The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-19
THE REPUBLIC.
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CammerCial ProsneCts In EuxnDo.

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Cemmercial Prospects In En4opo.
Whsshsr ths Russian Czaf proceeds to the hast
extrsmity in his present hostile demoustxations
against Sns Ottoman empire and this Western Eu-
ropsan Powers, or stops short Of war Of conquest
and annexation, one effect Of his movements is
certain-namely, serious disturbance of some of
the most important operations Of trade in Europe
The Danubian principalities are to be occupied by
Russian armiea- Even on the superstition that
open war will not follow suppostion wholly
unreason able, In our judgment-this military oc-
cuPation viii bo seriously felt in the trading ope-
ratons Of the Levant. The British merchant IN
particular has great interests in peril. Moioavia
and Wallachia arc exclusively devoted to the cul-
tvation of the great staple Of the country-wheat.
They manufacture nothing, but their purchasing
power derived from their abundant harvests, IL
immense Hence these countries, under their
present government, have n value, out Of all pro-
portion to their extent, to the busy and swarniing
masses of Western Europe. From the Pruth to
the Carpathians the rich Boyard proprietor fur
nishes his magnificent castle with the furniture
work of the Partisan artisan, stocks his cellar with
Bordeaux and Champagne, and clothes his wife
and daughters from the looms of Lyons The
lower and middle Glasses consume bales upon
bales OF Manchester prints, and almost every
knife, sword, and fowling-piece in the shops IF
bucharest and Jassy bears the stamp of Brming
ham.
When the Russian armies occupy these terrific
ries, there is an end to the thriving trade which
has been carried on here by the French and Eng
nsh A state of war, moreover, would deprive
Western Europe of its usual supplies Of corn from
the ports Of the Black sea. This prospect has al
where wheat is now purchased for expectation to
the continent The harvest, moreover, promises
to be leso than that of average years.
10 show how far the commercial interests of
Great Britain concerned in the question of
Eastern politics, we quote the following remarks
OF the London Morning Chronicle:
"He will be bold man who will assure us that
Moldavia and Wallachia, if now occupied by the
Gar, will not find themselves six years hence
locked tight IN the stringent embraces Of the Rus.
sian protective system. But, merely to confne
ourselves to the Immediate prospect, it is certain
that the market for French and English manufac
lures will be seriously INSTRUCTED during the Rus
sian occupation; and it is not unlikely that an ex
ceptional tariff for the provinces across the Dan
ube may be one of the conditions upon which tn,
Gar will insist before ultimately evacuatine
them. The point is credibly reported to have
been mooted at the last Intervention of the Rus
slams.
THESE considerations are only part of a largc
question. The industrial interests of the West
and of France no less than of England-point t.
the maintenance of the Turkish empire as fore
most object of legitimate policy. Whatever var
nish ofmateral civilization overspreads the Eas
IS based in great part upon French tastes; and il
these days the qualification of the wealthy Orien
tai involve the possession of those luxuries an
embellishments which only France can supply
The poorer raya, he advances in those frs
conditions of social Improvement an,
decency-becomes purchaser of English cottons
and even the craftsman of Teheran is said to hav
learned the superiority of tools of British steel
Hand over Constantinople to the Russians, am
the.vast trade in English and French goods, whic
makes its way to the Euxne in Greek bottom
will be utterly strangled by a double custom
house at the Dardaneiles. - taE