The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-07-27

The European War.
Hostilitics may be said to have fairly
commenced between Russia and Turkey.
The movement of Russian troops into the
territory Of the Sultan can properly have
no other construction Whether some
adjustment may not be effected, without
proceeding to the worst extremes, re-
mains to be seen. The English and
French papers generally express conf
dencc that there will yet be a settlement,
through the mediation of other powers,
and without actual bloodshed. On
what reasonable grounds this hope is
founded aside from such motives as
usually exist to dissuadc from war--we
do not clearly see. For weeks past, war
has seemed to be growing more and
more inevitable.
The following spceulatious Of the Lon
don Times on the consequences of this
war, should it not be averted, as that
paper still processes to Relieve it will be,
will be read with some interest:
/" Russia would consult her interests
as little as her honor by pressing on
wards in the face of people as military
and as fanatic as herself. and in the face
of the public opinion of Europe, Russia
cannot, indeed, be 'crumpled up by an
angry threat or an idle brag but, on
the other hand, shc can do but little be-
yond her own soil except in cooperation
with other Powers.
We are not unaware that some rather
auIacious spcculations have been permit
ted to attach themselves to this sufficient
ly disagreeablc subject. Should things
come to that pass that England and
France, having backed up Turkey so far
were bound to prove their honor by
arms in word, should there be gen
eral war between Russia and we know
not what Powers on one side, and Eng
land, France, Turkey, and we know not
what Powers on the other side, then, it is
confidently anticipated that Poland and
Hungary, true to their nature and tradi
tions, would throw themselves into the
melee, and England would find herself il
alliance offensive aud defensive with tho
Turk, Louis Napoleon, and-must We
add 2-Louis Kossuth, against our Ole
allies, the Absolutist Powers
All this is Ineligible, and by nc
means improbable, if we once rushed in
to war with that love for the sport which
seems to animate some bosoms The
whole consequence of events is as plain
even palmer, than one is likely to reac
in the perplcxed and sophisticated pages
ofhistory. We should have to make enor
nous and repeated subsidies to the Turk
:hc Magyar, and the Polo, a British
war steamer-the Styx, the Cerberus, ol
the Pluto-would take the Hungarian
Governor. fresh from a visit to Windsor
Castle, to some port or other, if there is
one, within thousand miles of his
country. Whether a party of marines
would escort HIM into the interior OF
whether the Magyar Chief would make
the attempt with that force, we will not
venture to anticipate.
Doubtless, with such materials to
work upon, and with the British Treas.
ury and Mr. Gladstone's financial hob
goblin to assist, the work would be hot
and the example very catching. Italy
would once more form the carcass that
the Russians, the Austrians, and the
French Eagle contend for, with the Brit
ish Lion to stand by. Happily for the
cause of humanity, there are nations that
would keep out of the scrape and derive
no small advantage from it-e. e. the U,
nited States. But there is not State OF
va odd World that we could answer for
ehe neighborhood of such a confagra
hon as would then be raised. If the wal
, be necessary for safety or for honor. VIC
do not shrink from the awful propect -
Why else our vast standing ornaments
But if our interest is so doubtful, that
posterity, especially suffering posterity
might deny it altogether, we do recoil
from these terrible consequences, and
ask from our own countrymen some OF
that calm consideration which we have
been preaching to others
GaHgnanis Messenger, the English
paper published in Paris comments up
on the opinions of the Paris press, as
follows
We are left to conclude from these
articles that the French government
views tho invasion as an act which would
fully justify the commencement of hos
tilities against Russia by Turkey, and
that France and England would, if call.
ed upon for aid by Turkey, offer it to
that power but at the same time we are
told that the Porte alone is tho proper
judge of the course to be pursued, aud
that if it should imagine that negotia-
tons may be resumed with fair pros,
peet OF preserving peace, even after this
unjustifable net of aggression by the
Emperor of Russia, the decision of the
Porte must have weight"
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