The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-02-25
WHAT rs CONC ON IN EUROPE
Tidines from the Old World are as profuse

trustworthy. The diplomatists. the newspapers
and their correspondents. as well as tho various
telegraph agencies. seem TO have all agreed to
disagree. The only point, on which their views
and opinions are harmonious. Is that business
is everywhere intensely depressed and that the
prospects of tho futurea arc by no means bright
With reference to all otter matters. moro cape
cially in regard to general European politics.
the discord is as complete as it can be- Every
body mstrusts everybody else. and nobody
dares take u decisive step.
The Eastern question IL. OF course. In tho
foreground; yet there ia not n statesman who
would venture to express any opinion to its
probable issue. Even the far-seoing Bismarck.
when asked whether thorc will or not bo n war.
says that tho devil only knows" The Rus
SLAMS. we arc daily told. are arming and mohil-
izing their armies very fast Thcyare reported
to be intending TO cross the Pruth and the Rou-
manan frontier In few days yet it Is woll
known that the Gar. who IL everything In Rus
STA. Ia strongly opposed to war, and that money,
which is tho sincw of war. il just IA scarce in
the great northern empire AZ 1t Is in the domin-
ions OF the Sultan. A correspondent OF the Lon
don DAILY Neos Ia journal which has all along
followed rather warliko inspirations) telo-
graphed the other day that Russian officers
had already engaged all the rooms they could
~
engaged Just as they arc In times OF nterna-
tional exhibitions. or any other great show.
That war IL probable cannot bo denied; but 10
expect it to break out at once seems quito un-
warranted. Neither the Turks nor the Russians
are yet sufficiently prepared for the struggle;
and the peace negotiations in progress between
the Porte. on the one hand. and Scrvia and Mon
tencgro the other. indicate that all the parties
concerned are quito willing TO accept n peaceful
settlement OF their differences II such one can
be- arrived mt. Prince Gorchakoff liz too able
diplomntst TO allow the vassal principaities TO
conclude pcaco with the suzerain Porte II he in
tends waging war on Turkey himself. The val
liant Montenegro army is not large. the wrotched
Servian army IL Of little account; yet both OF
them might be very useful ifthcy should remain
in the field in case Of II Russian invasion.
The Constantlnoplc conference has. az Bis
marck and Andrassy predicted from the outset.
broken down. apparently covering all the Euro
pcan powers with discrcdit. But the real moan
ingof this collapse has been misinterpreted.
The conference actually took place only be-
tween Russia. England. and Turkey. The
other powers joined in II without the slightest
hope that any good would ever come from It
They went to COnstantnople "a an atheist goes
to church-for the sake Of looking respectable.
and not being scoldcd by his wife. II anybody
was made IA fool Of. 1t was only England Russia
had at the very start made up her mind not to
yield. and SO had Turkey. Everybody knew
this except the English, blinded by their fetish
creed in the almighty power Of the theory Of
compromise. And now poor Lord Salisbury
has to pay for II all. He is accused Of being an
idiot and fool. and even his wife is not left un-
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might IA well die nrhtiny Uor suoc,.sa wa.
the success Of dnspair
The rreot agitation 81 tho Dri,isb mini with
Eastern question however
diving ont II still romans an obioet ~ genuine
anxiety and controversy only in ministerial and
Journalistic circles Tho mass of the peonle
have become satisfied tnnt England il not
going 10 war; that. consequently. there will he
no increase of taxation. and that ia about all
they want 10 know. What bothers them now
is a new outbreak of the rinderpest. or cattle
plague. 1t has appeared all AT once al Hull in
Essex. I'm Yorkshire. IA well ma in Ro,y and
Stepncy. suburbs of London. Tarl Fortescue
has already called the attention of the Housa of
Lords 10 the matter. Entire herds hnve boon
slaughtered. and stringent measures have been
taken 10 isolate local outbreaks.
This plague seems To have been brought in as
usual from Germany. Saxony. Suesia. Pomera-
mia. Bohemia. and the eastern provinces of tho
German empire generally are. together with
Russia and Hungary the rreat cnttle breedinD
and, Mt tho same time. the ereat rindnrnest-
spreading districts. They have already cost
England piles Of money. The last endemic il
estimated 10 have carried off as mueh M
100000 head OF cattle. to the value Of some
$40 900. 900. No wonder that the people are
seriously alarmed at new outbreak.
Inc question threatens. however. to become
still more important one for France than IL is