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Show FOREIGN. THE EASTERN WAR. AFFAIRS IN CRLTB. London, 10. Tbe Standard understands under-stands that Layard, British ambassador ambassa-dor at Constantinople, has requested the immediate dispatch of a British man of-war to Crete, and that the admiral commanding the Mediterranean Mediterran-ean fleet will order the permanent stationing of one there. A telegram from Crete stales that hostilities between be-tween tbe insurgents and the Turks commenced on Tuesday. THE ICE ON THE DANUBE. A Bucharest correspondent telegraphs tele-graphs that a thaw has commenced, which, if it continues, will cause a movement of the ice in the Danube to recommeuco and make communication communi-cation worse than ever. It is utterly impossible now for horses and wagons to cross, and the Russian intendance department is helpless. Words cannot can-not describe tho situation on the Danube. The Russians suppress telegrams with tbe view of preventing the stats of t flairs becoming known to Europe. SPOTTED TYPHUS. A terrible outbreak of spotted typhus fever has oocurred in Tratesohti and neighborhood. It orignatedi among Turkish prisoners and it is whispered that it is really tbe plague. THE RUSSIAN FORCE ACEOSS THE BALKANS. Vienno, 9. A correspondent says he has trustworthy information that j the force which crossed the Balkans , under General Gourko comprises j 55,000 infantry. ; j THE ARMISTICE. The fact that Russia has reiterated i her declaration that the armistice is , to be settled by the commanders of i the forces in the field, and not by the , plenipotentiaries, shows that Russia has not acquiesced in the compromise proposed by England, that powers of the commanders should be limited to military details, while the main stipulations stipu-lations should be settled by special plenipotentiaries. It is not known in St. Petersburg whether Count Schou-velofl, Schou-velofl, Russian ambassador at London, has yet presented this reiterated declaration de-claration to Lord Derby. A Constantinople special says that Mehemet Ali has started for Rou-melia, Rou-melia, commissioned to conclude an armistace if he judges!! tbe con tinuation ol the war impossible. SEVERE COLD. New York, 9. The Times' London: Lon-don: It is known here that the Rus Btans have, during the past few days, been suffering severely from the extreme ex-treme cold. Archibald Forbes, war correspondent correspond-ent of the London News, has just returned home. He could not endure the severity of the Bulgarian climate, and says the army of invasion has suOered greatly from the intense cold which prevails everywhere. THE FEAGE PROSPECTS. Now York, 9. A TimeB Berlin cor rospondent says: Bismarck has lately assumed a much less pretentious posi tion than was for some time expected, and the readiness of Russia to deal with the all-important subject of peace in a conciliatory manner, aids the British government materially in its effect to secure a lasting peace. The further facts that Turkey has shown such a ready willingness to treat directly with Russia greatly increases in-creases the prospects of peace. The death of Victor Emanuel has, it is believed, also strengthened the prospects pros-pects of a speedy peace. A Bpecial from Pera says that Mehemet Ali has gone to arrange an armistice. The correspondent understands un-derstands that the porte has agreed to propose a six weeks' armistice, on tho condition that the belligerents main tain their present positions and that peaoe negotiations commence as Boon as the armistice comes into operation. |