New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-12

God might preserve English aud European policy
from depending on the decisions Of the Turkish
Divan. Such q crisis, however, has arrived.
The Turkish question, reduced for the present to
that of the final organisation Of the Prncpalities
has entered stsee where it may prove nut as
hard to be cracked os any ever submitted to diPo-
matio teeth. The war erded BY the Treaty Of
Paris put an end to the ProtectOrate Of Rasss over
the Danubian region, creating instead common
European protecsOrate. BY this, it was decided
that the Congress of Paris, after ascertalning the
with CT the populations and fthe Divans in Walla
chis and Moldayia, should settle peremptoriy and
finally the political condition Of the Principalities
This was done. The wish Of the populations and
the decision of the respective DivAns ara
for their union under Sovereign elected
by the Congress But the Porte now
declares peremptorily that Congress or no Congress,
il never will submit to the union or to the recogni
ton of one OF two foreign OF domestic Princes &C.
looted BY the Powers, and will never allow any
change in the existing political forms of the Princi
paities and their relations With the Sultan. This
virtually anpihilates the Treaty Of Paris in its prn-
cipal point Diplomacy is thrown into confusion by
such behavior 1t il against the rules good TASTE
cay the diplomats, who consider their trade SCI.
epce, with all its forme, mirutia, routine, and cir.
eumlocution. The question, hoReVer, for the Porte
is one of life or death. The proverbial obstinacy
of the Mussumsn presages great difficulty in set
ting this question. The difficulty increases as En-
gland, ,ee mnsly and partially at least, and Austria
openly, subscribe and back Turkey 10 this decisive
.tep. Neither Turkey nor Austria wishes to have
such thorn in her side, s Literally organized new
Dasubian State would be. Turkey has slresdy
enough of it in Greece; and Austria breads to have
at Der tive extremties, in Sardinia and on the Dan
ube, free, independent Institutions, acting pow
erfully fermentipg stmulant on kindred border pop
ulations in Lombardy ard in Transylysnia.
The Congress Of Paris viii soon inset, aud have
to deal with explosive and dangerous questions.
All the skill of the French Government will be re.
quirsd to fiId q solution. France, together with
Russia, Sardinia and Prussia, took q very decided
position for the union from which it is difficult for
her 70 back out Austria and Russia are at Logger.
heads, notw outstanding the recent Imperial meeting
at Weimsr. England is balancing between the
two Issues, trying TO ind out me--o te,mine. Ia
the present condition Of English Affairs, it is to be
seen If Palm erston will stick through thick and thin
to Austrian policy which, after all, can be OF no
avail for tie other complicated questions which
hset his administration, and for which the good
will Of Louis Napoleon is not to be overlooked.
Europe, with her governments, sovsreigns and
policies, exhibits a curious spectacle. When we
behold liberal England backing despotic Austri,
and barbarous Turkey in preventing the formation
of a Constitutional State: Russia siding in the
Prineipalites with the same liberal patriots whom
she persecutsd in l5io, and UNFOLDING Con.titu-
tionsl Government there and in Sardinia: the Ger
man Radicals, for the sake of annoying their thirty
FIVE soveresns, big and little, pointing to Alexander
H. as to the chief of European Democracy, for bis
emancipation of the ssrfs and giving them home
stedds: the Sultan, chief Of the faithful subscrib
ing one thoa,sad sterling against the Hisaoo Ms