The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-07 00:00:00

THE EASTERN QUESTION•

( From the Tmes. )
the alleged i intelligence i
determinationg enc e pu b l she
odf yes
thes te
rda ywith rfe fEeruelisci:
Emperor
insist on the immediate and unconditional accePtleilolf
the Porte of the terms demanded by Prince gens lice
reached us from Berlin in a form upon which we s
the utmost reliance, and it has naturally Pr°(111, hsd
greater degree of anxiety on this question than ‘lOlOOl
yet experienced. But, when interests of sueb cue, it
magnitude and universal importance are at st3to
of
would be dangerous to attach excessive weightss
single determination, even though it be that of a-" ibs
Autocrat ; for every day which has passed sill, St
30th of May, the date of our last advices 61, —holai
Petersburgh, must have reminded the Emperor As,
more forcibly of the position in which he stand°--.., sn
sailant of Turkey without a pretext of conce...„aiihovt
enemy of the public law and peace of Europe ""btirgt,
an abettor or an ally. The Court of St. Peter! •t
had greatly misjudged the temper and sPiritioes
the world if it supposed that such enterP be
could be achieved with impunity. There 131/00
other causes of disunion abroad, but in tool'
of acts of this nature there is a 7,tresle
duty and a common right, and we find with eat
satisfaction that there is a common resolution to uwl,o
them. We have already adverted to the Per!. loth
Austria has taken in her official communicationerY,
at Paris and in London, and it has even been Ate 01
we' know not with what authority—that the Pico
mediator had really devolved on her, in contil+lih 1111.
with the other Powers. We have also read ."'"vii;lo
qualified satisfaction the article in the Pays,
,4013
is attributed in Paris to the immediate in°",*p led
of the head of the French Government. It is ne-fels'
for us toexpress our assent to the opinions it 0,110(0
for they are precisely those we have uniformly cleie, tbe,
The writer insists in the most forcible manner 0
ti sU
essential condition of union and concert betweeptif
the Powers on the Eastern question, and rere•cl'ii.
each successive pretension to separate ?•_,.n"
sive influence, from the intrigues of M. 1111,%019,
Count Walewski in Egypt in 1840 to the _flue 0"
of Prince Menschikoff in 1853. We gr. 'I
inquire with too much nicety whether 1""404
structions to M. De Lavalette last Yeer
conceived in the same spirit ; but the assuranoeoit
these are now the opinions of the French GOO"
is calculated, as far as it can be relied on, to strt
the harmony of 'all the Western Powers, and
effect to those general principles which are the ora
basis of peace. ritY
This consideration, far more than what is terrneu s'/
integrity and independence of Turkey," dese'to°
weigh with us in discussing the course of polioi 01(
pursued on this question ; for we have ceased tolitopite
stand what is meant by the " integrity " of an ed.,:
which has already seen half-a-dozen kingdoms eri„„"'
cipalities severed from it, or by the " indepeedenv-
of a State which only exists on foreign protecti°llLosti,
the indefinite prolongation of a 3fahomedan
and of Turkish government over a European nt'i,"l,.lo
wholly distinct from the more extended objects yfrviell'
becomes an enlightened statesman to have opso'
Very few years have elapsed since the Christian P 19,,t
tion of Turkey was released from a state of th:ensti‘",
abject depression. The work of their eman,elitoil'
has been the result chiefly of the present Zoso'
reign, though it was begun by his father, ge`i•ae
Since then no people has ever advanced more rePlo,
education, in industry, in wealth, and in all that e
tute the elements of society and of political poWer4o:
inhabitants of the kingdom of Greece proper, alt"'
independent Government, such as it is, have 331,1"„4";
nitely less progress in the last 15 years than the (P,;,•ch
subjects of the Porte • and, while everything I°,lol- 'Oll
strictly Turkish in the Ottoman empire in EuroPe'''.fsce'
symptonms of rapid and steady decline, the Christian Jet.
are rising like the undergrowth of a decaying fbre°",
tined, we trust, ere long, to emerge from the ocr
which has for ages overwhelmed them. Upon til,,gete?,,
Russia has attempted to impose her protection P-to
not more fatal to the sovereignty of Turkey the°,
future independence of the Greeks and Slavonien'ti codr
they belong not to Russia either by the polity
stitution of their churches, or by their P°
institutions, or by their commercial intereett ttie6,
has vainly sought to identify them on 3- trvi,i;
points with her creed, her empire, and herd Already the vision of a more auspicious e 1,50,
pendent destiny excites their hopes and encourfSict,he
exertions, and whenever the time may come at ,1000„1.r1
Christian State shall once more rise to empire tavda
throne of Byzantium, it may be hoped that theA'not,,o
planted there will be that of a free people, eli,7,opotfa
symbol of northern conquest and a second ""oeljelel e
scarcely less barbarous than that which is 0°11.„,
before the influence of humanity and civiliseaw:fleo4o
Turkish Government, to do it justice, 01014, ol
that the maintenance and extension of the itoterld
Christian subjects are its paramount duty 01111,0 ir
and in the very last dispatch, addressed by 09
Pasha to Prince Menschikoff, the declarau°,7oooroo
newed that "the Porte owes it to its own Sink(
cause the religious privileges granted by fornrbe es're•
to be •respected for ever." If any doubt coulutaa be
tamed on the subject, such a- declaration We ge<l totila
peated in the most binding form, and oddresnt ott
the powers of Europe. But Russia is so inte"
the •
' establishment of her own exclusive protectoralte 10040
insists on reducing this general, public, 3n". trACtLI4
vertible pledge of toleration to a narrow On, be
herself. The Christians of Turkey would n°"„tiet
protected, but they would be more closely ll' •
sian sway. , niieitiott
That is an object, to say nothing of the alirtenee
which this scheme was begun and the litdepeli,Al)
' which it seems likely to end—to which n° "iverle„,-(19.
State of Europe can patiently submit, for it ,;001. To'
annexation of territory, an extinction of nsorcn'o.
pendence, an interruption of important coin hilt tV
' lotions, and a startling violation of the Pilspeal;4l
Europe. The writer, who is supposed tf.ed to ',est
opinions of the French Government,
that, if these wrongs are done, France anclutsol t
ruler are at least guiltless of the offence. ,000400:
having placed herself in the strongest „cii OOP
the late convulsive changes of the Fre'uiDefl ept
has suddenly reversed the scene, and rot t° Leo°
part which she would have been the while 130
if Louis Napoleon had adopted it ; tal°ooo4,
Napoleon declares that "he is readY. to IX
place in the great European coalitl,)iiity of
_.,;04
the integrity of an empire and the inviolar;d4 OP-to
to be respected." We had remarked yeste volt 010
before these lines had reached us, that_ and,
everything to gain by such a combinatio!tos, itnc)
enters into it in the spirit of those declaraftloo 'tiot!
be illiberal and impolitic to reject the oPer!otissias ere'
rof -Ly gel/ e•
a power. We ask no more of her, o
is
to 4
is entititer
pre,
that deference for the public engagenle.% these tett
interests of Europe which no State ear,n in is ;thud
glect with impunity ; but that much Du_sred to
to require ; and we confess we are l!rnm,rood ferefo?.;
Emperor Nicholasl receive a lesson re iteets of
re,nce,
moderation from a Bonaparte, while the i.ts 0314
th
tienary France are sent to protect the rig;e'rouclo
of other nations against the oppressiv:
,tlO choP`
Sovereign who has long claimed to b t'
legal authority and conservative power.

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CITY MlLlTlA,—Notices have been issued ca 4. f4oP,,
all the
tomen attached to the militia for the City4' fiu,
don
assemble at the City Artillery-grourto col All;
bury,m on Friday, the 17th inst., at ten O'CIOC ,
_4Ol tA
ence a2B days' drill. Any men connected, "tree
corps being absent without lawful excuse will eu
! deserters. • 0 that 1;0
Romiii
.—The letters from Rouen mentie ,o9co
market for manufactures was heavy, and that sa'
;, tb!
not be
effected except at a decline. ,- iinwiug .-,,i p
LORD MLDLETON'S ESTATEEL—The that
hew 1,
result of the sales of Lord Midleton's estates,_ Oar
Cork, by Mr. Clark, of the firm of Farebrother., firoi
and Lye, of London, on May 31 and June 1•005
day's annum' ..nP
sale—Net rental of 1,441/. per anu Se,- .1
29,665/., or 201 years' purchase, on averagit, tolisr;
day's sale—Net rental of 4,173/. 18s. per annnifaioigo,
114 tlP°_°,
92,1751., or 22 years' purchase, on average. vallyi_i,
total realised on both days of 121,840/. The ,iic piv,
the two latter being on long
dock town lands realised 30/ years' purchase i I.reioi9e;
lintubber, 29 ; and the Ballinaruine :33 years:y's, II?,
Dunbollog estate was withdravvn, no par* "to,o se°
extent, making an offer for it. Out of 44 lot,_
farms and two head rents were alone bought inni- 4
leases for young tviog to,r,
t IRON MANUFACTURE ON VIE TEs.----°e_ii,vartle.„e
at Eston 4 at Middlesbrough 3,
ure of iron on the banks of the Tees goes .
to b w'ritt,
creasingly, and in a rapid ratio. New forl”es,bas l'%t
erected at various places Belcher° and N 31.1,, ids "J.
dlesbrough 3
Eston 'Gilkes,d
buildingnreb At,),1;1
4. Wilson, and Co.. to P-
-4Brothrs ar b' • t Stunphiro Du (;elitl4,
Staffordshire firm
site Middlesbrou . e lidding ao.
20 .11 grteri
M.P., cha• gh, 2 makint, 1 u,.,.,,th Iv. tbo
innan of the London awl -0P- 5t in ~o
Railway Company, . • iio
;and Cochrane' and Co. are aboutts, ore.
is said to have an inter_d it 0 i,o,
averred that when all their k ein ft'.
WOr sar 01/0146
they will
eulPloY 4,Q00 men,atoshed
of Cochrane and Co. ; Oil opera.