The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1881-03-22 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE HERALD.  ESTABLISHED JANUARY 10TH, 1863.  BARROW-IN-FURNEBB. TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1881.  Le roi est mort, vice le roi ; and so before the mortal remains of the murdered Czar of Russia are committed to the tomb that awaits them, his successor has taken up the reins of government and has issued his manifesto to the people who were so recently the subjects of one who was relentlessly driven over "to the great majority." Already, the practical effect upon the policy of Europe of the new born Emperor's accession is being keenly discussed and forecast. When he was only Czarewitch it was currently believed that he was eager to take a more resolute and determined attitude in support of the Greek claims upon the Turkish Government than the late Emperor was disposed to take up. Whether, now that he is brought plainly in front of the immense responsibilities which attach to his yet new and untried autocratic position, he will be as ardent to carry out his former earnest proclivities, it is perhaps, as yet, too soon to determine; but it is strongly believed in the club circles of London that his influence will be, sooner or later, thrown on that side. It might be reasonably wondered whether it was in any degree owing to the fact of his sudden accession to power that the condition of the Turco-Greek question seems to have assumed a possibility, yea even a hopefulness, of a peaceable solution. Never, says in effect the Times of yesterday, did the outlook upon this question seem brighter and clearer than at this moment. Turkey is said to have doubled her offer of concessions to the demands of the Great Powers on behalf of Greece, and where she formerly offered them the choice between the Island of Crete on the one hand, and Southern Thessaly up to the Peneaus on the other, she now makes the offer of both. If the European Powers are disposed to faute de mieux, to accept this and advise ereece to be content therewith, why Greece, however, reluctantly will eventually be bound to take it under the penalty of alienating the active sympathy of her powerful allies. Before the Treaty of Berlin Greece would glady have accepted this as a settlement in full; but since her king made his European tour and took back such glowing hopes of what the European Concert might accomplish, and since his Ministry to up so uncompromising a position by the mobilisation of her military forces, her requirements have grown, and any abatement of her demands would lead to a revolutionary movement and the dethronement of both Monarch and Ministry by that hot blooded and passionate people. Here is an opening for the influence of the young Czar to be exerted with great force and effect. Will he join the Concert of the Powers of which his father was a willing supporter, and so influence the Greeks to a peaceable accepter= of the terms offered; or will he turn round, and in the face of a very possible European war, in which he will have to cope with his father's old allies, Germany and France, seek to force upon Turkey a further giving up of territory, which the other Great Powers believe to be ill-timed and for the present unnecessary. Time will show, but if a fair and honourable solution of this very unpalatable question can be found, one which shall be reasonably satisfactory to Greece, and yet not be too humiliating to the Porte, it will be a proud satisfietion to the English Cabinet, Bad a justification in fall for every step they have taken in carrying out -their plainly declared and never-varied Foreign Patsy, of settling the Eastern Question by,t union of action on the part of all the great Kingdoms of Europe.