New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-18

est shadow that fell across her course. While
these abortive negotiations were dragging on,
Gortschakoff often wished that he could
change places with bis iiIusrious brother,
who was behind che walls of Sc
bastopoI. One day he lost his temper IN tl1e
presence Of iackey. As Julian klaezko
tells the story, there was at-that time
in the Austriang Foreign ONCE an
old usher who had been trained BY
Prince MetternicI, and who had waited
upon his master in the great Congress OF
1875 This pompous official entered Count
BuoIs chamber with a solemn sir, and begged
leave to tell what he had seen IN the ante
chamber. The Russian Enyoy, it seemed, after
leaving the Minister'S presence. had appeared
to be fairly saffocating with anger, and
had walked up and down, gesticuiatlng yio-
lently and crying out in French. I" Oh, some
81 day they shall pay me well for thnt!D Aus
tria did "pay him well for that In 1859, when
he was NapOleon's silent partner in the Italian
bargain, and in 1866, when he looked on grimly
while she was losing her second province,
as well as her supremacy in Germany, he
punished her for her inaetion and treason
during the Crimean War. He has lived long
enough TO carry out bis threat OF vengeance
and then TO forgive, if not to forget, the
crime of the Hapsburg's desertion. One OF
the happiest strokes Of Bismarck's policy
was the reconciliation which be effected
between the Russian and Austrian courts. At
the present Congress, the Treaty of Paris,
which the Vienna diplomatists, by threatening
TO ioin the allies, forced the Car to
sign, will be revoked and torn up.
The Treaty of san Stefano will be
revised, it is true, but 1t is no secret
that Ignatieff7s scheme oyerlapped the prudent
counsels of his chief. On one point, the retro
cession of Bessarabia, all the Powers seem 10
be of a mind, and Prince Gortschakoff
win live to register the recovery OF
the territory which Russia lost in
her hour of disaster. Something else
has been regained--the prestige of her arms.
Europe cannot dim the lustre of the victories
in Bulgaria and Armenia, although the general
results of the war may be Whitfield down and
pared close t.i@
While the RomanOff has recovered his
ground, the Hapsburg has remained IN the
slough The misfortunes Of an ill-starred
reign have not been retrieved Austria
might have put an end to the cam
paign at any time by menaciDg the
flank Of the Russian Army; and now
peace Is to be made with the sanction of
the European Powers without her deriving
any advantages from a war waged only
ON her sufferance. Instead of occupying
Bosnia and Herzegovina, she is now striving
to readjust the frontiers of Servia and
to deprive Montenegro Of its seaport.
Instead of depressing the aggressions Of
Russia, she is scheming to eurtaH the
conquests of the brave nation of peasants
who declared war upon the Turks when
Europe stood aghast at the Bulgarian atroci-
ties, but would not ayenge them. In
stead Of putting the Porte under bonds, she
Is intriguing to chain the heroic Montenegrins
to their mountains by blocking up their way
TO the sea. While the Russian Chancellor is
glorying in the redemption Of bis country
from the disgrace of the Crimea, his colleague
from Vienna is wasting his energy on pitt
ful objects.