The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-24

E,o,n the London Times, March ,.

mands. n this intelligence, which has been re
ceiyed from Trieste BY telegraphic despatch, be
sion of an awkward dispute; and the stories crcu.
lated by certain portion of the Partisan and Eng.
lish press-that Count Leiningen had presented his
iti'nassm, and left Constantinople with the whole
Austrian embaepy, or that the Turkish govern
ment had thrown itself upon the mediation or pro.
lection of France and EngIand-happily fall to tho
ground. We have no reason to suppose that the
representatives. o France and England at Constan-
tnople were In any way authorized to proffer their
mediation on the sublects in dispute, or that the
Austrian envoy would have submitted the claims
ne was instructed 10 make TO the interference Of
any foreign governments. Indeed we cannot but
suspect, from the eagerness shown in dissem;nat'
ing these erroneous reports, that they originated
with party avowedly anxious to embroil Turkey
WIN me northern courts, and to engage France
and England in preposterous crusade for the
maintenance of the Ottoman empire. That is now
Iavorlle scheme with the promoters of insured.
ton In Hungary and Poland, and it is encouraged
y many OF the renegades in the military service
Oh the Porte but it is plan which would probably
prove fatal to Turkey herself and might embro;l
Europe over the shattered remains of the Ottoman
empire, if the political sagaciy of the great pow
spiracy.
Some doubt still exists as to the exact purport
and extent of the demands Count Leinin gen was
instructed to make; but in those points with which
had, We believe, already concurred. Lord John
Russell, when at the foreign Office, had remon.
strated torcibly against the expedition to Monte
negro, for, as we remarked when first the question
arose, 1t was past endurance that huge Turkish
army should be let loose in midwinter against
nardy tribe OF noun taneers, the very frontiers
OF Christendom, within sight of the Adriatic sea-
only to crafty, as it seemed, the sanguinary am
bition of such general Omer Pasha This man
was, 1t seems, Croat officer in the Austrian ser.
vice, who al ostatised from his religion, and for.
sook his country. Such are the leaders who now,
more than ever, conduct the Turkish armies, and
influence the policy of the Porte; for it is ascer-
tanned that considerable number of these rene.
gades are actually in arms, and commanding
troops in the adjacent portions of European Tur.
key, where they endeavor to conceal their apps.
tacy BY increased severity of persecution against
the Christian population of these Turco-Sclayonic
provinces. The Austrian government required
tnat the operations against Montenegro should
cease and that the deserters and fugitives from the
Imperial armies, who have entered the Turkish
service and embraced the Mohometan faith, should
not De extensively paraded in arms along the from
tier, where 1t ls doubtful whether their object ia to
defend their new country or to attack their old
one. 1t is entirely consistent with good policy and
good neighborhood that these grievances should be
depressed, and We hope to learn that the fierce
onslaught on Montenegro, which has already cost
20 much blood and misery. for no imaginable OBJ.
Jet, will now cease by the withdrawal of the
Turkish forces.
As for the demand with reference to the tongues
OF the land on the Adriatic coast, called Kick and
Sutorlna, We have less accurate information: but
1t is expressly denied that the Austrians ever de
which would, indeed, have been inadmissible
These strips of land were ceded to Turkey by the
treaties OF Carlowiz and Parsarowitz in 1898 and
IIlo' for the purpose of isoatng the territory of
the republic OF Ragusa from the Venetian
in Dalmatia By the 93d article of the treaty. of
Vienna, Austria acquired the Venetian territories
IN lstria and Damatia and by the Gath article she
acquired the territories which had formed tho
republic of Ragusa; but she never ACQUIRED the
tract lying between those territories, which ia of
the more consequence to Turkey affording the
only direct means OF communication from the sea
to the Herzegovina and Bosnia. The voluntary
eession of territory by the Porte is moreover con.
trary to the laws of Islam, and could neither be
asked nor granted. Whatever Count Leiningen's
demands WERE they were supported by the pre-
sence OF considerable army on the Croatian from
tier and the Porte Is in condition, either by it's
internal resources or by its external alliances to
brave such admonitions. The difficulty of its DO
sltlon was further augmented by knowledge of
the facts that considerable movements of troops
have recently taken place the Russian frontier,
that Prince Menschkoff has inst been appointed to
the command of three corps d'armee in the south
ern provinces OF the empire and that this minister
Is on his way to Constantinople with peremptory
message relating to the custody of the Holy Shrines
by the Greek Church, which is entirely at variance
with the hrman recently exacted BY France
Happily, Nj. de Lavalette is recalled from the en-
bassy where he has done much mischief and he
will be forthwith succeeded by NJ de la Cour, late
French minister at Vienna q diplomatist of far
greater moderation and sagacity.
Lord Stratford de Radcliffe hns also taken leave
of her majesty, and will proceed tomorrow to his
post, from which be has been absent too long, if he
to return there at all, We believe that he will
pass through both Paris and Vienna. by the desire
OF the French and Austrian governments, to place
themselves in communication with him on the of
fairs of the East. We trust, therefore, that what
ever may be the fate of Turkey, the perversity and
the intrigues Of the Divan will not succeed in
breaking up that collective and united action of
the great powers of Europe, to which they owe a
continuance of peace, and Turkey herself con-
ia nF = boD
alternately to play off one of it's supporters against
the others, and thus to divide as much as possible
the councils which have been often exerted in its
favor. But that ia too dear price to paw for go
worthless result, and the duration of the Tur ksb
empire has become in our eyes a secondary object,
when compared with the maintenance of sound
understanding with those continental powers
which we rely.
We have already intmated that the time is in
our opinion, approaching when the maintenance
Of the Ottoman empire in its present form, will be
found to be impracticablea and acknowledged to be
undesirable; but whatever political yicissitudes
the Christian and Scavonc provinces of Turkey
may witness, they can pass under no form of gov,
eminent more barbarous, wasting, and oppressive,
than that which has so long overwhelmed them.
We profess, therefore, to feel no anxiety for the
maintenance of the Ottoman empire, which bears
the stamp of a tyrannical past a worthless pre-
sent, and extinct future. Our soliciude on this
question is excited rather by the effects which the
dissolution of the Turkish empire may have
whenever that period arrves-upon the union and
the pacific relations of the other States of Europe
That is the subject we should rather commend to
the reflections of our diplomatiss and statesmen,
who have hitherto averted their eyes from what
they consider an insuperable difficulty. 1t is
difficulty, however, which will one day force itself
upon Us; and the question ia, whether to
leave the lettering edihce to fall mole SUD- to pro-
vide against such calamity. 1t is matter of
far less importance to mankind to preserve the
integrity of Turkey than to preserve the friendly
relations of Europe. But from the moment that
the relations OF any of the great powers with the
Porte assume separate, and perhaps menacing
character, it ia possible that their next move may
bring them into direct collision with the rest Of
Europe That is evil to be avoided, if possible,
by frank explanations and by collective action.
DEscENR on A BANK.--The telegraph having
announced that the ssCrow Bar bill" had finally
passed on Saturday, A. Sicily, esq.,, treasurer Of
Jefferson county, and the most prominent embodi-
ment of real simon-p,re Ohio Democracy in this
region, entered the Jefferson Branch Bank, in this
city, yesterday forenoon. The cashier was engaged
with the directors in adjoining ROOM Mr.. s.
very soon got of the vault and of course
modern law being in his favor, helped himself to
some 5 $500 in gold The bank officers remon-