Word: portee
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The Porte is averse to an international conference for the settlement of the Egyptian difficulty.
It is stated that the Porte has sent a circular to the powers, protesting against the dispatch of foreign men-of-war to Egypt as unjustifiable, and declaring, moreover, that, were such action necessary, it would devolve upon the Sultan as sovereign of Egypt.
The death of Gil Perey in a Paris insane asylum is reported. He was the original Coupean of Zola's "L'Assamoire" when the piece was played at the Porte St. Martin Theatre.
Porte chucks and Muckyres of lowe degree
EACH year our newspapers and magazines are interesting themselves more and more with the affairs of other countries, so that it is now no uncommon thing to find half the editorial space in a morning journal, or a long article in a leading review, devoted to the last kaleidoscopic change...