The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1877-02-16 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

POPULAR FEELING IN RUSSIA. (From the Times.)  The most important parts of the first Blue Book art those which exhibit the feelings and the intentions of Russia, Lord Augustus Loftus gives an interesting account of the popular sentiment on the authority of a person, high in rank and influence, who is known for his admiration of England and everything English. " He says that the present Eastern question is viewed by the whole Russian nation, from the highest to the lowest, as one of religion and humanity.' So powerful Is the feeling in favour of the Christian &lays that the Emperor would not dare to run the risk of opposing the current. The fervour is likened, indeed, to that of the Crusades. The Russian statesmen have expressed a similar opinion in the cooler and more restrained terms of diplomacy. Count Schouvaloff said to Lord Derby that, in his opinion, it would be difficult for the Czar to stop the flow of volunteers to Servia without an immense loss of popularity and influence, and that In R,issia the excitement was incomparably greater than in this country. For months the language of Russian diplomacy has been invariably menacing. So lons ag, us August last Prince Gortschakoff declared that Russia waited for Europe to act, but that if • nothing should be done to stop the bloodshed in Turkey, and if the Czar should order him to use his pen, "je Teats garantis qu'elle sera trempje dane use enere qui comporterait , avec is dignitA et La puissance de l'Empire. lie added, indeed, " Maie ce tie serait pas la guerre but that assurance was weaklned by the words of the Enip-ror himself, who, in ;alarming hie troops, had declared that if the honour of the country should be attacked he would defend it. The later and more famffus speech was still more positive, for it plainly said that, if Russia's demands at the Conference should not be granted, she would be forced to appeal to arms, and he ve, add rely on the support of his people. Such a deciarvion seems more, rather than less, iniporant now that we know it to have been no hasty answer to Lord Beasonsfleld's speech at the Mansion House, but, it would appear, a deliberate threat. From such utterances we cannot sepasste the toropcsal- of Russia to cut the knot of the Eastern difficulty by the military occupation of Bosnia and Bulgaria. and by a naval demonstration in the Bogph”rutt! tan- own Government rejected the whole of the : but for the first time we learn the important fart ,hat the opposition nf Austria was limited. While declining to support a niili'ary occupation, Count And rams endeavoured, as Sir Andrew Buchanan informs Lord Derby, "to satisfy the Russian Government that the object which t•ey have in view will be more safely and certainly secured by the employment of naval alone." Thus Austria favoured some kind of e, e,ttitin, and the C,.ar was ready to accept the very kii.d she proposed. It would be interesting to know w het her Austria is 1,11 of !he same mind. The Blue Book contains several de-!arations of the Czar's almost pathetic eagerness to win the trust o" the English people and to act in con.s.rt with their Government, Lord Augustus Loftus was assur• d that Russia was perfectly willing to be the •‘ mat/deaf," of Europe in Bulgaria, as England ard France were in Syria, and that she would not object to the participation of any other Power. The Emperor pledged his honour that he had "no views of conquest or of Constantinople," and he could not understand why there should not be a complete understanding between England anti Russia. Prince Gortschakoff proudly adds that, under the Russian form of government, the word of the Emperor is not, "like a parliamentary declaration, revocable at the will of a majority."  Trrn Br.Arlo-crux BitUDER.—On the flth Feb., Mr. Parkinson, of Preston. the owner of the dog Morgan, that scented the remains of Emily Holland, at Black; burn, received a communication from the Home Secret tau ',plying to an application he sent for the government reward of £lO whien he wish,d to divide between the family of Fish and the parents of the murdered Ichild, and stating that the reward would be given to Peter Taylor, of Preston, who took the dog to Blackburn and found the remains in the el:Niamey.