Memphis Daily Appeal

FOREIGN NEWS.

Forty-Five Thousand British Troops Ready to Move at a Moment's Warning—Peace Rumors—Austria's Dangerous Vasillation, Etc.

FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND BRITISH TROOPS READY.

London, February 23.—It is confidently stated that forty-five thousand troops are ready to start from Bombay at short notice.

The Elswick ordnance-works were recently ordered to manufacture one hundred torpedoes for the government with all possible speed. The order has been increased to eight hundred.

RUMORS FROM THE PEACE NEGOTIATION.

A Vienna correspondent states that the Russian concessions touching the limits and length of the occupation of Bulgaria are quite sufficient, with the present tendency of the Austrian government, to restore confidence. Austria is content for the moment, and looks to a conference for the rest.

Another correspondent writes: "The extension of the principality of Bulgaria to the Aegean sea would practically mean the securing of the naval station for Russia, just as a grant of port to Montenegro would mean a Russian naval station in the Adriatic."

Still another telegraphs: "The position appears extremely critical, notwithstanding the tranquillizing utterances of the ministerial papers. The conference is regarded in the Austrian government circles as adjourned sine die."

A Berlin dispatch says the conference has entirely failed.

A RUSSIAN PROTECTORATE OVER TURKEY.

A correspondent at Pera says: "Russia will make a great pretense of eagerly defending the conditions before the powers, but will finally yield enough to satisfy them, and then arrange a programme for a Russian protectorate over Turkey in Europe and Asia, according to the terms of their secret agreement."

AUSTRIA'S DANGEROUS VASCILLATION.

The Times says that the present vacillation of Austria is more dangerous to peace than a clear and resolute expression of a military purpose.

THE LINES ESTABLISHED AT ST. STEFANO.

Pera, February 28.—The Russian and Turkish lines at St. Stephano are separated by the little river Karasu, and Russian and Turkish sentries stand at either end of a bridge one hundred feet long. The officers and men of the two armies fraternize in the most remarkable manner.

Raouf Pasha, minister of war, has thanked Grand Duke Nicholas for the excellence of his arrangements. Crowds of visitors and petty traders from Constantinople are seen daily in the Russian camp.