The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-11 00:00:00

sesirs,-nansed by the Porte without consult-
leg a side Ambassador. England and France, as
wall es Austria, yore taken by eurpries on horning
the nomination. The circumstance is seamier far
Hie anglish end the Austrians red to insult co
Itsiglai the sondestios of Hoepodars is the hands
of the Ports, Ranee= PAOLA Myhre promised
that they should always be consulted. Yet, at the
first opportunity, they are not consulted at all, the
Porte noesiaating a Fanariot. Woman= he. made
a ministry oosagesed of ultra-Angrier' and ultra-Ras-
elan elements. And, al muse, he has prohibited every
journal, and prima puoirrely as COBOXERI Or 0011T-
mum', would desire. The attempt to govern in this
manner without troops is dangerous. The liberal
Bayard% with their peasantry, will defy the Go-
vernment in the elution,. And the only resource
of Worming's will be to create & disturbance, in
order to find a pretext to all in the Austrians or
the Turks.
the Porte was well advised, it would seek to
retain its bold over the Principalities by concilia-
ting than. The Moldo-Wallechs do not seek or
desire to throw off Turkish suzerainty, provided the
Turks measure that sanerainty by the treaties and
espitulations which their greatest Sultans thought
it wise, politic, and just to enter into with the
Rottman people.
If the Turks will tear these treaties, will enact
the part of immediate sovereigns and retain all
power in the Principalities, each es they have
wielded them lest months, then they will certainly
have the Moldo-Wallschs for enemies, and will find
them to be what the Lombards are to the Austrians,
easel arbor .frovisositi. But Austria has a disciplined
and numerous army, with no great and hostile
power an her Italian frontier, reedy to take advan-
tage al her tyranny end her faults. If Turkey will
not sondseenrd to conciliate the Reassure, and
rant them at boot the same privileges which she
has granted to /Jervis, there is not a single Ream
of the five millions who will not become Russian in
heart and in hope. And should this be asess-
plished, and engrained into the sentiments of the
Moldo-Wallacba, we fear much for the consequenem.
Some writers argue, that the more independent
the Turks make the Roumans, the more Remise they
will become. History belies the assertion. As long
as the suzerain Turks respected the geosi-inde-
pendence of the Roumans, so long did the Rumens
successfully resist Pole, and Austrian, and Russian.
It was only when Turkey oppressed, and disarmed,
and reduced the Rumens to nullity, that Russia
began to encroach and at last pushed her mastery to
the Danube.

This was the result, not of Turkey's granting mere
independence to the Moldo-Wallachs, but the posi-
tive catesquence of her not respecting that degree
of independence which was their traditional, and
diplomatic, and historic right.
It is argued, that the Moldo-Wallachs resemble
the Tartars of tho Crimea, and that when the Porte
consented to the independence of those Tartan and
their Princes, Russia swallowed them up. There is
not the lent similitude in the two eases. The Crimean
Tartan were Mahommedans, who looked to the
SULTAN as the chief of their religion and the lord of
their race. For the SULTAN to have abandoned
them was impolicy and weakness. The Crimean
Tartan bad not a population of more than a quarter
of a million. They could only resist Russia by the
aid of Ottoman armies sent by sea. Ramie was at
their doors with an overwhelming force, end Turkey
was too far, too disorganised, and too weak to
defend them.

Moldavia is just as far, and the Porte just as un-
able to defend Jassy, us it was to defend Caffa. And
when the Moldo-Walachs were left solely de-
pendent upon Turkish military support, Russia
conquered them ; and Russia would do so again to-
morrow if Moldo-Wallachia be flung back to the
status quo of the last century. But the Moldo-Wal-
lochs are not, like the Crimean Tartars, a mere
quarter of a million. They are five millions of men,
Christians too, not Mahommedans, with a national
pride and a history full of military glory. The
Moldo-Wallachs arc strong enough to defend them-
selves against Russia, and all they require from
Turkey and from Europe is timely support, with
liberty to enjoy their ancient privileges, and provide
for their own defence.

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