The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-26 00:00:00

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

VIZ ItIVOLUTION II

The Daily News thinks the telegrams of to-day
from the Principalities 'apply a sraident explanation of
the siltation which it has been is the habit of bestowing
spoor the political affairs of the Roumanians. At first
sight this military coup d'Ytat appears like au act of poetical ,
justice, visit.ng one who by his army had changed the mu-
atitution of the state, but it must be remembered 1
that the selfish and obstractive resistance of the
leaders of the &est vratio party to popular Inc,
sures of social reform wrs pie- ded by the Priam in 1.4 v
Public apologies. It is rather, however, in its foreign
aspects, and in the contingencies that may grow out of it, ,
that this nocturnal military revolution at Bucharest solicits
the considerstioa of English readers. Already we bear of a
great and general movement of the Madan army towards
the Bessarabian frostier—a movement which twelve yesrs
ago might have caused us alarm, but which, now that we are
all persuaded of one another's perfectly peaceful disposi.
Hoes, everybody must understand is only ocessioned by a
sort of traditional instinct.
The Times and the Poet state that the Count de Flanders
has refused the position of Hospodar, tendered to him by
the Danubian principalities. The Post reminds its readers
that the Eastern question was always considered by Lord
Palmerston to be the special trouble and danger of modern
polities, and can hardly picture to itself anything more
uncomfortable then the state of mied of Lord Ciarendoe
and Y. Dronyn de Lhuys on perusing the telegrams which
it brings before the public. Either statesman has given his
best mug/ to the solution of this vexed questroe
and through argument, doubt, conoession, and final
determination. imagined he had found it. Yet,
here is all the work to be done over again. Russian
bayonets ate already gleaming along the Prude, and their
engineers are preparing their pontoons ; but by the treaty
of 1856 the position of the Best of Europe is balsa full acd
joint oopisstios of by the great powers; and we canard
suppose that Russia wi't attempt any movement without
the consent of the other powers signatarirs of that treaty.
The Principalities are now part of Turkey, in the sense
that any attempt to sonar them on the part of another
Power would be an attempt on the integrity sod ',depend-
saes of Turkey.
The Herald ooesidets the Russian army of which we
bear so much to be merely that old army of observation
which Russia his always been keeping in Bessarabia, and
which no doubt hes been more or lees placed in some fit-
seen for military operations in view of any demoor..tic ex-
cesses in Bucharest inviting a military iaterventioo. As to
the disguised emissaries who are deferib-i as contempora-
neomly travelling through Bemis sad the Hemegovine, to
smite insurrection against the Turkish authorities, they
only offer us the =Duel doll from these regions.
Bo posies away, exii•iras the Star, one of the creations of
the Congress of Paris sad the Crimean war. As to the offer
to the Count of Flanders, if he has say of his father's
wisdom, he will decline it.