THE EASTERN QUESTION.
Since the Marquis of Salisbury has compelled Bismarck to speak upon the Eastern question, and say that he sides with Russia, as the latter wished God
speed to Germany in 1870, the French are becoming less covert on their hostility against Russia —a nation viewed to be in a rather advanced stage of lunacy. The farce about the Czar's love for peace and the sacredness of his word of honor appears to be "played out." Indeed attention is only fixed on one. point—nob the conference, as that means of. saving the situation has been discounted long ago, but when Russia will open the ball.
There is more interest taken in the massing of Turkish troops on the Danube' than in Ottoman scrip and in the English fleet and . English engineers in the " Odyssey" of the noble Marquis. There is much sympathy felt for Austria, unable to guard a neutrality and threatened at once with dismemberment if she takes a aide. Squalls are expected from all quarters.—Paris Correspondent S.F. Post.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2517, 30 January 1877, Page 3
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172THE EASTERN QUESTION. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2517, 30 January 1877, Page 3
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