The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-10

sense that IL should be so, and 1t happens to
be n matter of fact that it is so. The question
is how do they propose to keep England
quiet? The hrihc Is not difficult to discover.
The Emperor NICHOLAS offered II once, but
failed because it did not suit the late En-
pcror NAPOLEON that England should have
Fgypt. But the map OF Europe has
changed since then, the Sucz canal
has been built, and public senti
mcnt in England toward Turkey has
altered. so that the old ambitions and the
old scruples no longer exist TO interfere with
the solution Of the Eastern question
When the Russians have obtained such
victories over the Turks that England
becomes alarmed, and Austria importu-
nate for her assistance, then the offer
Of Egypt, which We have reason to believe
has been already made to England Indirect
ly and conidcntially by the Russo-Gcrman
Cabinets, will be made openly, and no Minis
try will bc able to resist the pressure Of the
British public, who will then insist upon es-
Gaping from all further danger of a Eu-
ropcan war; by the simple cxpedient Of en-
tcring into quiet ownership of the Suez ca
nal the high road to the East" the key
to the Indian Empire" and so forth Tur-
key will then be left to her fate. Austria will
have to make the best terms she can, and live
in the hope that Germany and Russia may
quarrel over the spells. France will be furi-
Gus at seeing England master Of Egypt. but
powcrlcss TO resent it and Monsieur DE LES
SIPS may bc driven to the desperate cxpc-
dent Of naturali2ing himself ms British
avcrted the Turks driven out Of Europe. the
Christian Slavs and the Greeks in Turkey
will he left to govern or to massacre each
other as the case may bc, and England's
mouth will bc eflectually stopped in regard
to any disposition which il may suit Russia
and Germany TO make Of the rest of Eu
rope.
the present the war will be localized, that
the protccturatc of the Khcdive will be
transferred from the Sultan to the sovereign
of Great Britain and that the gen
cral conilagration will be avcrtcd until
the two great powers Of Russia
and Germany. now practically united
against Europe, find themselves masters of
the situation, and take to fighting with each
other for the supremacy. OF course all
this may be indefinitely delayed by the
events Of the war. We have always insisted
that those journals that predicted n march
through Asia Minor to the Dardanclcs. or Il
military promenade to the Holy Land. by
the Russians were entirely mistaken.
We have maintained that Russia's
weak spot was the Trans-Caucasus and
that Turkeys strong frontier was Armenia.
Events have proved that we were right.
! We have vet 10 see whether the passes OF
! the Balkan are 10 bc traVcrscd with the ia
cility which those sane philo-Russian jour
mails and their imaginative correspondents
| have promised. or whether the combined
effects of stubborn resistance, bad
climate, and insufficient commissariat
may not protract operations over ar
other year.
Under any circumstances, IL, rs seems
now to loo almost certainly the case,
Russia and Germany have united ON "a
/ policy inNol, ing the partition OF Turkey, to
which England Is to he induced Ia consent
/ 10y u bride OF part Of her territory, tins
century will Witness "A crime second only TO
that committed by Europe upon Poland.
when an empire il first rendered an
easy prey to tho ambitions Of the sur
| rounding countries. 10y being dieintcgratci
through internal discussions foetcrcd from
without. and then cut up in defiance Of every
| principle 81 Justice or morality, each Chris
tian nation taking, in the name Of humanity,
Just 80 much az the victor- in a bloody and
inhuman war may assign 10 IL US It's share
of the plumber. That England. Russia. and
Germany, which are all to benefit by this I'M
holy proceeding should approve of il, We
can readily perceive; Int why the humane
and enlightened press ct this country should
exult IN the wanton and violent diSrup-
ton of comparatively weak power from
which We have never received any injury
passes our comprehension