, 1877-04-29

| over the Danube into Servia, must De ioohe"
for south of the Balkans, between SOPHIA
and Constantinople, the route over WHICH
the Russians triumphnnty Travelled IN 1o2''
EyG1AND's SHARE OF THE SPOIL.
As the earlier stages Of the war progress
| II hecomes more and more evident TINT En-
! eland, sooner or later, must become involved
either in its active operations or III It's nnn
divisions. II England aud Russia come to
blows, it is evident that the former will un-
dertake three things. The first OF these IS
the seizure of Egypt It is only natural that
it should fall to England as her portion OF
the spoils. Egypt is her route to the Indian
Empire. The management Of Egypts reve-
nues is in the hands of Englishmen. She IS
really mortgaged to England to secure loans
of over a hundred million pounds. The
chief Offices in the Egyptian Cabinet, the
administration of her public works, the d.
rection Of her railways, the principal COM
maods in her army and navy, are IN Enghsh
hands. The exports to Great Britain amount
to nearly fifty millions Of dollars per nnnum.
Seventy per cent Of the Egyptian commerce
is with England. She sends her per annum
5000, 900 bushels Of wheat, and between
400. 900 and 500,0 600 bales of cotton, and
large quantity of raw silk. The Khedive is
virtually only British agent, like somo OF
the East Indian Princes. In any division OF
p1under, Egypt must naturally and OF neces-
sity fall to Great Britain, and thcre would
probably be no serious contest over it on the
part of my Of the Powers, unless it be
France, Even were there no war progress
ing to hasten partitions Of property, Egypt
would very soon pass into English hands,
through tho operations Of debt, commerce,
the Suez Canal, and natural causes.
The second move of England would be to
seize the Island of Candia, OF Crete as some
cali it, which is in chronic revolt against
Turkish tyrannical authority. Its strategic
al position is immensely important. It
blocks and commands the exit from the
Grecian Archipelago, and its possession, since
the English already hold Malta and Gibral
tar, would give them the command Of tho
Mediterranean. From Malta to the Suez
Canal, thousand miles, there is no stopping
place but Gambia It is the halfway house
between Malta, Constantinople, and Alex
andria. It has several deep-water harbors,
capable of powerful defense from the high
shores, and capable also Of holding large
fleets. It is q position which Great Britain
needs, as it is long distance from Malta to
Egypt, and which she will therefore take,
although it is not probable that she
will annex it except for military
and naval purposes, and Of course as men
ace to Russia, which is the impel1ing force of
every step that England takes with reference
to the Eastern Question. The political con-
troll of the island, except the fortresses,
would undoubtedly be handed over to
Greece.
The third movement of England, contin-
gent upon the seizure of Constantinople by
Russ1a, which has been several times limited
at, would be the occupation Of point on
the Dardanelles in the neighborhood Of Gal
lipoli, which is situated on narrow
tongue Of land, with bluffs 500 to 800 feet in
height, commanding the Dardanelles on the
east and the Gulf Of Saros lying back Of
them on the west, thus cutting OF any dan
per of a flank attack from the Russians. The
English never will consent to the control of
the Bosphorus and the Darlanelles By the
Russians unless they are compelled to by
irresistible power; and if they can success
fully hold this point, which is strong natu-
raj fertilization Of itself, the Russians, even
if they hold Constantinop1e, are still nearly
as badly off as they are now, as they
can never get from the Sea Of Marmora
into the Mediterranean without Brit
ish consent, which is the one thing
above all others that Russia desires
to accomplish, and which would at once
establish not only commercial but military
supremacy.
The grabbing, however, will not be con-
fined to England Already it begins to be
apparent TINT Italy is preparing to seize that
portion of Albania which lies between Mon
tenegro and the old Greece proper, or Epirus,
known in ancient times as nlyricum, and
now settled by the descendants of the orig
inal Roman colonists. Italy also wants
Tunis, on the African shore. That Austria
wants, and will have, Herzegovina and Bosnia
is well known. The only province whose
ultimate ownership seems to be in doubt is
Servia. Whether sho will fall into Russian
hands or be set up Us IN independent Power
remains to be seen.
H1LDRETHS LITTLE GAME.
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