New Orleans Republican., 1875-12-02
Especial Correspondents Of the Republican,
THE EAsTRRN QUESTION.

AAAH AsASA .AsAS ~V-SAAO@'s H|f
The Acquisition Of the suez Canal BY
Great Britain-Ies Eject sn the Easa-
ern Question and ON Eurspean Pslifics-
Expulsion of tho Turk from Kurepe-
Extension Of Austrian Jurisdtceasa to
the s-Censtantinoplo a.
Free City-EHect ON the Commercial
Interests Of Austria and Itnly-A Les.
son for New Orleans.
WASHINGTON, November q. 1875.
The Atlantic cable informs us that Great
Britain has purchased the international
ship canal which connects the Mediter-
ranean with the Red sea. This sct of
Great Britain indicates the speedy dissolu-
ton of the Turkish empire. The purchase
of the Suez canal by England can not be
prompted either by commercial or financial
consideration. The canal has been free to
all nations from the day of it's construction,
and England has been as free as others to
use it, and she has used it extensively.
There can be no commercial necessity,
therefore, for the purchase. As financial
investment the purchase is equally mex
plicable. The sum paid for the canal will
not realize two per cent on the investment
We must therefore look in some other di.
rection for the motive which prompted the
British government to acquire this impor-
tant piece of property. The purchase of
the Suez canal by England is evidently
prompted solely by political considerations,
and an examination of these will show that
the "sick man of the East is near his death
Lad %1ok Sc hiatt nf
this than the European power which has so
long acted as attending nurse as well as
consulting physician in the case.
England, as one of the "great" powers of
Europe, is, of course, advised of the conclu-
| sion at which these powers have finally
arrived in regard to Turkey. That con-
clusion must result in the early expulsion
| of the Turk from Christian Europe, not
withstanding the protest OF his English
nurse that the sick man will get we'll, and
that his continued stay in the fairest por
tion of Europe as the murderer of innocent
women and children, and the oppressor of
Christian people, is highly creditable to
European civilization and promotive of the
welfare of continental Europe. This ex-
pulsion of the woman whipping and
woman numbering Turk from Europe
| will leave an important territory to
be governed by some other power.
This question will now be speedily
settled. The settlement will be agreed to
by Germany, Russia and Austria, England
"protesting." This settlement consists in
enlarging the territorial boundaries OF
Austria by extending the Austrian line to
the Bosphorus. This is the "c6ihpensa-
ton which Prussia offers her sister German
empire of the South for former losses Of
territory of the latter in the last German.
Austrian war. The North German empire
come into cordial relations, and consti
tute belt of Germanic influence. extending
from the Baltic to the Mediterranean.
Russia is consenting party to this ex.
tension of Austrian territory and this diplo-
matte solidifcstion of German influence.
This adj ustment menaces England at two
points: One in 30 settling the "balanoe oi
power on the continent of Europe, as te
practically exclude Great Britain from any
further part in its politics tfor the Turkish
question represented the last vestige Of
British influence on the cOntinentI; the other
in making Turkey in Asia the next objective
point of Russian aggression eastward; be
cause with the expulsion of the Turk from
Europe, and the extension of the Austrian
line to the Bosphorus, Russia, supported by
the two great German empires, can ad
vance with impunity to the acquisition Of
Constantinople. In word, this settlement
of the Turkish question makes the thret
great empires of Russia, Germany and
Austria, the arbiters of the future of Asia
England sees this, and comprehends all tht
consequences which will flow from it. Shs
sees that the next step in this game will bt
the possession of Constantinople by Russia
and that the German-Austrian alliance viii
prove to be the supporter of the Gar in
this acquisition of the Sultan's capital.
, The first move made by Great Britain In
this game for empire is worthy the genius
of the man who has so long been the lead
ing mind of England. The hand of Dis
raeii is plainly to be seen in the purchase oi
the Suez canal. The next move by the
same master mind will be to unite Germany
and Austria with England in making Con
stantinople ''free city" If England car
carry this point, then Austria will awake
from her present commercial and industrial
lethsrgy and turn her tace southwark in
search of outlets for her goods. She will be
Immediately interested in the trade Of
which Constantinople will become the
metropolis The North-German empire will
also feel the attractive power of this new
outlet eastward for the products of German
ingenuity, labor and taste. With Constau
tinopls as free city, bound by commercial
ties to the manufacturing interests of Cor
many and Austris, effectuAlly checks the
Russian purpose.
Outside of the interest which the subject
itself must possess for every intelligent
mind, this episode iu European politics pos
sesses . special interest to New Orleans.
New Orleans occupies in the the New World
the same geographical position held BY
Constantinople in the old. The Crescent
City of the East, like the Crescent City Of
the West, has long been lashed to the dead
body of political diplomacy, and thus shut
out from her true destiny. For New Or.
Leans the motto is Southwark the star Of
empire takes its way" She should cut
l an oa f-cr, that hy,rI ura