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LONDON, MONDAY. PECEMBER 11

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orla is rapidly and steadily Cosseck•isirg
the civil government of 'Wu:la:bin and Moldavia.
The latest journals received fmar Bucharest contain
an official intimation that the Emrenon, having
accepted the " vohintary r.einnation " of the HMl-
podars of those provinces, has nominated General
Be imam: to discharge their functions, "with the
powers and attributions necessary to unite in his
hand, the. supet ior sdministration of the two Princi-
palities, and, in conjunction with the :oval Meant., to'
watch ores tlie progress of affairs, civil and judicial,
the welfare, of the population, and the wants of the
inertia: army." This is a fuel ire of the Russian
policy, a strategy on the Dar.ulte that has not been
soffieiently attended to. The Itass'an armies have
been acting strictly on the ceier•.s.ve. They have
recoiled before the Turks in Lesser Wallachia; 1
they have allowed Oxen PACT: t to cross and re-cross
the flroded Danube at his rknenre in face of their
superior fence; they arc not malc.ng (we believe
they cannot make) any very vigorous or rapid move-
ment to bring up reinforcements; foe, according to
the most recent accounts, OSTEN SACKEN cannot
reach Moldavia before the end of this month. Yet
the Russians give no indica. ions cf the remotest in-
tention to enacnate the Price:politic*. On the con-
trs-y, they are dealing with the civil administration
as if they were already the recogni-ed permanent
Sovereigns. First they forbade the remittance of
and tribute to the SULT 4N ; nest, :hey took into
their own hands the whsle revenues of the Provicces ;
then they accepted the "voluntary resignations'• of
the Heopodars ; after that they established an ad"
sainistmtive council ; and now they have sent
ad' fact• governor with supreme authority (under
the Cz.ue) in al: matters judicial and ndministrative.
These are not the acts of a foreign Gorernmect
holding military possemion of a territory, with a
view to coerce its sovereign into :Questions, but of
a Government that looks upon itstif as at home, an
absolute sovereign in perpetuity. And a number of
04. minor incidental acts and regulations of the Rus-
sian. in the Danubian Provinces et Turkey are evi-
dent:y calculated to strengthen them in this usurpa-
tion of sovereignty. For exampie. the proclamation
is•:•:ed some time ago ordering all "Turkish subjects"
to q..it the Principalities we. obviously intended to
accustom the Wallachisns ar.d Moldavian. to hear
themselves talked of m nee Turkish subjacts. Again,
the hints now thrown out that the most
&tine members of the n'tr:et ev party in
the Administrative Council of Wallachia are
to !re invitel to give in their reehmations, point
to the organisation of an administmt...e party faecal,
able to the perpetuation of the Rusitiar. senierainet,:.
In short, Russia is preparing to oppose a passive re-
',limner to every attempt to dislodge it from these
Principalities. It will not march out in compliance
with any requisition not hacked by a military force,
'incl. from Turkey or the European Powers. It
TT not attempt to push its coneuests further i.t
Tutkey (et present)—to mos. the Danube or assail
the Osmanli armies; but it wii: et leisure augment
its troops in the two Provinces to an amount that
may enable it to act on the defensive, and
keep its ground for a time. I: relies for assist
sere upon the unwillingness of Fecute and England
to task. the e _cameuceenent of what might become a

'rum' war, and upon the sebvervient agency of
Austria to re-engage these Powers in new elusory
negotiations as soon as the negotiations in
program for the time hc•:og are broken oft
By these arts Russia flAtttrg itself to be able
to hold the Principalities I.: :me for a few
years; calculating that within ;tat time events may
Like to distract the attention and dissipate the ener-
gies of the Western Powers. hozld this be the
Cil4! !tussle calculates on a pro:otgation of the term
for which it may continue its nominally interim
owipation and administration of the Provinces
long enough to enable it to Bussianise their
population, and put forth :Lis plea,— is addition
to that of prescription,—as an argument for
its lieng allowed to retain them permanently. If
tt..s strategy succeeds, we eh/ill in half-a-dozen
yes-4 heartheßusaian domination overWallachia and
Moldavia spoken of es • " state of possession which
Time has consecrated iu the &A:." Russia relies leas
upon its armies to assert its usurpations on the
Dan•ibe than upon these FALUN ;jail and diplomatic
ter tics.

The tone adopted within these few days by the I
Russian organs in the press is curiously corrobora-
bre of this view of Russian polity. The Timer, for
a long time so loud in its caikmnies of Turkey and I
its arguments to show thra Russia was irre-
oLitr)le, after the first news of the Turkish vie-
tor:es on the Danube, cowered before the strong
ant !Inaninious public feeling of elation, and
sif!'ec!ed to concur in tke kkivsrsal sympathy
ve't't Turkey. During the past we:A how-
i; has gradually veered mune to its old quarters,
and on Saturday last—just as the 'intelligence, upon
wl..ch we have been commenting, of the progress of
the itussian assumption of eovere.guty in Wallachia
and l'lolclovia came to hand—:: tikrly began to break
grout 1 for arguments in taac..a of allowing Russia
to retain the Principalities. S: Anr.ot bo denied,-
sai4 .he Times, "that, thou;t tae Porte has not sue-
needed in the attempt To expel the Russian army
from Warachia by force of Arms, the progress of the
Tut iish Generals in Asia nity acid oot a prospect of
some territorial compensation !or ark:: has been lost
in En:ope." No doubt Russia wou.sl gladly purchase I
Wallachia and Moldavia by emote in Georgia and
Armenia. Wallachisand Mordavir„ onzeoeded to It ussis
with the assent of Europe, woad be accessible from I
Odessa for supplies of men and storey, and would be
in the neighbourhood of coantries 'in which the re-
cognition of European in:trek:int:al law renders
petty forays almost impossible, and serious wars of
comparatively rare occurrence: while Georgia and
Armenia can only be reacked arose steppes and
thrw.git a difficult mountaino-a :ountry, and are
inhainted and surrounded cy restless predatory
hordes. NVallachia and Moidkvia are more valuable
an l less expensive possessions :non those for which
• iN contending in Central Asis, and are, be- I
aide, more favourably placeC fur enabling ltusaia to
overawe those civilised co-sk:sios in which the
liberalism it so skeane one; httes is constantiy
shirrno and springing again, however
often and ruthlessly it ruby be trodden ;
down. Besides, the dismeu.bentent of 11'ollachia
sad Moldavia would be a 1114CIL wore lethal blow to
the Ottoman Empire *ban die struck in the
• u.v.an'a'n re - e. of the Max., I
a: -' iphrotes. I :hertfore,
capacey of Russian advocate, hose not rent contented
with the broad hint it has tkrown out, that Turkey
may :4. compensated, Ir. CCIA.OrA :a Central Asia, fo:
Iticeeist to retain Wa lArl.ia and Moldavia.