LORD BEACONSFIELD AND MUSURUS PASHA.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 30, 15 April 1878, Page 2

LORD BEACONSFIELD AND MUSURUS PASHA.

Tho D^ily News rocontiy published n ro« markablo t' logram from its correspondent nt A,drianoplo. Tho gentleman had, had an interview with Sorvor Pasha, tho Turkish Minister for Foroign AfFturs, on January 28, and lias been charged to inform, tho British public that ho " abondoncd tho English nllianco," and had becomp more Russian than tho Russians. " I aocopt," said Server Pashn, " tho llussian policy and allianoo." Wo " havo boon docoivod (irompc) I havo tho documoats which will

provo it/? Another member of tho Turkish Embassy conflrmod nil Sorvor Bashn said, but rcquentod that his numo should bo concoaled, adding that, although tho oflloial notes of Lo^d Derby wore explicit, tho '• pri^atQ conversations of Lord Boaconsfioiij tyith Mursurus Bisha and of Mr Layard Sfervia Paslin and tho Easha, led us on ar^d decoivod us." Only tbreo weoks ago Mr Layard still assqrod us that England wou,ld qomo to ov^r aid, a,nd that wo had only to f^ht on, nnd all woqld oorao right in tho ond." Mr Layard said to J»ira, 'I|o you think I, as n friond ot'Turkoy, was sont hero for nothing?, Do you not ice that it was to encoumgo you and offbnd Rnssia, Bolieve nio. Hnyo courage. Moko no penoe. Fight to the, end/ Tho speaker, though considering Mr Laynroj tho wron^f man for such an prnbnssy, considered that ho had boon f honestly decoiyed,' and o^ly stated his own cqnv|ctlon. Lord Bcaconsfield's Innciingo was nonrly a.s strong as Mr L:iynrd'>3 though moro guarded. Sir S. Northoote was questioned qn Pobruary Bth nbout th|s tologrnity and in roply 'qu'olodf n ' n-»td from 1 L6rd Beacon'sftold. stating that \t wns ' a baso fabrication,' but not tn/'ntioning whether the fabricator is Scry.or ]?usha, or tho nnonymoi^^ Turk, or tho correspondent of tho Daily No\ys. Tho blank doninl wns recoived with rap« turous npplnuso. It is excessively irupro* bablo that the correspondent hns invo.ntod or perverted tho message, but quito possible that Server, Pnsha, snvngo nt tho teems he hud just been considering, said n great deal inoro than ho cou'd provo. He nyiy even wish to p«\nish tho English 'Jrnnd Vizier for not having sont nn army to the relief of Turkey. Sorva Pashtt, linn, towever, referred to. documents, and it is on documents ho must rely, if. after Lord Bcnoonsfleld's peremptory and filial denial, ho wishes to be believed outsido his own country.