The Waikato Times. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1877.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 815, 6 September 1877, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1877.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatever state or persuasion, religious o political • * # * # Here shall the Presi the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain

The intelligence received from the seat of war m the East ia an almost continued succession of Kussian reverses, and whether the sympathies of the reader are with the Turk, as the foe of Europe's enemy, or with the Russian, as the oastigator of the brutalised tyrant of the Christians m the Servian and Bulgarian Provinces, there is the satisfaction m either case, that, as yet, the other Powers of Europe have escaped entanglement. Indeed, this contingency, which it was thought must long ere this have arisen out of the present straggle, appear!!} even farther off than ever, ft was the success of Russia that would have aroused the great Powers of Europe into action. So long as the Turk is able to hold his own, and British interests are unat tacked, and the balance of power m Europe maintains its status m quo, there will be no fluttering of Imperial Cabinets. Meantime the war progresses, and, the victories of the Turkish armies are only less costly to themselves than they are to the Russians. The longer that Russia is engaged m expending its strength and falls shore of Constantinople m its spring, the less likelihood of a general war. The combatants will have exhausted themselves; for two nations heavily weighted with debt, and with as little credit m the money markets of Europe as either Turkey or Russia possessed before hostilities commenced, cannot afford to play long at the game of war, which, ever a question of the longest purse, m these days especially, soon dips its hand to the bottom of the deepest pocket. When once this state of prostration has been reached, and it bids fair to be without the unsettlement of European interests by the advance westward of Russia, the time will have arrived fur the joint aotionof the great Powers of Europe and the settlement of the Eastern question on a basis which will secure the interests of Europe generally, and at the same time that which Russia has made the pretext for war, the remedying the wrongs of the Christian subjects of Turkey. Russia, as yet, has been able to resist any such attempt, and the late Confei*ence at Constantinople failed, through Russian intrigue, to bring about a settlement ot the

vexed Eastern question on a basis to the interests of slfucope. But Russia, confident m its strength and power to expel the rurk.from Europe and seize his patrimony, and Russia humbled by the confliofc now going; on, will hold a.verj£different position at the next European Conference that may be held m Stambonl. Looked at m t^is light, the advantages gained by Turkey are matter foroongratttlation even to those who have little sympathy with' the" Turks as a race.