New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-05-23
TILE FATE OF TURKEY.

THE FATE OF TURKEY.
The most striking fact in the budget of news brought
by the Franklin is that alluded to by our London cor
respondent A. p c., who states that the leaders OF
he French and British forces in Turkey are finding
hat the military administration of the Porte is en-
tirely incompetent to provide for the wants of the
auxiliary armies and that they about to take that
administration into their own hands OF the necessity
of such step their part it is impossible On refec-
ton to entertain the slightest doubt 1t is out of the
question for them to risk the of expedition
like theirs on question of punctilio lndepen-
dent zen ofmitary considerations, the vast pecunary
sacrifices the allies have already made are alone
sufficient to make them rigid and unfiinchlng In
their policy. encouraged az they must be in such
course by the concessions the Porte has already
made to their diplomacy, by giving equal rights
to its Christian subj ects and now, above all, by
exempting the Roman Catholic subjects of Greece
from the Punishment suffered by the other Greeks
in Turkey, an exception which the French Embas-
sador forced upon the Porte by the menace OF
quitting COnstantinope. Certainly with such antece-
dents the allies will not risk the efficiency of soldiers,
whose transportation to the scat of war costs no less
than $500 per man, for want Of measures which Will.
no doubt be disagreeable to the Sultan. but which
after all cannot well be avoided
The deficient preparations for the reception of the
allied troops at Galpoli their first landing, have
excited universal remark in England but they are only
faint sample ofwhat is to be expected from the want
fcare and forethough in the Turkish Pashas. These
officials may be able to provide in the most Indifferent
way for the very primitive wants of Turkish army
bat for French and English soldiers they are ncOm-
petent to provide at all suficiency of good meat
and bread are absolutely indispensable for the allied
troops while Turks and Russians get on with an
insuffciency of those necessities, and that of the
poorest quality or even in case OF pinch with none
at all Besides the allies must be supplied every
day with regularity and precision never dreamed of
by the Turks whose lazy habits and fatastic notions
are foreign to such wstchfuness and attention. And
these difficulties will greatly increase the auxiliary
armies proceed toward the actual seat of war. No
depots of provisions have anywhere been established
for their use, nor, for we are informed, are sup
plies of either breadstuas meat to be had in the
country whose agriculture, general thing cannot
more than suffice to feed its scany and poverty
stricken population. And even when procured by sea-
the forwarding of these necessities 10 the advancing
troops will prove natter requiring the utmost
energy and vigilance as the Turks have tolerable
roads, nor if they had any wagons to use upon them
1t 10 therefore only natural that the French and
English commanders should understand that they
not for a moment rely the industry, accuracy or
activity of the Turkish officials their employees
They cannot depend on them without exposing their
soldiers disastrous prvations and thus demoraliz
ing them. Nothing therefore remains for the allies
but to take into their hands the management of
the hole military department to establish their
boards, and to direct the purchase and delivery of
provisions in the manner Of well organized European
commissariat The direction of the war smust be
with those who know now to provide for it and carry
il forward, and not with the Turks Otherwise the
allies will find themselves exposed at every stepto OBJ
structons and paraly deficiencies quite danger
Gus to their progress the columns ad OF the
enemy.
The establishment of an Anglo-French military d.
rectory at Gallpoli, Constantinople Adrianople,
some other convenient place is then inevitable, with
its administrative activity extending over the empire.
Next in point of time will come the necessity for tax
ing the finances also out of Turkish control. The
commssariat and the national treasury cannot long be
kept in different hands and the allies will find them
selves compelled undertake the after the other
The same will be the case with the internal police as
well from the need of keeping down the feelng and
dissatisfaction prevailing between the Moslem and
Christian inhabitants. for the purpose OF keeping
up the routes of communication with the interior.
These events may very possibly be accelerated by the
outbreak of revolution among the Turks, directed
against the allies. In such case they would at once
be obliged take virtual possession of the country,
reducing the sultan TO the position occupied BY the
nominal princes of India. Without such an occur
renee the process will naturally be longer but not
less sure The domination of the Turks in Europe
has in fact already 10 end and the only ques-
ton really at issue in the war is whether the Rus
slams or the allies shall dispose OF the possessions of
which. after five centuries occupancy, they are de-
privea.
PROSPECTS OF THE EUROPEAN WAR.