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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 211, 20 April 1877, Page 3

The signs of disunion between the Greek and Slav population of European Turkey continue to manifest themselves. The inhabitants of Adrianople, Greeks as well as Turks, have petitioned the Government to be allowed to take up arms against,- " the" common enemy." From the Porte the address was sent on to the Sultan himself, who replied by ordering the Grand Vizier to thank the petitioners and tell them that he still hoped to maintain peace, but that in the event of war he meant to place himself at the head of his Army, and counted on the co-operation of all Ottom.in subjects without distinction of race or religion. Sultm' Abdul Hamid ia already showing himself much more accessible than his predecessors, and has actually written in the Levant Herald — so it ia alleged — an article on the reforms.