New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-14
NETWORK, TUESDAY. AUGUST IA, 1877.

trusting too much 10 the weakness Of the TURKS W
his forward movements. That the war may soon
develop into an attack and defence of Andranopie
seems 70 be agreed on all hands.
The dispatches from Constantinople, though con-
tradicory IN character tend 10 show that the sultan
considers mis- Government almost in cf'rem'S. Az
such juncturc Of course the outside world Is per
mitted To know bnt little, ~ the supervision over
the telegraph and Post-oi'ice is most severe out
from what little has been allowed TO come to hisd'
we are enabled 10 infer good deal. Inc ouI'ah
seems 10 be playing sort OF game oil D't'ieuo'o
with his officers and ministers. Almost every u'N
We hear Of new acccssious and new doWhiahS III
boih civil and military denartmens. Safyet Pssha
has scarcely quilted the Foreign Once ana give"
place 70 an unknown man. when we hear Of the re-
call Of lis colleague at the Conference from
the exile to which he has been supecleu
for some months. II is now the suppostlon
that Edhcm will have to give way to hiolA.
pasbo and that beyond a doubt the strongest
man who has sat in the councils OF the zorro III
modern times will again reign supreme at StamDoul.
To turn from the civil u ne mtary,we are startled
bx the fact that Abdul Kerim, the commandments
chief of the Turkish forces in Europe, mas peen
placed under arrest and brought to Constantihoplo
for trial by court-nartal. The Serasaier' hedii
Pasla shares his fate, and the whole direction Oh 'o
army is in new and comparatively untrled hahns'
rbcs. mon have suddenly risen TO fame, and Osman
Pasha Nehemet Ali Pasha and Suieiman rls"''
have become men known to Europe. but men whose
ability has yet to be shown.
Rr, IN return for = moment to the most important
change the fall of the Foreign Minister and tine re-
tup of Mdh.t. What does it meant That is the
question which Europe is asking itself to-day ana IL
is question which it is not easy to answer. In any
:. IL gong
to rive IN. Rather should | say that 1t means
tbcv are ORGANIZING a further and moro des-
nerafe resistance-that they are about to make
an effort to repeat in Europe their successes IN
Asia Midhat has shown himself all along the
sturdy opponent Of compromise with the Powers,
but at the same tine the equally sturdy advocate OF
internal reform. residence aud extensive trdVel III
fine West cannot fail to nave made strong impress
sion on Midhat's mind. 1t must have shown hIH thc
utter hopcessnoSs Of any outside assistance 10 Uhe
No.lc mower except that assistance be rendered III
a roundabout or incidental way in which case IL
would not avail the Turks much; but with all this,
il NAV only have Increased in him that logged de-
termination To conquer die, which is tho charac-
ter,stic Of the Moslcm race II is quite possible that
his recall NAV have been wththc object OF restoring
confidence and qucllmg the panic al Constantmopie'
II NAV have that effect but it is useless TO suppose
that he or any other Turk will he enabled to regain
the advantages which have already been thrown
away. A fair amount of energy and skill might
have prevented the Russians from crossing TIC
Dauube. But the Danube once crossed the Turks
had the Incompatible advantage of the Balkan
heights: this however. was likewise thrown away,
and now that the euemy's forces have oycrrun their
couutrv and are ON the road 10 the capital II l. not
likely that they will be able 10 keep thcm back
The recrninations on the subject OF atrocities COM
mitted i'm the war continue bu. few new facts nave
bcen added To- those on which | have already com
mcpted. Parliamentary paper has been published
This week. containing q diplomatic correspondence
an the subject. aud there can be little or no doubt
that there is some foundation Tor what is said bat
il i by no means clear that the outrage are all ca
one side The correspondent Of Tie Times with the
Russian army recently sent home aschenhg account
of a discovery Of the heads of Russian prisoners
SLAUGHTERED ID cold blood and discovered by Gen.
S1obelon on abandoned Turkish positions III the.
Slipka Pass. Others have reported cruclues prac-
ticed ON women and children by the Russians de-
cl,red that they have seen and children sui-
ferinp from lance-wouuds which could not have been
inflicted i'm far warfare. And such inquiry as has
bccn made into these cases If not cNculatng some
few ou;posts Of the Russian army, has not shown
that thc Russian generals la any way response
be. There is no doubt that the BulssIians are act
ing in MANY cases with great cruelty towards their
Mosleu neirhbors. and that when they know they
are under the protection of the Russian troops they
show, their old enemies but small quarter. But how
ever much this is 10 be regretted can II bc snrprs-
iu07 II would be the more so 10 find that the BuI-
,,rions had forgotten the events of last Summer,
and that they did not show some signs Of retaliation
G.. y. S.