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London, England, 1827-07-06 00:00:00

will take office—meaning, we presume, that his
Lordship will succeed the Duke of Portland in
the charge of the Privy Seal. In this supposed
arrangement it will be seen that the office of
Chancellor of the Exchequer is entirely over-
looked ; and, therefore, whether this is intended
for Mr. Brougham, or Mr. Huskisson, we are left
to conjecture. These arrangements will have, as
far as the individuals are concerned, a somewhat
ludicrous appearance, and as regards the coun-
try, a most extraordinary one. If Lord Lans-
down, for instance, was destined, as he must
have been, from the first, to take office, why
should the Noble Lord have sat, during the
whole Session, a' non-official and irresponsible
Minister in the House ; and the moment it is
prorogued assume that responsibility which would
have had, at least, a more straight-forward and
constitutional appearance before? Or is it, after
all, that his Lordship would not take office under
Mr. Canning ; and that the latter's return to his
former office is the condition of the Marquis's
acceptance of one ? Almost the same observa-
tions will apply to Lord Holland ; who, if he
take office now, may fairly be asked, why lie
did not do so before, unless it was to escape
the « badgering," as Lord Goderich calls it,
which would probably have followed the event
While Parliament was sitting ? But does not Mr.
Canning see, as everybody else, we should imagine,
must, how much these changes go to shake his
own situation and preponderance in the Go-
vernment, while they proportionably increase
that of the Whigs, who, we have all along pre-
dicted, will throw him overboard whenever they
can ? In the two present Secretaries of State
he will lose his two most attached adherents,
arid will only have Lord Goderich and Mr.
Huskisson left who will bear that designation.
The Whigs, to be sure, are an accommodating
set, and will yield to him, or to any body, or to
any thing, to keep their places ; but once fairly
seated, and secure of the most important sup-
pbrt, they will anxiously and readily, we suspect,
get rid of all those, the amalgamation with whose
past principles forms a medley kind of mixture
so ridiculous and inconsistent in the eyes of the
country. Viewing matters in this light, is there
not every prospect of Mr. Canning very soon
having to regret, if he does not already, the sys-
tem of intrigue under which his Administration
has been formed, of which there is every proba-
bility of himself becoming the victim ? But
this state of things is of much more conse-
quence, as it concerns the country, than as af-
feCting individuals. The important interests
now at stake, both at home and abroad, 'require
the anxious, undivided attention of public men,
which cannot be effectually bestowed upon them,
if' their waking thoughts are perplexed with the
struggles and intrigues which we allude to.
What the country wants is, next to talent, some-
thing like public spirit and self-devotion in her
statesmen. Let these qualities be but evinced,
arid the public at large would care but little to
what particular class of politicians a statesman
may have belonged, but without which, a Tory
'and a Whig are equally useless and reprehen-
sible.—lbid.

We do not say the surrender of the Acropolis
will be fatal to the cause of the Greeks, but that
cause certainly presents, at present, an unpro-
mising aspect. The war, if it still be conti-
nued, must, in future, be carried on by detached
parties, seeking protection from their fastnesses,
the fortifications of nature, in cases of casual
reverse. Unfortunately for a war of such a na-

titre, most of the mountaineers are on the side
Gthe Turks, the patriots being chiefly the
reeks of islands and of the plains. If, as
we have repeatedly heard, it be seriously in-
tended by the Powers of Europe to interfere in
behalf of the Greeks, it is certainly much to be
lamented that their interference had not taken
place before the last strong hold had yielded.
Their labour will now he infinitely greater, whe-
ther they . proceed by negociation or by force.
The Empire of the Turks has long been a pro-
blem, for the solution of which we are still in
want of data. It is usual to represent the Go-
vernment as a depotism in its simplest and rudest
form, and the people as a horde of barbarians,
very little more enlightened than when they first
rushed forth from their native wilds, to carry
victory and devastation over the fairer portions of
Western Asia. But to those who read their
history attentively, it must be apparent that this
is a very superficial view of the subject. Power
is seldom built up, but much seldomer is it
held together by rudeness and barbarism ; and
if we reflect for a moment on the shocks which
the Ottoman Empire has withstood, and the
formidable rebellions which it has put down,
we shall be convinced that there is a
strength in its Constitution, and, looking
to; the means employed, a wisdom in its actual
Government, by no means consistent with our
hasty notions of either. It is, almost unneces-
sary to particularise the internal commotions to
which it has been exposed, for, since its esta-
blishment in Europe, and the destruction of the
Eastern Empire, very few years have elapsed in
which rebellions, more or less dangerous, have
not appeared in some part of the Turkish ter-
ritory. We shall merely advert to the two last
and greatest. When the • followers of Wahab
took the Holy City, and threatened to destroy,
not only the Turks, but Mahomedanisna, who
did not think that they would succeed, at least
ini the former attempt ? When the flame which
Ypsilanti' had kindled, spread over the Morea
and the Isles of Greece, what were not the anti-
cipations of the rest of Europe ? Was not
there a confident expectation, that, the hour of
retribution was at hand, when the Crescent
was at length to fall beneath the Cross ?
Where are the forces of Wahab and the strength
of the Greeks now? The power which broke the
bands of the one, has all but annihilated the
other; and, if we may judge by the past, that
power which has itself risen upon rebellion, is
destined also to fall, as all that have
hitherto risen against the Porte have fallen. In
the skill with which the aggressions of one rebel
have been regularly repressed by the arms of an-
other, there is no symptom of that ignorance
which we are constantly imputing to the Turkish
Government ; such a policy savours of any thing
rather than barbarism. From without Turkey
hits suffered. Russia on the East, and Austria
on the West, have long been pressing on its
Most fertile provinces ; but it has yielded less to
superior wisdom than to superior numbers. That
it should not, long ago, have been utterly sub-
dued, is, indeed, most wonderful, considering
the great disproportion of its population and re-
sources,
when compared with either of its ene-
mies. It is usual to say, that the jealousies of
the other Powers.liave concurred to preserve it
-r-that none of them have been willing to see it
in the hands of another. We shall believe in this
theory, when it can be shown to us, that any
State which its neighbours have been powerful
enough to subjugate, has preserved its indepen-
dence from such causes,—iNetu Times.