The reports which were prevalent at the close of last
week, of a peace having been concluded between the Sultan and the Vice- roy of Egypt, were entirely groundless. We intimated at the time, that they should be received with distrust. They appear to have arisen from the speculations of certain English and French residents in Constantinople, who wrote what they hoped, not what they knew to be true, to their correspondents in London and Paris. The last accounts state that the Egyptians are preparing to march upon Constantinople, and that there is no Turkish force of any consequence to delay their progress. The Russians, however, are said to have a considerable body of troops in the neighbour- hood, with which, in case of necessity, they are prepared to defend the capital. The answer of the Viceroy to the proposition of Ad- miral Roussur, had been received there, and had caused infinite consternation.
Previous page
