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Show TELEGRAPHIC THE EASTERN QUCSTIO?!. Notblnft Delia He The SI tan clou IJ uoliainKcd. London, 21. It is reported that a cabinet council whs b a lily oiim-raoaed oiim-raoaed this morning, Lord Oairos, lord taitf b obauoellor, beinR called Irons the heariu,; of a case in tbe home of lords. WAJt HOUSES WANTED. An officer of too horse fua:di -arrived at Bristol yesterday, accompanied accom-panied by a vetoriuary surgeon, to purchase 6,000 borats far the war otliue. The oLboer stales that this is part ol'a purcbuae ol 21,000 horse which have been ordered. ANOTHER 1BONOLAD. Government baa purchased another an-other ironclad built far Turkey. It mount ten twelve-ton tuns. Bus pioion is wide spread tbat government govern-ment intends diMolving parliament about Eaiter time. Tbe conviction prevails in Berlin that tbe military and court parties ol Vienna will iuduce tbe emperor to settle amicably with Russia. AUSTRALIA PREPARING. The Australian colonies are con eider lug measures to be adopted fur tuw pruiHu.iun oi me ooaBLS in ins event of Great Britain engaging in war. j A conaiderablo number of Russian troops are concentrating beyond Ad-rianople. Ad-rianople. I The loreign otlice bas given notice to Lloyd's that the prohibition of the (-spoil of grain and other products irom Black Hen porta has been raised, but that tho tnj-p -doeti have not yet been removed. F1GHTIMG TO WIS HFB BACK. There are whispered rumors here that British diplomacy u laboring to win the porte away Irom the embraces of tbe Kuesian bear and revive iLs hopes of renewed self consequence as an element to the European balance of powers. Tbe argument is the selfishness of KuBsia and that England Eng-land and Turkoy Imva a common rutber .ban Hiitagonislio interests, opposed to her ulterior designs. Perhaps Per-haps the strongest guarantee of peace is tbe fact tbat Kufbin aeeniB to distrust dis-trust the rebult and is preparing for the worst by concentrating in Koumani an army 300,000 men. ARHAHOED Sir Stafford Northcote, chancellor of tbe exohrquer, in the house ol commons this alteruoon, said thu riiiult oi the neuoLialions with Kuisia is an understanding that Ituaaia will not occupy any poilion uf ibe peninsula penin-sula of (iall'poli or the Boulair lines, or the Asiatic Bide of tbe DrdanelltB Eoglad'a underutaudin is not to land troops at Gallipoli or on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles. St. Petersburg, 21, It is generally felt that Russia's present relations with Koumaoia are extremely awkward, awk-ward, but government shows no signs of relinquishing its demands for a retrocession of Bessarabia. MODIFICATION OF TEEMS. Pera, 21. Namyk Pasha's mission to St. Petersburg is to endeavor to obtain from the czar a modification of tbe terms of peace, especially those touching the withdrawal of Mussul men from Bulgaria, aud the limits ol the Dew principality which, it is stated, the Russia us now insist on bringing within a few milea of Constantinople. Con-stantinople. Constantinople, 21. It is reported tbat tbe governor of Erzeroum has telegraphed the porte the evacuation of that place is impossible, as owing to tbe interruption of communications communica-tions by snow, troops could not obtain supplies outside oi tbe city. |