| Show A QUIET revolution our readers have noticed in the column by telegraph a brie brief f an au P no of the dethronement of prince couza and the following from reynolds rey Key newspaper is published to give a better understanding of the tho question A very quiet but very effective revolution has dethroned dethroner prince couza couze i his reign has not been one of very an long duration perhaps a few of our readers may not know where and over whom he reigned nor have any means of knowing why the overthrow of this potentate may be of more moment than the expulsion of the president of a south american republic prince couza reigned over the united principalities of moldavia and Wal lachia he re dates from the end of the russo turkish war the powers who framed the treaty of paris decided that these two tributary appendages to the ottoman empire S should ouid not lot be united but those who desired union out the dip by the very simple expedient of selecting each the same person for hospodar in 1861 the scruples of the tha diplomatist were overcome theory was made I 1 to accord with fact and it was agreed that the joint state should be called Rou roumania manla manin and should governed by one hospodar the reign of 0 prince couza then dates from 1861 although he had been for some years yeara prior to that period virtual ruler of tho the countries it may seem to be a matter of small moment to the rest of europe whether he was ruler of one or two little states and such would be the case were not those two states situate in one of the ticklish tiek tieL clish parts of the ottoman empire in short prince couza and his subjects and the territories they inhabit n are elements in the irrepressibly eastern question neither germany nor russia nor turkey turkey nor western europe can be abo absolutely indifferent to what is done by the mixed people who hold tho the mouths of the danube perhaps thero there would be little difficulty in the matter if the great powers would leave them alone and content themselves with insisting on the freedom of trade and navigation in the great river but unhappily the slightest stir in these regions acts like an electric shock on the great powers the tendency of revolutions to bucharest is to set armies in motion for some time we have heard of the assembling of russian troops on the gallichan gallician Gal lician frontier now we hear from orom brody that russian staff officers are surveying the pruth as if they were not as familiar with every ford and point of passage asage in its whole course as we are with those of the thames wo we are also told that thab austria has found it needful to reinforce the frontier garrisons that the tho authorities of servia are on the alert and no doubt although the telegraph has not told us about it there is soma stir in the turkish camps and garrisons of bulgaria and loumella Roun lella it is because internal movements in roumania have these effects upon the military forces of neighbouring neighbour ing powers that they are important to the general welfare the people caused the prince to bo quietly arrested and conveyed to in n the meantime the provisional government offered the sovereignty to tho the count de flandre second son of if the late king leopold he however refused it it appears that prince couza was a deci deel decided deI del despot for in may alay 1865 IM ha accomplished a coup after the approved napoleonic fashion turned tho members of the legislative chambers out of doors at the point of the bayonet and decreed a new constitution which while apparently more democratic left him really in the position of a despotic ruler since then however hp wever things have not gone well with him bucharest was but lately the scene of bloody riots during which the prince happened to be out of the w way 1 I and he got into difficulties with his ao ottoman toman suzerain more than once |
