The Dismemberment of Turkey.
DURING the past century, Poland has existed only as a name in history and a province dismembered and divided among the nations of Europe. The European Congress now at work on the Eastern Question, is doing about the same thing for Turkey, according to the following item from the Utica Daily Observer, of June 28:— “The feature of to-day’s news is Austria’s occupation of the Slavic states. Thus the Hapsburg’s acquiescence in the partition of Turkey is obtained, as it was to the dismemberment of Poland a century ago.” On the same subject the Inter-Ocean, of July 5, remarks:— “The diplomacy of Western Europe made the integrity of the Turkish empire a principle of European politics. Russian diplomacy has been for years seeking to break down this principle, and has held tenaciously to a policy whose ulterior object was to drive Islam from its ancient conquests in Christendom. There is in the Berlin conference, outside of the Turkish delegates, not a single advocate of the integrity of the Turkish empire. Is this a triumph for the diplomacy of Western Europe?”