The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-09-16
POLITICS.

According to the latest news received per Tea
tGndiG, are of the gravest import. Englands
great statesman, the marvellous " ADVENTURE"
Disraeli-who is more English than any other
English statesman, is the material expression of
the masterful and aggressive spirit of colonial
aggrandizement and maritime dominion, which
originated with Walter Raleigh and other heroes
of the Tudor era-has with marked prescience
and vigor adopted an initiatory policy, to deter
mine Britain's paramount claims to diplomatic
pre-eminence in Constantlnople, TO the protector
ate OF the Levant, and to the unchallenged sway
Of the empire of India.
How mastery and far-sighted was the first
move in tho purchase of the great Isthmian high
way, and the prompt placing of ironelads to
guard the gates to the Mediterranean and the
Red Sea. Then how quietly yet how potently
the mastcr-mind moved in the harmonizing of
Mahometan States, even in the pacifcation of lit
tie Achin in Sumatra, n Koranic child of Con-
stantinople, until the movement eliminated in the
masterstroke Of placing an overwhelming force
of iron-clads in Bessica Bay, which guaranteed
support to the Turk, who depoeed and slew the
Russianized Abdul ASH, placed the Anglophilo
Murad on the throne of the Caliphs and glori-
fed the British ambassador with a Mahometan
ovation.
Now all this was going on, whilst the three
Imperial Powers of Europe were engaged in a
diplomatic " REFORM" or a quash of the indie
pendence of Turkey, without paying the slightest
heed to the views or wishes of Britain, the
Ottoman's most interested ally therefore the
grand manner in which the British Premier
has tretted out the British Lion and aroused
with his roar the echoes around the Golden
Horn. must have been q rude awakener to the
oyer-confdent Northern Bear. The latter, after
having raised his sunken feet out Of the
waters of Sebastopol, after being able to set
aside, through the events of the German-French
war, and the timid policy of n British Ministry,
the restrictions imposed upon him in, the Black
Sea by the Treaty of Paris was led to think
that the way to Stamboul was open, aud
that owing to commerce, luxury, and their
eneryating influences, the claws of the old lion
were forever trimmed, and hereafter, he would
be content TO feed on whatever humble-pie
the diplomacy Of Continental Europe might
serve up to him. But by the latter's movement
in the Dardanelles, by his Intervention in Egypt
with his Mohametan Sikhs, and by his vast
accumulation Of the material Of war, and his
attitude for Wharf.-The kIngly beast of the
Plantagenets comes to the front in European
politics, and makes the civilized world a~nxiousiy
await the issue of his gage of attle;-whieh
we suppose from our news, has been thrown
down by him and taken up by Russia and
her allies.
Now here comes Rlthe point of doubt in re-
spect TO the allies of the principal eombatants.
No family alliances have any weight now in
modern States, whsn political issues are mo-
mentous therefore it is possible that Queen
Victoria's son-in-law in Germany, and her
daughter-in-law In Russia may be politically
arrayed against her; and the Irish McNlahon
with n Fenian sword in his hand may be helping
to fight her battles But all this il speculation