. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across y created one of thefinest naval and military ports in the world, and built a city with broadstreets and handsome quays and docks. In 1850 it had a j)opulation ofabout fifty thousand, which included many soldiers and marines, togetherwith workmen employed in the Government establishments. In 1850 there was a dispute between France and Russia relative tothe custody of the holy places in Palestine; there had been a contentionconcerning this m
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across y created one of thefinest naval and military ports in the world, and built a city with broadstreets and handsome quays and docks. In 1850 it had a j)opulation ofabout fifty thousand, which included many soldiers and marines, togetherwith workmen employed in the Government establishments. In 1850 there was a dispute between France and Russia relative tothe custody of the holy places in Palestine; there had been a contentionconcerning this matter for several centuries, in which sometimes theGreek Church and sometimes the Latin had the advantage. In 1850, atthe suggestion of Turkey, a mixed commission ^\as appointed to considerthe dispute and decide upon it. The Porte, as the Turkish Government is officially designated, issued 492 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. in March, 1852, a decree that the Greek Church should be confirmed inthe rights it formerly held, and that the Latins could not claim exclusivepossession of any of the holy j^laces. It allowed them to have a key to the. TURKISU AUTHOUITY. Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem, and to certain other buildings ofminor importance. If you want to know how the Christian ehurches are now quarrellingabout the sacred places in the East, read Chapters XXII., XXIIL, andXXIY. of The Boy Travellers in Egypt and the Holy Land. France accepted the decision, though she did not like it; Russia con-tinued to demand that the Latin monks should be deprived of their keys,and finally insisted that the Czar should have a protectorate over the Greek SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. 493 Christians in Turkey. The Porte said such a protectorate would interferewith its own autliority, and refused the demand ; tliereupon the RussianMinister left Constantinople on the 21st of May, 1853. This may be considered the beginning of the war between Russia andTurkey, though there was no lighting fo
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