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POLITICS OF EUROPE.

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POLITICS OF EUROPE,
In an elaborate article in the July number Of
the North American Review, we find the follow.
ing remarks
4" 1t is not unlikely that war has actually
commenced. When, how, where it will
end, whether it viii prove a passing COM
motion, like those which have Disturbed the
south OF Europe since the fall of Bonaparte
or whether 1t Will turn out one of those tre-
mendous hurricanes which from time to
time conVulse the European system for
twenty or thirty years together, are ques-
tons which time and the hour alone can
solve. That the Turkish empire, wholly
incapable of contending successfully with
either OF the great powers now leagued
against 1t, must give way before the union
OF them all, Is a matter of course and the
results of the struggle viii therefore depend
almost wholly upon the form which policy
or accident may give to the relations be-
tween these powers. From the jealousy
entertained by England and France of the
progress of Russia, it will doubtless be
their effort to limit the duration and theatre
OF the war, and to secure the original OBJ
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mutton as possible of the power of Turkey.
On this suppostlon, the war will be speedi-
~ terminated, and the principal direct re-
suit will be the emancipation of Greece, a
contamination highly agreeable in itself to
the civilized world at large, but somewhat
ominous in the view of the western powers
OF Europe, as contributing both directly
and Indirectly lin the manner explained
above) to the augmentation of the influence
OF Russia. A larger, more generous, and
! perhaps IN the end, not less safe and Judi
clous policy would be, to take advantage of
the present favorable crisis for the purpose
OF overthrowing entirely the Ottoman en-
pire, and restoring to civilization and chris
tianlty, the fine regions that have so long
withered under its blasting sway. By
concert Of action among the great powers
the object might of course be effected at
once; and the princely spols that victory
would throw into the hands of the alliance
would furnish, one would think, means of
satisfying the pretentions of all, with little.
or no risk of internal dissentlon. Greece
with all her islands, the continental prorin-
| ces of Turkey ia Europe, Asia Minor, Syria
and Palestine, all Arabia, Egypt, Barbary
and Morocco, territories as fertile as any in
the world, as finely situated for the pursuits
Of every species of industry, would be at
the disposal Of christian Europe. They
might be distributed as provinces among
the allies, or erected into independent ma
tions, as might best comport with the gen.
eral good but they would become equally,
in either case, abodes Of knowledge, wealth
and happiness, instead of being, as they
now are, the eternal haunts Of pestilence,
poverty and wretchedness. What sublime
prospects of extended population and i'm
provement would open on the ancient world,
could the Mediterranean sea be again, as
formerly, encircled by line Of flourishing
christian states. This magnificent basin,
which forms as it were the heart of the vast
body, composed by the three ancient CONT
nents, would in that case send forth rivers
of strength and prosperity in all directions,
and would resuscitate, as if from their sep
ulchres, the industry tine arts, the population,
the wealth and the liberty, that once adorn-
I ed these delightful climates. The valley
of the Nile would again boast its thousand
cities; aIbary would display as of old her
three hundred Universities Palestine would
flow once more with milk and honey; the
sacred standard of the true religion would
take the place of the miscalled SGadiar
Skerlf on the towers of, st. Sophia, and a
new spring would revive the dead groves
of the Academy. Even the christian ma
tons of southern Europe, which now stag
, nate in u sort Of hopeless decrepitude, under
the influence of vicious Institutions, ,relig-
ious and POLITICAL would feel the effect Of
this change in restoration of their indus
try and commerce, and under this genial
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perlty and glory. The remoter regions OF
southern Africa, on the one hand, and OF
Arabia and Persia, on the other, would
gradually quicken into moral lite, and be
brought in time within the pale of the civil
lied world. Such are the prospects that
!, would open upon christendom in the event
OF vigorous and concerted action of all
! the great powers against the Turkish en-
pire. But we do not, as we have already
said, expect that they will now be realized.
The not unfounded caution of Great Britain
and the noble moderation of Russia, will
| combine to limit the theatre of the war and
its results, within the smallest possible
space. Let us then be content, for the
present, with the emancipation of Greece
E an event which seems to be now beyond
the reach of accident, and which twenty
; years ago we should hardly have thought
within the compass Of possibility. This, If
!, not the most important, is doubtless the
most surprising and agreeable of the vari-
GUS revolutions of our eventful age. The
affections of the generous and the good
have always attached themselves with a
sort of melancholy interest to the soil of
this celebrated. country, and they are ready
, to welcome the restoration Of it's inhabit-
ants, to national existence, as they would
!. the return of lost friend from the grave.
, In the present altered state of the world,
we cannot anticipate complete revival of
the taste and genius of ancient Greece,