SUSPENSE.

Kumara Times, Issue 564, 18 July 1878, Page 2

SUSPENSE.

[Vanity I'air, for ApriL] With Russia put back to her proper* limirs and the tranquility of Tut key, Persia, and Central Asia thus secured, a moat vast and profitable market would be at once opened for English, iiianut'iottirers. It is not even possible to ciloui.tie the exc«ut of it—"suffice it to say that thu question is absolutely vital to Lancashire, Yorkshire, and. other producing counties. On the other h mil, if Russia is not put back, she will imposK her. prohibitive tariff throughout' Turkey, Peiaia, and Ceu'

tral Asia* No English in-mutV.etu'Ws can be introduced. Then. Russia, by . gaining the provinces of the Dannie, , will have the monopoly of the Einnpean grain trade ; and to pay for our grain supplies a permanent diain of gold will be established in England at j the very moment that the Eastern ; markets are closed to our exports. As \ a mere question of insurance, any i amount of millions We expend now to put back Russia will'be money well laid out. But there is another point to be considered. If we allow Turkey ; to pass into the hands of Russia, from being one of the poorest we make the latter one of the richest countries in the world, able whenever she chooses to use these viches against the British possessions in India. If we put her back and keep her back, we gain the most vast fi-Id for' employment of British capital that has ever been offered "to us. Turkey is one mine of latent wealth. Her vast undeveloped stores of coal, lead, iron, copper, and other minerals ; her enormous forests of valuable timber •and of dye woods 5 her immense area of rich fertile and cultivable land, offer the finest and best field in the whole world Ifor the employment of British trade and British capital. It is not a question of returns of ten or twelve, but of twenty-five and fifty per cent.; -and this We have offered tp us if We put back Russia. We have offered to us, as well as the alliance of a purely military nation, twelve millions of the best war material in the world to defend us and keep us secure in our Eastern Empire, aDd to keep that Empire itself internally safe for us. The nation may rest assured that its only safe, aye, and its only economical •course now is to force Russia to retire, as we ought to have forced her long =ago, and that money spent in effecting this will be well laid out. She must be put back, and it is most unlikely that she 'can be put back save by force of arms.