3 AUGUST 1878, Page 3

The Supplementary Estimate for the year has been presented to

Parliament, and amounts to /1,845,500, for expense incurred on account of the war between Russia and Turkey, and the recent outbreak at the Cape of Good Hope. This is but a small part of the yearly cost to which our new policy,—if it means anything,— should run up ; and including, as it does, the Cape expenses, it is clear that very little provision is at present being made to • organise Asiatic Turkey. Indeed, the estimate tends, like most other evidence, to the belief that the Anglo-Turkish Convention is a. mere flash in the pan.