EUROPEAN.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2590, 26 April 1877, Page 2

EUROPEAN.

London, April 23. TheKussian Embassy has left Stamboul. The Czar has reviewed his army, and urged them on to bravery, and hopes for their speedy and glorious return. It has been ascertained that there were more than thirty-six smacks lost in the North Sea, during the recent gales, with two hundred and fifteen lives, leaving eighty-eight widows and over two hundred children. ,»;. ; Dr Cumming, preaching at Scott's Church, Covent Garden, said all the students of prophecy agreed that the world, and Europe especially, was now on the eve of the greatest catastrophe which has ever happened in the history of man* kind. V London, April 24. The Turkish Question. The Emperor's Manifesto. Russian Troops to cross the Turkish Frontier. Gortschakoff's Circular. The Emperor of Russia in a manifesto recalls the interest he has felt* on behalf of the Christian subjects-of the Porte, and his desire that the amelioration of their condition should be guaranteed. His entire reign has testified his solicitude for peace, but two years' negotiation with other powers has failed'through the stubborn refusal of the Porte. There had been a refusal of every effectual guarantee, and refusal of a protocol which expressed the unanimous views of European States. Pacific efforts having become exhausted through the proud obstinacy of the Porte, obliges war. He. was profoundly convinced of the justice of it, 1 and placed confidence in God. This was foreseen at the time he made his Moscow speech, and now the time had arrived for independent action. Eussia, invoking the bleesing of God, would order the people to cross the Turkish frontier. The circular of Gortschakoff, by seeking forcibly what Europe vainly tried to secure peace' ably, was to further the interests of Europe.