New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-12-27

Ming afterward Lord Stratford de Radcliffe,
the ascendency obtained by the English En-
bassy over the feeble and vacilatiDg mind OF
the Padisha was the vexation and despair OF
the diplomacy of the Continent. Most people
who give cursory reading to the pages in
which Kinglake has described this despOtic con-
troll exercised by the great Eltchi," regard his
statements as tinged with exaggeration. But
their literal truthfulness is confirmed by numer-
other authorities. During all the negota
quo . Itch ended at last in the Crimean war; the
e eOnu W. I. rte took scarcely one important
DuD''n ~. We advice and consent of the
I priti.h h' FUhossador The Car Nicholas re-
peatedly recalled his En- oyS in a rage, LOT I
f Failing to Get the advantage of the hated
Sir Canning" but this ayailed n0th,-'
Sultan remained as faithful to England -
hound to his master.
Among other strange revenges which the
whirligig of time has brought round, none is
stranger than this, that Russia has completely
supplanted Great Britain at StambOul. Gen.
Ignatieff now gives the law at the Sublime
Porte, with so exact an imitation of the man.
ner of Lord Stratford de Radcliffe that he is
usually called the Russian Canning" 1t was
Ignatieff who insisted that Farragut should
pass the Dardaneles in his flagship who sug-
gested to the Sultan that Mr.. Frederick Grant
should be received with the honOrs due to
Crown Prince; all this apparently with no
other intention than to annoy Great Britain.
Russia has gained an important success by the
abrogation of the restrictions imposed upon her
by the Treaty of Paris. In which, to the conster-
nation of the Western nations, it was clearly
seen that Turkey declined their protection and
preferred that of her ancient enemy. In re-
cent DAYS the Russian influence has also made
itself plainly felt HALL Sheriff Pasha has
been dismissed from his post as Minister of
Foreign Affairs, it is said at the direct request
of Gen. Ignatieff The removal is regarded as
a decided victory over Sir Henry Elliot, the
English ambassador Raschid, the successor
of HALL Sheriff, is regarded as little more than
a Minister of transition, and MahmOud Pasha
is generally indicated to succeed him, which
viii bring in policy frankly hostile to En-
gland and friendly to Russia.
According to the English account the
secret of Ignateffs influence with the Sultan
is in his ardent and obsequious advocacy of
the plan which has so long fascinated Abdul
oHNNSDoA"N
throne from the collateral to the direct line,
thereby disiDheriting his nephew Mourad for
the benefit of his own son. This violation OF
the constitution could not be effected without
serious trouble, and perhaps civil war. Mou-
rad is more popular than the reigning Sultan,
and carries with him the powerful party OF
"Young Turkey" The Sultan can count
however, upon bis Cabinet, and probably upon
the army, to support his scheme. He has put
at the head of the Church Sheik-ul-Islam,
upon whom he can rely. And in this cOnjunc-
ture, he is sure of the cooperation of the
most independent and strongest of his vassals,
the Khedive of Egypt, because this prince is
preparing precisely the same change in the
succession in his own family. The events of
the immediate future in Constantinople are
therefore likely to be full of interest and i'm
portance, not only in themselves, but in their
relations to European politics For the
present, however, it seems clear that Russia,
after her terrible defeat at SevastOpOl, is again
master of the situation. She has wasted no
time in idle regrets, but has made use of
every possible advantage. Even when she
seemed most inactive, to use the famous word
of Nesselrode, "She was not pouting, she
" was rehecing."