Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1854-03-14

am unwilling 10 sntic'pat --,he sooner
the Porte were spprizeI Of lis helpless
condition the heiier. Placed et the sinner.
cy Of Russ'a, the Sultan would have, no
choice but 10 accept the terms U pardon,
which n triumphant enemy. snxid6s to
save appearances towari Europe, anl
determined al The same time 10 accom-
p|ish his purpose. might be expected tc
giant -
There waste hnve been n discussion
this week in The House Of Lord. on
1hsse papers. hui Il was ,isferse1 for a
few days, on the bare possibility OF pa
cific ncgo,ia,ion. At The same lime The
government was, urged by the Earl oil
EllenboIougi to increase TO the great
est extent their psrstions for war
she greatest in which this country had
ever engaged. ie Fr fopr.r.
The Telegraph announces from Wen.
ma, that Count OhoF left that capital
on the s.h. The Morning Post positive
ly sfirms, that Orlof was the bearer OF
proposals 10 the northern courts for a
tfeaty, with o view TO new arrangements
Of the ter torisl distribution Of Europe,
consequent upon the overthrow Of The
Ottoman empire, ard the partition Of
Turkey. The telegraph reports change
Of ministry at. Cons,aninopls on the
3Olh. Tie news comes through Wen.
M. The change it is said, will give
more Influence to the party favorable 10
concessions to Russia. But the nation.
al spirit will no, permi, any betrayal Of
the country by these inirigues. The Yves.
tern powers, s,loubllcss, would rather that
the ultra warlike spirit should NOT be in
the ascendan, at ConslaEtinople, as this
would not consist with the policy ofno,
beating. Russia TOO much. 1t is certain
that an Austrian army has been moved
to the Sefvian frontiers. AGalcoLA.
Territorial Advances Of Russia.
The London correspondent of tho
Hamilton Car ada Spectator gives the
following outline Of the territorial al.
vance s Of. Russia, since the beginning
By The conquest Of Finland in 1909
she gained command Of the eulfs OF Fin.
land and B0ihnia, and thus completely
changed the position Of Russia relative
10 Sweden. BY that conquest she gein
ell :he ports Of Abo and Sweaberg, the
last being the great naval establishment
Of the Sweoles, and also the Isle uf
Aland. which is only twenty. -four miles
from the Swedish shore, and runs up
her territory hundred end sixty miles,
till il touches the frontier Of Norway,
round which country it bends hundred
and ni6sty miles. Formerly the guns
Of Sweden could be heard at St. Peters.
burg; now Finland forms the Russian
barrier on the Baltic, or rather in Ineria,
on which the new capital was built,
when little better than a marsh.
On The Niemen, the frontier remains
unchanged for hundred miles but at
the point, where that river runs along
East Prussia, the frontier strikes the
Vislula al Thom, whence Dantzc is
only distant 20 miles, and Berlin but
10 miles. The line then crosses the
Vislula, advancing to Kalish, and head.
ing southerly, passes within 30 miles Of
Tho Oder, when it follows an eastern
course along the district of Cracow. and
IS only distant ITO miles from Vienna.
Thus she threatens by her proximity,
both Prussia and Austria. ... 3
. BY the treaty Of Bucharest, in 1919,
he pushed the boundary to the Prulh
She got possession OF the Crimea in l
l791, and Of Georgia in 1901, and has
low the command Of the Caspian by
he river Volga. which is actually con.
,ected with the Neva, on the Baltic, by
1 chain Of rivers, SO that the navigation
8 continuous, and thus thre atens Per. a
ia. What remains against Russia is I
he Caucasus and the Black Sea. Give ,
ler these, and she is master. Therefore :,
is wise TO strike blow al this colos. =
us, too crafty to be trusted, and whose
,ntesmanship is based on hypocrisy. It o
must il deed be plain from the geograph. n
al position Of Russia, that it is the u
pecial interest Of Austria and Prussia ;,
o con6ns her within her present from.
ier, as i, is the intcres, Of The mara,ine r
'owers 10 exclude her from the Sound, a
be Black Sea and the DardaneIls. p
A private letter from Lon,lon TO tho h
seM York Times. states that Kossuih de. a
ayed his visit to Cons,anlinople for =
ear Of being arrested by Austria, anl
dds:
III ON positively informed that the
az Of his proposed embark katon, and :,
he vessel which was to have taken him, u
we're known at Vienna before hand. +
Moreover, explicit orders were given to i
AUSTRIAN steamers to watch his move. a
nents and, il occasion offered, to make /,
seizure similar TO the a,tcmpt upon
Martin Koszta. | am, also, no less II
positively informed, that Kossuth re. II
civel full intelligence Of this contem. r
Hated action Of the Austrian police. :.
Consequently, tits probable that the :,
hungarian leader will not 20 10 tte !
east, although the Turkish government i
till deluded: is most friendly towards q
nm. unlh general war shall lave bro.
zen out, and the actual disposition Of
Austria i' has been thoroughly uumasked. I: !:
fs-e,. Early Dead. .s5 q.
Early in the morning. maien went