The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-08-16
An Empire Gobbled Up.

[London Cores sponGeHce Chicago Times
Certainly British history opens a fresh
and splendid volume which the fine in
tehigence of the world viii realize as the
grandest grasp, ofall time. The scheme
of a protectorate' viii eventuate in
ownership. Cyprus is only doorstep
The queen has come down from Balmo-
raj with fresh delight in her face and in
her bearing, tor this is the great event Of
her reign, and all England knows It.
Even the cabmeE are chuckling; men
picking cobolestones in the streets turn
their noses toward Turkey as the future
Mecca. There is a great, big, broad grin
OF delight from the cook up to the cabi-
net. England has mol felt so good since
the capture OF Sebastopol. England is
modest, however; the press is modest
they are modest, manly people in one
sense. They hold their equilibrium.
The press has a great deal to say
about the onerous duties and the
weighty responsibility of this i'm
mense undertaking in Asiatis Tur.
key, but every man realizes that
without firing a gun or spending a souse
they have gobbled up an empire of a
thousand years standing, and Constanti-
nople Is to be let furnished to English
gentlemen from this time out. There is
already an undercurrent of quite talk of
setting up an English capital in the old
city of Constantine. Students of diplo-
macy and politics are peering into the
future with powerful interest and pre-
tended insight, and they see the imperial
gate under the British flag. Students Of
theology are rushing to the pages of the !
bible since this great event Of the Angle 1
Turkish convention, and read 'In those
days it shall come to pass that ten men
shall take hold out of all languages of I
the nations, even shall take hold of the I
skirt of him that is q Jew, saving
We viii go with you, for we have
heard that God is with you" And
SO the Tory biblical student finds
in this late event a divine move
ment. This work began long ago. Eng
land steadily encouraged the buying of
Turkish bonds with fair promises of
protection to the purchasers Then the
great prime minister laid hand on the
Suez canal and brilliant Egypt. Then
he quietly, without any apparent pur-
pose, sent the prince of Wales to trip
through India, ride elephants and run
away from tigers. Then he named her
majesty the empress OF India. Ten it
is very likely he even encouraSed Russia
in her advance on Constsntinople. BE
that as it may, it IS pery certain he en-
couraged Turkey 70 resist. Then when 8
he got this Turkish dog and the bear of
the norm in battle, ne chuckled to him- !
elf and might have said
Eight dog ard f,bt ba-,
Thars no dog Of niue thar"
When they were exhausted and they /
ay painting and glaring at each other, he {
Kindly goes up TO the Turkish dog and ]
ays: "Come home with me-" and he ]
zones. That is the whole story. OF !
course, France has fired at this; indig- Z
lant, furious, she sent in protest;
protest, and that's all That's all there
: of it and all there will be of it, very
likely.
Bismarck bites his moustache, and sits !
back and accepts the glory as great
while there are rumors that
all the disclosures relative IL t e Berlin
congress. a.e not yet made. There is a
treaty between Germany
and Holland, the effect of which viii be
to bring the latter into the empire of (
Germany; and this step is a consequence
Of the annexation of Cyprus to England.
Russia holds forth, anu still keeps her
Dbelisk with its old inscription. pointing
to the south, "This the road 70 Constan-
tinople,7 and she will bide her time to go
down. Certain it is she is much nearer 1
Constantinople now than at the close of
the Crimean war, two decades since. On
this conquered ground she can rest her
guns and wait the logic of events. It is
almost impossible, to compre-
hend or pronounce upon the vastness of
this achievement at this time. Never in
the history of the world has there been
so much undertaken without many bat
ties and much shedding of blood. Here
is not even a pop-gun, scarcely a speech.
OF course all little powers stand by
paralyzed. The large powers are struck
dumb, because one sees in this something
more than the conquest of 1ndia.s This
is true to the traditions of England.