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Show It UHit In'a Itril limit SI rates' t lorlll 1 llitt II it ii it tte iusiuai 1'robitblc 9ucces London, 10. The Russian military operations ot Ibrail and vicinity ore designed to extend the Russian control con-trol of the lower Danube by closing tbe Sulina pass. II this is succeisfui, as appears probable, tho Turkish licet will be efleclually debarred from assisting in defending Bulgaria, and the Danube will be subsiautiaily lost as a Turkish defensive line. Russia's be hrilliantby engacious. No etlective opposition to the Russians crossing tlio Danube in force is now deemed probable. If now tho RjssianB succeed in carrying the Sana!oo pa si, between liars and Ezuroum, which is the omy great depot of Turki-.h supplies in Asi Minor, Monk tar Pasha must choose between capture or precipitate evacuation of Armenia. The British jealous suspicion ol Rud3ia's ulterior designs is becoming stronger than English abhorrence ol Turkish barbarity and fanaticism. Consequently the war feeling grows, though still restrained by the conviction convic-tion that England, in entering the war, would have no ally bat Turkey. Tbe coolest heads here have the h-ast le ar of Russia's purposes, because fat i-tied thai lh cz r would dread a general gen-eral war more than any other European Eu-ropean power. Therefore they scout the idea that lie will attempt the possession of Constantinople or do any other act justifying British inter ven'.ion. Again, English tradiug interests foresee that in the event ol intervention Rushia's Baltic lleet ol over 200 ships are free to speedily Hcattor to the seas, where they could inflict incalculable injury to British commerce and make America s opportunity op-portunity to recover the shipping iu tereat destroyed during tiie southern rebellion. |