The New York herald., 1870-05-20
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litical contest in France, has never receded
from its commanding position, and now begins
to glow like fiery meteor in the southern sky
as tho clouds of the pIe6iscisum roll away from
the north. Ever since the assemblage OF
crowned heads and celebrities from all parts OF
the world to honor the Inauguration OF the
Sucz Canal gave tho Egyptian Khedive more
historical prominence and more striking iden-
tifcation with modern progress than his master,
the Sultan has been in most uneasy state OF
mind. Himself sagacious and enlightened
Prince, as fully possessed of the spirit OF the
time as the popularity Of Oriental training, OF
Ottoman law and the Mohammedan religion
admit, he is of all men the bcst situated to
comprehend the whole significance of his
Viceroy's attitude and to estimate Alright the
dangers to which his own suzerainty is ex-
posed, should Egypt be allowed to assert even
a quasi Independence. Hence the prompt and
emphatic manner in which he has compelled
his great vassal to renounce even the appear
European Powers, and hence, too, the decided
notifications that he has made ia the project
Of judiciary reform brought by the Egyptian
envoy Nubar Pacha to Constantinople and
thence conveyed by the same parsonage TO
Paris, where the further negotiations are to be
conducted. To this susceptibility of the Grand
Signor the Viceroy yielded, apparently, at
once; but it has now been discovered that he,
in the meanwhile, was quietly endeayoring 10
raise private loan Of several millions Of
dollars. This revelation has led to a
keen and jealous inquiry. and the latter
has elcited no less important Information,
loudly asserted in the European journals, that
a secret correspondence has been going on
for some time between the Gear and the
Egyptian Kheiive. It's purport is that
the former shall recognize the royalty Of
the latter Immediately after he shall have
declared his Independence. Rumor had it
that the two dignitaries were to meet at Odessa,
but, owing to the publicity given to this state
changed to the Baths Of Aix--an oninous
name for the parties against whom the con-
ference may be directed.
Since msfortunes never come singly, but
by troops and sometimes in battalions, the
Grand Turk, as he looks forth over the gar
deas and groves of the serag,io, sees the
clouds gathering in upon him toward tho East
as well as the West, and on the North as we'll
as in the South TIE Bulgarian difficulty, in
which the Greek patriarch refuses to recognize
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ian church the Armenian Catholic trouble, in
which the Turkish law and Papal authority
are brought into direct collision, and the
Roumanian dispute over the attempt OF Prince
Charles to issue gold and silver coin as well as
national bank bills stamped with his own
eifigy, form budget OF complications that
might well perplex less phlegmatic ruler.
OF course, the circumstantial evidence is
strong that these annoyanccs, coming as they
do simultaneously and at so very peculiar
iunct,lre of time and circumstance, are not
merely the work Of chance. There are long
heads and strong hands behind the curtain of
which will rise presently, no
doubt, upon drama the magnificent arena Of
which will extend from the giittering shores
of the Golden Horn to the heights Of Lebanon
on the one hand and to the sandy area Of the
Nile pyramids on the other But the pres
crt Commander OF the Faithful, with all the
splendid tastes of Suleiman the Magnificent,
has also much of that monarchs astuteness
and martial gallantry. He has forty millions
of a population, twenty-five millions of whom
are fssnatical Mohammedans, at his back. He
has five hundred thousand disciplined troops
about one hundred ships of war, manned by
thirty thousand seannen and carrying four
thousand five hundred guns, ready fo- almost
Immediate use, and controls the resources of
ar empire whose recuperative force has re.
peatedly astonished Western Europe when it
was supposed to be utterly exhausted.
Persia, however, has been hobno5bing with
the Czar, and her proximity to the Caspian
Sea makes her very dangerous it hostile
neighbor to Turkey Muscovite power already
overshadows Turkestan and Bokhara, and it's
predominance there would amount to flank
movement on Persia sufficient to impel the latter
feeble Power in the line Of Russian policy. The
English, indeed are present in Afghanistan
and Beloocnistan, adjoining the Persian from
tier, but it is question whether the slightest in
terference on their part in that direction would
not precipitate French action in Egypt and
Syria In word, while all eyes have been
turned to Paris, the Sultan feels that in Con-
stantinople are accumulating the elements Of
a'struggle that is presently to shake the whole
Eastern world, involving greater variety Of
nationalities, tongues and creeds than have
been fused together in the crucible Of war since
the days Of the Crusades
The PRINCE IMPERIAL OF FRANCE has had
q fall from velocipede. II resulted in a
sprained ankle, lirst painful life Incident for
the youth, but one which will count for no
thing in the experiences Of his father.
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