Widnes Examiner. — 1876-10-07 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

OUR FLEET AT BESIKA BAY.  According t 3 an Admiralty statement issued on Tuesday, the vessels at present at Besika Bay are the following —The litlicon ifiig of Vice- Admiral Drummond), the Triumph (fill; of Rear-Admiral Rice), the Swiftsure, the Alonarcn, the Sultan, the .tiotspur, the Rupert; the Rssearch, the Wye, An .the Wizard,  Tuesday's papers opeak oi the uncertain character of the war news. It was stated that the Serviau liovernment published an official bulletin on Monday, reproducing the statements already telegraphed as to the successes of Tchernaieif, with the addition that in the fighting of Saturday some heights on the Turkish side of the Morava Raver were captured and held. The Turks, on the other hand, in official bulletins issued from Constantiuopie, claim that the Serviams repeatedly made fruitless attacks WI the Turkish positions. -  ' . Wednesday's papers declare that the reply of the 1 Turkish Ministers to the peace proposals of the Great Powers amounts to a virtual rejection of them. Tile Poits does not explicitly refuse to grant adnoinibtra. tive autonomy for the northern provinces ; but it prc„ teases its intention to introduce " ret°ra2B" 19Plielkble to the whole Empire, eta which will be so elunsive as to render autonomy unnecessary. The "Omuta' v 5...; traordinary " at which this mounntous resolution w."l arrived at also decreed that the neW "Nation 1 0 cil " should consist of 120 members. Tile de...B_o:Bllonthe "Ministers and other high dignitaries ,) um' have f after Iva" tl'eS will be beenco laid before the Sultan, power''..., A few (-Lays ago the Titrime; =minted to thet Dejgraue awn ochoraroeosopoontdaeynotidiaog . general Tt4r lay .33, .. y , teci that tile out of tke patine proposals, and i the prompt acceptance by. 1."1"/ since that opismon Was,exPressea „le famous autograph letter or the czar to the iituitttau Emperor has been written. The liervian Government the moat emphatic ruahn reasserts officially and in er its determination to continue the war, oven" 10 to a death." b'ervia, we are told, "will oLly yield to a foreign military intervention, and will jut entertain peace conditions unless they aro.itui 811 . bMitted to her."  meinorandem by Lord Stratford de Radcliffe contante the terms which the ex-timbassidor couceives most likely to ilosteu the conclusion of peace in Tux' .;e/ klact its permanent ematitmemos. LQ iik49*o.4 194 t 49 Woe; fich 04 0.4;1044  inhabitants. To Bulgarian non-Mussulmans should be secured the privilege of administering their Own affairs; no irregular troops should be admitted. Set' via should be allowed to enjoy the same state as before the war, but subjected to some slight punishment for its unwarrantalls invasion of Turkish terrritory. The separation in Bosnia and Herzegovina of the Christians and Mussulmaits locally, for the purposes of adm1fl18" tratiou and justice, would be desirable. Politioa! equality to all classes; gradual abolition of slavery • religious freedom; financial reform; a mixed police in subqtitution for the present system ; the ruinous practice or farming the revenue to cease, and the equal re-partition of taxes. In mote recent accounts it is stated that Turkey's refusal of the revised terms of peace has given greatdissatisfaction to the Powers. Further pressure viui ba firought to bear upon the Porte, in the hope of gettieg the Eastern Question settled, at least for the present. Alarming reports continue to reach us as to the probable action of Bassist One telegram even states that she has completed arrangements for invading Tit:key. Of this, however, there is no creditable eV dance whatevsr.  Colonel Loyd-Lindsay arrived in London on Tut* day afternoon frora hem the seat of war, after having orgardied hospitals of toe National Society both 10 Servia and Turkey for the wounded soldiers of both armies. Four surgeons left London on Tuesday evsning for the society's hospital at Belgrade, rePlacing others whose duties at home have compelled Melt return.  The apeeeh of the Premier at Aylesbury doett seem to have impressed vary favourably the American people. The New York "Jerald, in a severe and sad castle leading article, says that Lord Beacanfield's cora.' plaint that he is not Eupported by the country 'maim a it of a man who murdered his tather and mother, and wh n placed on t/ial, pleaded for mercy on the grnaucl that he was an orphan.