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Turkey unequivocally repudiates any solidarity with, 

 the English opposition, and this it is which consti- 

 tutes my strength and will enable me to go forward 

 unmoved towards my end, whatever may be the re 

 suit of the explanations Mr. Disraeli is to offer in the 

 House of Commons. 



" The Porte has promised to send this very day a 

 telegram to M. Musurus, instructing him to inform 

 the English Cabinet that it repudiates all solidarity 

 in this opposition to the Suez Canal." 



To M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire, Pan'*. 



" CONSTANTINOPLE, April 22, 1858. 



" When we have made it clear that Lord Derby's 

 Cabinet has succeeded in eluding or in burking a par- 

 liamentary debate upon the Suez Canal, or if the 

 Government makes a positive declaration of hostility 

 to it, we shall be in a position to send to all our agents 

 and correspondents the following memorandum, which 

 please submit to my brother for translation, telling 

 him that I will keep it back if necessary, but that 

 my mind is made up. Lord Palmerston, by throwing 

 the responsibility for the opposition on Turkey, had 

 already contributed to advance the question of making 

 the Suez Canal. 



" c Mr. Disraeli's declarations have decided the exe- 

 cution of our great work. Statesmen who represent 

 neither the ideas of their age or country have dared 

 to publicly denounce as chimerical a project elaborately 



