The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-14

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The sigming OF the Treaty.
The Congress, which held its first sitting
at the Radziwill Palace, Berlin, on the 18th
of last month, closed its labors yesterday
with the signature Of the final treaty. The
provisions of this important document
having been, from time to time, given to
the public, and the Anglo Turkish Conven-
ton being an accomplished fact, public at
tention will. for the moment, be centred
upon the details Of the event which took
place yesterday at Berlin and upon the
characteristic rapidity with which England
is preparing to modernize the island Of Cy-
prus, which has fallen TO her share in the
general scramble for the Sick Mans terri
tory. 1t will be seen from our dispatches
with what high 'solemnity; what dis
play of brilliant uniforms Ic gtittering
orders, stately ceremonial paud lofty
courtesy the signing OF tho treaty was
marked. And it begins tin 1.-THE name
OF Almighty God" There were general
and particular congratulations. and at
the banquet in the evening the
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the health of all the plenipotentiaries
and all the signatory Powers. In these
gratulations we may, i'll the interest OF peace,
join but somehow behind all the glitter
and the JOY. there turks an unquiet spectre
1t is very evident that for some time to
come peace is secured, but there is much
grumbliug, and that not alone on the part
of the conquered, whose grumbling would
not and never does much matter. Russia Is,
doubtless, tolerably satisfied, and England
has made the best OF difficult position.
Austria is not thoroughly pleased; Italy
is angry and France is far from glad.
Russia and England are nearer than ever
to each other, and that is not the best
guarantee in the world that peace will be
enduring or that treaties will hold. 1t may
seem ungenerous to hunt up the spectre
while the glasses are clinking and the effu-
siveness is general, but We are fortunately
lookers-on only.
TO Earl Beaconsfeld, however, the his
tory Of the day is unalloyed triumph. 1t
will not surprise us now to hear OF the
famous "Oriental imagination" when the
hosting Of the British flag on the
new possession announces that under
his Ministry England has advanced from
Malta to Cyprus, from one post OF the
Crusaders to another, on the road to Jeru-
salem. 1t is rich, besides, with such mem
cries as he prizes. Ph@nicians, Greeks,
Egyptians old Pharaohs and later Ptole-
mies-Persians, Romans, Crusaders, Vene-
tans, Ottomans pass before the eyes in many
garbs and many civilizations. From the
Egyptian to the Venetian, what q range Of
conquerors and possessors They trod
upon each others graves and tore down
each others gods. We may get glimpse
OF what it was in the dim ages by walk
amid Cesnola's disentombei sculptures
we see it wildly luter on in the Cru
sades, and shall we dismiss as unhistoric
the story told by the Bard of Avon Of how
the Moor, Othello, loved and doubted there?
The Venus Of Cyprus vanishes into Des-
demona, and now the Turk recedes
before the Englishman. They will run
railroads through the island, and joint
stock companies will build hotels, and the
Cockneys will make excursions thither, and
the wine of Cyprus-the rare vintage Of the
Commandery-will be fabricated in White
chapel. 1t will be stopping place for those
going to take the Euphrates Valley
Railroad. What could be more
fitting period to wonderful career than
this? 1t Is the apotheosis of Disraeli.
Captured by shrewd trick. 1t will be held
with tight hand, and while the Prime
Minister makes his glowing mind-pictures
out of the past and the future, there is
sound OF the steam whistle in the present
which is not romance but progress.