The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-06-29
THE EUROPEAN NEWS.

Ter all tHefG VIII Ut uO Wafs thO
probably pretty well convinced that 10 'a ~.
event Of a struggle he would be aptto co'ne ou'
SECOND best. We have always entertainer ~.
same opinion, for with all the ooas.eo 80
dreaded power Of Russia. we see no' .'o- sn
conla ccn,end with both France aud Eng'ah
;n.smuch a. she could do them no INJURY
-h.r. ,bev have il in their power TO DO her
vas, deal, The London Times, win All us
.,ronp Russian prepossessons' Is compelled
.,,.s, to make this acknowledgment IL says:
.,1,.. rowers of attack Of Russia are limited
-. ;;ne of operations on the Danube; every
-herr else she would be thrown on the deten
.;w.. In the Black Sea and IN the Baltic, two
ciose seas which she has not maritime power
- Command, her ports would be closed, her
srs5 IA aunihilated, and probably her naval es.
sabl;shments destroyed. Ia Gergia and Cir
cssa;a. where the native tribes have maintained
their ground for so many years, single handed,
ssa;nst the imperial armies, the commence
mani Of hostiiities with The Porte, would at
once give fresh intensity to the war. From
Persia, on the one side, TO Poland and Fin
land on the other, the colossal empire of Rus
sia IA asssiled on a multitude ct points of its
hinge circumference, and whatever it's military
resources may be, il is impossible that they
should be concentrated with effect when every
frontier alike demands her vigilance and her
. OBJECTION. The maritime trade of the empire
can be completely stopped by closing the mar
row apertures of the Bosphorus and the Sound,
and judging by the effects of the Continental
system on Russia in 1910, that measure alone
would act with great severity on the Imperial
Government"
The Times continues:
awe mention these particulars, because they
seem to us to warrant the belief that if war
should unhsppily break out il may be brought
to a speedy and successful termination; but
The same facts and considerations will, no
doubt, furnish far more powerful arguments
against the folly and wickedness of causing
such war to take place at all. The Empe
ror OF Russia has placed himself in position
in which il ia impossible for him to win, but in
which, if he persists, he will lose considerably
more than he has lost already. AT the point
at which this question has now arrived, and
after the pretensons which Russia has mani
tested with regard TO the Christian subjects of
Turkey, it cannot be dropped without endea.
voring TO place that portion OF the Ottoman
Empire on a more secure and definite basis
That object can even now be effected with tbs
assent of the Turkish Government and by the
joint deliberations of the great Powers. 1t is
still competent TO the Emperor of Russia TO
accept such a conference. and to obtain by pa
cific and equitable means every right to which
he is in the remotest degree eutitled. But, if
he rejects this proposition, and disdains the ex.
pedient by which the differences of The greatest
Powers have been SO frequently and honorably
terminated, he runs the risk of sacrificing for
these extravagant pretensions whatever infu-
ence, political sagacity and military success
had previously attached to his name."
Nor are our often repeated declarations ofthis
fact supported by the. late and reluctant con-
fession of the Times alene. On the 18th of
June, in the House of Lords, the Marquis of
Clanricarde, after having enquired Of the Min.
ister Lord Clarendon, whether it was true, as
stated in the Moniteur, that the English and
French governments were acting in concert in
the affairs of the East, and that their respec
tive Admirals had received orders TO hold them
selves in readiness to obey the first summons
from their Ambassadors at the Porte, expressed
q hope that it was, and declared that he
held il almost impossible for sny disturbance
of the peace of Europe to take place if the
French and British forces act in concert or to be
of long duration or doubtful issue, should any
such arise. Such, indeed, seems to be the ge.
neral sentiment. France and England, should
they be wise enough to forget ancient enmities,
and to look into the right quarter for danger to
Europe, have it always in their power to curb
the ambition Of Russia. The operation of the
Continental system in 1910, was so severe on
Russia, that Alexander was forced into the war
iof 1912, in order TO get rid ofit When the ports
of the Baltic shall be entirely closed by the
presence of a combined feet, and Russia shall
see her fleets in ths Black Sea destroyed, and
her naval establishments in the hands of her
enemies, she will then discover that there is
vast difference between ovenunning an insur-
rect;cnary country like Hungary, and resisting
the storm which France and England can pour
upon her at a momont's warning.
The emissaries of Russia at the different
Courts, are, il seems, instructed to say that
Russia. does not intend to subvert the Ottoman
Empire, but only to occupy Moldavia and
Wallachia, until the Porte shall have acceded
TO her demands, and the Times seems to insist
upon it that the occupation of these prncipali.
ties will afford no just cause of war. The
grounds of this opinion seem to be, that the
troops of the Gear have repeatedly occupied
them within the last twenty years, and that
abouttwo years ago he levied upon the exhaus,
ed and impoverished inhabitants f60OOOO to
pay the expenses of one of these OCCUPATIONS
The inhabitants are governed by hospodar
OF their own, il is true, and pay very equi
vocal sort of obedience to the laws of the
Porte. Yet il seems to US that il ought to be
understood whether these provinces are thus
70 oe left open to Russian rapacty whenever
the Gar may think proper to hold them fol
tne purpose of exacting unreasonable conces
sions from the Sultan. If they are to be given
up 10 Russia, to hold as Russian provinces
then the possession Of that power will hav,
Deen extended TO The Balkans, and tn,
key viii have nothing left in Europe bur III
provinces which lie between that ridge and III
straits OF Constantinople. This accession ,
the strength of Russia was contemplated ;
ono Of the plans for the partition of Turks,
discussed st Tilsit between Napoleon an
Alexander. The former seemed at one tim
willing to yield up Moldavia and Wallaeh;
70 Russia, and to take Greece and Bosnia +;
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