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coupled with the naturalization Of the Bos-
porus and the Dardanelles. What the isteer
step would seem TO promise is clear enough
when we remember that since the repud@-
ton OF the Treaty of Paris the Black sea
has becomc the harbor of Russian ironclads.
There is another silent partner to be pro-
yided for by the Two Chancellors, but in this
case no territorial ccssiUn will be required
The price Of Italian cooperation was the
guarantee that the Ministry Of the new king
dom should 10 left untrammcllcd 10y the in
reference of Austria or France 20 deal with
the grave questions which surround the
next Papal election. In the existing state of
the peninsula this Is an advantage OF vast
import, yet we may pronounce II fairly
earned, since 1t was the adhesion Of Italy to
the new quadruplc alliance which made
league Of France with England impossible,
and kept Austria faithful notwithstanding
the vehement protests Of Hungary. We
may he sure that the statesmen Of the Vat
lean have dlscerned clearly enough how
much the Papacy had at stake on the battle
fields of Bulgaria. and what far-rcaching
schemes were masked under the cant OF Rus
sian philanthropy and the pretext Of cru
SADIE.
What now remains for BISMARCK 1t is
plain that he cannot look for any accessions
of territory ON the east or ON the south. III
we could share the naive opinions Of those
persons who deem the succor Of oppressed
Christians the aim of Russian aggression In
the East. we might say that the German
Chancellor is recompenscd for his share In
this business by the sense Of conscious rccti-
tudc and the pleasing occasion of attcsting
gratitude. 1t was GoRrcHAKoFF, we are
told. who withheld Austria from joining
France in 1870; and what more equitable than
that BISMARCK now should withhold Austria
from checking the Russian on the Danube
Unluckily, equity Is not cardinal principle
of statecrait, neither is gratitude. unless we
take it to mean a lively recognition of future
favors Moreover, BISMARCK might aver
that his partners account was overdrawn,
that the Russian interest was more than
satisfied in 1871. when German influence co.
creed the English Foreign Office into brook
ing the mpudcnt rescission of the Treaty
Of Paris. We may be certain that the Ger
man Chancellor has not for upward Of n
| twelNcmonth cried Hands of! for moth
ing, or helped to pull the chestnuts from the
| fire with n single eye to a friends advantage.
What BISMARCK wants is Holland. He
means, by the absorption of the Low Coun-
tries, to double the commerce Of Germany
to treble its seafaring population. 10 supple
mcnt Hamburg and Bremen with the great
ports Of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, to
make the resurrccted and aggrandized Ger
man empire what Holland once was single
handed, a rcdoubtable rival of England on
| the sea. This Is likely to be the cdifyins
sequel of the pretended crusade to which
| GLADSTONE and 80 many sentimcntdlists ON
| both sides of the Atlantic have been wishing
god-pced. What will Englishmcn say To
the ultimate fruit Of quadruple alliance.
whose existence Is nowan open secret which
Is beginning with the cynical partition OF
the Ottoman dominiuns. which cnntcmpates
the abandonment of the Roman Church Ia
| the hands oi Its nearest enemy. and which j.
very probably To culminate in the forciblr
extinction of peaceful Protestant State ;
| Whatever they may say or do IT will be-
hooNc them To show more Nigor and promp-
titudc than they have lately evnccd, If they
would not see the German Chancellor seiz,.
the Low Countries It's swiftly and dcc-Nely
as the French republic seized them less than
a century ago