TURKEY AND ENGLAND.
I ; With regard to the English fleet being expected to enter the Dardanelles' the correspondent of the Melbourne Argus writes, from Constantinople :—" A vast crowd waited for them, and some ardent spirits who had mounted to the top of Galata Tqwer/ declared that they could see the ships approaching. As the day wore oh, ana no fleet appeared, rumors of disaster were spread. It was said that the forts had driven the fleet back with a loss of two ships. At length the Levant. Herald brought out another supplement, and then the poor admiral of the port and the consular officials went - home crestfallen, and took off the garments of state in which, they had waited through the weary day. To-day the walls of Pera and Stainboul are liberally placarded with the ~ following notice:—.
Lost, Between Beeika Bay and Constantinople, A British Fm,et !.
A handsome reward will be given to any one who will find this fleet and bring it home! Your readers will understand that under these circumstances the English residenti are in rather an unfortunate position. They are pelted with jokes and chaff, and are half wild under the ridicule that has been cast upon them. The Porte has decided not to permit any fleet to enter the Dardanelles, and has informed the Grand Duke Nicholas and Prince Gortachakoff'of its decision, for Turkey is now resolved to give herself wholly to Russia, and to disregard the Western Powers,from whom, and especially from England, the thinks she has received much ill-treatment. Despoiled by the Russians, the Turkish victim, we are assured, has sought the spoilers' protection against others who. might be tempted to imitate the seductive example. There are Thessally and Epirus to extricate from the grasp of Greece; there are Bosnia and Herzegovina to screen .from, Austrian cupidity; nay, there are Crete and Egypt, which the Russians keep telling the Turks will shortly be seized by the English. Driven mad by these melancholy anticipations, and bitterly intent upon spiting the English, of whose desertion they loudly complain, .the new Turkish Cabinet seem to have turned ovjer a new leaf, and to have leagued with the tiger that rent them." *"
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2895, 27 May 1878, Page 2
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364TURKEY AND ENGLAND. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2895, 27 May 1878, Page 2
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