New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-20
ENGLAND AND TURKEY.
THE LONDON PRESS TRYING TO FORCE
PREMATURE CRISIS


RECEIVE THE czAR-No change
IN THE BANK RATE. AND
GOLD STILL FLOWING
TO AMERICA
rBY CABLE TO THE rRTBuNE.l
London. Sept 19-The stad and sober matrons
| of the London press have been dancing 70
lively music this week Day after day their
pages have been engrossed with sensational
revelations of dynamite conspiracy and equally
highty attempts to fore premature agitation
over the Turkish atrocities The police author
tiles of Scotland Yard, being well served by spies
In America and elsewhere ordered the arrest or
four conspirators almost simultaneously In Glas-
gov. Rotterdam and Bouogne and then held
their peace, allowing only the barest details To
be brought out. Newspaper enterprise has hlleh
! up the blank canvas. transforming 1t into
series Of urid and fantastic pictures Of Fenian
outrage and anarchist crime. The theories ad-
vanced have had wide range. the most alarm
ing being the assumption that the leaders OF
! the original Phoenix Park gang Of assassins had
| joined hands with the Nihilists in their attempt
| to Kill the Car. and the most inane one being
an idle tale that the Portland Prison convicts
were released in return for information OF new
plots supplied by their friends The police
1
and Bell can he directly connected with the dis
covery OF explosive material at Antwerp. the
new Fenian conspiracy is likely to prove
yagary Of contemplate braggarts and saloon
patriots lacking the courage required for anv
enterprise more serious than uncorking bottles
of champag gne paid for out OF emergency furS,
and flrtations with French barmaids. II lyman
or his double be implicated IN any plot against
the Car he will not be extradited to England
but dealt with under French law. II the only
ground for his arrest be completely in the Pnoe-
nix Park murders the French authorities are
not likely to surrender him nor with Carey. the
informer dead would 1t be practicable for
British court to convict him unless his own
boastfu admissions of guilt have been secured
in advance Whatever evidence the police may
have in reserve the English press has displayeh
remarkable credulity in exaggerating the i'm
portance of the activities Of pothouse intrguers.
Equally erratic in their methods. but nooier
in motive have been the efforts or the Lipera
press TO precipitate crisis in the East py
organizing an outburst Of national resentment
against tn, Sultan II the nation has not taken
fire as in 1876 1t has not been from any iacK OK
vigorous prose or mpassioned poetry in the
columns of the Opposition journals; hut the ma
ton has kept cool and declined. so far. to force
without allies in Turkish affairs.
The nresent crisis differs essentially from the
era Of Bulgarian atrocities Then there was
British Government in sympathy with Turkey
and disposed 10 condone massacre and 10 hamper
Russia in the righteous work or redeemihs
Bulgaria, and Mr.. Gladstone and his associates
led successful reaction against that Govern
ment All the conditions are now changed. me
present Government Is not in sympathy with
Turkey The whole English nation Is united IN
q deep feeling of adherence for massacre ana
the misgovernment Of Turkey. Neither leaders
nor mass-meetings are needed 10 express this
righteous feeling 1t is strongest IN the Nor'h
Of England. Wales and Scotland, but is noa weak
or uncertain anywhere. The "unspeakaoie TURK
has no friend in England, except, possibly. Sir
Ellis Ashmead Bartlett The English people
are unanimous in desiring the deposition OF the
Sultan and the abolition OF massacre and out
rage; and the Government Of the day Is not ar
raved against this policy. 1t is Russia this time
that condones assassination and barbarity py
enforcing inaction, and the Continental Powers
are unwilling to be convinced that England Is
sincere and dsinterested.
The only object which organized agitation IN
England on the Arm1nian question can no"
have is to force Lord Salisbury To hold out 10
the Armenans the hope Of single-hlnded inter-
vention by Great Britain in Turkish aHalrs'
This would be a policy fraught with danger po'h
IN the Armenians and to Europe II might be
a signal for new series of slaughters by which
the A,menIans would be exterminated. Ii might
also give offence to Russia and bring on a gem
eral European war. What astute leaders ike
Lord Rosebery and Sir Charles Dixie perceive
is the impracticabilty of single e-handed interVen-
,ion by the nation which has fleet capable OF =
but nm m
such as would be requested for ganisoning
Asiatic and European Turkey and defying
Russian resentment The English people do we'll
NOT IN lose their sef-pOssession in this crisis,
and to leave Lord Salisbury free hand Yet
/, exasperateg them naturally. to find them
selves misunderstood everywhere on the Cont-
pent except in Italy. and accused OF selhshness.
when probably there never was d question in
which English motives were nobler or more dis
than that OF putting an end TO Turk
sh barbarity. Ten months ago the United states
befriended Venezuela and received no credit in
either England Europe FOR its chvalrous con-
iuc. England now has similar experience.
since she Is distrusted in Berlin. Paris. Vienna
and ST Petersburg for desiring the deposition
,f the Sultan. whose government has been re-
iuced to a system Of organized assassination
The real centre of European diplomacy will he
shifted next week TO Balmoral where the Rus
sian War Lord who according to Punch" is
riding in triumph through Europe with pretty
zirl named Peace in the saddle with him, Will
be entertained by the Queen. There has been
partial outbreak OF sensationalism in the public
accounts Of the preparations for this royal func-
ion few horses and some extra furniture
and plate have been sent from Windsor 10 Bal
moral but there will be no unwonted revels or
stately ceremonies. large family party OF
ROYALTIES will be there to welcome the Car and
precautions will be taken TO In
sure his safety In coming and going: but there