16 FEBRUARY 1878, Page 2

The Turkish Parliament has disappeared. It was .atated.,at first that

it was prorogued, but subsequent telegrams affirm that it was dissolved on the 14th inst., the Sultan pleading the crisis, but giving some hope that he will some day summon " a new Chamber." The truth will be found to be, we believe, that Ahmed Vefyk, the new Premier, found it impossible to :manage the Chamber, and consequently got rid of it. Many of its members spoke well, and it was animated by a strong hostility to corrupt officials, but it had no foothold in the country, and its dis- missal created no excitement. The popular idea about it was that it was a Council called by the Sultan to advise him, and if jle did not want it any longer, there was an end of the matter.