... Cfuardian, telegraphing on the 28th, says :— The Lazie population of Batoum protest against annexation by Russia, and a deputation is said to be on the way to Constantinople 80ffer to raise, if necessary, an amount of money equal to the share of the indemnity represented by the cession of Batoum Twenty thousand Lazies are said to be mustered near Batoum ready to dispute the entry of the ...

... engaged to proceed to Reni to fortify the place. The Superintendence of the defensive works is entrusted to i e*\e.ral Drentein, who will also construct a strong strategic oding_gtage near Reni, on the River Danube. The war t(( jay running from Bender to Galatz has been incorpo- 'ed with the Odessa Railway. ...

... The American Correspondent of The Times writes -There are rumours to-day from San Francisco to the effect that Russian agents are negotiating for a steamer to fit out as a privateer. Blank letters of marque and blank commis- sions for officers are reported to be there ready forfllling up, while 200 men, drawn chittly from the unemployed classes, have alrtady signed articles. Two officers, ...

... THE EASTERN QUESTION. (From Monday's Evening Stanford ) TURKISH tIns, DAUCD PAOHA, Friday. A great change has occurred in the aspect and behaviour of the Turkish army during the last three days. I have good reasons to believe that the impression made on the minds of several generals who witnessed the formidable Russianreview on Monday is the main cause of this. Large forces of all arms, ...

... THE COST OF THE WAR. It is all very well for people who are trying to lal up Russian prospects to talk of Attila or Alaric no Three per cents., and waging successful i at8 without paying their soldiers anything at all; ^t one moment's reflection must show that the two are very different. The leader of the Hung or the ^*°ths wanted no Chancellor of the Exoheqner to pheeze money out of merchants ...

... To the Editor of the Free Press. Inns of Court Hotel, London, May 8th, 1878. Sir,-I wish to correct your report of that part of the Local Board meeting referring to the exchange of a piece of land. Your report says that I stated the piece of land would be of use to me and no one else. What I did say was, that it would only be of use to those parties who had land adjoining John C. Hanbury, Esq. ...

... Alfred, Chawlcroft was charged with stealing a dress, a jacket, two coats, a pair of trousers, two waistcoats, a pair of shoes, a white shirt, and a pair of stockings, the property of Phoebe Cooper, at Abersychan. Complainant stated that prisoner had been lodging at her house for about six weeks; on Wednesday morning prisoner started to work with her husband; she was out at the time; when she ...

... exertions are being made in order that the Russian Baltic fleet may be ready to go to sea as soon as possible. The three frigates the Pervenil z, Sevastopol, and Kuiaz Pojarsky have had all their machiuery and equipments completed. Two hundred artificers are at work on the frigate Peter the Great AH the military ovens throughout Russian Poland have been directed to bake double quantities of ...

... *~en place on Sunday at San Stefano was indefinitely post- ntifl?/' *s sai ...

... In an article under the above head, the Whitehall Review remarks:— The outbreak of war would instantly range on the side of England, as fast allies, bound by the strongest ties of self interest and self-preservation, the Roumanians, the Turks, the Greeks, the Hungarians, the Servians, and even the Bulgarians, who are be. ginning to find out that they have not obtained free- dom through the ...

... A RUSSIAN TORPEDO FACTORY BLOWN UP. The Cronstadt Correspondent pf the Globe writes, unde date the 1st inst., as follows Details have just reached here of the destruction o the torpedo factory at Otchakoff a week ago. Th establishment was a large one; and employed severa hundred hands. The explosion took place at thre o'clock in the morning, and seems to have beei almost as dreadful as that ...

... manufacturing Whitehead torpedoes at Cronstadt. For this Purpose two large buildings have been fitted up with torpedo machinery obtained from abroad, and several hundred work- men are engaged day and night in manufacturing Mr. White- head's deadly invention. All the men-of-war designated for the ocean-going squadron are to receive a certain number of fast torpedoes on their departure from ...