PROBABLE TERMINATION OF THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5173, 15 June 1878, Page 6

PROBABLE TERMINATION OF THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR.

The following extracts from a letter written by Mr. Louis J. Jennings, the ivell informed London correspondent of the New York World, will be read with interest as presenting the views of a comparatively neutral observer of passing events in Europe :— " During the last fortnight England and Austria have been coming to a better understanding with each other, and it is even believed that Germany is strangly inclined to side with these two powers. The last contingency has Beenied so improbable that I cannot but regard it with doubt; but I have very positive information from a source which I have never found in error, that Bis mark has made most friendly approaches to the British Government, and that he has not hesitated to express the opinion that England is quite right in the position she has taken up If Greece should insist on having Thessaly, Epirus, and Roumelia, and Austria demands Bosnia and Herzegovina, aud England take Gallipoli and Egypt, the great prize which Russia seemed to have in her hands will be rendered comparatively valueless. And all the things that I have mentioned are quite on the cards. Austria and England are quite in accord, and as for Greece, she is eager to be let loose at Russia. Then Italy is believed to be anxious to join with England, and she is not a power to be despised. Even little Greece, they say, can put 60,000 first-rate troops in the field. Your readers will plainly see from this bird's eye view of the position that although Russia and Turkey have laid down arms, peace is not by any means so assured as many people flatter themselves it is. Never were there greater preparations for war than those which are being made here, quietly and secretly, but with uufaltering hand, and with a wise supervision which, should hostilities be declared, would place England in a vtry different position to that she occupied when the Crimean war found her without a commissariat, and no army worthy of the name. Day and Dight the chief authorities are engaged in the task of completing organizations, filling up regiments, getting vessels ready for sea and prepairing to strike with all the force which the nation can muster. The £6,000,000 voted as an extra supply very recently must be nearly all gone, and the ordinary expense* of the Government have been so greatly increased that a deficit in the budget can scarcely be avoided. But there will be no difficulty about getting the money that may be needed, for the people are now fairly aroused; and although there is no great excitement anywhere, yet everywhere there is a strong and deep feeling that Russia will have to be met, aud met very soon. But for the confidence which is felt in the Government, this feeling would find expression in a much more decided form than it does in Exeter-hall meetings or Hydepark fights."