THE EASTERN QUESTION.

Evening Star, Issue 4287, 22 November 1876, Page 1

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

The following very interesting extract is take*; from ft Jetter-*eeefred to the last English mail by a gentleman;.:« well knbwriin jin the British army, holding a high ' ( position at Malta.- WfeigHtfsays'le South Australian Advertiser/ may be. given to the remarks uf the writer, fiafi P e W^ : W_„ fitted t6 forni^/o^dn:-- 1 fTOf as present. . The sEMtantf questf,* %UI of: circuratanoes faijjaor6.eMUa.than has ~ promote -^4ean«We il esdaaiDra g 6|S#iy i ld and rapidly than It could eror be_SoHfc n * B y a PPWI Th*TnrkW> dying out, and the Sclav and Bulgarian*! a f Jested ..by place; thus, and thus only, can -peaceaadcoiffidence be restored to the vast Christian P o PSjf fa » n under the Turkish -rule and thus only can the terrible £ atrocities recently perpetrated by Turks r upon OhrMtians be made impdssiW<of Ajpei tition. England has now takep. up a pow. turn worthy of her whioh will hereafter read wonderfully in the pages of history. The smallness of her army i? more than compensated for by the magnificence of her fleets now at of course belongs to us of Malta. Im3t~ see the weight which is attached to her opinion in the councils of Europe—her rejection of the Berlin Njote, her isolation of (xermany. Without a word, as' it were, she has raised the bitterest hostility agifinst Germany in France, in Russia and tria; whilst England TierselPis gradually cementing a union, between the Latin races, and strengthening Italy in the" most quiet I i-aw way ' Herob i eot »*»*• 'eadyto hold her own, and get her share df the bones v when the Turk is dead and his Europeait vV property has to be divided. Yes, be assured '« that whenever thiß occurs the Latin race will be arrayed agamst%he c Teutohl RusaWwffl v then have to take an important position ; r but it is written in the bebkof fateWri wMcTi r side she will draw fbr sword. Europe will never let her get is thoroughly bankrupt, and the whole nafaofffe nnderglfing B^ch'ra^c^'clia^^' 1 "- whilst the army itself is we& { very come she must remam.^ne^'% weakest Kussia s weakness, is to erection of ,* powerful: Solav) btate impossible. Germany, withr*nilttaiyi institutions organised on; a. eoale Hitherto' unknown, and an army unconquered, will assume and try to hold a position of F imperious dominance in Europe, butf she 0 will be driven from it;'and Franoe toU We. her revenge. Her wealth la 'enonnW* beyond all T » is developiiurr , itself daily; more in earnest power and prestige., tions of coming events. r, f t v o-,u>: