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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 769, 1 May 1877, Page 2

Equal and cxtict justice to all men, Of whatever scute or persuasion, religious or political ■■ • # # # # * Here shall the Presi the People's right ludintain, 'V ' - ' Quawcd by iuiluencc and unbribed by gain TUESDAY, MAT 1,1377.

The raisiug of. Austria,:' 'into a great Eastern power as a check upon the advance of Russia towards Western Europe, and the annexation by Gernaivy of Austria's purely German provinces, as a quid pro quo for assisting to place her in -such position — which has been more than once alluded to by this, journal as the probable oufccome r of the post bel I urn settlement of the Eastern question — would see'tn not t t6 be so very far from the mark if 'we may judge from -the following. Midhat Pasha, a discarded' Vizier of the Sultan, now residing, at Naples, has made the following' statement to a member, of the Neapolitan Press, which found its way into a portion of the German Pi-ess :— "• Midhat de^ " spairs not of a most favourable 1 "end of the war for the Turks. He " does not believe it to be possible "to localise the war,' and thinks that " Austria will be forced by her "Sclavonic population to take part "m the conflict ; all the more as the "inhabitants of Daliriatia, of the " Banat and of 1 Kroatia will cause " such disturbances m the Turkish " provinces that Austria will be "obliged to interfere. Upon this "the other powers will interfere. "The war will become general, and " France and England will be favoiir- " able to the Turks. Midhat deems " Bismarck to be the originator of "the present troubles. Ha says " that he (the Prince) urges Austria 'Ho enlarge herself with some of " the Sclavonian provinces, m order " that Germany may expand, and " that it would be possible to allow "Russia the annexation of other " provinces which are to be taken "from Turkey. She Sultan be "praises very highly. Midhat let "it be understood that he feared the " late constitution, would remain a " dead letter, which he regrets much, "as he sees the possibility of the " regeneration of the Ofctomau na- " tion only iii a complete overthrow '•'of the Mahoniinedan customs and " manners,"

The expansion of Germany, as we have pointed out before, is as much the policy of that Empire as the annexation of Constantinople is that of Russia. That "Bismarck should bring about a state of things which would enable Austria by a redistribution of territory, to cede to Germany certain territory m exchange for certain Christian provinces now nominal dependencies of Turkey, acquiring thereby consolidated empire as a great and powerful Eastern nation, is one which, while it satisfied the ambition of both Germany and Austria, need cause no alarm to Western Europe. An outpost we must have agaiust the overrunning of Europe by the modern Hun, and far better that that outpost should be garrisoned by Christian Austria than by the besotted aud brubal Turk.

As yefc the news of bhe advance of Russia towards Turkish territory brings lit :le of interest or excitement to the people of these Colonies. It is the prelude, merely — the orchestral performance which simply ushers m bhe tragedy itself. What we are all anxiously looking for is the rising of the curtain, which will show us the grouping oF v the nations who will take part m the bloody drama now about to be enacted m theljld world. ,