The Globe. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1877.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 994, 1 September 1877, Page 2

The Globe. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1877.

The scene of havoc which is now presented in Bulgaria, compared with the state of things there a few years ago, cannot but make us hope that the power which is really responsible for all this, will receive just retribution. Colonel James Baker emphatically asserts that the massacres of last year “ were brought about, not by the Bulgarian people, but by Russian intrigue,” and that “ there has never been a rebellion in Turkey without the presence of Russian agents.” Recent disclosures go to show that the above assertions have a large weight of evidence to support them. There have been published in Vienna some secret despatches of the Russian Ambassador in that city, and also some confidential despatches of the Ottoman envoy at the Austrian capital bearing on the subject. We are indebted to the Ary us for a summary of them. Their authenticity, our contemporary says, has never been impugned in Vienna, and only in the Russian papers was the correctness of some details mildly questioned. They refer to the time when the FrancoGerman war was raging, and when consequently the attention of Europe was occupied elsewhere. Russia’s agents were set to work, and money freely offered to set the Sclav, population in a blaze. But the Turkish Ambassador had his paid agents in the Russian embassy, and so he was in a position to represent the state of affairs to the Grand Vizier, and also to represent the critical state of affairs to the head of the Austrian Government. Count Beust, however, professed to be incredulous, but the Premier of Hungary, Count Andrassy, paid more attention. He was anxious, he said, to avoid war, but “ if war were forced upon them, it should be carried on to the utmost limit, and peace should not he concluded until a ratification of frontiers were obtained, not only in Asia, but chiefly in the Black Sea. All the territories inhabited by Mussulman populations near the Black Sea would have to he reconquered, and Poland to he restored as an independent country.” Not only was Russia attempting to raise a blaze in the Principalities, by means of secret agents, liberally supplied with Russian money, but she was also at work with the KhediA r e of Egypt, endeavouring to throw him into rebellion against his sovereign. The contents of the documents which prove the existence of such an organisation, are published at length. So great was the danger regarded at the time, that Count Andrassy was prepared then and there to go to war against Russian ambition. But if the general peace of Europe was endangered then, a general outbreak of war is more imminent now. Judging from the tenor of the news to hand by the last mail, Austrian participation in the conflict is not likely to be long avoided. Since then Servia has decided on taking the field. What effect this will have on the attitude of Austria a few days will no doubt reveal. That each nation is bent upon securing her own ends is evident. The Berlin correspondent of the Ary us, writing on July 3rd, says, from ' Marshal MacMahon having allowed himself to be ordered by the Pope to replace his Republican Ministers by a Monarchical Cabinet, it is apprehended that his political and religious proclivities -may soon combine with the necessities of his domestic position to advise war. No Monarchical Cabinet, he points out, “ can hope to govern Prance, “at this time of the day, unless supported by the priests, but the priests, as may be gathered from the Pope’s action in France and Rome, are bent upon turning the Oriental complication to account, to put down that Germany which caused Italy to rise into existence. For these reasons the French armaments have been watched with extreme suspicion in Berlin. * * ... AVere Austria to betray any intention to co-operate with France, Germany would probably think herself compelled to act without delay.” The cable telegrams published a few days ago, stating that the prosecution of Gamhetta had been decided on, and that complications were imminent, also point in the same direction. Should France and Germany meet once more in fierce struggle, the result of the war,- as far as Russia is concerned, may be very different from what she anticipated. It is now certain that, at the present time, Germany has given her consent to the Russian project, otherwise Russia would never have ventured to leave her flank exposed to Austrian attack. But a Avar between Germany and Erance Avould alter all this, and leave Austria tree to act.