The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-19
THE SULTAN AND HIS vAssALs.

THE SULTAN AND HIS vASSALS.
From the N. 7. Tribune.
If war should follow the Russian demand
for the abrogaton of the treaty of Paris, it
would very materially differ from the conflict
in the Crimea in 1855. The element of local
insurrections would doubtless now be intro
duced into the problem which Turkey and
the protecting powers must face. All readers
of the Tribune know what tension there has
been for some years past in the relations ex.
lstlnQ between the Sublime Porte aud the
Vlce-Regal Government of Egypt. The ut
most endeavors of France and England have
been necessary to prevent an open breach
between the Sultan aud his powerful vas
sal on questions of loans, arm1ments,
coinage, and other attributes of sove-
reignty. Each new quarrel has generally
been arranged by friendly Interference on
basis that hattered the shallow
vanity of the Padisha. and secured to the
Khedive the substantial benefits of an almost
complete independence. While the Govern
mept of the Sultan, given over to plunder aud
debauch, has sunk every year into lover
depths of listless ineflieiency, the adroit and
intelligent ministry of the Pacha of Egypt
has been devoting every energy to the i'm
provement of the financial and military situa-
ton, and to the development of the internal
resources of the country. The opening of
the Suez Canal was seized upon and used
with great effect as a means of cultiFating
close and friendly relations, not only with
princes and ministers, but also with leading
journalists and citizens who were able to
create in Western Europe an atmosphere
favorable 10 the Ismail dynasty
1t is the question of succession that forms
the strongest motive for the assertion of
Egyptian independence. There is really
nothing oppressive in the suzerainty of the
Porte. The NicerOy has received more an
noyaDce than damage from the occasional
interference of the Sultan in the internal
affairs of his kingdom. few civil express
sions in diplomatic note, a kind speech
from Nubar Pacha, display of the Turkish
flag, or a salute from cRuuon whose purchase
had given uinbiage to the jealous voluptuary
of StambOul, have usually been enough to
scothe the susceptibiities of Abdul Aziz,
without serious injury to Egyptian interests.
But the cold ill-wili of the Porte is stand
ing menace TO the succession of Prince Mech
med, son and heir of the Khedive. Tue Sui
ten has recently distinguished with special
honor and favor Mustap apha-Fazyl, the brother
of Ismail, who some years ago bartered his
birthright for pottege of several millions,
which he has eaten in princely fashion at
Paris and Baden, and now has Joined the
Court of Constsntinople, and is regarded as
tie leader of the anti Egyptian party, and an
aspirant for the crown he has once been paid
for. The sanction of the Porte was given, it
is true, to this transfer of the succession from
the collateral to the direct line, but he may
any day withdraw it, and this disposition
forms in the Court of Alexandria a powerful
motive for revolt.
The Hospodar of Roumania, Prince Charles
of Hohenzollern, has also indicated disposi-
ton TO emancipate himself from his lax vas
salage to the Turk. But it remains to be seen
whether he will prefer perilous indepen-
dence, which would probably end sooner or
later in absorption by Russia, to his present
position of merely nominal subsection to the
Porte, under the protection of the Western
powers. The principalities of Bosnia, Servia,
and Montenegro are thoroughly undermined
by Russian plots and conspiracies. The pre-
mature murder of the Prince of Servia
in 1868 attested the desperate but
ignorant character of the Instruments
of Russia in that province, and had
no other effect than to seat young Milan
Obrepovitch on the throne of his uncle more
firmly than by natural succession. In case of
war; however, it is likely that the Austrian
influence will not be sufficient to keep the
three Western Principalities from attempting
to gain their independence, and the late in
surrection in Dslmatia indicates a state of
suppressed discomfort that may endsnger the
Austrian rule on the shore of the Adriatic.
In case of the revolt of these vassal princes,
the military power Of Turkey would be com.
pletely neutralized as against Russia, and the
most serious complications would be pre-
sented to the consideration of the Western
powers.
THE IMPENDING EUROPEAN CRASH
From the ". y. Herald.
The pen with which the peace treaty OF
March 80, 1885, was signed at Paris, by the
represent atives of the high contracting powers
who had been directly or indirectly concerned
in the Crimean war and afterwards joined in
conference, was fashioned out of a quill
plucked from the wing of an imperial eagle in
the Jardin des Plantes, as NJ. de Conches
Chief of the French Protocol Office, testifes
under that same date and over his official sign
manual. The Napoleonic Empire, then in its
glory, of which the noble bird was emblems.
tical, has gone down in blood, and the eagle
himself, OF his progeny, may ere this have
been grilled on revolutionary gridirons to
! stay the stomach of hungry republicans, hard
set by the rigors of the siege; but the work
that they mutually did returns to plague the
surviving States and dynasties that con
Cured in the convention.
On the 10th of April 1856, Just twenty
! days after the signatures were completed, the
| Herald, in an article entitled Treaty OF
! Peacs-What is it Worth ?" took the position
that the new treaty was nothing more than
q rehash of the old political arrangements OF
Amiens and Tilsit; that while it was said to
| he likely to secure the peace of Europe and
remove many disturbing questions, it would
do nothing of the sort; but that, like the
other two conventions named, it lacked the
main element of political vitality, because il
was chiefly dictated by the selfish views OF
the contracting parties, and had little or nc
| reference to the general interests of hu