Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1877 — NEWS SUMMARY [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY

THE WAB IN THE BAST.

A Bucharest special of the 17th says that it is known to many that the Czar was privately warned last August that, if Bnssia entered on a second campaign, it would be impossible to restrain England from hostile action. Influential Russians consider the present moment highly favorable for direct negotiations between Russia and Turkey. A Vienna correspondent telegraphs that Turkey’s first pacific effort may be regarded as a failure. Germany hinted that treating directly with Russia would be the shortest way of coming to an understanding. It seems that, when the neto was first mentioned, the Austrian Government replied that it could not hold out any hope of successful mediation on such basis. A Constantinople telegram says: Erroneous interpretations having been given to the circular of the Porte inviting mediation, it is officially explained that Turkey does not approach the powers as a vanquished state, since she still has two lines of defense which the Government believes she would be able to hold The Porte, by its circular, desires to intimate its willingness to consider the proposals made by the Constantinople Conference. As the war began owing to Turkey’s refusal te adhere to those proposals, the Porte thinks it might be terminated now on that basis. Russia has called out 60,000 more troops. Reinforcements are constantly arriving at the scene of the war. Gen. Todleben has been appointed commander of the army of Rnstcbuk, with Prince Imeritinsky as his Chief-of-Staff. A Ragusa dispatch reports that 6,000 Turks from l’odgoritza compelled the Montenegrin corps to retreat into their own territory, and are now marching to succor Scutari and Antyyuri. A''liondon dispatch of the 20th says : “The anxiety felt here aH to the policy of tha Government in relation to the settlement of the Eastern question is growing more intense from lionr to hour. The Cabinet Councils hold in rapid succession, and resulting in the announcement of the assembling of Parliament three weeks before the usual time, have created a profound impression.” Suleiman Pasha, with 10,000 men, has arrived in Constantinople from Varna, on his way to Adrianople, to take command of the army in Roumolia. The movement of the hulk of his army by the same routo is in progress, leaving a strong garrison in the Quadrilateral fortress. Gen. Todleben has been appointed to the command of the army of tlioCznrowitch, who will return to Russia. The siege of Rustcliuk, Hliumla and Rasgrad will now 1)0 pushed. A cable dispatch says a fresh levy of 300,000 men lias been ordered by the Porte, and that the Russian advance is to be resisted to the bitter end. Russia is evidently not at all disturbed at the turn affairs have taken in England. The Volos, which speaks from a point in the nearvicinity of the throne, says that the issue of this “political episode' 1 will be awaited without anxiety by Russia, who will quietly continue the work she has begun, confident that her ultimate triumph will be in no way hindered by British intrigue.