THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3663, 22 September 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1880.

The unsatisfactory state of the Ottoman Empire has for years past puzzled the brains and exhausted the patience of the first statesmen of Europe, and though many hands hare during the past quarter of a century been endeavoring to tinker up the rottenness and obliquities of the Sultanate, and so preserve " the balance fit power," its condition seems to become more hopelessly involved than ever —the finger of fate seems to have written in iudelible characters that Mahometan rule in ■ Europe must for ever cease. The Treaty of Berlin was looked upon as the balm of Gilead that was to heal the ills of Europe, but even that important

undertaking, on which dopended tho fate of nations, appears to have been somewhat

lonely put together, the provisions res- j pecting^tte^reftfttions between Turkey and Greece beiDg dealt with but vaguely, j While dealing comprehensively and effectively with the Bosnian and Servian questions, Greece appears to have been ignored in a measure by the Berlin Conference, and hence the present phase of the Eastern Question, which has assumed such alarming proportions that a naval demonstration against Turkey has been considered necessary. Greece demands a share of her ancient territory, and the Turks incite the Principality of Albania to resist her demands, indeed, according to no less an authority than the Constantinople correspondent of the Times, the Sultan is assisting the Al banians with warlike stores to resist the demands of the Hellenic Government. Greece is determined to have what she justly considers her rights, and the unfortunate Sultan, threatened by the Great Powers, and urged by the fanatical party of Turkey to resist the interference of outsiders in Turkish affairs, is at his wits' end. The Turkish authorities appear to think that the Powers will not proceed to extremities—indeed, that they are incapable to acting in concert on any important occasion tending to the solution of the Eastern question. Like lotus eaters they cannot see the inevitable result of their resistanoe of occidental Europe, and if we read the signs of the times aright the day is not far distant when the blow will be delivered that will cause the Ottoman Empire to crumble to pieces.