The New York herald., 1869-01-17
THE EASTERN QUESTION.

The vOiee OF tho Pross on tho Conference for
the Settlement Of the Turko-Creek Dimculfy.
The London Times Of the slst ult. says:-The Greek
government has neither money nor credit, but 1t
Turkish provinces and 1t relies on the certainty that
Europe will never permit the permanent conquest
O. its territory II Turkish army enters the king
and innumcrable atrocities will be invented to excite
the indignation OF Christendom. There is little
and at sea the skilful Greek cruisers viii, per.
naps continue 70 bafile the pursuit OF the Turkish
es w Re ee Is Ss that ss SS
rived at q decision II win be impossible to Judge
whether the great Powers are able to agree on an
ness OF the actual c0mbaants to submit to European
arbitration will still remain to be solved.v
eye in the least that they can be conquered and do
believe that they can give the signal for nsurrection
throughout the Sultan's domnions-a signal which
Will be heard in Asia as well as Europe-and Will
throw the Orthodox from odessa to St. Peters.
burg into fever OF excitement The Greeks
nafics, victims Of an idea, or anything else, but
as long as they do not think SO they will fight; and
me solemn diplomatic threats Of leaving them 10
their fate will be met with the ridicue they deserve
and the war the Conference is to prevent will rage
al the more nercey because II win have inspired In
the Greeks just belief that dipomatiss would like
TO condemn them unheard. II the Conference win
produce peace, well and good; we can understand,
though we heartily dislike the policy OF peace any
price; but 1t seems to us much more likely 10 land
us IN position from which we must either retreat
with more or less of 0pprobrium, or cOerce q free
State In Turkish interests. or allow ourselves to be
dragged into very serious war. waged to compel
unwilling populations to remain submissive to Otto
The London Globe OF the I'd says:--"A conference
wisely conducted is useful In two ways--it affords
an opportunity for the exercise OF moderating IN
advice spontaneously they would be supposed to act
from interested aud selfish impulses and II enables
discontens before they attain unmapareabe pro- pro-.
portions. For example, at the conference which
Is about to be held on the affairs OF Turkey and
Greece, although the ive points OF the ultmatum
which Turkey sent 10 Greece a'e to form the basis
OF discussion 1t will be possible TO express and
explain collateral sentiments which, II allowed TO
remain unexpressed and unexplained. mig,t here
after develop into seri0ns causes OF difference.
seldom, indeed. can It happen that conference
wisely and honorablv conducted fall to eject
permanent good. The idea OF q congress Is parlia-
ment Of nations convened for special purpose.
Ihis idea Is capable OF development into q scheme
for the permanent institution OF an International
court OF appeal. The recourse to conferences In
moments OF difficulties win habituate the nation 10
the use oil these admirable agencies for the preserva
ton OF peace and at the same time supply direct
proof By experiment that the idea OF an interna-
tional parliament Is practicable The existence OF
such final court OF appeal would do more to aay
the fears and remove the alarms which now trouble
the world than any other expedient. And 1t would
tend pre-eminenty TO the attainment OF that other
tlon OF peace.r
as follows:-"whether the wariike ardor OF the
Greeks be such or not certain we may be that the
sublime Porte WIN never dream OF holding its hand
driven to extremities By foe ut once insulting
and 80 insignificant The onice OF the Conference
viii be that OF pacincator but, while 1t will be
SO, 1t VIII at the same time constrained in the
interests OF European order, and In vtndcati0n
OF the probity OF nations TO reprehend with the
sternness demanded By the occasion the extraordi
nary aggressions adventured upon by Greece In the
whole OF these recent proceedings the part OF the
Hellenic people and on the part OF the Hellenic gov
eminent IN regard TO the integrity Of the domInons
and the Independence OF the soyereignty OF the
Sultan Caph, Abdul Aziz.u
La Tusoufe, OF Constantinople, an organ OF the
Grand Vizier, In an article the pending difficu-
ties mentions the fearful consequences that the con-
ict viii entail on entire Europe IL attributes the
whole adair TO the equivocations Of European diplo
macy, and finishes Dy asserting that the only
10 avoid great war is TO leave Turkey to settle her
own grievances with Greece.