The New York herald., 1875-08-27
WAR IN THE EAST.
Russia's Relations to the
Present Difficulty.
HER CHECKMATE ON TURKEY.
Bloody Possibilities in the Event
Of Trebigne's Fall.
THE THEATRE OF THE WAR.

LONDON, August r. 1875
The news from the Herzegovina is Of the kind which
suits the English press in general always the con-
dton that there must bo news from the Herzegovina
for this is case where news is good news. We have
the sereoyped repression OF the nsurrection about
once week from the Porte with the additional particu-
lars Of the insurgents being driven to the mountains
expected paciacation, &c Suddenly however they re-
appear, besieging fortified city OF no great magni-
tude 1t is true, but large enough If 1t is taken
have before intimated that the fate of Turkey f.
humanity speaking at the disposal of the Russian
government; and, for my own part, I must
say that l regard any disposal OF it which
that arbiter may decide on to be better for
humanity at large than the continuance Of the Ottoman
government in Europe on any terms consistent with
the PRIDE the ignorance and fanatclsm of the Turk
Wherever Christian ana Ottoman exist together, tho
atter being the dominant race there will be injustice
always oppression generally and nsurrection OCCASION
ally. Where the Christian Is dominant the Moslem
rapidly disappears and comparative prosperity appears
Where the Turk maintains his rule there slow decay
and political death; but whatever the nationality which
replaces It, the day that the Turkish government dis
appears begins revival of security and com.
mercal prosperity. European jealousies, and
especially English apprehension Of Russian sue
cess, mako 1t easy to cover this fact here,
which shall prevent them from wishing well 10 civza-
ton and freedom in the classic Old World single in
stance will show that matter into whose hands the
Levant falls it must be better for the Turk being ex-
peled and that sympathies should go with Russia
If it appears that she s the alternative to the Sultan
II not TO Russia then to whatever Christian Power
shall succeed The city OF Candia In Crete was when
the Turks got possession Of the Archipelago tho en-
porium Of the Levant, prosperous commercial city
with good harbor and strong fortcations Since the
Turks took possession in 1862 there has never been
revival Of prosperity. The walls still show the marks OF
the SIEGE the port has filled up, the population dmin-
ished to fraction of what 1t was and the houses as
they fall into ruin, allowed to go without repairs
Englishmen in the habit Of quoting the Greeks as
the most incompetent Of races in every political scnse
yet tho Greek side Of the Archipelago on the little
island of syr there has grown since $780, where there
at that date only hsherman's hut, q city
Of 10000 Inhabitants, clean, well built well
policed, with capital port and breakwater--
the entrep0t Of the Levant and the most
thriving place in it. What, then might not expect
Of the Russians II they 70 replace the Prophet It
TO time to leave sympathy for ices bons Tres'
those who have got their bonds on their hands mot
their Christian subjects, but their English iends 1t
is safe to say that humanitarian and political point
of view every Insurrecton in the Turkish Empire do
serves our sympathy and we ought TO regard the cap
of Trebgnc by tho Herzogoynlans the most for
tunate of events for to-day.
NEAR-EGHTED ENGLISH JOURNALISM
The English journals take 1t for granted that, so long
neither Of the great Powers ntervenes the nsurrec
ton cannot hope for success but they forget that in
case in our time has the Porte succeeded In suppressng
serious insurrecton alone The interference Of tho
great Powers has always been favorable to the Porte
In Montenegro the insurgents were not subdued they
we're bought of In Syria they wero disarmed by
treachcry Of the French authorities In Crete they
were pst down by diplomatic pressure and the treason
of pretended friends and the impotence Of tho Empire
is such that 1t not for the moral pressure always
exered by the great Powers the Principaltes and
on tho Christian population generally there would long
ago have been general rising throughout European
Turkey All that the "great Powersn-i e., Russia,
Austria and Prussaneed do to bring on general re-
volt from the Adriatc to the Danube is 10 withdraw
their nrcssure, EnGishman llatter themselves when