Europe

[Froin the Chicago Tribune.] . Is Europe drifting iiito -war? Two weeks ago Abdul-Aziz, Sultan of Turkey, was deposed by a sudden popular revolution, and Murad Entendí, his nephew, ascended tlie throne of Othinan. The news was received in England with jubilation. ït was regarded as in the interests of peace, notwithstanding Bngland's refusal to accept the Berlín agreement of the threo powers. Under the influence of this feeling Turkish securities improved, and the English creditors feit easier, while the three great powers that had met at Berlín remained ominously silent. In diplomacy, as in war, radical changes are made in a day. Abdul-Aziz has left a legacy of trouble to his successor. Before he is fairly upon his tnrone, he finds himself surrounded with the preparations f or a great war - the Servians and Bulgarians eollecting their armies and hurrying them to the frontier to make commen cause with the other Sclavcs ; the Black sea s warming with Russian gunboats; the English war essels steaming across the Mediterranean toward the Bosphorus; Greece placing her little army on a war footing and negotiating a war loan of money. Thè relations between Turkey and the Ohristian insurgents and between Turkey and the threo powers now begin to lose interest as compared with the disturbance of the relations between Great Britain and Eussia. If the signe are to be trusted, the Eastern quesfion looms up again, and another Orimean war is inevitable, in which England must side with Turkey without the co-operation of France, and with Austria and Italy in active sympathy with Eussia. It is to prevent the absorption of Constantinople by Russia, and to seal up the Bosphorus against her, that England is now moving her fleets. Russia, while ostensibly remaining quiet and urging a paeific settlement, is in reality engaged in active warfare against Turkey. Servia, Bulgaria and Roumania swarm with her agents, exciting disaffection among tho people. The Servían troops, which are now ranged on the frontier, are officered by Russian generáis. She holds the Sclavic prövinces like hounds at the leash, ready to let them slip at the proper moment. She has already many war vessels in the Black sea, and has issued orders for the construction of many more. If she can obtain control of the Bosphorus, she will not only ha,ve an o.utlet to the Mediterranean, but she will never again relinquish her hold upon it. Once in possession, she threatens Egypt, compels Eügland to hold Alexandria in order to defend the Suez canal, and threatens not only to cut off England's route ta Asia, but to endanger her Asiatic possession. Once in possession of tke Bosphorus and locking it up, she holds Asia íit her mercy. She will sweep down tne Euphrates to the Persian gulf through Turkey in Asia. She already holds Toorkiston, and will drive the weak powers - Persia, Cabool and Beloocbistan - before her like chaff before the wind, thus reaching the borders of Hin_ I dostan and threatening British India" All this hangs upon the possession of Constantinople. The little breeze which began in Herzegovina a year ago has aow developed in a tempest, and the dreaded Eastern question is forced upon England again. Diplomacy may once more ward off the conflict; the events of one day may precipítate it. In case it comes, the map of Europe must be reconstructed. Roumania, Bulgaria, Constantinople, the Bosphorus, all go to Russia; Servia, Bosnia and Montenegro to Austria, forming a colossal PanSclavonie empire; Macedonia and Thessaly to Greece; Northern Austria to Germany, whose cunning Ohanoellor sits like a spider in his web, watching the nies buzzing about him. What goes to England? She will take Egypt, if France will allow it. Meanwhile, the Russians will be between her and India. There may be another Orimean war, but this time England will not hae France, Italy and Austria to help her.