... 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 ...

... Tlie Allan steamer Sardinian, on which a dis- astrous explosion recently occurred, arrived in the Mersey on Saturday. ...

... The annual conference of the Lancashire of Conservative Associations was held at Bury on Saturday, when a resolution was nassed express- jng entire confidence in the patriotism and states- manlike ability manifested by Lord Beacon sfield's Government. In the evening at a public meeting a motion in similar terms was carried. At the Leeds Police Court, last week, Pettlr Ryder, commercial ...

... An inquiry was opened on Thursday,, at the Town. hal).. Cardiff before Mr Oadogan Sothery, Core. missioner of Wrecksj assisted by itear-Admiral Assler and Captain Jcnes, as nautical assessor^, into the loss of the screw steamer St ...

... On Sunday evening an alarm was raised in Taunton, that a tire had brokea out at Dodhill, on premises be. longing to Mr. J. S. Bult. The fire engine and1 brigade were soon upon the spot,, when it was found that the cider-housc- belonging to Mr. Bult, at Nails- bourne was ablaze, and before the engine could ren- der auy assistance, the place, which contained a large quantity of cider in casks, ...

... THE SERIOUS CHARGE OF LIBELLING A LADY. At Marlborough street Police Court, on Monday, be- fore Mr. Newton, the hearing of the summons charg- ing Major W. G. Featherstone Dilke with having libelled Mrs. Rosamond Emily Dilke, his sister-in-law, and widow of the late Mr. Dilke, of Maxstoke Castle, Warwickshire, was resumed. Mr. Lewis prosecuted, Mr. Harrison, Q.C., and Mr. Hall were for the de- ...

... 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 ...