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London, England, 1853-05-21 00:00:00

the sudden gratification of him young am-
bition ; but, when the ehmnie dixeount of Ex-
chequer Bills has convinced him that he is not
exaetly Mr. lhrr, him peeuliar temperament
will prevent his acting any length of time
without prineiples. and.he will be in extremes.
one way or the other. will either sing " Yankee
Doodle" or take refuge in the Conservative
sanetuary. These are their principal ineu ;
for, so far as the present Administration is
concerned, Lard Nutt:lmo/I is a mask.
Before a year hes pawed it will be generally
recognised that the abasement of the Whig
party by Lord .louN licastni. wax one of the
most unjustifiable, and perhaps one of the
:nest deplorable, events of out' timed.

THE POSITION OF THE EASTERN
QUESTION.

IT is certainly a curious fact that once in
twenty yam, on an average, Turkey coneew
trews on itself the eyes of Europe. like Spain,
it never eon be a substantive power, and its in
ternal weakness is so patent, that it is periodi-
cally threatened with extinction. A person
Uluequailited with the politics of Europe
wadi', at fi►st sight, be justified in expressing
astonishmea at the long continuance of the
Turkish purer. But further inqui►y would
soon explain the protracted existence of "this
•, excrescence in the European systan," us
Lord CANTLEREAOH called It, in one of the des
patches which have been published within this
fortnight. The answer to the query, " Why
" Turkey exists?" is to be real in POTEMILIN's
inscription on the southern gate of Chttsan—
wills is the road to Constantinople !" In
fact, us Lord CAMERRA6H, thirty years since,
told the Emperor of RUSsIA, Turkey is " a
" necessary evil "in the European system. The
four limit Powers—England, Austria, Prussia,
and France—have no desire to see a tempting
lino of seaeoust indented with harbours an-
nexed to Russia; and they have always felt
that it, would be a work of insuperable ditli-
mdty to agree. in any sense, o►► its peaceful
partition.

This policy has often, indeed, been endan-
gered by the progress of events—the emanci-
pation of Greece, the b.4ttlo of Navarilio, and
the cession of E .....gppt to ET ; and of
course then, has been considerable variety of
'sentiment amongst the Four Powers on the
putire question. Prussia and France would
appear to think that, in ease there was a parti-
tion of Turkey, Austria and Russia would ob-
tain Turkey in Europe, and England would
get Egypt. Recolleeting the often expressed
views of various parties in France, about
malting the Mediterranean " at French lake,"
we are not surprised at our neighbours being
apt to judge of our foreign pokey in Europe
by their own. It is possible that the o inions
of France and Prussia are biassed on this
point by the populations of the two main por-
tions of Turkey being nearly equal, and there-
fore suggesting the particular line of division,
as shown by the sum total in the following
table of the Turkish population, taken from
the census of 1844

Uwe.. Europe. Asia. I Alma. I Total.
—.--
Ottuoilol%
Sela‘ll 4 .... 7.24111AM1 %2110,111111
lillUnit'llani .... 000,000 4,000,000
Arumut,
41 re 4.104
Armenians
Jews
'ninon;
Armlet
byname and C . ~-......
doeur "I p 235, 233,000
~ \VS.OUI 25,0(ki
Kunio .... 4 4 '''
"; f, 1100110,0fil 1,000,1111 I
TUCOOIeg .10 • . 't
, i 00 110,0U0
Mrs ••••••••••
.10. 1111=, 1' . AN 3,5114 /MOO 3b,3311,000

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