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Show TELEGRAPHIC THE EAMTEUX QUESTION. Now You Nid ll.auil Nw Voil Dout. On lo at'ouHtnuliuoplr, suii itt tJolnie Hi tuiialaiu-tlule. tuiialaiu-tlule. I-iice aod U'ur loNRibllltlua. PACIFIC. Loiidun, 1C The Times' leader today to-day in very pacific. It sayd it will be due to some gratuitous miumanage-iii miumanage-iii out it the relative positions of Euk luid and Kusaiu near Constantinople leads to auy swrious misunderitand-in. misunderitand-in. Our own Koveinmeut may be trusted to act with combined moderation modera-tion aod firmness. If the Russians are reasonably pmdeut there is no reaeon why ths powers should not writer peact tally into the conference. Uladutone, yesterday, received a deputation from the workmen's neutrality neu-trality committed, and consented to addrtss a public meeting of workmen ol LoDdou un the easturn queitioo. The olject o! the meeting is elated to be to hold government to Iho policy of neutrality and to sccuro the thorough indepeudonoe of the provinces pro-vinces which have been reed from Turkish oppression. The meeting will probably bo held on the 25 Lh of February, in Agricultural hall, Js liugton. Sir Wilfred Lawnon, John Bright, James StannfielJ, Anthony J. Mundella, and other members of parliament are expected to participate. partici-pate. A meeting with the same object ia also called Or the 24th mat., In Hyde park. Constantinople, 1G. -The Britiih ambassador had a long audience with the sultan laBt nigtit, to explain Kogland's policy to bis mnj-sty. It is stated that Namyk l'nsha, who has gone to the Russian headquarters charged to dipeunrlo Grind Duke Nicholas from occupying Constantinople, Constanti-nople, is alen iriritnu tt if to eudeavor to induce the iltiuu plenipotentiaries! plenipoten-tiaries! to reduce curtuia fresh peace couth Lions of a very oueroux character demanded by Russia. Vienna, 1G. According to intelligence intelli-gence from a trustworthy source a congress, a couference is now certain. It will probably be neld at Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, which place Austria has proposed. pro-posed. THE ULTIMATUM Chicago, 16. TioW Li .don: Tn British ultimatum wbb tl-:t Russihu should not occupy Condt utiuople. Now that the Russians are dubsUn-tially dubsUn-tially in the Turkish capital the ultimatum ul-timatum is changed to meet the new conditions. Russians muit vacate Constantinople before the conference is held. Should they tefuew to do this and take any steps to impair the freedom of the straits or Bospborus or block the English road to India. England would regard this as a casus belli. In brief England proposes to make her stand along the straits. RUSSIA READY. A St. Petersburg telegram lays the announcement ol the arrival of the British fleet at Constantinople has created intense feeling there. It id looked upon as an act of war, as a defiance of the compact of European powers. Public clamor fnvora war with England, which would be fur mere popular than the war with Turkey. The most extensive preparations pre-parations are in progress at Cronstadt lor sending reinforcements and Bup plies to Constantinople via the Black sea. AS THE SULTAN'S OUSEI. Pera, 16. It is generally expected that Grand Duke Nicholas will enter Constantinople with a portion of his army, but will come as the guest and friend of the nation, with the consent of the sultan. Russians consider this will give England no casus belli, especially es-pecially as her ships are near the capital against the express wish of the sultan and the porte. In the Russian camp a renewal of hostilities is discussed as more probable than peace, and every measure is being adopted to consolidate the Russian advances. The entrance of the British fleet into the Dardanelles before the conclusion of the armistice would have been answered, it is unhesitatingly aid, by a Russian declaration of war, but whether such would now be the case is doubtful. War with England would be very popular with the army, though the officers speak of it gravely as a terrible struggle. In this Btate, if wo have to begin again, Bay Russian officers, nothing could save Constantinople Constanti-nople from us, And we would not leave one stone upon another. THE CZAR WILTS. New York, 16. A despatch from London Bays it is authoritatively stated that in consequence of representations repre-sentations made by Austria backed by Germany, the czar of Russia has abandoned the idea of occupying Constantinople. |