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Show FOREIGN. War luliliugs. Loudon, 15. The Times says that nothing has been so remarkable during dur-ing the debate in parliament as tho declarations in favor of peace from conservatives aB well as literals. The war party finds itself in a small minor ity. There being rumors in Tultcha that in tho event of that place having to be abandoned, orders have been given that it should be destroyed by the retreating garrison, the consult of Austria, Greece and other stateB edged that such were his orders, but before things came to such extremities he would give the consuls and all aliens timely warning to provide for the safety of their persons and as much property as they could remove. Such orders, the governor added, had been sent to all persons commanding in Bulgaria. The Turkish squadron bombarded the village near Torkyoon-Kab, and it is reported that six Turkish ironclads appeared before Kyoomkale on the 14th. The Miridites have driven the Turks from Sroschi, after a sanguin ary fight, wherein the entire Turkish battalion was destroyed. It is reported re-ported that the Miridite chief will bring down a strong corps to cooperate cooper-ate with Montenegrins. The analysis of last night's divisions divi-sions on Gladstone's resolutions shows that the majority consisted of 3129 conservatives and twenty-five members mem-bers of the opposition, including the Marquis of Lome, Lambert Roebuck and Sir Nathaniel Mayer, De Koth-schild Koth-schild and eighteen home rulers. Tho minority consisted of twelve home rulers, one conservative, New-degate, New-degate, and the rest liberals. The home ruler, Messrs. Butts and Sullivan, Sulli-van, abstained from voting. London, 15. A Standard special says that a Kussian war steamer recently re-cently escaped from Sebastopol and reached the vicinity of Batcium on (Sunday night. When Beven miles lrom the shore she se"t four boats with torpedoes to attack the Turkish friirntn in thn rnari stpaH . Thfl tnrn- does failed to explode, fire was opened from the Irigate and shore and in the darkness and contusion the Kussian boats fled in diflereut directions. Two succeeded in rejiching Poti unharmed. At daybreuk no news had been received re-ceived of the other two boats or the steamer. The Turks havo dispatched 16,000 men from Widdin garrison in all haste to Dobrudscha. Roumania official reports estimate 400 wounded during the recent intermittent inter-mittent Turkish bombardment of Kalafat, but do not mention the num ber ol killed. Russians are not further wtst than Turnseveriem. Servian volunteers are constantly passing the frontiers to join the Bosnian Bos-nian insurgents. Circassian who have risen in Russian Rus-sian trana-Caucasaitn provinces destroyed de-stroyed almost all the telegraph wires in their neighborhood. Hungarian semi-oUicial papers pub Hsh the statement that Count Andras sy requires temporary rest. Private letters from Bosnia say that Turkish troops withdrawn from the Servian frontier have reappeared on the Driua at Beliua. Rajahs are suffering from the merciless requisitions requisi-tions of the Turkish authorities, who seize corn, cattie aud horse. Outrages are reported in Bosnia. The Times' Vienna says before r takiDg the resolution about a declaration declara-tion ot independence, it seems tho Roumanian government applied to j the German foreign office. In reply, Yon Bulow is reported to have aaid I that if Roumania made a deficit alteration in their political position j they must do eo at their own peril :acd risk. The Times' Bucharest BpccUl says EDglishmen accidentally in Widdin at the time of the first bombardment, repTt that Turkish troops in'Widdin and vicinity number about 50,000. They expect an increase- of 25,000 from Sophia. Troops were in good condition. The improsaion in Widdin Wid-din appoared to be general that no quarter would bo shown to any 'Roumanians 'Rou-manians crossing the Danube into Bulgaria. Large masses of Russian infantry are encamped between Bucharest and the Danube, but their objective point on the river is not known to the public. St. Petersburg, 15. The Gazette says tho Russian national bank will shortly begin to sell scrip of the new internal loan. There will be no public pub-lic subscription. Russia hue authorized American whalers to put into St. Lauroutitn. According to news from Constantinople Constanti-nople sixteen Bulgarian villages have been pillaged and burned by Turkish soldiers. |