The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-30

no lruss,an Minister would have ventured to
dream Of attempting to effect.
Yet II is by no means Impossible that Russia,
unttted and iudIspo. ed as she nov is to englgc
IN great European war, may ind herself drltted
into such war, al d, drifting into 1t, may carry
other great neutral powers With her through
the unexpected turn which the skill and decision
of Count Biemark have given TO events in a
quarter OF Europe as interesting as IL l., obscure.
On the western shore OF the Black Sea the
Russian province of Bessaiab'a is divided from
the Christian provinces OF TurSey bv the river
Pruth. The names OF Moldavia and Walachia
come and 60 at intervals through the pages OF
European hist,ry, and, in our own times, the
question OF the PIincipalltlesn has been nearly
as familiar to mems ears, and quite as lntellgIble
doubtless to mems minds, as that more
western Question Of the Duchess" the
solution OF which, begun with the sword by
Austria and Prussia in alliance on the plains OF
SchlesNig- g-Holstein, Is now about to be com
pleted with the sword by Austria and Prussia as
antagonists on the plains OF Silesia. But IL NAV
De doubted whether many people understand
that this question OF the prncipaltie con
Germs not only the condition and prospects of
four millions OF an active, restless, intelligent
race, occupying territory larger thsn the State
OF Penney ylvanla, at the mouth of the most i'm
porlant river OF Central Europe, but also the
issues OF domluion en- the Black Sea between
! Austria and Russia, and the course winch
things shall take when the final dooms.
Gay shall arrive OF the Turkish establish
( ments in Europe The inhabitants of Moldo
Wallachia regard themselves as called to oc-
CupN u separate ana 0atlO0al position IN Europe:
and it cannot be denied that they are in all
respects better entitled to hold such position
than the Hellenes Of Greece, whom all the world
has been trying in vain for tortV years to mani
pulRte into q decent and tolerable monarchy
Neither Russia nor Austria has been disposed TO
encourage this ambition OF the Moido-Walla-
chlans, and the utmost good that the combined
wisdom OF Europe could decide upon as PET
missible to this strangely situated people was
the constitution Of the two provinces into
a sort OF semril dependent princlpahty, or Hos
podarate, owing allegiance to the Sublime
Porte. or this Hospodarate, Prince
| Couza was elected Hospodar, and all
| would have gone well enough doubtless lust
| now, in Moldo-Walldchia, had not the people
| chosen to rise upon Prince Couza and drive him
| away to Paris in the very midst OF the greater
| troubles OF Europe over the gro wing German
| question. Much as the explosion dispeased the
| Western powers and disturbed Turkev, Russia
regarded 1t with an amable tolerailon, and,
! pushing forward powerful army into Be5sara-
| bla, prepared herseli to "watch events'i on the
| low er Danube, while Austria and Prussia should
| be fighting out their quarrel under the RleSen-
| GeblTge, and ltalv uashng herself upon the
| toursquaretrock OF the Austrian position in
| Neneua.
The Moldo Wallachans, however, finding that
| their hege lord, the Sultan, might take some
| unsatisfactory advantage OF the new position
| they had created for themselves, hastily went
| to work to choose new Hospodar, and under
the advice and at the instigation, it is now un-
| dersoOd, OF Count BismarS, elected to that high
rineen, young cousin of tine King o Prussia,
not yet thirty years OF age, and dashing sub.
lieutenant of Prussian dTagoons While dlplo-
macy at Paris and ST. Petersburg was discussing
the indecenCy of this election, Prince Charles
takes his carpet-bag, scampers through Austria
and down the Danube, and suddenly appearing
at Bucharest, announces himself, and is received
as the true and only "Hospodar" Of all
Moldo-Wal achia! Upon this, Turkey gets
under aims, Russia increases her Bessaraban
forces, and the war which all the great neutral
| powers are alike ANXIOUS to restrict as closely
as may be TO its original theatre in Central
Europe, may thus possibly be extended to the
| East, and made universally disastrous through
| the astuteness of Prussian Premier and the en-
| terprise OF hair-brained young Prussan prince.
| But, however this may be in the end the most
| striking illustration, perhaps, that could be
| given OF the altered condition of Europe since
| the establ shment OF the second French empire,
consists in the fact that if Russia appears at
all upon the theatre OF the greatest European
war OF our times, she will be dragged into that
war against her will and in the train of the
| policy of powers towards which Nicholas was
wont to assume the bearing OF king OF kings
and arbier OF history!