THE EASTERN QUESTION.

Evening Star, Issue 4306, 14 December 1876, Page 1

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

[communicated.] KiE pecuHar educations connected «rif hj unravel. The great outburst of public in dignation in Great Britain at the EuWi an th‘ Son™TV‘ beoa ”\ e *Pf*™TS grave questions of pohcy^wM^Sl ß^-? 1 & pity »&£■ S tkefe ren °T e KgSitid a’S.rt?T^ otedof S'ed to° b!T S K''® b <>t irmly remsed to be carried away by the burst nf enthusiasm which, like a swept over the country, and to have steadily kent m view the dangers which would result from t Wm« ourselves into the arms of EmS merely because we had reason to bo bitterly vermfnt But -? G . wretched Turkish Goas if the Gwernment woZS b?C fedmewhichTV 11 ® intense an ti-Turkisf when the the re* and march first on the Provinces aSS upon Contantinople. It is « message informs us that the Czar hJd given - C ? d^ ord of bonor ’' if was more certain guamntetC Tit SSte” V h % fotnre “? a ‘P° w fM party in Kin, theEmp‘„ r might find himself, when once his old enemv nn y +r+h tr fl te t ndhelplessat his feet, forced on to the final consummation by the same 'IT*- behind the throne?’ mft the “situation”? Endand bni wm^otSjwtrM thatshe and wiu not allow the Muscovite to rule at intention of ®: u ? s^a > '' v hile disclaiming any intention of seizing the long-coveted nrize Kl£d Sift™ ? d to A her imS navai and military forces into a focus read-o-for S fh? e ‘ G ? rma ?y and Austria hold aloof for the present, and there seems nothing but the conference of the Great PowZ wK £ the toffl Üb Cinoest Gladstone s plan and usually indicated by the word “autonomy,” real self STS TVS* minaf B «^ainSontbe part of the Porte, But this would be a post ponement rather than a final for even if a stable and humane government were in the ProviLs. Ee would still remain a considerable south of the Balkans in a decaying*'Sd - utterly misgoverned condition, to tempt the cupidity of her neighbors, and to conZufa Eutr g TS er t0 the of Europe That a war means immense sacrihces to Russia is shown by the tremendous financial crisis that at once took SIZ 3 over the Empire when its approach appirS ‘ war”^ S't &«rnnS ’“to cS.“ P would be anxious enough to avoid considering that h er Hungarian luLte are intensely anti-Sclavonic* while CroatS and several of her other provinces ar« an strongly philo-Sclave in their tendencies Bismarck is playing the rdle of the “ judil eious bottle-holder,” wishing to see J the matter permanently settJeii one way or the other, but declaring for neither sidj. It fc lamentable that British interests should 2 any way be mixed up with support to the murderous Mussulman, and it would almost seem as if there wifi be no way ont of tSI matter m the end except the occupation of Stamboul and the neighborhood by Bntish troops, supported by a powerful fleet, and the establishment of a Government at once strong and just, such as wo have given to India. The proposal to Zt our Pnnce Alfred and his Russian wife on the throne is, perhaps, too sSSE tional to meet modern views ; but the dob! tion is now so over-strained, that wp should scarcely be surprised at such a proposal bemg entertained by the mew of reconcilmgthe conflicting riews of Russia and England as to the neutrality of the Dardanelles and the safety of Egypt One thing is certain, Turkish misrule must end, and another scarcely less certain viz that it cannot be allowed to end in the ea* t h tr Ut °j ? U^ sia at Constantinople. The former Lord Beret has made abundantly clear m his despatches to our Ambassador, Sir H. Elliott, and there can be no haUucination in the minds of the Sultan and wfn 51 1I f ISt T rS ? o that P oint 5 the latter it will be for Lord Salisbury to make dear to the Conference, on whose deliberations depends now the answer to the question— Peace or War . On the whole, we see reason to hope for a peaceful solution.