will Of Russia il indubtitable, but it
is feared that England may prolong the
present state Of uncertainty by abataining
from asking Germany's mediation or by
formulating her reservations.