The Bee-Hive. — 1876-09-23 (London, England)

THE ARMISTICE.  The Turkish Government proposed an armistice of ten days "°giTining on Friday the 15th, and showed its own view of the 'natter by a continuance of military movements on Sunday last. Meanwhile, our military commissioner with the Sultan's forces 48 at last reported to Sir Henry Elliot. What Sir Arnold  Remball has to say amounts to this: that there can be no truth in tbe alleged outrages on women and children by the Turkish soldiery, because the villages on their march are everywhere found quite deserted; and that, as to the Circassian irregulars, though he cannot answer for them, he has no reason to believe that such outrages have been committed even by them. We should be much readier to trust this observer's report on the state and prospects of the Turkish arms themselves, because these are matters immediately under his own.eyes, sot, like the outrages on peaceful villagers, far away from his sphere of vision. Before the suspension of hostilities became known, one correspondent, surveying the scene with him, described the Turks as "too weak to hold their position, maintaining communications with Nisch, and at the same time attacking Alexinatz and Deligrad." The simple truth seems to be, that, with resources at an end, and deluges of rain only just beginning, there is no money to replenish supplies and only impassable roads for carriage if there were. We do not mean to say that the Turkish Ministry can raise no money, but they are unable to borrow without paying ruinously for the accommodation. Were a wise Sultan on the throne, he would see that the best, the only means of preserving his seat in by curtailing his realm.  The latest intelligence from the seat of War in East Europe relates chiefly to two points, the violation of the armistice by the Turks and the sort of proclamation of Prince Milan as "King of Servia." The latter fact has given umbrage at St. Petersburg, and is not regarded with 'satisfaction in political circles at Belgrade, where steps appear to have been taken for nipping it in the bud. The Roman ambassador in France is represented to have said to Duke Decazes, that Servian pretensions must not interpose between the efforts of Russia and the interests of the Christian subjects of Turkey. It is thought probable that the new Assembly in Servia will be favourable to the grouping of the Christian provinces into a confederation of states, even though Roumania, and not Servia, should have the predominance. With respect to the informal armistice of ten days, it appears to have been doubly violated by the Turks,- who not merely burned a Servian village in the Morava valley, but even attacked the Servian forces there. Hunger may have driven the Turks to these acts; or their communications with their own base at Nisch have been obstructed, and they were fain to appease their appetites on raw maize. Of course, if they did not keep the truce, Tchernaieff was not likely to abstain from any movement that prudence might suggest. It is stated from Vienna, that the English and Austrian Ambassadors meant to propose another ten days' cessation of arms, the representatives of the six Powers having, as yet, proceeded no further than to weed out the rejected points from the Turkish conditions of peace. In Paris, the rumour is that there will be a formal armistice of a month's duration; while the talk of diplomats and politicians in Brussels reduces the terms on which the Turks will seriously insist to a war indemnity spread over ten years, occupation of her Servian fortresses in the mean while, simple recognition of Milan as Prince of Servia, and a change of administration at Belgrade. 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