THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O' CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2847, 30 March 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O' CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1878.

Whew the Russians crossed the Pruth and entered Boumania with the avowed object of ameliorating the condition of the Christian subjects of the Sublime Forte, they were welcomed by the Roumanians aa delirerers. Now that condign punishmeat has been administered to the " unspeakable Turk," and Russia proposes to take as part payment a portion of Boumania, the proposal is receired with marked disfavor by the Roumanians, and Tery likely the latter may have cause to regret the interference of their ".deliverers." Russia has evidently found some way to the ear of the Sultan, and that there exists some secret understanding between the late combatants is plain. That Eoumania sees this is probable, and views it with alarm, as the first development of it has been a demand on j the part of Russia for Roumanian Bessarabia in exchange for the Dobrudschka, to accede to which would tend to weaken Roumania, and leave that Province always open to be menaced by Russia. No doubt there are other items in Russia's programme which if disclosed would be equally distasteful to the inhabitants of several of the Turkish Provinces in Asia and Europe, and to the European Powers who have for so many years preserved the balance of power and prevented Russian aggression. Regarding this as probable, it is no wonder Russia feels embittered against Great Britain, the Government of which country has all •long protested against Russia and Turkey concluding a separate peace, and, since the Congress -was agreed to, has demanded that the whole articles of peace should be considered and discussed at that Congress, If Russia bad not made some secret treaty or had in mind some ulterior design, she could not urge so many objections to the Congress; and that these secrets or designs are of a portentous or threatening character may be inferred from the fact that Russia has formally refused the demands of England, the Congress being virtually abandoned. The next move has been to tempt Austria and induce that Power to withdraw its opposition— to abandon Great Britain, in fact. How far General Ignatieff's mission may bo successful the future will show ; but (he question of peace or war will very much depend upon Austria's reply to Russia. It might not be convenient for Great Britain to engage single-handed in a war with Russia, but as far as the real sinews of war arc concerned she could do so. She has command of great monetary resources and the finest fleet in the world, while Russia has hordes of fighting men. As regards money, with-, out which no war can be carried on, it is said that when two millions of the six millions war loan were placed on. the market, there were tenders to the amount of sixty and a half millions. At temporary remarks : "This helps to show how much llussian menace and German ridicule have effected, in the way of terrifying the British capitalist about the safety of the empiro and the security of its consolidated revenue. It will moreover indicate to Bismarck and Gortschakoff the very handsome war indemnity that awaits them in London when—well, when they are able to take it."