The New York herald., 1876-02-02
EUROPE AS IT Is.
A Second Letter from SenOr Caste
lar, Ex-President of Spain.
SLAVONIC TROUBLES.
What Is the Cause Of the Insurrec-
tion in Herzegovina?
ROME AND CONSTANTINOPLE.
The Turkish Empire and the
Sultan.
THE REPUBLIC IN FRANCE.
How the Friends Of the Republic Carried Their
ROME AND CONSTANTINOPLE.
The Turkish Empire and the
Sultan.
THE REPUBLIC IN FRANCE.
How the Friends Of the Republic Carried Their
Elections to the Senate
PARIS, Jan. 4. 1876.


ties of the Slave races occupying much atten
zion in Europe, a promise propose now to fulfil.
The example of the independence of these Savonic
nations--a contagious exampe-calls TO those who
Of similar race to their brothers in religion to rise
against the Turkish Empire, which is subject like all
despotic Powers to periodical revolutions. In the in
surrecton OF Herzegovina two essential elements
easily found-the irritation OF these mountaneers
crushed by the tithes which impoverished them, and
the assistance of the Servians and Montenegrins
anxious to extend their dominion and have greater
number of tribes at their side who have broken tho
Turkish yoke Thus it is that the savonic prncipali
ties themselves if they to descend i'm
mediaely the contest, and the Servans compose
army of 1856 0OO soldiers and the Montenegrns being
200 600 an army of so 000 There is nothing about
ligon in this Many Turks unite themselves with
the Christians to shake of the yoke that oppresses
them, and to redeem themselves from the tribute
which impoverishes them The Pope Of Rome has
the lively interest in the preservation of
The Sultan at Constantnople and in the peace
Of his Empire, because many OF his hocks possess
Turkish funds IN abundance. Thus, during the
insurrecton of Crete the Pope preached to the
Christians conformity with their servtude and the
telegraph that the Mussuman believers
asked of the Christian believers he shall again
preach resignation to the Catholic insurgents
Tho problem is purely politcal-naonaL 1t will have
immediate and favorable solution in the birth
State either independent tributary, If Europe did
aot with good fear the immediate consequences
Of always threatening warhke litigation for the plent
fu inheritance entailed in
INCOMPATIBLE coNsTANTINorLE.
This city, destined in many social Apocaypses to be
she worlds capital, city relatively modern il she be
compared with those that have crowned historic life
city whose greatness was foreshadowed and marked
in the sacred horoscopes of Apollo the rival of Rome
much more fortunate than Alexandria the mother of
church in which is joined the majesty OF
ASA with the metaphysical genius OF Greece
much of its Oriental spirit is in our life 1t is
uminary like Athens. Jerusalem, Cordoba; like
Ihe most brilliant in the outstrctchcd ethereal
heavens; sibyl of Christianity against competitor
In the West which rejected her in her birth insult
ana an assault upon her own imperial greatness. 1t
has been the principal of councils which have
promulgated the fundamental religious dogmas Con-
stantnople has above all these pestges the singular
Of her geographical positionthe marvellous golden
hornon the banks Of that blue Bosphorus that could
Dr shelter to all the naves the sea- the mighty
rents of those that carry fertility tho centre
" Etrope, and which commercial and mercantile
highways OF singular importance at the western bor-
Ger of Asia and at the doors of the East OF Europe
She is neighbor Of Greece and Of Italy. With her
communications open to all the products of labor and
with deles shut against all the nvasions of war; she
enfoded with skies of magical splendor, and
iwes upon territory Of sacred recollections
she Is ever between the entertainments of ma
mre and the paintings Of poetry, being, perhaps
The city marked out in the transformations Of
he future a point OF intersection of Continental
races, as the seat and site of confederation of
nations that will close the ago of privileges and open
he age OF right, when the earth and nature beauti-
nod. Io1,n ~
shall have been drawn to God through the
means of liberty and justice
TURKISH bEsPorIsu
This region, the lovely of the earth is cursed
with shameless despotism. The last rebeons of
herzegovina have renewed the contradictory reports
concerning the Turkish Empire. Those men who are
east superstitious in politics, tho economists,
most bitterly crtcise turkey and with more
certainty mark out her rremedable ruin. The
asst bankruptcy has been terrible not only to her
sredit, but to her existence. There as in those
ancient Asatic empires, there is no more than ono
uan--the Sultan. All others are If not beasts Of
burden, doce cattle Descendant of the Caliphs heir
20 osman this IN the East who untes
In himself n spiritual and temporal power the most
absolute which exists in the world-as pontin, as
legislator as supreme monarch and supreme Judge as
delegate of the Omnipotcnt ana co-particpant Of His
omnipotence Closed up in his seraglios almost away
from society," heights where the air seems almost
fatal to ordinary morals, superior to all criticism free
from any examination Of his acts and Of all criticism
upon his authority, vassal however great he
might appear come near him without trembling
nor enter into his abode unless in tho attitude OF
those who penetrate religious sanctuary. No one
dare look at him face 10 face hear word from him
without responding with every kind OF adulaon and
praise Conceived in the seraglo, born from the womb
C,Il-
every right and all authority belong him by hereditary
OATH with a most complete contempt of European civi
zaton with Asiac predictions that mind perturbcd
by the gddy heights from which he beholds the world
and lost IN the abyss beneath he thinks that the entire
Empire should submit and be subjected to the continual
oscillations OF his will, and the butterfly plays his
aespotic csprccs deadened by the poisonous atmos
3here OF incense and myrrh amid which be lives
MARVELLOUS IDoLArRY AND ExrRAvAGAScE
On Friday he goes ont on horseback accompanied by
As court surrounded by his eunuchs to reclte under
he domcs OF the chosen Mosque, the prayers Of the
ubrc, in procession that might be called the process
don of an IDOL Aiterward no shuts himself in
ais palaces and cniertains himself by witnessing
rock lights and athletic games visiting the
are birds of his painted aviary and the
@ges OF his ferocous carnivorous animals
counting the presents received from the
tnerent PROVINCES from those that come from the de-
yes oi Macedonia TO those that are brought from
.gypt and Nubia among which beautiful madcns for
NE seragho and young eunuchs who watch and guard
mem FROM estimates which ascend TO 500 900, 900
Iancs are reserved for the use or his divine
oerson; and Il viii not be surprising IT. as it is said, he
e~ ''oOO servants Of both sexes 800 cooks, 400
men servants 400 musicians, 100 portcrs, 200
wives, % Geld hands, so physicians so surgeons so
pages, $50 negro saves-7OOO persons TO feed every
day, and whose food costs than IL 900 francs
per annum Then again he has GOO saddle horses. 200
carriages 80 coachmen 4Oooo 600 francs annually to
spend only in the barren, in hogsheads or sugar
100000 jewels, 5000 for 6rewood 500 900 in bar
10y, near 100000 in pensions. lA.oO0OOO in the con-