THE RESULTS OF THE CONGRESS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 60, 23 November 1878, Page 3

THE RESULTS OF THE CONGRESS.

For fli- benefit ~!' those who ilo not care to wade through tho si sty-four articles of tlio Treaty of Berlin we append n brief summary of tiie results of the < 'unRoumauia ami Servia, hitherto linked to Constantinople by the frail tie of a tribute which in recent yours they sometimes forgot to pay, are now formerly declared to be independent. Uomnania to give back to Russia a portion of that Bessarabian territory Nvl.ii !i sin i Ti'ived after the Crimean Wai : ind hi ■ ".-hange to obtain the Uobiiiiija. .viih e.aiuny stretching from the east Di SiiUria io tile South of Uangalia on the coast of the Black Sua. Servia gets some additional territory. Montenegro to ho independent, and to receive a good deal of additional territory, injpartieulur the port of AntiMontenegro and Servia to bear a part of the Ottoman debt proportionate to t'ne : Jize ;• i'lu ii •■'■ : l'"it I'V V :-l:'il til V 'i".v: received. No such burden has been laid on Uouniauia, because the Dobiudja is ' regarded, not as an addition, but as an exchange. All the subjects of Ronniania, Servia, and llontenegro to ho totally free from religious disabilities. Bosnia and Herzegovina are dismissed i in the brief phrase that they "shall be occupied and administered by AustriaHungary." li is not stipulated that the occupied territory is to pay any tribute , to tho norte or to lienr any portion of the I, Turkish Debt. The separation is absolute 'j and unconditional. I Bulgaria to bo " an autonomous and i tributary Principality," under the suzcr- t ainty of the Sultan, to have a Christian i Government and a national militia; a i Prince, elected by the people, subject to i thf confirmation of the Porto and tho as- j ] sent ol' tho Great Powers; a representa- < tiveform of Government; and complete It religious equality. Tho Principality is ■ to pay a fixed tribute to the Porte, and I to bear port of the Turkish Del I tho Ottoman troop.* to be wit! all tho fortresses destroyed, The tion of Bulgaria from the I'.ii ■ complete in all Iml the ~ n.i in ligation to pay n ii.\nl nv While the requisite eh made tho provisional org ... directed by n Russian " assisted by a Turkish Cumuli ;:e->s*-. well as by Consuls to be appointed tin-signatory Power*. The temporary (!.(\ ti iniiitil not to hi«t for morn than nine 1 months. I East Koumelia to have a Christian '' (iovernor-Wvncnd (chosen by the Sul'tin, ' with th» assent, of the (ii'vat Powers;, ' who will remain in office for a term of hj five years, The administrative arrangements of the province to be determined i by a BurorMu Commission, which will. I

wort in conn it with the Porte, and take i- its ~i ... • . . i t H- C ' • • Iwr ler to i i i : uierio and a loaal ■■■• liti . ■ i . 1.1 resent tin ■ districts ovi r which they li corps t' • and kti ■■■ troops on all the frontiers of the provim • . anil 11 1- -1 lo-veruor-Uenerdl t.i liuve power to call foi Turkish tro .ps if the internal or tlie ■ ■ • ternal security of lire | rovincc inenaeeil. The decision of tin- Porte must then lie Btateil and justified to tli i .: ■ seutatives of the Great Powers ill CotiI Btantinoplo. I Crete receives n rectification "f hoi frontier, and the Porte promises In apply j scrupulously the admiiiistrative plan which was formed in INUS, and hi improve that law in any fashion which shall be deemed equitable. ISatonin, Ardahnn, and Kara are <•, 1 ■ 1 to Russia, liatoum to boo five commercial port. England t eupy Cyprus.