The Globe. MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1876.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 766, 4 December 1876, Page 2

The Globe. MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1876.

The news received by the San Francisco mail is, for a wonder, of some considerable interest. We have been so accustomed of late to have a confused mass of unintelligible statements telegraphed that it is quite a relief to have a clear and connected story of the month’s history from American sources. Although subsequent cable telegrams have informed us of the latest state of affairs, the information regarding the Eastern question is nevertheless interesting. England is evidently awakening to the fact that there are two sides to the story, and calmer counsels are beginning to prevail. People are beginning to see that the Government policy has been dictated by sound judgment, and the noisy demonstrations which indicated the excited condition of the public mind are gradually ceasing. The Times has not been slow to note the change, and now supports the Government, and condemns Mr. Gladstone. Beading the news to hand in the light of the latest cable telegrams, it is evident that affairs on the Continent are in a more critical condition than we were led to believe from the cable news. The “ rightful guarantees ” spoken of by the Czar evidently indicate a determination on the part of Eussia to have the reforms spoken of placed under her own immediate supervision, This would result practically in the occupation of the provinces by a Eussian force, and although she would no doubt give every assurance that it would be but temporary, we all know what that means. She assured Europe that her occupation of her recent conquests in Asia would be but temporary, but she has seen fit to alter her determination. If Eussia’s possession of those provinces would lead to the peace of Europe, there are few in England, we think, who would regret the change. But it is the prospect of a war in the future, which would involve the world in untold miseries which makes the British Government so strongly opposed to Eussian aggression. England’s policy is to secure to the Christians of the Turkish provinces their rights, at a less price than a general European war. The news regarding the Arctic Expedition is but scanty. They reached a point about 450 miles from the Pole —the distance say from here to Napier—but further progress was barred by the rough nature of the ice, which appears to have been utterly unfit for travelling over, We can imagine what it must have been when their progress over it was at the rate of a mile a day. The American news to hand throws no light upon the cause of quarrel in South Carolina, and why the Democratic votes in several of the Counties have been rejected. When the previous San Francisco mail arrived we had news of the intention of the Democrats in the South to intimidate the Negro vote by every means in their power, and to resort if necessary to the rifle and sabre. The Democrats, in this way, hoped to undo much of the effect of the late civil war. The Negroes are of course nearly to a man Eepublican, and stick to the party which gave them liberty. If the Democrats, therefore, could succeed in coercing the Negro vote they would further the ends of their party. They have apparently succeeded, and hence perhaps the action of the Eepublicans, in refusing to recognise the Democratic vote.