Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . ,000, and the award was promptly paid. 264. The treaty of Berlin.—In 1876 the eastern questionagain troubled the peace of Europe. The Servians, Monte-negrins, and Bulgarians, goaded to desperation by the op-pression of the Turks, rose in open rebellion. The risingwas put down with such severity that the European powersfelt called upon to interfere. Russia, however, was theonly power that carried her interference so far as to declare war. At first the
Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . ,000, and the award was promptly paid. 264. The treaty of Berlin.—In 1876 the eastern questionagain troubled the peace of Europe. The Servians, Monte-negrins, and Bulgarians, goaded to desperation by the op-pression of the Turks, rose in open rebellion. The risingwas put down with such severity that the European powersfelt called upon to interfere. Russia, however, was theonly power that carried her interference so far as to declare war. At first the Turks werevictorious; but when theRussian army laid siege toConstantinople, the Sultangave way, and a preliminarytreaty, which would haveplaced Turkey completelyunder the control of Russia,was signed. Such a state of affairswould have reversed almostentirely all the arrangementsmade after the CrimeanWar, and would have seri-ously threatened Britainssupremacy in the East. Ac-cordingly, the Britishgovernment issued a circularletter to the powers, urging joint action in connection withthe Turkish question. The powers agreed, and a Congress. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl ofBeaconsfield 1878-82] THE HOUSE OF HANOVER 279 MEDITERRASEAN , /_, . ^I -•X^ SEA //ff*/ Alexandria-^(TiVE&l-Kebir \ >-^\^ \ ^L i b y a^,n ^% \^ J\ \ 5 e s e /- jt _^v4 *X^ \ •\ ^A^t Jl J \ was held in 1878 at Berlin, which was attended by theprime minister, Benjamin Disraeli, and Lord Salisbury asthe representatives of Great Britain. Many questions weresettled, but the principal result was the checking of Russiasambitious designs. Britain undertook to guarantee theSultans possessions in Asia, and in return occupied Cyprus. 265. Affairs in Egypt.—Among the foreign enterprises ofDisraeli, was the purchase of nearly half the stock of theSuez Canal Company. TheKhedive of Egypt sold hisshare, which was nearlyhalf the entire value of thecanal, to the British govern-ment for S20,000,000. Thepeople of Great Britainw
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