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Show TELEGRAPHIC THE BOASTER V WAK. 3Iovcim-uts of Ilritiftli TrtOiH. 4 ii Mr hi, 1 1 uly u 11 l (Permit 11 j IVmcIul- lie t iur Am no UclliueroHt. London, 19. Her majesly's Indian troop ship Jumma left Portsmouth yesterday for India with S:i-1 artillery men and upwards of seventy ofUcers, surgeons, etc. She will embark another an-other battery of artillery at Portsmouth. Ports-mouth. Tho departure of troops from Woolwich lor Portsmouth was witnessed by a vast crowd, and the excitement displayed was the greatest since the Crimean war. The Times ' announces that ihe Jumma has been directed to call at Gibraltar and Malta for ordcis, in case circumstances circum-stances should mako it necessary, as to the destination of troops. The Financier says: A war risk ol five shillings per cwl. wus required yesterday yester-day by Lloyd's and various insurance companies on British vessels trading Kntn-nan W- I.. r,.l A n.lria a.,, I IV... east. No business is yet reported in riska on Kussian and Italian vessels, but the rates on these would of course be higher. A rumor, circulalei yesterday, that Duke de Cazes, French minister ol foreign aflairs, was about to resign, to be succeeded by Count de Chan-dordy, Chan-dordy, is to-day pronounced without foundation. To add to the excitement and distrust, dis-trust, it is just announced in London that orders have been given that three corps of the British army shall be immediately mobilized. Not a licueriil War. New York, li). A Herald dispatch ays: My predictions a week ago that a critical crisis was culminating without with-out assuring peace are thoroughly vindicated. Tho present situation is remarkably perpU xing. Yesterday's money pa uic bubsidi d, not because ol Uss piobabilily of an extern war. but because the calmer judgment is that England will not forcibly intervene, inter-vene, and consequently that Turkey mu;t promptly surrender to Russian menace or in vat-ion. Nobody pro-teses pro-teses certainty about Russia's real purpose or the true intent of other powers. The gravity oj the situation is portended by the profound secrecy of the diplomatists. New facts" are unattainable, though stock-jobbers manufacture abundant canards, again; t which all should be on their guard. The only thing apparently sure is that the triple alliance has not been renewed, nor is it likely to be. "V nvpr timing Ihm rwr imnrpssinn id that the great powers will remain passive even if Russia makes war 0:1 the sullan. If ihe latter insists on rejecting re-jecting peace conditions heretofore offered, the political necessity formerly former-ly recognized tor Turkey's territorial integrity has lost much of its infill-encp. infill-encp. Austria, while nominally favoring the acceptance of Turkey'B armistice proposition, carefully avoids committal to its armed sun port. :aly maintains a similar attitude, if war ceiiies her interests lie with Russia. In any event, therefore, the apparent alternatives are speedy-peace speedy-peace on substantially Russia's terms, or a short war between Turkey and -Russia and - her Servian allies. Il remains tj be seen whether Russia's Rus-sia's mediation after the struggle begins be-gins will be sufficient lo confine it to the east and not provoke a genera! war. Herein lies ihe real anxiety. .Vastriu With England. j Vienna, 19. The advi es are that j Auftria and England aie advising Turkey to yield on the guarantee j queai;on. Count Audr.i-sy, it is slalul, is determined lo act in concert i with England on Ins Turkish ques-j 'lion, notwithstanding Hie t Hoi is ol . tiie military court party of Austria 10 influence his action. Present indica- ' lions are that in respeel to the war ' programme Russia stands alone. Italy i has modified her rejection of the ar-I ar-I misliee by pulling it in milder form. 1 The employment of troops to intervene inter-vene in Bulgaria is being agitated. Russia Subsiding. London, 19. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says: Lord Lollus, British ambassador to Russia, will shortly proceed lo Livadia. This is regarded as asyoiptomof a probable understanding under-standing between England arjd Russia. Rus-sia. Berlin, 19. -The semi official North German Cwitte this evening an- , ounces that it learns from a good i source in St. Petersburg that the ezaro witch will shortly leave Livadia lor Vienna, Berlin and London for the purpose ot personally promoting the unanimous action ol the great powers in the interestof a satisfactory solution of tne eastern question. According Ac-cording to assnrances given in St. Petersburg circles the czar slill adheres ad-heres to his resolution not to act singly or abandon his alliances. |