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must stand or fall by the prudence of his
acts, and the accuracy of his calculations.
Landowners, too, must adapt their methods of
management to the tiew state of things ; for unless
farms are put into a state fit for profitable occupa-
tion, and let upon terms which justify good farming,
! their unimproved farms will soon find their proper
level, which is a low one, in what may now be called
an open market. Farming, to be successful, must be
prosecuted with spirit, capital, and all needful pee-
-1 manent improvements, or it should be let alone.
Is it not plain, that, when freed from the illusions
of Protection, the men who employ their capital in
cultivating the soil are no longer deficient
in those qualities of determination and enter-
prise for which all other classes of this coun-
ts try are remarkable? The repeal of the Corn
Laws has removed an incubus from our agriculture.
Possibly the change may have been more sudden
" than the changes which occur in other businesses
from natural causes and the progress of social wants.
But have not all other industrious employments under-
gone similar changes? In trade, in manufactures,
and the like, let the eon, to whom the father gives
up his business, attempt to carry it on in precisely the
Name manner, and to pursue only the same routine
which may have led the father to competence or for-
tune, and it is ten to one that failure will be the
result. Each industrious generation, each man of
business, must look around and adapt his system to
the wants and necessities of the times, and must
meet or counteract the changes of circumstances
ender which he finds himself called upon to carry a•
his business. The law of progress is certain sad
inexorabje, and the man or the class neglecting to
obey it will sustain difficulties and disasters without
end. Why then should agriculturists and land-
owners expect to be exempted from the require.
ments of that law? That they have never
been so exempt is certain, but until recently
their appreciation of its necessities has been
imperfect and confused. They have relied
on legislative protection, and have neglected fully to
develop the resources of their own business; or to
understand completely what may be done by the
application of science, capital, and industry to the
cultivation of land. Their adversity—if so the
transition amidst untoward seasons may be called—
has discovered to them the priceless jewel they had
in a great measure overlooked; their difficulties have
brought forth their strength ; and the present gene-
ration of agriculturists, adapting their systems of
culture to actual circumstances, will make eventually

greater progress and larger profits than their fathers
have made before them.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

THE LAST NOTE.

The following document, just received from Con-
stantinople, justifies the assertion of our correspon-
dent there (in his latter of the lath ult.), that the
note prepared by M. Delacour, quite as much as the
original note forwarded from Vienna, flattered the
vanity of Russia, and put words in the mouth of the
Sultan inconsistent with his dignity, as an indepen-
dent and injured sovereign. The modifications with
which this document has been adopted by the Otto-
man Council of State, aro contained in the notes.
They are not more (if so much) than was required to
preserve appearances for the Turkish government in
the eyes of its subjects. They justify the expression
" slight modifications" in the account of the Trieste
telegraphic despatch. The adoption of the note,
with so little change by the Council of State shows
how correctly our Constantinople correspondent of
the 13th (and his correspondent at Pere) were in-
formed
of the state of opinion among the ministers
and high functionaries of the empire, and the justice
of the inferences they drew from their knowledge. 1
Turkey has receded from its stipulation to have an
express guarantee of the evacuation of the Danubian
Provinces before it acceded to the proposals of the
tour powers ; Turkey has, with little more than mere
verbal alterations, adopted the lan !nage they put
in its mouth. Turkey has complied with the requests
lof the four powers as far as it could consistently
with safety from internal insurrection—if indeed it
have not overstepped that line. Turkey is, therefore,
entitled to call upon the four powers to insist upon
the withdrawal of the Russian troops from Walla-
chia and Moldavia. The English ministers, at least,
stand publicly pledged to insist upon the
evacuation of those Provinces; and the English
ministers must have been made to speak as they
have done on this head in parliament, if they had
not in private similar unequivocal pledges from the
other three powers.
We give little heed to the thousand and one
reports which aro spread by stock-jobbing electric
expresses, and the fragmentary tales gleaned up by
private and newspaper correspondents. The inten-
tions of Russia respecting the evacuation of the Pro-
vinces are yet a mystery. Suspicious circumstances
there are in abundance ; as, for example, the feelers
put forth to try whether European complaisance will
go so far as to sanction a demand from Turkey by
Russia for the expenses it has incurred in its lawless
inroad into the Ottoman territory Oa the other
hand there is the positive declaration of the English
ministers.

But even if Russia withdrew its troops at present,
there can be no doubt that the aggression will be
speedily, renewed. The mustering of troops in all
parts of the Russian empire, the establishment of
telegraphic communication between St. Petersburg
and the Black Sea, the incendiary appeals to the
fanaticism of the Russian commonalty in favour of a
religious war—all these can only be meant to pre-
pare for a speedy and heavy blow at Turkey.
Russia must be watched quite as jealously and closely,
if she withdraws from the Danubian Provinces, as if
she finds some pretextforprocrastinating her evacua-
tion of them.

PROJET OK NOTE.

S. M. le Sultan n'ayant rica do plus au cur quo de
retablir entre elle et Sa Maj. l'Empereur de Huaie les re-
lations de bon voisinage et de parfait. entente qui oat mal•
heureusement etc alferees par de recentes et peuibles
complications, a prig soigneusement 3 tache de rechercher
lee moyensd'effecer les traces de ces different" points.
Us Irade supreme, en date de ,lui ayant fait con-
naitre la decision Imperials, la Sub. Porte se felicite a pou-
voir le communique' a Son Excellence M. le Comte Nes-
selrode. Si a toute epogue les Empereurs de 'tussle oat
temoigne leer active sollicitudo (1) pour le maintien des
immunites et prim:sieges de 1 eglisc ortliothre grecgu, duns
!'empire Ottoman les Nutans ne se sont Annals refuse a
les consume de nouveau par des actcs selennel" qui attes-
taient de lour aucienne et coustante bienveil.ance a regard
de lours sujets Chretiens.

8. M. le Sultan Abdul Medjid: aujouriehui regnant
anime des memes dispositions, et voulant dormer 8. M
l'Enspereur de 'tussle un temoignage personel do son
amine la plus sincere, n'a scouts que sa contiance iutinie
dans les qualites emineutes de son auguste ami et aliie, et a
daigne prendre en scrieuse consideration les representations
(2) dont son Excellence M. le Prince Menxicoff's ctait rendu
l'orgruic aupres de la Sub. Porte.
Le soussigne a par consequence revs Venire de declarer
par la presente que le government de S. M. le Sultan resters
fidelea la !dire et a !'esprit des stipulations des trades de
Kuseaik liaistarsi (3), et d'Andrinop/c, relatives a la pro-
tection du cuite Cliretien (4), ct que S.M. se regarde comma
etsnt de son liouneur de faire observer a tout jamais de toute
attetite, wit nrcsentement, soit dans I' avenir, la josissance

des privileges spirituel' qui ont etc accordcs par his au-
gustes ayeux de .S. orthodox': d'Oricnt, et qui
sont 'Raiment's et confirms par ells, ct en outre it faire
participer dans on esprit de haute Naafi% Ic rite pee aux
amide:yes COlie. (MX eatres ehn'tiens par conventiwa ou
disposition partieuliere (5).
Au reste, comae le firman imperial qui vient d'etre
donne au patriarest et isu Merge grec, et qui contient la con-
firmation de leur privileges spirituel', Mina etre ',garde
comae unc nouvelle preuve de cm nobles sentiments, et
comae en mitre la proclamation 4c cc firman qui donne
toute aecurite deers faire disparaitre a jamais Inmate crainto
a regard du rite qui eat la religion de S. N. l'Empereur de
Russie, je soil heureux d'etre charge du devoir de faire la
presente notification. Quint ala garantie qu'a l'avenir it
ne sera lion change au lieu de visitation de Jerusalem, elle
resulte du Armen revetu du Ilatti lloumayon, le Li de la
Ruse de Rebbi Ulakir, 1268 (Fierier, 1862), explique et