The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-10-11
ErJm The bonloii Times
THE EASTERN QUESTION.

The Electric Telegraph has brought us. by
the way of Berlin, the news for which all Eu-
ropo was impaticntly waiting. Tho Emperor
of Russia has rejected the Turkish modifica-
tions of the note which he had accepted at
tho suggestion of tho four Powers. An an
swer i'm this sense had on the 9TH inst, but wc
are told nothing of that answer, whether the
rejection was pure and simple, or whether roa.
son for the rejection were stated which would
necessarily lead to further negotiation. The
Times is not so well Informed on this subject
as the Morning Chronicle. Tho Emperor
himself was to proceed at onco to Warsaw,
where we shall probably very soon hear of his
arrival: and on tho 23d of this month he is TO
meet the Emperor of Austria at Olmutz.
Considerable importance is attached by tho
statesman of Russia and Germany 10 this Inn
perial progress, and the Emperor Nicholas has
nostnoned his intended visit to Odessa and
Sebastopool. tho scene of his warlko prepara-
! tons in order to approach nearer to the Aus
trian domnions, the scene of tho diplomatic
conferences which have, up to this mcment,
! held in check tho shemes of bis ambition. IL
is easy TO discover the cause of this moyo, and
| il may turn ont to be an Important incident 'n
! the course of cvents. The resistance of the
Turkish Ministers to Prince Menchikoff' note,
and to the last proposition of tho conference
of Vienna. was probably less surprising to tho
| Emperor Nicholas than the firm and indepen-
dent language he has heard in the last fow
months from the Cabinet of Vienna. Prince
Felix Schwarzenbcrg, on whom tho past obli-
cations to Russia sat like painful and uneasy
burden. was often hoard to exclam, 81 will one
day astonish tho world by my huge ingrati-
tude:" and, had ho lived to carry on iho affairs
of the Empire in the proud aud rosolute spirit
he manifested during tho brief administration,
he would soon have shaken off all subservicn-
CIV to Russia, and taken tho lead in the policy
of Central Europe. His successors are men OF
inferior energy, but they have shown through
out this crisis of tho Eastern question that they
are resolved and prepared to support tho inde-
pendent policy of their country without any
compromise TO foreign influence, ind they
have accordingly incurred an amount OF dis
i Measure from the Emperor Nicholas which is
after all. ono of tho best compliments Minis
ster can earn from foreign sovereign. The
barrier which has most powerfully contributed
unto this time to arrest the policy of Russia
has boen tho close union of tho four Other
great powers. The Emperor of Russia has SC
entireiy failed i'm deluding Austria aud Prussis
as to the nature of his operations, or in win
| ming tho assent of his aggrossions, that one o
tho very last communications made to him b,
: NJ. do Boul. the Austrion Minister, was a TO
quest that ho would name day for the eyacu
alton of tho Principalities; and, although
has sometimes been said that the Russian in
s tervcntion in Hungary in 1s49 was d score
: treaty which made Austria dependent on tn
o will Of her powerful neighbor, nothing in tn
o recent conduct or relations OF tho two power
: seems to confirm that assertion. and we hop
n that Austria will still have tho spirit to sho'
i, that it is wholly unfounded. 9aeg A---