, 1880-05-19

question, of that kind, which is really a
question asito tendencies, is to restrict it to
sometGne definite issue; which plain peo-
pie can understand. What, for. example,
VILE Liberal Foreign Secretary, with a
working majority behind him, do in Arne-
MIA & w ali know what the Tories have
done there; and the well informed politician
who writes in the Contemporary RevaeU
under. the pseudonym Of Gan Eastern
Statesman. tells us this: week what has
been the result of their action. They tlrst
ofaT, through the secret agreement be-
tween Lord Salisbury and Count Schouva-
loft, di~smembered Armenia, giving over a
huge cantle oft, including it's second best
port,ytO Russia. We do not blame them
greatly for that. for they could not help
it without fighting, and from actual fgh-
ting, except against barbarOus foes, they
shrank back; but still they gave it. They
then, as some compensation, assented TO
the insertion in the Treaty of Berlin of
Clause 81, which, contains these words -
"Ths Sublime Porte engages to realise,
without any delay. the ameliorations and
reforms which are demanded by the local
wants Of the provinces Inhabited by the
Armenians, and to guarantee their security
against the Circassisns and Kurds. 1t will
periodically make known the measures
taken to this end to the Powers, who
will superintend the application of Them
The Turks assented, the Treaty was signed,
and then,-then The Government left
Armenia to it's fate so completely that their
own Envoy, Sir Henry Layard. has told
them that an Armenian question is rising
fact and that the people are suffering
till they are looking abroad for help, which
can only come from England or Russia.
"An Eastern Statesman" agrees heartily
with Sir Henry Layard. He declares that
so frightful has the position OF the Arme-
mans become since the ratification of the
Treaty of Berlin, that an Armenian
Question--quite as dangerous as the
Herzegovinian question-may be on us
before we are aware. The Armenians,
who from the time of Constantine have
played on important part in the govern
ment of the East, have long been employ
ed by the Turks 10 business transactions
for which Ottomans have not the capacity,
aud are now so dispersed, that of the five
millions in existence two are known to be
IN Turkey, about a million dispersed
everywhere, and hardly two millions in
their own land. These two millions are
depfivssd by their rulers OF arms, and are
forbidden to defend themselves, a probibi-
bition felt with unusual severity by a race
which, though it so closely resembles the
Jews in many respects, differs from them
10 o decided capacity for military service
and for generalship. Count Bagrathion
who commanded at Borodino was, and
Count, Loris Melikof who conquered Kars
ia, an Armenian, the latter a man belong
Jog to a family which is lost 10 the night
Of history. the stupid story Of bis relation
ship toGthe Gar being not only untrue,
but, from their ages, impossible. Without
arms. and surrounded by Kurds and Cir
cassihani tcolonists, the Armenians are COM
PEELED to- rely, on. Turkish protection
which, according to "An Eastern States
man, who, be it remembered is distinctly
friendly to the Turks as q people. is Of
this kidd. --iGar sau8 O.e.ga i ~.
"Thss eco complaints of the Armeuians
against the Turkish Government may be
easiiyGundcrstood, for they are as specific
as were Oh those 4 of the Bulgarians
before the war. and they have been
fully and officially comma nicated to the
GOVERNMENTS Of Europe. They do not
hesitate to ASSERT that in Armenia there
bass been for many years a deliberate at