The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-03-22
4cttaeuAent q the furnish Question.
from the London Umaa March 2.

from the London Times March 81
IL eonnission u Count Leningen to Constantinople
has tsrinaaed more succsssfuy than had been antici
pad for hat envoy has returned TO Trieste and Vienna
Posss With bis Demands this intsligsncs, which has
bssa rsesvsd from Trieste By telegraphic despatch,
Be strictly correct We sincerely rejoice in the conclusion
certain portion Of the Partisan and Engsh press-that
Count Lsinngsu had presented his uRimatum and left
the Turkish government had thrown itself upon the
mediation protection Of France and Enaland-hap-
P .n 70 th the vie have no reason 70
land ct Consantinope in any way authorized to
ProAer their mediation ON the subjects in dispute
that the Austrian envoy would have submitted the claims
he instructed to make to the interference of any
foreign governments. Indeed cannot but suspect,
fron The eagerness shown in disseminating these erro
repsrts that they originated with party avowed
anxious to embro Turkey with the northern courts
And 70 s1eags France and England IN preposssrous
That now favorite scheme with the promoters Of in
surrecton in Hungary and Poland and 1t Is encouraged
by many Of the renegades in the military service Of the
Porte but it Plan which would probably prove fatal
TO Turkey herself, and might embrou Europe the
sasacy Of the great not its guard against
Some doubt s exists as to tn. exact purport and ex
sest Of ths demands Count Lelningen Instructed
make but in those points with which are acquant
ed the government Of this country had We believe al
ready clDurred Lord John Russell when at the For.
eisn go had demonstrated forciby against the exped
1oa 70 Montenegro for ~ We remarked when first the
sSsS loose in ssns hary
the Of mountainees on the very frontiers of hristen
dom within sight Of the Adratc only to crafty
ral Is Oner Pashs. This man was, it seems,
Great oGacer in the Austrian service, who aposta-
tsea from his religion, and forsook his country Such
are the leaders who now, more than ever conduct
the Turkish armies and influence the policy of
numser Of these renegade. Are s.usv in nnd
Commanding troops in the adjacent portions Of European
Turkey where they endeavor to conceal their apostacy
by increased severity of persecution against the Christian
population of these Turco avonic provinces The Aus
tan government required that the operations against
Asatsnsgro should cease that the eserters
tivcs from tho Imperial armies who have entered the
Tusksh seSyice and embraced the Mohometan faith
ehsud not y Extensively paraded in along the from
tier, whore 1t is doubtful whether their object Is
fend their new country or 70 attack their old It is
entirely consistent with good policy and g,od neghbor
hope to learn that the fierce onslaught Montenegro
which has already cost much blood and misery for
imaginable object viii now cease by the withdrawal of
As for the demand with reference to the tongues Of
land on the Adratc coast called Kick and Sutorna
lave lees accurate information but it Is expressly denied
That the Austrans eve, demanded the cession these
portions Of territory, which would indeed have been in
admissible These strips Of land ceded to Turkey
by the treaties of CsrlowE and Parsarowz in 1898 and
Ills for the purpose Of solating the territory Of the
republic Of Ragusa from the Venetian territory in Dama
tia BY the S3d article of the treaty Of Vienna Ausrs
acquired the Venetian territories in fstra and Damsta
and y the h article she acquired the territories which
formed the republic OF Ragusa but she
She tract lying between those territories which is Of the
more consequence to Turkey aordng the only direct
Eovine and Bosnia The voluntary cession Of territory
y the Porte Is, moreover contrary .to the laws Of
Whatever Count Leningsn's demands were, they were
supported BY the presence of considerable army the
Croe:n frontier and the Porte is in condition. either
y s internal resources or by its external alliances
brave such admontions The dcuy of its position WAS
further augmented by knowledge of the facts that con
the Russian frontier that Prince MensehkoT has lust
een appointed to the command Of three corps dare in
Abe southern provinces of the and that this min
Will
esssge relating to the custody Of the Holy Shrnes by
xAe Greek Church which entirely at variance with the
nrman recently exaced by France Happily r. de Lava
Aette recalled from the embassy where has done SO
much mischief and he will be forthwith succeeded by
Of Tar greater moderation and sagscity
Lord strstford de Radcliffe has also taken leave Of
from which he has been absent too long if he was To-
return there at all We believe that he will pass through
both Paris and Vienna by the desire of French and
Austrian governments to place themselve in communi
cation with them the affairs of the East We trust
therefore that whatever be the fate Of Turkey the
Perversiy and the utrgues of the Dvan will not
m breaking up that collective and united action of the
great powers Of Europe to which they continuance
Of peace and Turkey continuance OF existence
is the policy of the Porte alternately play OF OF
its supporters against the Others and thus to divide
much possible the councils which have been so often
exerted in it's favor But that too dear price pay
For so worthless result and the duration of the Turkish
empire has become in our eyes secondary object when
compared with the maintenance Of
with those continental powers on which rely
We have already intimated that the time is, In our
Wnen the maintenance OF the otto
man empire in its present form, win be found to be
practicable and ACKNOWLEDGED TO be undesirable but
whatever political ycisstudes the Christian and Scla
vonic provinces of Turkey may witness, they pass
under NO form of government barbarous wasting,
and oppressive than that which has long overwhem
ed them We profess therefore, to feel anxiety for the
maintenance of the Ottoman empire whish bears the
stamp of yrannca past worthless present and ex
tnct future. Our socitude this question excited
rather the effects which the of the Turkish
empire may have-whenever that period arrives-upon
the union and the pacific relations of the other States
Of Europe That is the subject I'VE should rather
mend to the reflections of dplomatists and states
who have hitherto averted their eyes from what
they consider nsuperable difficulty II is difficulty
however which will day force itself upon u.s. and the
question ia, whether to leave the otering edifce
TO fall mole SUD- to provide against such a calamity.
1t Is matter of far less Importance TO mankind to pre-
the integrity Of Turkey than to preserve the friend
ly relations Of Europe But from the moment that the
relations Of any Of the great powers with the Porte
sume separate and perhaps menaciRg character 1t ID
possible that their next may bring them into direct
collision with the rest Of Europe That is evil TO be
avoided If possible, by frank explanations and by col
lective action.
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