Morning herald., 1839-09-07

the foreign brought BY one steamship before the
next one in succession arrives may not therefore,
be unineresng 10 retra0e the position OF things as
we heard them at last arrival, with view to the
better understanding the tenor of the foreign
that we shall receive by the Great Western today
tonorrow, perhaps.
The state Of affairs in the East, will Of course
Py the most prominent attention. The position of
thngs amongst the great nations of Asia and the East
world, far interesting at the present
period of tme than they have been for the last 1000
years. Asia, the and site Of magnificent
empires, stupendous movements, destructive fights,
and terrible changes, seems likely to witness repe
ttion Of the stirring events that sccurea there be-
fore the birth Of Christ II formerly the great
battle ground Of the most monarchs of the
world, who successively governed and ruled its
fairest portion First had Sesostris with his great
movements, extending the dominion Of the Egyptian
empire, and rendering his opponents tributary to
him. Then the great Baby ylonian, Assyrian
and Persian movements or empires, at the head of
which we find Nebuchadnezzer, Semiramis, Darius,
c;then came the great Macedonian movement led on
by Alexander wko (like Aaron's rod) swallowed up
and all other empires, and wept because
there were kings to conquer. AT some pc
riod long antecedent TO this, there was doubtless
powerful empire in Hindoostan and along the wide
of the Persian empire, and the great movements in
Tartary and its dependencies, by Tamerane. Again,
we had the magnificent movement Of Mahomet, and
the founding of the great Arabian empire. Finally
came the powerful and sweeping movements of the
great Turkish empire, which for time held sole
control over Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, Syria,
and Egypt, and seemed for time to control the des-
tinies of Persia, Arabia, Circassia and Tartary.-
And now this last is oterng to its centre, and
bling to pieces, TO be rs-modcled by some
ment, devised by the great civilized powers of Eu-
rope.
The fact is that Asia, and the once great Empires
of the East, now merely so many puppets, that
precisely the great political powers Of Eu-
rope pull the strings. Europe has created system Of
civilization that unknown to the great nations Of
antiquity; and it is the influence, introduction and
effects of this civilization that at present aytates the
whole Of Asia. Even China, begirt she is with |
every possible precaution and powerful and despotc
arrangement, is not free from the effects of this
element of warfare employed by the civilized ma
tions Of Europe In Short the position and duration
of the great Eastern and Asatic Empires depend
this moment, upon the policy adopted by the
varioss European Cabinets towards each other than
upon any other circumstances, combination of cir.
cumstances. All the Asiatic powers arc in fact at
the present time neither nor less than the nine
pins of the nations Of Europe. One European po-
tentate picks out tribe Of people for his set Of
nine pins, and two choice tracts OF country
his select skitte ground; and other potentates or
cabinets select different nation and diferent tract
Of country for their nine pins or skittle ground
Russia selects the neighborhood Of the Caucasusian
Mountains and Crcassia his skittlc ground, sets
up his pins and begins TO speculate upon the chances
Of the game. Soon afterwards, along comes the
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down the nine pins and clear out to distance, se-
ect their skittle ground and set up their pins near
Herat, or Teheran, or other place. and wait the
chances OF the game far it concerns their ulti-
mate views. So with France; so with all the great
civilized powers Of Europe, in greater or less de-
gree, either directly indirectly.
The Europeans also bring new element into the
warfare in the shape Of steam navigation, rail roads,
steam transit Of all kinds, and the Improvements OF
sciences before these the semi barbarans OF Asia fall
back, and subdued almost at the will and pleasure
Of the innovaters In a short time, the Nile, the
Euphrates, the Tgris, the Ganges, ard the great |
rivers Of Asia will be thckly covered with steam
boats as the Mississippi river is at this day. Rail
roads are already stretching their powerful arms
along the sandy plains Of Egypt, Arabia Syria Per-
sia SC; and in a very few years passage through
the desert following the track Of the children OF
Israel, viii be accomplished win ease, many
days as Moses consumed years in the journey. At
any rate the Empires Of the East are breaking up;
Hndoostan has literally fallen TO pieces under the
civizng (D power Of England; Persia is reduced
TO a tributary; the Tartars and Caucassans are
giving way, before the arms Of the Russian empires
Egypt is entirely dependant the favor and support
Of France and England; and the Turkish Empire is
literally dislecsted, and broken to fragments. An
entering wedge has also been placed by France
amongst the powerful Moors Of Africa, in the North
England has hers the other three sides the Cape
the Red Sea- the Liberian settlements, Sierra Lesne
and Guipea and nothing but disease and climate can
save Africa from falling in the train Of the conqueror
a. Asia has done. This at least is certain that II
we are to have mighty again upon earth, the
great battle field will be ASIA and the great Of
victims inundated on the shrine Of this new glory,
will be the Perssrs, Hindoos, Tartars, Turks, and
finally the Egyptians Russia wants and will have
Tartary as a check to British India, and stepping
stone TO cross the wall of China. France wants
Egypt and Persia; England sdeterminedt that Russia
shall not have Turkey, but has made up her own
mind 10 take possession of the Isthmus Of Ssez the
great highway Of nations, and to keep that and pos
sibly Egypt itself; and England France Russia and
Austria WILL therefore probably fight for division of
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