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Show Toe dispatches announce tbe entering en-tering into an alliance by Turkey and and England, by which the latter gets the iiland of Cyprus, and guarantees the intogrity of Asiatic Turkey. Il the telegraphic account can be relied on as correct, it Bimply means that Great Britain bacomes the guardian in name and proprietor in fact of Turkey in Asia, including the rich valley of Euphrates. Egypt already praclicalty belongs to Britain and tbe new treaty gives her absolute control con-trol of the Mediterranean. The dispatch sayi: "This defensive treaty docs not necessarily come within the scope of the deliberations delibera-tions of the congress," and eignifi cantly adds. "The validity ot it could not be called in question except atthe cojt ofa war." A clearer case Ul yuuuutti umiuuiiug una ueici uqcu seen than that which England haB practiced. She let Russia proceed, spend her money and achieve a great friumph, whea Great BriaiD steps in and sets aside tho treaty of Sao Stefana, and permits tho northern monarch to enjoy ouly a barren victory. Now England, without war or the expenditure of a dollar, takes the bettPr part of the Ottoman empire, em-pire, and says it i.-' an independent, contra .t betwron the powers con-1 crned and intfrforenre with it will ost a war. |