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Show The KuMtcru Kxeiteiuent. London, 21. The Times' Peru dis patch, March 19th, says not a few cases of rifles and cartridges upon which so vast a part of Turkey's shrunken resources are wasted, have been sent into the provinces, especially especi-ally European districts and along the eastern frontier, and to the mussul-men mussul-men population which is now being organized aa a national guard which is only another name for bashi-bjzoulcs. Tho only task assigned to these irregular bands can be to ovorcomo, and if need be crush and annihilate the christian population, for this is after all the real war to which the long continuance of armed necre lik-nlir to lead. Constantinople, 21. Montenegrian delegates have received a disDatch I from the princo of Montenegro, in which he abandons tho claim to j Spizza, the right bank of the Moratcha river, tho fortified islands in Lako Scutari, and some other points, and besides tho territory already conceded by the porte, and merely asks for tho distriels ol Nicksich aud Kontschi aud a pur'iou of Kolatschin, and the right ot free navigation of tho Bay-I Bay-I ana. He does not ayree to cede Vas-sagewitz Vas-sagewitz to Turkey. The delegates communicated these reduced conditions condi-tions to Salrct Pasha, and the council of ministers considered them this afternoon. It is stated thnt the porte persists in refusing the prince's demands, de-mands, especially as regards tho cession ces-sion of Nieksich. Safret Pasha will communicate the porto's decision to the delegates. London, 21. The Puat announces that the cabinet bai not accepted the Russian modifications, and requires, I before considering them, a distinct! pledge of demobilization. The gov I eminent, it says, is wked not only to 1 submit to the amended version of tho ' protocol, to which it i disposed to agree, buut also to concur in the arrangements by which tbey would find themseUes, after the signature of the protocol, bound to ask Turkey to disarm before Russia would dcmobol-ize dcmobol-ize its army. This couditiou has seemed inadmissible. |