THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, MAY 4,' 1877.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2597, 4 May 1877, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, MAY 4,' 1877.

The scanty items of news regarding the Turko-Bussian war which reach us are necessarily replete with interest. One man's sympathies may be with Turkey, those of another with Russia; but the question of deepest interest is, how will each movement, each success on one side or defeat on the other affect England, and by consequences, New Zealand.. At present wo are not mixed up in the war, yet any one day's calograms may tell us that we are. The worst is, that the telegrams as they reach us are often imcomprehensible. For instance, Hobart Pasha, we hear, has run the blockade at Gralatz, and yet at the same time we hear that the Turks—with whom he serves—are bombarding that place. JN"o doubt there will be much con-" fusion of names, and one telegram will stultify another. At present, the aspect ! of the war is this :—-The Russians adI vancing from the west by way 'of the I Danube will, we are told, have an unmolested passage through Roumania, that is as far as the Wallachians and Moldavians, who make up the province which; is now called Roumania, can afford it. The Turks will probably contest the passage of the Danube, with what success remains to be seen. On the east where Kussia in Asia joins Persia, the Eussians are advancing at their old point of attack, Ears. The Turks, who have the command of the Black Sea, are bombarding Poti, a Russian fort north of Batorim, and situate just where Russia joins Turkey on its (Turkey's) extreme north. As Ears is considerably sonth of this the result may be important, for if the Russians are successful at Ears, the occupation of the ports and fortsi to the north, and consequently id their rear, such as Poti and Anaklia

would materially retard their progress towards Constantinople. This present position of affairs, however, we can regard with all the apathy of bystanders, but, not so the news received that the Khedive of Egpyt will assist Turkey, especially as it had been before announced that Russia threatened reprisal should Egypt take the part which it is said she will take. England has so large a stale in the matter; the autonomy of Egypt ; so great a matter of importance to h - that it is impossible that any act of oye : aggression on the part of Russia towards ! gypt should not be followed by an im- | mediate declaration of war on the part of Englsnd, in which France, who has also a stake in the Suez Canal, would probabl7 join. This may mean carrying the w:. • into the Baltic, and if such a result we speedily brought about there would

this advantage to England over the warfare of 1854, that the start for the could take place in the summer, and consequently St. Petersburg would be accessible instead of our having a fine fleet wasting its time literally in doing nothing, as was the case, with the fleet under Sir Charles Napier.