THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1880.
"Expebihnce teaches," a trite proverb of our ancestors, apparently does not apply to the Sultan of Turkey—a potentate who from the clemency hitherto shown him by the Great Powers, may well be called the spoilt chijd of Europe* The Ottoman Empire, and the difficulties attached to the governing of its extensive dominion, has puzzled the brains and. exhausted the patience, of the greatest statesmen of Europe for the last thirty years, but the period of the proverbial "last straw" has arrived. Britain,. France, Russia, and other nations have expended millions of treasure, and thousands of lives have been sacrificed in unavailing endeavors to instruct Turkey in her duty to herself and her neighbors, j but neither menace or coercion can effect the reforms so necessany to the maintenance of the much-talkod of and much* written about balance Of power; and probably the only soluti on of the difficulty will be the wiping off of the Tartaric Kingdom from the list- of nations in Europe. From a despatch^ published yesterday, it would appear titta t France, who has frequently taken the ix titative in Oriental matters,has addressed t .threatto the Sultan to the effect that in tht < event of his resistance of the decisions of the Berlin Conference—which, made ■ such a point of the necessity of reft >rms in Turkey—he will probably share the fate of his vassal the Khedive of Egypt. No more effective menace could harve been sent to the Sultan than this—it shows him that the patience of the Great Powers is exhausted, that the time for vacillation is past, that what happened to his Suezerin may happen to himself, and f he easy extinguishment of the headstror jg and extravagant Khedive cannot be otherwise than fresh on his memory. »The indifference of the Egyptian monap oh to the threats and entreaties of Franc* and England is only paralleled by the present conduct of the Sultan: the samr« doctrine, that urged the one to continue in his self-elected course seems to drive the other to an equally unfortunate end. But, His Highness the Sultaa appears blind to this and endeavours to obliterate from his mental vision his probable fate by plunging into the, whirl of Oriental pleasures. If the S'dltan has to go—and every indication points to that contingency—it is not improbable that the partition of the Turkish Empire will follow, and the degenerate sons of Mahmoud, once the terror of Europe, will have to succumb to their Sclavic foes, whom for so many generations they have ruled with a rod of iron.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3614, 27 July 1880, Page 2
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439THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1880. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3614, 27 July 1880, Page 2
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