THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3648, 4 September 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1880.

The combined fleets of the Great Powers hare sailed for the Eagusa, so our cablegrams inform us. This course has been found necessary, owing to the delay of the Turkish authorities in carrying out the decisions of the Berlin Conference. The Sultan and his advisers will see from this demonstration that England is in earnest in this matter, and that no longer will evasive answers and demands for time save the Turkish Empire from a loss of territory. Of course it may be easily understood that the cession of a part of their possession is very distasteful to the subjects of His Highness. It is no enviable position fora sovereign to be placed in—with the demands of the Great Powers on one hand, and the angry demonstrations of his people on the other, and a difficult one to decide which course to follow. That more will arise out of this first attempt of the Powers to alter the map of Europe, than the simple cession of a piece of territory to two growing Stales, is the opinion of all persons who have given attention to the affairs of Eastern Europe. Turkey no doubt sees that if she quietly submits to the present arrangement that it may only be the beginning of a number of arrangements, upon claims being preferred by her more ambitious neighbors ; and the precedent once established that a Conference of States has the right to aportion the territory of another may yet lead to untold misfortunes for her. The HomeNews.discuasing the question—Will Turkey yield ? says :—•" If Turkey resists the claims of Greece —sanctioned as these claims are by the-'voice of Europe—what will England do P If England, with or without France or any other European Power, engages in a military demonstra. tion hostile to the Porte, what will be the sequel in the Balkan Peninsula? The agitation cannot be confined to Greece. There is a strong movement.now going forward for tbe union of Bulgaria and Eastern Koumelia into a single province. This movement has, of course, the warm sup* port of Russia, and is acceptable neither to Austria nor Germany. If there is one thing certain, it is this—that in the event of any Pan-Slavonic barrier, such as a united Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia would be, being erected to block the path of Germany and Austria to the shores of the iEgean and the Black Sea—Austria, at least, would be absolutely driven to attempt to hew for herself a way thither by the sword."