The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-02-26

Inc Hus>tan Terms Oh I-tuCes
The conditions of peace which the Grand
Duke NICHOLAS and SAIvEI Pasha were eX-
pected TO sign yesterday are Of the most
surprising and momcntou- character. They
are very different from those reported at
the beginning OF the preliminary ncgota-
tons some weeks ago. They explain the
persistent advance of Russian armies upon
the Bosporus, but unless the obvious pur-
port of the treaty l. controlled by secret
clauses We cannot sec how English or Aus
trian statesmen can sanction il.
In Asia and in Europe the Russian claim
Is wholly inconsistent with the demands put
forward at the date of the armi~tcc. Then
We were told that Russia would hold Ar
menia merely as the security for the pay
mcnt Of an indemnity stated at E200OoO00.
That was a sum which Turkey had AT lca-t
q chance of paying. because English states
men had appraised NJ those figures the
empty right uf suzcraiuty over Egypt. Now
we learn, on the other hand. that the fort
rcsses Of Armenia are to be coded 20 the
Gar to secure the payment of not less than
fourteen hundred millions of roublos - an
amount which. taking the rouhle at sixty
cents we find considerably in excess Of one
That is n sum which the Porte can never
pay, and whose exaction j. equivalent to
cession in porpetuity. 1t requires but little
knowledge Of strategy 10 see that a pcrma-
nent occupation of tho Armenian highlands
by Russia il Il standing menace t. Persia
and to northwestern India. Here il the first
point Of the reported terms which suggests
the query: What will England do
about it, The Cars POSSESSION Of
Kars, Bayazid, and Abraham Is not
only fraught with danger t. the
Shah and the British in Hndo-tan but it
involves the control Of Mcsopotaima and a
large part Of Anatoia. While the Sultan i.
thus traminelled IL Asia, the spoils eNacted
In Europe are equally eNorhitant. That au-
tonomous Bulgaria. which was To- TIE
bounded, We were told. by the Danube and
the Balkans has been swollen in the de-
mands of Russian diplomati.ts until it
now includes the greater part Of the OF
toman realm this side the straits. Con.
IGNATITFF's conlituns We are informed.
define tine eastern and southern limits Of the
new Bulgaria to extend from point east Of
Adriauoplc suuthcrly 10 the Aegean sea.
thence along the coast to Salunlca, and
along the northern slopes OF VI uut Olyin-
rus to the Finlu. range. The reader who
traces these Boundaries uunn the mas, VIII
learn without surprise tina, the hlaa OF the
Sultan, withdrawal To- Bfoussa. throld ,.l,-
ital Of his DYNASTY. il again u4Yotcl In { IA.
stautiuople.
II is main that these extraordinary rludl-
tions. which wro,t from the Sultan his fort
rcsses ON the northwest ana til, lnl,of his
Furonean domiuions. would Of themselves
reduce the Ottoman mower t. in.p,t,u,e
There are other p4oyisl0ns MS we'll a. onil.-
sions. however. which are vel. llv ineyplira.
Bio. unless we suppose them intended u
rroyide a basl, for concession to ENGLAND
and Austria A. regard. the latter. if l. eve
idcnt that Rn-nia and the IIerze,,yina are
tocitlv surrendered 10 her control hv n
treaty which ntorposc, a Bulgarian
state nndor Russian suporvi-ion. between
Bo,ua-Sernl and Con-tantiuorle. There l.
little doubt that the silence Of the proposod
treotv a.tn tha., tyv, nrovincas which mr.,
utterly emf off from tho central authority