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Show FOREIGN. EUROPEAN NOTES. GERMANY ADVISING ROUMANIA. Berlin, 9. Notwithstanding the favorable reports in press, there is reason to believe that Bratia- o, tbe Roumanian premier, is dmiatisfied with the results of hi i visit here. Germanydeclined to use a direct pressure pres-sure upon Russia for the withdrawal ot her claim to Bessarabia. Govern' ment has advised Bratiano to lay bin cime before the czar and endeavor to coqjq to terms by amicable arrange menus. DIM PROSPECTS. Vienna, 9. Official: The Wiener Abend Post states lhat by the minis terial declarations made labt night in the British parliament the prupecta of the aBnembliDg of the congress are again thrown into the background. 8,000 REFUGEES. Alliens, 9. Eight thousand utterly destitute IheesaliaoB, from tbe burned villuges in Thessaly, have taken refuge ref-uge in Greece. gortschakoff's reply. London, 9. The Times has the full text of Gortschakotf'a reply to Salisbury's circular dispatch. The prince contests Salisbury's assertions point by point, but the general tone of his reply appears conciliatory. He denies that the treaty of San Stelano creates a strong Sclav state under tho control of Kuasia, and declares that the arrangements relative to Bulgaria are only the development of the principle prin-ciple established by the Constantinople con tereuce. He continues: ' 'Lord Salisbury admila that the return to the programme of that conference, confer-ence, pure and simple, is rendered impossible by the war. The fact that the San Stefauo treaty is pre liminary, indicates that Russia has left room for an uterior understand ing. Bulgaria will bd under Russian control no more than Rouraania, which also owes its existence to Russia. Russia U quite ready tj abridge the term of the occupation of Bulgaria as much as posaiblo. The limits of Bulgaria have only been iodioated in general terms, in accordance accord-ance wiih tha nationality of the papulation. The details will be lelt to the mixed commission. The only oijHCt in assigning the ports to Bulgaria is to assist her commercial development, by which England and tbe Mediterranean powers, whose commerce has always been a powerful lever for their pnlitical influence, in-fluence, are likely to profit far more tban Russia." GurlschakufT expresses ex-presses surprise ut the objections to the stipulations of the treaty relative to Thessaly and Epirus, by the modest reforms stipulated, (or it is intended to avoid the appearance of either establishing Russian supremacy on one band or utterly neglecting the Greekson the other. Ruasiadidnot lorbid tbe porte lo consult the European Euro-pean powers as well as Russia on the reforms fur tho Greek provinces. 1'hero ie no lougor any pretext fur debarring Russia from the poasension ol Bessarabia, as the freedom ot ihe Danube is secured by the international in-ternational commission. Gorts ohak. fl's tone in regard to Armenia u much more energetic He s tys Balouro is far from b.ing equivalent to the pecuniary indemnity it repre sents. The Ruwiau acquisitions iu Armenia have only a delenaive value. Russia wishes to hold them so ad ooi to have to besiege them at the be-gining be-gining of each war. These terri tonal cessions are tho natural con sequence of the war. If England wished to aver Ithem, she had only to join Russia in exercising a pressure upon the porle, which would tiave compelled it to crant reforms without war. England haviog refused to do so, Bhe has now no ground to question ibe right for which Russia bus shed her blood, namely the right to establish a state of things which will henceforth render such sacrifice uu necessary, or at le&Bl lew onerous. The asiertion that Russia's annexa lions in Armenia will interfere with tne European trade with Persia con flicte with tho statements previously made by the British ministers. Such assertions push miotrUil to the rx-treme. rx-treme. Tbe complaints concerning the indemnity are equally ill founded. Tbe sum is out ol all proportion to Russia's sacrifices. In tbe determent of the payment of the indemnity it ia easier to see ibe deaign lo keep the porte up to iu encasements in the intereot of all than the design to paralyze Turkey; but there is no remedy against the suepicijn. The situation may be summed up thus: Existing treaties have been succea-1 lively infringed by the porte, in violating its obligations towards Christians. Chris-tians. S-iliibury himself recognizes the great changes that are necessary in the treaties hitherto regulating the east. It remains for Lord Salisbury to say how be would reconcile these treaties and recognized powers of Great Britain and other powers with the benevolent ends to which the united action of Europe has always been directed, and the attainment of which one learns with pleasure all the Euglish government desires, namely, good government, peace and liberty for the oppressed populations. It is equally requisite for Salisbury to aay how he could attain the desired end outBido of the preliminaries ol San Stefauo, and yet at the same time take due account of the rights Russia has acquired by the sacrifices she has borne alone. Salisbury's dispatch makes no reply to these questions. It seems that the entiro liberty of appreciation and action would have- been more naturally found by formulating side by side with tho objections contained in lhat dispatch some practical propositions propo-sitions of a nature to assure an understanding under-standing for the solution of tbe present difficulties. |