The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-17
svery possible thing will be done to show amicabs

every possible thing will be done TO show am!cabo
feeling aud take away the sting Of actual dcest-ax
any rate to save the amour p'opre of the islanders
30 as to leave no pretext for popular excitement
which might De readily awakened by any measures
too abrupt or openly hostile--and the conviction OF
Russia seems to be that this will suficc. She ap-
prosches like ancient Rome, with gifts in one
naho ana q sword in the other, and it rests with
Siaeh OaDlnet to say which she shall employ.
THE DESIRE FOR REVENGE
inere H. however, as have said a feeling ON
the part OF many Engllshmen which finds It's ha.
bitual and able expression in the Pau MaU Gazette
that England has been too often viclimized and
humihatea oy the European managers of events
to permit any further retrocessiOn without utter
loss of prestige and there Is no doubt that II the
conservatives judge 1T expedient to act they may
fan this feeling into flame which would kind,e a
European war instead OF one purely Danubian:
but 1t is difficult TO see how England can draw anv
good results tberefrom, except the purely honorary
one OF abdicating with proper dignity. With thu
abolition OF the Black Sea treaty England lost her
only secure hold on the direction OF Levantfna
matters and that step Is irretrievable. That was
the lifting OF the noodgates-it is idle
now to try to sweep back the deIuge The new
administration must see this, and can hardly
u
encourage this public dsconsent which would
make interference inevitable hut without making
it effective, and this consideration induces me t&
conclude that England Will elect, in spite OF tho
dlscontented party to assist at the funeral feast
the sick man as the mutual friend OF all parties
concerned
AuSTRIAs SHARE.
The share of Austria in the partition will be gen.
erous and all she would have hoped for. The
eastern coast Of the Adriatic az far as the Greek
frontier. and all the interior dependent on these
shores would conveniently extend the Empire and
interfere With no plans save those of Italy, who
would probably be paciied by the annexation or
the Italian Tyrol, and. perhaps. even Trieste; and
have heard it said that rather than MAKE Eng
land disconnected she would be allowed to apprO-
pirate the Isthmus and part or the whole OF
Egypt. II she s wise she will certainly stipulate
that the island OF Gambia shall pass under her pro-
lection as the sole refuge for naval power in the
whole Levant, and with this she would have
better position in regard to Eastern matters gen.
orally than she has now, seeing that the Black Sea
has become Russian lake.
TURKEY.
AS to Constantinope, there is no interest except
that Of fanaticism to oppose Russian advance. The
present Grand Vizier, Hassm Avn, Is heavy
wltted, fanatical and ignorant Mussulman, pnr
sang Turk, and as incapable OF governing as the
women OF the harem He is OF the ultra retrograd0
party, but willing to do anything for power Most
OF the old-fashioned beys, weary Of progress and
agitation are quite ready for Russia to take them
under her care and protect them from the Western
infides; and In the whole Empire there is no
statesman to take the direction OF affairs sol
dier to carry them on II it comes to blows.
the best officer probably on the surface
now being Mehmet Ali the Prussian, the
nf ia nOHap
no command. The Englishman Hobart Pacna.
poor, inefficient officer at best, has long ago lost
the confidence OF the Porte, and is kept in his
place only by the contract under which he entered
the service. There are Notifications going ON
the BOsphorus and torpedo experiments, under
the supervision OF an English ex-Confede-
rate Offcer, but there are no funds or means
10 arm experiment efficiently, and it Is safe to
say that when the Russians see fit to move down
the BOsphorus they Will be in three days in CON-
mand OF COnstantinOpe and all It's defenCes.
There Is rumOr that lgnatief Is going
to London as Minister, which has prob
ably no foundation whatever; but II 1T have
any it has probably nothing more than this, that
he will be able to convince the English govern
ment by the most indubitable proofs that he holds
the whole game IN his hands, and that, knowing
every town in the Ottoman Empire, its resources.
weak points and official perSOnne, as no other liv
ing man does, he win be able to convince Lord
Derby that resistance is idle. The Gear will never
withdraw IgnatieR from Constantinope until the
game he has been manager OF so many years. 10
played out and Turkey Russian province.
1t is absurd to predict that the Eastern question
will come on this year or next or any other, but
one thing may safely be said, that TOR twenty-five
years Russia has not had so favorable q tine for
the execution OF her plans; and to believe, on the
WITH NJ hosa rOth
ing more than imperial toasts or diplomatic de-
mails, tnat Russia has abandoned or unnecessarily
postponed the schemes avowed for century or
two because Of sentimental consideration for
Queen Victoria, is to suppose the millennium really
at hand.