The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-17
Europeau Peace.

tonrarbs. and returned to their capitals.
Throughout the Continent there IS sense
OF relief, and in three cities-London,. VI
emma, and st. Petersburg-there are signs
of eXultation. This is something larger
than national or personal triumph: Ihe
new treaty is a,record OF diplomatic sue
cesscs and compromises by when the row.
ers have been brought into harmony, ana
neace has been restored in southeastern
| Europe. While the courts have played fast
and loose among themselves, they have
labored in the. interests Of two continents.
The main work OF the congress has been
| the substitution of three agents for one III
the regeneration OF Turkey. BY the treaty
OF San Stefano tie reconstruction OF the
Balkan peninsula and OF Armenia was H.
trusted to IL single Power. Imperial com
missions were multiplied, the S'av allies OF
Russia were literally rewarded, an cnor-
nous State was constituted under the pres
sure OF military force, and the Car ac-
0nired predOminating influence over the
Porte. 81 the treaty OF Berlin Russian pres
lire has been hcGged in. Austria has been
given afoothold in the North, where she can
exert commanding influence oyer Serria
and Montenegro and watch the tendencies
OF Turkish rule in Albania. So strong is
the irritation caused by the rctrocession OF
Bessarabia that the Roumanian court will
he brought into close relations with The
Hupsbur9. At the same time the Porte has
been brought under the restraints OF BrI-
fish diplomacy. Although the treaty docs
not sanction the cesSion Of Cyprus and
tie establishment OF the ProtecIorate, the
congress has virtually acqulesced III Lord
BeaconstieId's scheme. In future England
will not only stand ready to declare Wu' II
the Russians cross the new Armenian from
tier. but Will also have an authoritative voice
in determining" the destiny OF Asiatic Tur-
kew, Meanwhile, Russia has retained her
direct conqucsts, with the exception OF
Bayazid and the Alashkert Valley, and has
earned the gratitude and cooperation OF the
BsIcarians and their fellow-Slays. She has
resumed her place as a Danubian Power,
and in Asia has won 4 harbor and line or
fortresses, so that hereafter Erzerum will be
a frontier town. Her allies-Seryia and
Montenegro-haven not got all that she bar
gained for. and the Inheritance or The
race for whom she fought has been di-
vided, but the new treaty registers the
browning results of her victorious CAM
paigns. Two great States, which refused Il
wear ago to Join her In enforcing the de-
mands OF the ConstantinOple conference,
now share with her the responsibility OF put
ting an end to misgovernment in the East.
If. when the Russian army crossed the
Pruth, Austria had occupied Bosnia and an
English fleet been sent 10 ConStantinople,
the world would have been spared terrible
war, for the Turks would have surrendered
without Il struggle. The indirect coOpera-
ton OF the three Powers now forms broad
basis OF peace.
But the treaty of Berlin contains other
guarantees OF peace. These principaltics
have been released from tributary depend
encc upon the Porte--a condition which has
always been cause OF war in the East.
Selvia, Montenegro, and Roumania, will
have nothing to gain by Intriguing with
Russia, and their sympathics will not be cX-
cited by outrages in Bosnia and BIlga-
ria They will seek peace and ensure it,
and will resent interference from their
more powerful neighborS. The only
quarters where renewal of hostIll-
ties is to be apprehended are the Thessalian
frontiers, where the Greeks have not been
suffered to enlarge their territory, and the
new province OF East Roumelia, which has
been cut off from Bulgaria. But wherever
revolt may be klndled the principalites on
the borders will not take fire like dry finder,
rs IN the past. So long rs these ambitious
and restless States were not wholly lnQc-
pendent, the peace OF Southeastern Europe
was menaced. That menace has now been
removed.
The Berlin congress has thus opened a
way for the permanent paclticatlon OF the
East. 1t has been in session only four weeks,
and has done its work eXpeditlously and
sagaciously. The questions which 1t has
determined are as complex as they are mo-
t. nm. ,,nf, IL 40
Gress OF WeStphalia, nor with that OF Wen
ma, but it comes next to them. After those
historical councils there were long unbro-
ken levels of European peace. May it be so
now.-Ne,y York Tribune.