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Show Lord Salisbury on the Treaty. London, 1G. An official dispatch from the Marquis of Salisbury to the ministers who remained in London, dated Berlin, July 12tb, is published. Lord Salisbury says the modifications at the congress are very large, and affect almost all the articles of the treaty. They have recovered a largd territory (or the sultan and tend to assure the stability and independence ol Turkey. The dispatch combats the allegation that the government had abandoned tbe policy indicated in Lord Salisbury 'a circular of January 4th. For this purpose it compares, point by point, the policy indicated by the circular with the decisions adopted by the congress. The comparison shows that the object of the British policy, ; namely, the prevention of Russian preponderance, has been substantially obtained. Lord Salisbury especially1 points to the tact that the pecuniary indemnity has been altogether excluded ex-cluded from the treaty of Berlin, the congiess having declined to revise the arrangement which, being no infraction infrac-tion of the treaty of Paris, it was within the competence of independent inde-pendent powers to conclude. The result of the declaration made by the Russians in the congren?, that they would neither claim terri tory in lieu of the indemnity nor prfjudice tbe claims of other creditors, is that the payment of the indemity is postponed to an indefinitely remote re-mote period. Salisbury conclude: Whether use will be made of this, probably tbe last opportunity obtained for Turkey by the interposition of the powers, and particularly by England, Eng-land, depends on the sincerity with which the Turkish statesmen now addreea themselves to tbe duties of a go d government. |