The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-07-16 00:00:00

The Results of the Congress

No wonder that the Botoum difficulty, as it was
called in Berlin so late as Friday last, has been
"settled," by its annexation, like Kars, to Burnie.
On the 4th of last month, it transpires, we signed a
conventivn with Turkey that if —what virtue there is
in an "If "—liwoum, inlahan, or Kars should be
retained by Boggle, England would enter Innis defen-
sive allianc, with the Sultan, and would repel he force
anv attempt to take poaseedon of his Aeiatic territories
as fixed by the term, of peace to he an ived at by the
Congress. We have now. theref..re, the explanation
of all the " difficulty" we have been lately Istisl, wi. b
jiremmei•eration. hingel on the 11064.11 LS to Batoutn,
which Russia, it Is to he remembered, failed to take by
force of arms when she wide en elf .rt to dom.
Beaconsfield, in laid had air, any male up his mind
in respect to a surrender which his advocates and
emiesariee in the press led tut to believe would end in
war or something danger.usly approaching to it. In
other wools peveonal government of the very worst
wit has once more, in this question, been made by the
present Ministry to supersede thst cvnetlttoional
g .v.roment on which this nation has hitherto prided
itself. And but as this loudy is in reference L. what
'Wield be the strictest honour of nations, upon con. ;
stitutional and good government its influence moat be
still worse. In taking upon ourselves, int the action
of N'ini tern alone, and without so much as a sums- I
tion being made on the subject in Parliament, the
defence of the Sultan in his Asiatic ponesaions, we
xannot avoid the responsibility of protecting the
population. there against that vile system of so-called
g,.vemment which by proyokin.; insurrection cells for
forri:n intervention. This. indeed, han been provided
for by the Sultan undertaking to introdnoe reform., in
the government of the Christian awl wher cubists of
these territories, and, in order to enable providon for
executirg her part of the agreement, assigning to us
the Island of Cyprus, to he occupied and administered
by us. To this end Sir Garnet Widish's has &Ire :sly
been appoints I governor, but we are told the Ceprlans
are still to profess allegiance to the Sultan; after pay-
ing ourselves not of l's riven''ss we are to send the
balance to Constantinople; awl there is a pr.vition
for our restorlng the i•land .o Turkey should Hamra
e me slay in a fit of generosity evacuate all her recent
acq:daitions in An .—an mime mint sham, with which
a country like Pnglsoti ought to be thoroughly
whamed of being associated
The hineuese of the Reseal gee Preermisereepecting the
Anclo-Turkish Treaty—if It *sere pieihie to suspect that
it coneet the ideas of the French Government—would he
szosedingl.
views of the leerier of the majority in tits Charnher of
D.lllitioe it has an inpottance of its own, The RepuSiiipas
deseribed the Convention as detrimental to the interest.
of the klerliteersnean Powers and, more wee, aa
singular}, often. Ye to the dignity of all the reinstates of
Convert, and aids :—"lf they hal only known before
proceeding to Berlin that ten days previpisly Itigland
hPI concluded • repersote treaty with the P me 1141011 of
them at letit might have preferred to stay at horn.. and
to he sParr.l the dot• of ro operating in a work vitiated
In he eseence, at occult areatutement• Itad preceeded lie
preparation. The Brutish 0 wernopott had repeatedly ex.
Xorre•o4l it eV611.11 to ',pante trestle, and private
arrangement., and at the very moment when it was
making there explleit declaration. IX SIM itself entering
on that dark awl &shin,. path. By this arraegement the
Porte han Is Overllll X., England, and in etchrace England
undertake.' to defend T•leker aglinot all aggressor* We
do not envy the Cabinet of St J oasis the responeihilitc
It h•• undertaken, and which it may find heavy, should
the Congers., r rplemn this traneaction. When, through-
out Bosom. the Indepen lent •nd patriotic press rose
against the pretension of Russia to superintend alone the
reform. in Target% it llttle 10pped...4 that a niece of
diplomatic thinshie-rigging wouli transfer that power to
if eland."
The Repsoelipse then goes on to abuse personally Llrd
Searonseeid, •wi talks of his Bastern origin 14111 hie ton
Asistic policy. It than pmceeds to express a hope that
the Conon. will Midst on having the Treaty imbroitteri
to it. In this MOS it inform', as that it will he the do.,
of the French Plenipo.entiaries ti rid-et a Convention ei
:thematic revealed on the ere of the breaking up of the
Congress, and to refute to 'traction br their signatures
any document validating such a transaction.
The other papers are not, perhaps, so strews in their
lane,. but they ell show the greatest Irritation and it
is a rupetion whether, In the event of war with Kumla,
the attitude of Franco nught not be • source of, at least,
inconvenienee.