The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-11-20
rHB s1rUA1loN IN EURopE.


THE SITUATION IN EUROPE.
The announcement contained In re-
cent issue of the official Gazette Of Rus
sia, that no attempts would be made to
sustain the Herzegovinian insurrection
rs against Turkey must OF course be
taken in Pickwickian sense. The Rus
sian diplomacy is too we'll understood
to presume that the official Guzette con-
tains any thing more than a political
blind. The fact Is, tho Russian
government foresaw that the insurrec-
tion of the Danubian provinces could
not be suppressed by Turkey unaided
by any Of the Western Powers; and to
prevent the intervention Of any of those
Powers In aid of Turkey, the Russian
cunningly announced anon-interven tion
policy through its official Gazette.
Now, such announcements are subject
10 be repudiated Of ignored by the gov
ernment if it see fit, while the same an
nouncement If made through its diplo-
matte agents could not be repudiated.
And, as latest advices inform US, it is
now found that the insurrection is al
ready beyond the power of the Sultan to
control. Russia has succeeded in Keep
Ing the Western Powers out of the fight,
until the insurrection could gain such
head as to defy the Turks. Then any
intervention that would follow would
simply mean the subjugation of the
Danubian Principalities by power
nominally Christian in order to bind
those Christian provinces over again to
the Mahomedan rule of the Turk. And
this is just what Europe would not be
found willing to do.
The inevitable seems to be working
Its way rapidly to the surface in South
eastern Europe; and that means the ex-
pulsion Of the Turks, and the expWg-
Ing of 'sTurkey in Europe" from the map
of the world.
The natural inquiry, then, is-what
nextY Freed from the Turkish yoke,
those provinces Of the lower Danube
must needs be reconstructed under some
new political conditions. One or the
other Of two courses Of procedure is
plainly inevitable: either the insttu-
tion of separate and independent sov-
ereignty embracing all those prineipali-
ties under one consolidated dynasty; or
their several absorption into the en-
pires adjoining them, Russia, Germany,
Austria, by the process of amicable par
tition.
5 To make a forcible partition Of those
provinces among the several empires
named we do not deem practicable
Such an attempt would involve Europe
In a general war. 1t was done in the
case Of Poland. But relative positions
political aims, and commercial interest:
are now such Us to forbid sucn com
pulsory division OF that immense ane
important portion Of European territory
To make an amicable partition implies
, of course, the consent and choice o
those provinces themselves. OF thei
populations, q large proportion are de
scendents of the Slavonic race and ad
herents of the Greek Catholic Church
these would incline to Russia
There are likewise large mum
bers who are adherents of th'
Roman Catholic Church; these woult
incline to Austria. And yet others
especially amo 6 tho Hungarians ant
the Bohemians, would, from both relig
ious and political Considerations incline
to Germany.
But the greater probabilities are tina
q new and Independents kingdom
would be constructed cut Of thos
disintegratsd provinces now appertain
ing to the Turkish Empire, recognized
by the European Powers. And tn
probabilities are, that in case Of such
recognition, prince of the Hohenzol
lerns would be selected, at the instanc'
Of Germany, and placed at the head o
the new dynasty thus to be instituted
on the final retirement of the Turks fror
che sod of Europe.