THE EUROPEAN OUTLOOK

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1520, 1 April 1882, Page 3

THE EUROPEAN OUTLOOK

In an article upon the insurrection in Dalmatia and the Herzegovina, Dec Ncun Frcie Press (Vienna) of Jan. 17, says ;—; — It appears to us thatas yet there is no ground for those grave anxieties which a superficial comparison of the present distu bance with the Bosnian iusurrection of 1875 might easily insphe. It is true that " little bit of Herzegovina " then had, as a consequenc, the Turko-Servian War, the Kusso-Turkish Wax', and the nearer approach of all those European dangers which are bound up with the Question. Only, apart from the fact that it is by no means ascertained that the will of the three Emperors and especially the Austrian policy which had its eye fixed on Bosina, had not more to do with these events than the irrepressible longing for freedom on the part of the Balkan peoples and the weakness of the Porte, to whom even her victoi ies were fatal, it is impossible to overlook the great change in the European situation which has been caused by the peace of Berlin. Russia, who has always been the soul of all disturbances of the peace in the Balkan Peninsula, is, at this very moment very much inclined to take up the thread of that policy which cost such ton ents of blood at Plevna and in the bhipka Pass. Russia wil never give up thetraditions which her statesmen have followed for two centuries, and which are directed at the acquisition of the inheritance of Turkey for the Czar; but the interior crisis which Russia has to sustain at this moment, as well as the experience which she had after San Stefano, make it scarcely conceivable that she can consider that the time is ah'eady come to profit by the embarrassments of Austria in the Herzegovina for her policy in the East. England, whose tendency has been changed, especially since the fall of Beaconsfield and the victory of Gladstone ; England, who, notwithstanding her theoretical sympathy with the Christians of the Balkan Peninsula, strives to avoid any interference, and who is not free from difficult complications at Home, can wish as little for any disturbance of the peace of Europe. France has her eye on Tunis and Egypt ; Italy is seeking the friendship of Austria ; and Turkey, who, moreover, has been striving zealously after a rapprochement witli Austria and Germany, scarcely connts any longer as a European Power. The German Emperor also lately so emphatically assured us in the Speech from the Throne that no disturbance of the peace of Europe was to be feared, and so loudly repeated this a few days ago, that there is every probability that no European Power has an interest in seeing the upset in the East renewed.