RUSSO-TURKIBH WAR.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2822, 1 March 1878, Page 2

RUSSO-TURKIBH WAR.

(Rectbu's Special to Pbbss Agbhcy.) London, February 28. The House of Commons passed the Colonial Marriages Bill by a hundred and and eighty-two to a hundred and sixty* one. The Government opposed. London, Tuesday. The treaty of peace is still unsigned through the persistent deraind of Russia to surrender the fleet and occupy Stamboul. The occupation has been delayed. Ministers, replying to questions in Parliament, declared they were unable to giro

any information, as Russia was keeping ! the full terms of pcaco secret. A Standard telegram declare that eight additional batteries of artillery have arrived at St. Stefans. Gourka was approaching with thirty thousand men. - The secret negotiations excites surprise and alarm throughout Europe, and are condemned in the severest terms everywhere. The conditions are calculated to provoke war, involving England and Austria. The Prince of Houmania threatens to abdicate. The Ministry will resign rather than cede Bessarabia. Eight thousand Hussion troops passed Jassy for the Transylvanian frontier. The ordinary railway traffic is suspended. The Globe states, in the event of an expeditionary force being despatched, that Lord Napier, of Magdaia, will take command, with Sir Garnett Wolsey at his chief of staff.