Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-10-07
RUSSIA AND TuRKsY.-The news by the


Baltic does not materially change the aspect
of The Turko- Russian question. Private let.
tiers from Vienna speak of re assembling OF
the committee of conference in that city, with
a view of making still another attempt al ad.
iustmetlf. but even if the statement be trne.it Is
notsbelieved that the effort will succeed and on
all sides.an impression prevails that collision
cannot be longer suspended. Il is not believ.
ed that the Gar desires peace. Led on by
cold and calculating AMBITION which sees In
the result of war with Turkey certain
surance of advantage 10 himself, so long he
has The shadow oil preiext for hosiilities. be
will not stay his hand On the other tide, it
is said that the Sultan could not now prevent
war ifhe desired. and that If he refuse TO de-
clare il. his people will. The wild and war
like tribes from Asia. that constitute the chief
part OF Omar Pacha's army. will mol long he
restrained from the fierce sports to which they
have been summoned, and among the body of
Of the Turkish people feeling Of irrepfessi~
Bile ardor has been aroused by the belief that
Russia seeks the destruction of their religion
and the annihilation of their nationality. Priests
and people are alike svayed by feeling of
aroused fanaticism that falls bul little short Of
madness. Notes and propositions and proto-
coils are TOO feeble barrier To resist the swell.
ing current OF peoples frenzy
The modification by the Sultan OF the terms Of
adjustment agreed on by the parties To the con
ference al Vienna, is said not to be satisfactory
to the cabinets OF England and France and as
consequence, The relation Of those governm, MS
to the Porte is understood to have changed
Instead Of encouraging and promising To aid
Turkey, If necessary, they now assume a die
taorial tone and practically ally themselves
with Nicholas Ivy seeking TO compel The Turk
to acqulesce in terms which he regards as un-
Just and dishonorable. part of tho intclli.
gence by The Baltic is that the British am
bassador at Consiantinople has been instructed
TO demand that the Porte should accept the Vi
emma note pure and simple a statement which
the London Times emphaiicaly contradicts
The Daily News, on the contrary. gives con
siderable prominence to the statement of the
Dcbats and uses II as he text oil n leading ar
tcle. The heads of The Dcbafs statement are.
that the English ambassador must insist on the
Sultan accepting the original form of Tue noie ;
that II be will hot do So war will he al his own
risk; if he does the feet will put down any
Instruction that may break out in Constant
nople
In an article on this SUI j"ct by the New.
York Tribune, regarding war as inevitable.
that journal says:
And " hat is most roma kal 10 of all Is that
the Porte is now going 10 war not II ely alone
but under the warm displeasure Of IT'S allies,
for dong even less than they urged it to do at
the outset, With the pledge 81 their entire sup-
port The notifications mnde ia the Vienna
propositions whose rejection by the Car can.
az we have shown, hardly fail 10 he follow ed
by war-approach considerably nearer to a
concession 10 The Russian demands, than any
reply which the Porte had mudo 10 Menschl
kotf or Nesselrode, when II acted IN perfect
harmony with the advice of France and Eng
land If the Independent sovereignty of III,
Sultan IS ID be preserved at all, nothing more
could be granted than was admitted by these
notifications, Aud get, 10, not giving up ey~
eryIhlng.and conserving 10 become substantial,
ly a Russian province, Turkey is now TO be
left in the lurch by these valolou~ allies, " ho a
few months since we're loud in their clustering
promises of assistance, and no not only an
chored their fleets in Besika Bay. but by way
OF corollary bravado held pompous reviews
and waflke rareeoshows on land and sea-
This is one oil the lucky hits made by the
Russian Cabinet in the course of this affair
Though Russian armies long since occupied
Turkish provinces, yet the responsibility oil
actually making war is thrown upon the Porte
And though England and France did their
best TO get the Sultan into this position, they
are now not only alenaied from him. but there
Is even talk IN their journals Of joining to com
pei him 10 accept the very terms they once
so zealously encouraged him 10 resist. To say
all, In word, and without any exaggeration
these two powers have practically gone over
to The side OF the Gar and apparently rea
dy 10 stand by and see the perennial dream
OF Russian ambition become ii rea 'ity. Thi.
seems almost impossible, but such is the fact
as indicated by the governmental acls and