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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2493, 2 January 1877, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL. » (FEOM AMERICAN PAPERS.) The Eastern Question. A CONFEBENCE THOUGHT TO BE INADEQUATE FOB ITS SETTLEMENT. London, November 27. —The Standard's Paris correspondent says: The feeling is gaining ground that Russia will be gtad to retreat from the position involving a disastrous war, if she can do so without losing prestige. / A Berlin despatch says: Jfngland would not oppose .the. Bussian occupation of Bulgaria if Germany and; Austria guarantee that such oceupation'sball only last until affairs are regulated. 'Germany, it is understood, refuses to enter upon such a guarantee. In Russian Wl German diplomatic circles it is doubted whether a conference .will be able tpx^ettle the complications. "\ ; • THE RUSSIAN i'OBCE^!^ BBRVLi* 6i Belgrade, November "^VV^SSil 1 Doctoroff, a former chief of G*Wefal Tchernayeff's staff, who lately proceeded to St. Petersburg on a special mission, has telegraped General 'i chernayeff that the Czar stated during an audience that he greatly relied on the Russian force in Servia, and charged him (General Doctoroff) to inform the Eussian offices remaining in Servia that they should lose nothing thereby. Grand Duke Nicholas on Sunday telegraphed General Tcbernayeff, requesting him to come to Kichineff. General Tchernayeff/ will probably start on Thursday next for that place. THE NEW TURKISH CONSTITUTION. Brussels, November 27 —Le Nord this •ftemoon 3tates that the text of the new Turkish Constitution has been communicated to the Powers.

ENGLAND FATOBS COLLECTIVE OCCUPATION. London, November 27..— A Paris correspondent of the Times, discussing the prospects of a conference at Constantinople, says: People here affirm that even the Marquis of Salisbury, the English Plenipotentiary, though in principle opposed to foreign occupation, has not in. absolute pre-determination even on that point. He will discuss with unbiased mind the question of collective occupation .within limits which cannot alarm the Porte nor excite the suspicions of any Power. The Times, in a leading article, also openly favors collective occupation. It says the occupying force should in the case of each province be procured from some Power which cannot oe suspected of harboring any design upon the province in which it is placed. No objection could be raised to this as long as the force furnished is trustworthy and sufficient. The jealousies of guaranteeing Powers in antipathy to the Porte, may be allayed by the adoption of this salutary principle. 'h. HOSTILE A.BMY. -_ ,A special from Berlin to the News says: are^contradictory reports as to the information of the Russian army of the *-Vistula. My own information, despite denials, is that a hostile army is being organized and will be commanded by the hereditary* Grand Duke, "with, headquar.ters at the important" railway junction of Skieraiwib,- f*"tb^ft-of Poland, two miles „ south west of Warsaw,^ „.Qrand Duke "' Ifichaels Nicolavitch. y ( Ji.^snd. 'iCreneral Skatscliff- will accompany/Graifi&^Puke Nicholas jo the headajuajrte/sjafew^a^my idTSoutliemTlnssia. ' " "t^jio-u - s. A telegrjlmjrom Ragusa says M. Janin^ the Russian representative in Montenegro,^ hat started for St. 'Petersburg in obedience" to summons. The insurgent Ghief Muroch has been interned by the Austrian authorities at Slave THE DANGER TO A CO»FEEENCE. London, November 28.—Eight Hon. W. E. Forster, in a public speech at Aberdeen, yesterday, said that the danger to a Conference was Turkey's possible refusal of gurantees, and the chief danger of her; refusal was in her belief that England would support her. The main reason why Turkey has this belief arises from speeches of Lord Beaconsfield, especially his Guildhall speech. Mr Forster thought the suspicions of Russia's motives were unfounded. Her course has not been inconsistent, and he believed she was sincerely desirous of peace. THE BTTSSIANS PBEPAEING TO CBOSS THE ■••■:• DANUBE.

The Berlin correspondent of the Times reports that the Russians are collecting pontoons, to cross the Danube. Abdul Kerim Pasha is preparing to invade Wailachia, being convinced that Eoumania will co-operate with Eussia. The Turkish Cabinet believes it to be a safer plan to fight with the Danube for a front, that river forming an effectual barrier. The dispatch of volunteers to Servia has been resumed. The crisis in Belgrade is said to have been occasioned by the resistance of the Cabinet to the establishment of Russian dictatorship in case of war. X NEW COMMISSION FOB PHILIPOFOLIS. A Times despatch from Constaufcinople states that a new Commission is soon to start for Philipopolis to inquire again into the atrocities. The previous Commission convictedtwO'Mussulirians.'but demanded that the sentence of death be passed upon two Bulgarians charged with-complicity with the insurgents.

BUL&ABIA THE BONE OF CONTENTION. The Times' correspondent at Vienna says that the general impression, from the presence of the Marquis of Salisbury, is pacific, but the belief is growing there and at Berlin that matters have gone too far to be easily stopped. The occupation of Bulgaria has become almost a political point of honor with Russia, from which she will not recede, while nothing will induce Turkey acquiesce in this occupation, now the first on the Russian programme. This, taken in connection with the Salisbury tour to the different courts, is not fortuitous.

THE CONFEUENCE The Paris correspondent of the Times says: The Marquis of Salisbury is to reach Constantinople December 6th. The conference is to open after the preliminary meetings which begin December Btb, at the residence of General Ignatieff at which & decision of the European Powers is to be settled. The opening of the Conference will itaply that the diversities between the Powers have been settled. Their resolution will then be submitted to the Porte for its adhesion. A dispatch from Constantinople to the Daily News says : An understanding between the Powers now appears to be more probable. The recent declarations of BusThe Sale of the