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

OPINIONS OF
.TR.S MORNING PAPEILN

Th. hearty eAneratidationa of the coontry will (the
Standard ray.) be offered to her Atabwies Government for
the c .ur izeon. and btate.manlikm measure by which thry
have toward thenteelves of all reproach. and enabled
Zeeland to ernerve from a position of perplexity and peril
with honor end in matured safety.
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The Times 'enrols. that the Convention of Defensive
Albans.. leovr.wn England and Twice, constitute. a rtrik•
Inc and ruccesasi 01 movement in the diplomatic straggle
whieh ho. of bite been go severely contested. It more than
coun•orhalances. in respect to the inilaence we wield In
the Mot. 'writhing that may have been loet or tnenacel
by the victories of Ronda over the P.wte. Its first and
roost nes:aware result is to widen to 'Cleland instesd of to
Rumsia a predominant authority at C metantmople. and
to I.lsca her in commandine position in the Stet of the
Mediterranean.
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01 Id .nday last, not many many boars after the an
0.41,•111•11* of the Antln-Turkish C invention and of the
transfer f pros had heen mod., the British Rag
the Daily Tolograpa h.dstod upon that island
For w,el: a I,st L John II sy. commanding the detach.'
Mediterranean squadron, ha. his sealed orders In hia
roascastin which he ivas not to open until a telegraph
had, him put to met In due CqUrell. no doubt,
the offlrial signal eras received by that gallant admiral.
and. in oh...di-ace to the Instructions which 'ben and thus
became known, Lott, John was to proceed with hie ships
to Larnaca and on Monday hint to take posseosion of the
beautiful islanel in Her Majesty's name. Tbe policy
which tblis receives • decisive consummation attracts
from every side day by day fresh expressions of approval,
and has tenet clearly relieved the public mind of that
deep anxiety with which the concessions of the Congress
were being regarded.
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Twenty-four tour: further refiection tel the new re-
gponglioties in which the nation felt itself suddenly
involved has (the Doily Now says) tended to confirm and
increase rather V. in to ditnini•h the dislike with which
thooghtful politielan• regard them. The frail trtonisn
domio•tion in Alic is hen...forth to exist only by English
countcnan, and aid. This guarantee of the territorial
inteerity of the Torkish frontier in Asia involves. saw.
pointed out yesterday. onlimited responsibility. We have
undertaken to govern Cyprus for the Porte. pawing env
didietency in the revenue olirseivl44, but handing over any
gorplos to Constantinople. The Glocertiment of the whole
of Asiatic Turkey will fall gradually Into our hands. We
shall he like trosters of • bankrupt estate. working it for
the creditors: or more accorately. we shall he stewards of
•spendthrift's lands. keeping them in order for him and
tending hins this Profit.. . .

Th. evening orkper. Are egoslly
The Area lid Oros, " Every 'wirer to • rovers preying
upon the e wp..• of Turkey Ao.tris pork• at It no erne
sole. E•gland on thy other. Minor ravens carry a •
Aluret or • fro "
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The Peen imam& says. "We can now understand the
mind'f composure of Lori Bearonsdeld Br a stroke
of the len, without shedding a drop of Zarlish blond,
ingland seines on the whole of Asiatic Turkey. Austria,
also. ha. her shore. And Francs% what bat she got? Btu
hos the Rereihilr, and must rest content with that."
The Petrie takes up the sante line " Hasland," it says,
"emerge, from them negotiations with honour and
maxims Lord Bescunedeld is lucky man. He will
return home with the douhle prestige of having triumphed
anthreit fighting, and of lbaring indicted the most
bomtli alibi lesson to the intrigues of the Litmus] party.
A. for Tranee. her prestige I. atasolately effaced. Her
Political, usual, and roots' influence in the Mediterranean
passes into the hands of England."
The Legitimist papers are extravagant and unfair. It
is sufiletent to give tan hien of their tone to mention that
the Vann actually makes the Convention not to he the
result of a eranspirary hetween Zaglaod and Husain for the
dinnentherment of Tnrkey.

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TIC ORTFOS OF THE ilVlStittl MKT.
A telegram fr.,.. Odessa states that ttc Director of the
Russian Brawn Coupan• has left for San Stefano to
wept, for the return of 195,000 Russian troops.
The Frew Asangiation says the Liberal leaders bare not
yet derided in whet form they will raise a debate on the
Anglmo tunas Convention. neve is no doubt, however,
that the policy of the Government will lin seciottelY
challemowl, and tiler* will probable be a debate in Parlia-
ment of three or four nights' duration. Further papers
rFittt to the Convention ars eirmeted to follow tha
return of the Briii.h plenipoterelariee frnm Berlin. The
lewolon correspondent of the Liverpool Pool mention* se
authoritative statement that Rossi*. Austria, and France
were ennsultad bet ore the defensive treaty with Turkey