New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-05-09
TIE WAR or RUSSE& AM
TURKEY.


ing article says;
Gladstone's resolutions threaten to do
something worse than throw the Liberal
party into confusion. In ordinary times
the breaking Of party bonds might doubt
less be borne with serenity, but these are
not ordinary times. The government
must soon come to decisions Of incalcu-
Liable Importance, because intending to
make peace or place the county. on that
slippery incline of menace which too
often ends in war. Bitter, personal ami
mOsities are enlisted in favor Of the cause
which would be disaster and, crime.
Political rivalrieS are aiding reckless ad-
visers, and it may be that the dssensions
of Parliament are not entirely absent from
ministerial converts. Although the good
sense of the public will, it is believed, de-
feat tho promptings of passion, it certain
ly can not afford to lose the parliamentary
influence which has been most powerfully
exeTted on the side of peace. Yet by de-
stroying the Elective force Of the Liberal
party at this critical moment, Gladstone
has put his great authority at the COM
msnd of traders in passions of war. The
Liberal party is split into factions, some
of which will vote for Me- Gladstone's
resolutions and others for the previous
question. The rent may easily grow
wider, one section becoming more and
more ready to combat against Turkish
misrule. while another may drift toward
those conservatives who ara, as wax in the
hands Of the government. Immediate ef-
feet of this disunion must be not only to
give the ministry the great majority which
is matter of some consequence, but we
fear to strengthen the faction which is
clamoTing for war.
The following is this text of letter
from Thomas Carlyle, the eminent Eng
fish publicist, which appeared in the Lon
don papers on the fourth instant and has
caused considerable excitement in British
political and financial circles.
To the Editor Of the Ti1Aes:
SRA rumor everywhere prevails that
our miraculous Premier, in spite of his
Queens proclamation of neutrality, in
| tends, under cover of care for British in
terests, to send the English feet to the
Baltic or do some other feat which shall
compel Russia to declare war against Eng
land. Later the rumor has shifted from
the Baltic and become still more sinister
on the Eastern side of the scene, where q
feat is contemplated that will force not
Russia only but all Europe to declare war
against us. This latter have come to
! know as an indisputable fact in our pres
emit affairs, and the outlook is surely a
grave one as to British interests. There
is none visible or conceivable to me, ex-
cept taking strict charge of our route to
India by Suez and Egypt, and for the rest
resolutely steering altogether clear of any
copartnery with the Turks in regard to
this or any other British interest what
ever. 1t should be felt by England ns a
real ignominy to be connected with such
Turk at ALL Nay, if we still had, as in
fact all ought to have, hand to save him
from perdition and humiliation, in Gods
kingdom, in the future for him that has
any hope in it, that of even now being
conquered by the Russians and gradually
drilled into the peaceable attempt at
learning himself to be governed. The
newspaper cutlery against Russia is nc
more respectable to me than the bowling
of Bedlam, proceeding, as it does, from
the deepest ignorance, egotism, psltry
hate and jealousy, These things ! write
not on hearsay, but on acute knowledge
and to all friends of their country I will
recommend immediate attention to them
while there is yet time, lest in few weeks
the maddest and most original thing thai
a British government could do should bt
done, and all Europe kindle into the
flames of war. am, ETC.,
T. CARLYLE,
No. 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, May 4.
A questionable authority says Prince
Gortschakof is about to resign. He vii
be replaced by Count Schouvaloff, Prince
Orlof, at present ambassador to France
will succeed Count Schouvaloff at Lon
don, and General Ignatief replace Prince
0rloff at Paris.
The Manchester Guardian gives grea
prominence to the following. 'Informa
ton reaches US from a trustworthy quar-
ter that Austria has determined, as a pre-
cautionary measure, to occupy Bosnif
and Herzegovina. According to present
arrangements the movement of troops fol
that purpose will begin in about fort
night"
Another story is that there is great ex
citement in the Cabinet in consequence o.
of the anti-Turkish views of Lords Sails
bury and Carnavon, which gives rise tC
rumor of their designations.
The British squadron at Corfu has beer
ordered to Crete.
The Berlin TdgbldH states that Gort
schakoff has instructed the Russian repre-
sentatives, in communicating his circular
to the powers, to declare that Russia'l
only object is to compel Turkey to accept
measures necessary to insure internal
peace; such measures to be determined
at the proper moment, not by Russia, but
by concert of the powers. In this matter
the Gar will limit himself TO insuring the
reforms agreed on by the powers. Count
Schouvsloff was specially intrusted to de
clare to Great Britain that Russia enter
tains no plan not intended exclusively fol
the improvement of the condition of the
Eastern Christians.
Intelligence received here from Odesss
states that Kars is completely surrounded
The Russians have twenty-four siege guns
in position, and the bombardment viii
begin Immediately.
The New York Graphic contains the
following intelligent summary of the
situation up to the fifth instant:
The Russians continue to concentrate
and advance slowly and irresistibly
toward the centre of the Danube line Of
of Turkish defences. Yesterday Their
vanguard made another long step forward
to Ursitzchany, on the straight road to
Bucharest, and the London Daily Tele-
graphs special says that the Grand Duke
Nicholas is expected at Galatz tomorrow,
and at Ployesti by Tuesday next.
Under these circumstances we are able
to congratulate the readers of the GrGphiC
on their comprehension of the significance