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Show correspondent says, flatly, that Ger- many proposed that ihe congress should be summoned to revise the treaties of '5o and '71. Russia baa accepted tbe proposal, but England has rejected it aud again iuuiats on ber original conditions. It now remains re-mains lo be seen whether the dispute might not be settled by a preliminary conference. PREMATURE EXPECTATIONS. Another correspondent says: Yes terday's sanguine expectations turn out to have been somewhat exaggerated, exagger-ated, or at least premature. It appears that new difficulties have arisen. Negotiations, however, con tinue and may slill load to a successful success-ful result. THE BRITISH NAVY. Loudon, 20. There is reason to belive that if th- present activity in commissioning ships continues, a royal proclamation may bo issued oalling out the first clas of the naval reserve. BIC1 STRIKE. A special from Blackburn annouees that 40,000 operatives are now on a strike there. PROVIDING AGAINST DANGER. A Bucharest dispatch says: The Russian officials at Bucharest are preparing 16,000 transport cartB to provide against the Black Sea line of communication being closed by the British fleet. TODLEREN TODDLING TO SAN STEFANO. A dispatch from St. Petersburg announces thai Geu. Tudleben baa been started for San Stefauo. FROM ROUMANIA. A Bucharest dispatch Baya: It is reported in government circleB that the Russian ultimatum is expected. At a public Bitting ol Ihe Roumanian Rouma-nian obamber, a resolution waa paisfed expressing satisfaction at M. Cogalniceano's statements that he pruteBled to tho powers against the Russian occupation. NO IMPROVEMENT. A Vienna dispatch saya: Intelligence Intel-ligence received at the Austrian foreign office Bbowa that there is no improvement in the situation. AN INVINCIBDE GONE TO THE FRONT. A special from Portsmouth states that the iron-clad Inoineible has sailed for the Dardanelles. A TRUCE IN THES3AL Y. A telegram from Athena, received in Paris, Bays that England has arranged ar-ranged a truce in Theesaly. Tbe Turks have retired to the fortresses ana lbs insurgents to ureece. RAVAGINO TYPHUS. A Bpecial from Sialova says: Typhus is raging here and the Nicopolia hospitals hos-pitals are crowded. People arc dying in the streets. CONVALESCENTS ORDERED TO DUIY. A special from Vienna reports that all the convalescents in Russia have befn ordered to join their regiments in Turkey aa auickiy as possible. s THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. The Standard says that tho Duke of Elinburgh will remain in the Mediterranean Medi-terranean for the present. A FAILURE. A dispatch dated Vienna, Friday uight, saya: It is semi officially stated here that Germany's endeavor to mediate has so far led to no result. RUSSIA WILL NOT OBJECT, BBT A Berlin correspondent says: Russia Rus-sia does not hesitate to iutimate, privately, that she will not object to the congress discussing all of the more important clauses of the treaty, but declines le make its validity dependent de-pendent upou the consent of the powers. A preliminary conference to settle whether this ofler will be sa'.ialactory is still possible, but doubt- !ul. ALARMING MORTALITY. Constantinople, 19. An Eocliflh surgeon, who has just returned from Erzeroum, says that 13,000 sick and wounded Turkish soldiers have died Bince the evacuation of that city, and the Russians have lost 21,000 by sickness since they entered the plain of Erzeroum. |