The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-11-24 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

TIIE REFORM OF THE TURF.  The Standard, referring to the revised code of the laws of racing, says :—"The most valuable rule of all, as a social question to the public at large, that this new rode promulgates, is that which gives power to the . stewards of the Jockey CIL to prohibit the advertisement in the h'oeifig Cotenthir of any race meeting which they may deem objectionable. Under both old and new rules such advertisement was and is a Nine qua. sans before a meeting could be legitimate; and a horse running at an 'illegitimate' meeting becomes perpetually disqualified. But now thestewards of the Jockey Club have power to niake any meeting th us illegitimate by putting a veto upon its name appearing in tim Calendar, If it does not give the requisite amount of added money, in the proper form, it can he extinguished by a word. Still better, if it fueters rascality and does no good to horse breeding, it can be wiped out from the list of turf fixtures. Such a precedent is so valuable that we can only express a hope thatthe Grand National Hunt Coiiiiiiittee will adopt it at once with regard to steeplechasing and hurdle-racing. Many of the worst meetings are those of a cross-country character. If the two bodies of racing legislators can thus adopt one common principle, there will at once be a power to stop any meeting, the antecedents of which are disreputahlc, from being held in any shape, and many a scene of ruffianism and conglomeration of thieves will be put cl,iwn forever."  The Queen has been graciously pleased to confer the high clistluctiun of the v.,cant Ribbon of the Thistle upon Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Tuesday being the Wth anniversary of the birth of !1, Princess Royal (Crown Prioress of Germany), the (Tension was celebrated at Ws (isor with the usual rej.vieings.  The Grand Orange Lodge of Fermanagh county has passed a resolution of unbounded confidence in the policy of the Government on the war question, and condemnatory of the course pursued by Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Lowe in attempting to embarrass the Earl of Derby end endanger the peace of Europe. Snotor or A Sognmx.—Mr. Islip, veterinary surgeon, of Wisheach, Cambridgeshire, has committed suicide by choosing himself in the head with a pistol. I tomeetic troubles are said to be the cause that led to the rash ,ch which has cast a gloom over the town, the deceased being highly respected. He leav,s a family if six children, tha eldest being in a lunatic asylum.  IMPORTANT DESPATCHES ON THE  EAS'TERN QU 17,FiT I. )N.  Tuesday night's Loud. Gazette contains a series rd despatches on the Eastern question, the met import...a; being one from Lord A. Loftus to Earl De: tv, dmee Yalta, Nov. 2. It, it Lord Loftus states th.,' he tad bad that 'lay an interview with the Empe or of Russis at Livadia. His M.,jesty stated that he had received in. telligence of the probable acceptance of the armistice which was very satisfactory. Allading to the ultimo, turn addressed to Turkey, the Emperor said he had taken this course in consequence of a discomfiture ot ths Servian army, and his fear that it might be followed 14 great atrocities His Majesty expressed ve, y earnest!) his wish that the conference should meet with it, least delay, taking as the basis the proposal, submitted by Lord Derby. The Emperor then entered on a retrospective view of the past negotiations, statini that he had given every proof of his dest e for peg, Referring more especially to his relations with England his Majesty said be regretted to see that there SA el, isted in England an " itiveteiate" suspicion of Russia Dailey, and a continied far of Russian aggression and conquest. He had on several occasions gip, the most solemn assurance that he had no the smallest wish or intention to be possessed of Constantinople. He considered the acquisitiat of that city would be a misfortune for Russia His Majesty pledged his sacred word of honour in th* most earnest and solemn manner that he had no in. tion of acquiring Constantinople, and that if necessity should oblige him to occupy a portion of Bulgaria II would only be provisionally, and until the peace sae safety of the Christian population were secured. His Majesty could not understand, when both countriee had a common object, namely, the maintenance of peaceand the &maim ation of the condition of the Chi stiant,,,,h, there should not be a perfect understanding betweer the two Governments. Intentione,said the Emperor,wen attributed to Russia of a future conquest of India, bill this was absurd and a perfect impossibility. He furthel stated that there was no intention to establish Sem, and Roumania as kingdoms, and that it would be folly to do 80. The last despatch is from Lord Derby to Lord Loftus, dated yesterday (Nov. 21), stating that the Russian Ambassador, on behalf of his Government bad requested that the report of the conversation with the Czar should be made public; to which request Lord Derby had acceded. Lord Derby concludes: " I thought its publication might be opportune, since the last fee days had br..ught us the intelligence of the mobilisatioo of • considerable Russian force, and of the emission of the new Russian loan for a hundred million of roubles.'