The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

EASTERN WAR.

The Times contains an important leading article.
It examines some of the effects of the important
l'ents in the East on the political relations of
liirope, and especially considers them in connec-
tion with the policy, the interest, and the duties of
this country and our allies. '
The attempts to patch up the quarrel before
hostilities commenced having failed, the struggle
eau now only_be terminated by the adoption of
l'egular preliminaries, and the ultimate conclusion

of a treaty of peace.
All the past and future relations of Turkey and
Russia are thrown open to controversy ;,all exist-
ing treaties are annulled, and it depends entirely
upon the final result of this war, and the attitude
assumed on these questions, in what form and to
what extent these speculations are ever renewed.
of Turkey is enabled to treat for peace on equal or
superior terms, • she will then have shaken off a
series of conditions intending to place her in hu-
miliating subjection to Russian influence.
If Russia succeeds in crushing the forces of the
Ottoman Empire, it cannot be doubted that she
would exact the revival of all her former treaties, but
impose terms still more onerous on the Ottoman
Empire and fatal to the independence of the East.
To such a result it is needless to say that Great
Britain, France, and the German Powers cannot
in honor or policy submit, and that if Turkey
were reduced to the condition she was in when the
treaties of Bucharest and Adrianople were signed,
we should be bound by every consideration and at
all hazards to oppose the enlarged preparations of
the Court of St. Petersburg.
Russia has therefore ,no choice but in the man-
ner in which she may abandon these pretensions.
If she actually undergoes a defeat by the Turks,
she loses the results of a century of ambition and
intrigue, and if she triumphs over the Turkish
forces, she must prepare to encounter behind those
forces two at least of the greatest nations of the world,
who have indeed great and wise reluctance to
take up arms, but who will most assuredly never lay
them down, if war be once begun, until they have
chastised the enemy of the peace of Europe, and
dictated the terms of an honorable settlement;
such is, in either alternative, the result to which
the Russian Government and other States of
Europe must now be prepared to look, whatever
the result of the hostilities now going on. A
moment may shortly occur between the termination
of the campaign and the ulterior operations of the
war, and the use made of that moment by Europe
will probably be decisive as to the possibility of
extinguishing this conflagration. If the Emperor
of Russia persists in this wild and wicked
course, he has nothing before him but war
on the frontier of the dominions, and if he
provokes continuance, his country will not come
out of this contest without an injury to her
political influence, a consideration even more fatal
than the destruction of their fleets and the waste
of her resources. If the German Powers join
England ynd France with heart and hand, it is
impossible to doubt that Europe has the power
to enforce her will. Operations in the Provinces
will be interrupted by the season, or by the
attainment of some definite result of the
campaigne, are the meditating powers unpre
pared to impose terms of accommodation. If
England and France are driven to employ their
forces in the Dardanelles, that resolution will m
terially affect the issue of the war, but the Times
cannot flatter itself that it will at once terminate
the contest. Russia relies on the neutrality of the
Servian powers, and hopes, ere long,to enjoy them
altogether, in opposition to the Western powers.
Peace can be peremptorily imposed on Russia, and
Turkey but with the co-operation of Germany, and
if war do ensue the Courts of Vienna and Berlin
next to that of St. Petersburg will stand responsi-
ble for it to posterity, if they neglect to perform
their part in repelling this aggression.

Printed and Published by CHARLES WILLMER, of 21
Oxfo •d
-street, at his General Printing and Stationery
Establishment, 19, South John-street, Liverpool.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11', 1863.