New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-13

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connected with the preparation Of that
government for tho nov way that is to be
begun and fought ont with other Euro
pean nations for supremacy and power.
The recent conference which was held in
London for the adjustment of the Russian
demands upon the treaty of 1856, is not
altogether satisfactory. Though an ar
rangement has been made, and the text Of
a new treaty has been prepared and sub
mitted to the several governments
in that conference, it
is only a postponement OF the
ultimate struggle which the Russians
intend to make for the supremacy Of the
European continent. Ever since her
ignominious defeat in the Crimean war,
she has been and is now eager to avenge
that discontinue, and to that end is pre-
pairing for it. Though there may be an
apparent submission of the Russian gov
eminent to the terms of compromise
arranged by the London conference COM
mission, it is only accepted to give more
time for Russia to complete and perfect
her preparations for the final issue. The
treaty of Paris of 1856 has virtually been
repudiated and set aside by the COM
mission, and is. SO considered by
prominent members of the English Par
lament, for one of them, Sir Charles w.
Dixie, member for Chelsea, in asrecent
speech, denounced the reputation of
that treaty by Russia, and blamed Earl
Granville for consenting to reopen II
Euxine question, charging that the collu-
sion between Russia and Prussia produced
this result. Much as Russia has gained
by the action Of the conference, she is
not satisfied; that is to say, the people do
not favor the foreign policy of their gov
eminent which yields anything for the
sake of compromise, as they believe
has been done in this instance. The edu-
Gated classes of Russia have, for long
time, especially since the emancipation of
the serfs, been developing a dis
tinct public opinion, and that
public opinion is, upon all points,
opposed to the foreign policy the present
government have hitherto appeared to
follow, including the concessions made
upon the Euxine question. Public
opinion in Russia is essentially Pan
is to say, antagonistic to
these great ':oppressors" of the Slavonic
race, the Germans, the Hungarians and
the Turks. This boosted Prussian al
lance to them is as distasteful as
would be an Austrian or Turkish alli-
ance. It demands, besides, immediate
warlike action, in o Panslavic sense.
The quiet, slow, but conveniently safe
underground action of Russian traditional
sorely tries this public opinion.
Whatever successes are claimed to- have
been obtained at the conference, import
ant though they appear to be, are as
naught to. the Russian Panslavists.
They hear nothing but the ''cry of an
guish" of their oppressed brethren in
race; they feel nothing more intensely
than the necessity of restoring the lost
of holy Russia by grand
coup-a war of conquest. They know,
that the heir presumptive is
one of them. All this considered, and
the grand strategic railway lines toward
the south and southwest having now been
completed far enough to serve efficiently
for purposes of attack against Austria or
Turkey, or both, is there not a strong
inducement for the Russian government,
and for the Emperor Alexander personally.
to apply the old Bonapartist means, and
stave off internal troubles by foreign
war? In relation to the twelve million
loan, to which reference is already made.
q St. Petersburg correspondent of the
Ostsee Zeitung, of Stettin, under date Of
March 4 (new style), says: "The Franco
German war has convinced the Russian
military authorities of the total ineficiency
Of the system of Notifications hitherto fol-
lowed in the construction of the Russian
fortresses, and the ministry of war has
already settled the plan for the necessary
It is reported that the new
system, based upon the introduction of
detached forts, is to be applied, in the
first instance, to the more i'm
portant frontier fortresses. The recon-
struction is to be commenced forthwith.
The first fortresses which are to be pro-
vided with detached forts are Brzesc Litew-
ski, Demblin and Nodlin." Now, Brzesc
Demblin Tor Ivangorod) and
Modlin Tor Novo-Georgiewsk, by the Off
cial Russian name), are exactly the three
fortresses which, with Warsaw as a central
point, command the greater portion of the
kingdom of Poland, and Warsaw does not
receive any detached forts now, for the
very good reason that it has had them for
many years past. Russia, then, loses no
time in fastening her hold on Po-
land, and in strengthening her base
Of operations against Austria, and
the hurry with which this is done is of no
good augury for the peace of Europe.
And more than this, the warlike prepare