The dissolution of the Turkish Parliament (of which we have information to-day) at a period when its active ■existence is all buc essential to the
maintenance of the autonomy of the
Ottoman Empire, is another proof that tho Porte is acting under the dictation of the Czar. The wily Goctschakoff informs Lord Derby that the intended Russian occupation of Constantinople is of a pacific , character; but her Majesty’s advisers are not to be taken in by any such specious pretexts, and the ordering of the fleet to. Prince’s Islands, almost within range of the Golden Horn, together with the simultaneous movement of the Austrian fleet towards the . Levant, shew how little dependence is placed upon the Muscovite’s word by the other-Powers. There is now no room to doubt that England and Austria are acting in concert, and that at any moment the crisis may be precipitated from either side. In the meantime we hold the grand nautical strategic points of Gibraltar, Malta, Gallipoli, and ; the Southern entrance to the, Bosphorus.
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Kumara Times, Issue 436, 18 February 1878, Page 2
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