AUSTRIA, RUSSIA, AND ENGLAND.

West Coast Times, Issue 2787, 7 March 1878, Page 3

AUSTRIA, RUSSIA, AND ENGLAND.

The Vienna correspondent of the Eastern Budget says, writing on the 28th December :: — f< Public opinion here is greatly alarmed at the prospect of a collision between England and Russia. The intervention of England

in the war could, it is feared, add considerably to the difficulties of AustriaHungary, though oven the party which sympathizes most warmly with the Porte does not venture to suggest that such an event should produce a change in the policy of the Austro-Hungarian Government. In the present stage of the Eastern Question there can be no longer any idea of the maintenance of the status quo in Turkey. All that the Great Powers have to consider is how best to protect their own interests; and it is not to be supposed that Austria-Hungary, having so long adhered to the alliance of the three Emperors, will abandon the security she has thereby gained in order to seek better guarantees in the chances of a new and far more uncertain policy. Moreover, the state of public opinion in England is not such as to give the Austro-Hungarian Government any encouragement to depart from its present attitude, and ifc is believed here that the danger of a conflict between England aud Russia is not so imminent as some people suppose. Prince GortschakofF possesses in the Turkish Circular Note an argument in favor of the continuance of the war which the British Cabinet may find it difficult to answer. He can point to the terms of that document as showing that Russja, is compelled to make more sacrifices in order to secure the objects for which she has begun the war, and that she may, without giving offence or laying herself open to reproach, for the present decline to make any specific statement as to the terras of peuce she may ultimately feel herself justified in demanding," The same paper, referring to the relations between Austria-Hungary and Servia, sa} r s :—: — t: We hear from Vienna that the step taken by the Austrian agent in Belgrade to warn the- Servian Goverumeofc against extending its warlike operation to Bosnia and Hersegovina was considered necessary in order to avoid disappointing the high flown expectations of certain Servian enthusiasts. This is not to be regarded as in any way affecting the relations of Austria-Hungary with Russia, as, although the latter Power has accepted the co-operation of the Servian troops, no alliance or engagements of any kiud exist betwean it, and the Serviau Government."

Our (Mail) Malton correspondent write?, under date October 23 :—": — " The mystery attendant ow the supposed trance of a lady, the wife of Mr Fred. Williams, brewer, of Malton, was to-day solved by the interment of the body. As stated on Saturday, the lady (who had suffered from a painful tumor) was supposed to have died on Tuesday, the 9th instant, just, a fortnight before her interment, aud the relatives made the necessary arrangements for the funeral on Monday, the 15th, but before that date they observed certain indications about the body which led them to believe the lady was not dead, but simply in a trance. The funeral was postponed, restoratives were administered to the lady, and endeavors made to restore her. All the time the body retained its flexibility, the countenance its expression and color, and there were no traces of decomposition. The Lopes of the lady's friends were buoyed up until Sunday, when her medical attendant again saw her, and pronounced her dead, as he had done iv the first instance. Siimular to state, however, up to to-day, the day of her burial, and 14 days after death, there wa3 still an absence of decomposition, but the friends of the lady were at length convinced that she was dead. The affair has caused much excitement in the district,"