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Show TH&RE 13 HO PZACE. The peace of Europe is hardly reestablished re-established before it is disturbed again and by something more Berious than a diplomatic quibble. The Bosnians and Herzegovinians ery naturally want a trial of self government. They were led to believe that the war waa undertaken, in ft measure, for them, and now that it ia ended they object to being handed over by outside and uninterested powers to the AuBtrianB. Some of them even prefer the Turk lo the Austrian, and are joining with the e . ; paoiilinv ih invadnr. JUlU-tCJ. ""'''""b Moat people will heartily sympathize with these unfortunate dependents who are not likely to receive any better treatment at tne hands of their northern north-ern neighbors than was bestowed upon them by the Ottoman government. govern-ment. The condition of the Bosnians and Horzegovinians promises to be , made even worse than it was before. Whatever sympathy may be felt tor them in the world, no one will Btep forward and lend;theni active assist ance, as Ejrop3 stood ready to do iwo yearB ago. Under these circumstances circum-stances the new war the Banian insurrection beiDg nothing less than a war oan almost be excused on the part of the afllicted iceurcente. Of course the Bosnians can hardly hope or success. The little principality, even though it can muster 100,000 soldierB, as claimed, has the great powers of Europe against her in the struggle for free dom, as the framers of the Bsrlin treaty are bound to preserve aDd uphold its conditions. It waB telegraphed a few days ago that Turkey which had all along been lending encouragement lo her ex-provinces had seen the useless nesB of her course, and yielding to pressure lrom abroad had concluded a convention with Austria and ordered the immediate cessation of hostilities. This did not stop the resistance to the emperor's army, and now comes the information that the convention waa not concluded, and that Turkey is not disposed to sign it uiJess Austria will agree to withdraw as eoon as the promised reforms are applied by the ports. Francis Joseph's troops have already engaged in some disastrous battles, and they are likely to have others to fight before tlity gaiu possession of tho territory assigned (o their monarch. Kuwait, aUf, is making new move, atri one that yruniiea to he come iurraidable irom its cimae-queoues, cimae-queoues, in TurkUlao. Kivulm-an'tj advance aluDg the Upper Oxua cer-1 uiuly predicts eerioua results. Along this stream lies the imall Khanate?, which compose the two provinces of Bidakhshan and Vakhao, both important im-portant from their geographical prai tion, and from their rich mines of rubies and lapia-lazuli. ThU territory occasioned a quarrel between England Eng-land and Russia in the autumn of 1872, just before the final advance upon Khiva. At that time the leading lead-ing English jDurnals were in favor ol the immediate occupation by British troops, in the interest of the Ameer of Afghanistan, who ia the nominal Boveieign of the territory. It seems from Russia's suspicious conduct ia the east that the czar proposes to retort for the annexation of Cypras. Six years ago England gave Russia to understand that Afghanistan must not be interfered with, aod the pres rnit movtment of the Eiwaa troops may almost he looked upon as a , challenge to the queeu. That it ff ill j he accepted if pressed very far, no ouo can doubt. The plain language of th3 London limes, yesterday, in re gird to tho outrage in Roumania, means that England' voice in the eastern question bas not been silenced by the conclusion of the Berlin treaty. Tho rimes Bays: Tho British government has ft rlht to demand that no needless articles hs tbrown in the way of tho settlement of the eastern question, and co further outrages out-rages be committed of a kind shocking to the common conscience- of Europe It U liuasia we must look to in tho first in-itaDce in-itaDce to put a slop to tho mischief. The Britida government will apeak with the voice of the country in any fre3h ro-monstranco ro-monstranco it may tee lit to address to Kuffia on this preening lubjtct. The outlook is cei tainly not ituprov ing, and the beginning of the promised prom-ised era of peace is not very hopeful. The great war, recently cloned, and which gave rise to tho Bsrlin treaty. Wits occasioned by a mere serin: tine between villagers and a poei( wi-diers wi-diers who were collecting taxed. lit: small fight was succeeded by a Keueral insurrection in all the Christianized provinces, and finally Russia interfered inter-fered and turned an iueuliordiunlion into a bloody war. There is, in point, of fact, more occasion for a great eastern wr to-day, than existed throe years ago, and the cauie can be found both ia Europe and Asia. |