New-York tribune., 1877-08-07
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.
THE DIPLOMATIC COMPLICATIONS.

shNS-IURKfsH BAHBARrTY IL ASIA
| lFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUSE.I
LONDON. July 21.-Tne unremittlng efforts Of the
Turkish press in London haveat least one good result.
They elicit from time to time pretty distinct disa-
vowals by the more moderate Ministers of the policy
which these papers which profess to support them,
! strive to impose upon tho Government. To Lord
Strathcden, who brought mp the Eastern question in
the Lords on Thursday. Lord Derby would hardly
! have thought it necessary to give any very express
reply. Lord Stratheden is a fanatic, and has no
weight with the House in which he sits or with the
public. But these papers had just then been pressing
some fresh step in behalf of the Turks
and Lord Derby took the opportunity to say in effect
that he does not mean to do anything at present by
way of checking the Russian advance. He does not
say this in terms, bat that is the fair meaning and
intent of this passage which we extract from his
speech:
The noble lord put forward theory which, although
he supported by many historical precedens cannot
accept lie said YOn cannot exnec after The end OF
war in which You have been neutral and inactive 10
erclse an IMPORTANT mllhrnce over IT'S results Now
do not nich care "a argue abstract propositions on this
other question; but II to discuss the mat
ter at ALL totally dissent rom his view. cannot
ccire situation In which You can interfere with more
Influence or effect than at the close OF war; when the
bcHscehf Powers are more or less exhausted "nd worn
ont bV the struggle. while YOU are still uucOmmitrd 10
any course, and while your forces fresh and un
/ broken.
| That, at any rate. is the meaning put upon it by
the journals which would be most eager to extract
different meaning, if different meaning 1t would
bear 1t Is reassuring, far it goes and for the
moment. IL goes To prove that the explanation
gwen last week IN the House by Sir Stafford North
cote of the purpose with which the British fleet was
ordered to Bcska Bay was a sincere explanation
aud not diplomatic evasion
There cause quite urgent cause, for some
declaration of the kind The passage of the Balkans
by the Russians. now known TO have been made in
force has profoundly impressed the pirtisans Of
Turkey. CONSERVATION is not too strong word TO
describe the state they are in. Nothing since the
war began has convinced people that the
Russian triumph promises to be speedy and over
whelming panic exists in COnslautnOplc. The
Porte has abandonol telegraphs correspondent in
his confidence all hope of pre- venting the Russians
FROM reaching AdrianOpte; between Adrianoplc
and ConstantinOplo the country is wholly with
out defence; and If tie English do not
wish 10 see the Russians IN the Turk
ism capital, they ought to act without an hours
delay Hassan Pasha, captured at Nillopolis, de
clrcs it a stupid war Into which the Turks had
been mainly led by the English attitude;" and tins
also is telegraphe1, and acis-thoush not meant to
act-as an appeal to English generosity. If the Cow
ernment had given way 20 this pressure, England
might have been at war within week The r,s!st-
ance to il, the languagcof Lord Derby, the mmobty
of the army and feet. the rcSolye-for it seems re-
solye-not to seize Gapol, even although the Rus
slams are thought to be intending to selze 1t them
selves-all this implies that the notion OF Immediate
interference has been given up, and that Tureyi 30
be left to settle accounts rs best she may with the
enemy whose foot is almost on her neck. England,
on that theory IS only to speak when the question of
permanent occupation comes mp.
The Inaccuracy-to u.s. a mild word-of the Jcn-
Saghra d,spatch according 10 which the Russians
were driven back into the Balkans, and the pass
cleared out by the Sultaus troops Is now tactly aG-
mitted by the Journal in which il appeared, Tile
Daly IelepGph. But the inaccuracv was OF kind
winch requires more than confession. Ii requires
explanation or, if no explanation be possible, apo-
ogy. THIS was no mere repetition in three lines Of
a Hying lumor; It was a detailed. circumsantal
account of a serious engagement between the Rus
sian. and the Turks at one of the most critical mo-
ments of the war. Ii was wonder that the reader
could not but understand it To be the narrative OF an
eyewitness. 4 CORE spondent must be supposed to
be writing of what he has seen with his own eyes
when he says that long lines of friendly fezzes
were seen advancing in the distances; and that
nothing could have been finer that the manner IN
Raouf delivered his assault on the flank OF
the enemy" The whole dispatch i in that tone But
tbe writer of it did not the things he describes
did not occur The facts turn out otherwise. The
Russians were not driven back. The pass was not
cleared ont; it was the Turks who cleared ont.
What is 70 be said of such journalism tins! Per-
hans il may be said that it is not much worse than
tbe journalism which declares editorially that The
van Of the Christian EmpcrOrs armies OF liberia
ton i'm Bulgaria has marked its way with 'aroclIes
o rcpusive and sanguinary that the sole refuge OF
those who lately beslayered the Gar with adulalon
is 70 deny them altogether which describes the
policy of those who believe in coercIng turkey as
" the shameful gospel of blood" :" being itself n
nrcacher Of the gospel of blood 10 the extent OF war
Inv England against Russia 1t still breaches H.
sbriekng out that brutal assasSins are made the
ministers of international justice while Europe sees
with sckening horror the Cross STEPPED III niue
children's blood. and the name OF Christianity
counled with the curses of dying peasants and the
tears of outraged wives and daughters"
Asamatter of literary taste nothing could be much
worse than that but a means OF stirring up Eng
Ish hatred against Russia and launching England IN
toa Continental war, the wlckednesS OF 1t can hardy
be affirmed too plainly. False Intelligence III It's
news columns and editorial appeals To passion III
such strains as these do not make up very pretty
picture OF English journalism IN lis most popular
FORM with daily average circulation Oh quarter
of a million. | am far from meaning 20 say tn'S -
ON ..,yeragep specimen of English journalism. 1t
is not it s without exception the worst spec men
I know. Ii is. if you like, the exception which
proyes the rule that English journalism IS honest
and honorable and reasonable,and even OF this paper
| I should bee inclined 10 add that my criticism ap-
niles only to its treatment of this particular ques-
ton. .,,. .ho laundering
of the Cossacls IN Bulgaria Mr. Forbess testimony