. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. The last shot of the war was fired on the 20thof January, in an unimportant engagement, at Tehorlu. By this time thealarmed sultan sent his commissioners to confer with the agents of the czar,and the conditions of peace were quickly agreed upon. The sultan con-ceded the following terms: That Bulgaria should be erected into
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. The last shot of the war was fired on the 20thof January, in an unimportant engagement, at Tehorlu. By this time thealarmed sultan sent his commissioners to confer with the agents of the czar,and the conditions of peace were quickly agreed upon. The sultan con-ceded the following terms: That Bulgaria should be erected into an inde-pendent principality; that Montenegro, Roumania, and Servia should alsobecome independent ; that the Turkish government in Bosnia and Herze-govina should be thoroughly reformed ; that Viddin, Rustchuk, and Silistriashould be surrendered to the Russians ; that several Turkish fortressesshould be evacuated ; and that a war indemnity should be paid to was on the 3d of March, 1878, at the town of .San Stefano, that a treatybetween Russia and Turkey, on the basis here indicated, was signed. Itappeared that the Ottoman empire was about to be ground into powderunder the victorious wheels of the autocratic car. 54^ LIFE AND TIMKS OF WILLIAM E. PEACE WITH of Beaconsfield from the Berlin Conference. OUT OF OFFICE. 549 When matters had proceeded thus far, however, the great powers ofEurope suddenly put forth the hand and arrested the proceedings. Theydeclared, under the leadership of England, that the questions included insettlement by the treaty of San Stefano were European questions and couldnot be determined except by the concurrence of the European powers. Thesettlement imposed by the czar on the sultan should be reviewed by a con-gress of the powers to be held in the city of Berlin. Accordingly, on the13th of July, 1878, such congress was convened—perhaps the most mem-orable of its kind in the after third of the nineteenth century. England
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