New-York daily tribune., 1856-07-21
that we hold to be at war with the spirit Of He-
publican Freedom and the Federal Constitution.
We smoke. the other day, Of the oliity Of the

the ANGLICAN Church, with sundry Oh al, blshops
and CLERGY. a, dinner at the Mansion House, and
of their responding gratefully to his complimentary
sentiments "a to their discharge Of their Christian
duties. Asif tbi, were not enough to derange our
traditional ideas and bother whatever seemed 70
be most fixed in the notions we have imbibed from
history and poetry, the Turkish Embassador must
give bali las. month, at which heT Majesty as
sisted. A Mussulmsn giving ball And not only
60 but bis wife, or one Of them for it is not to be
supoo,ed that he is 90 "heirously u'provided as
10 have but one), receives bis guests, aud dances
in the same quadrille with which the Head OF the
English Church opened the ball with the repre-
sentative OF the successor Of the Prophet. And,
further, the Sultan himself encourages this outrage
on the traditions Of IslanisT by sending TO Mad
sne Musurus. az the fair Moslem is called 10 the
land of the urbelievers, magnificent present OF
diamonds to wear on the occasion. The glory has
indeed departed from the true faith
And this is not the worst Of it, for the Com
nanoer of the Faithful set the example himself
some tine ast Spring, almost under the very drop
pings Of st Sophis's, or rather of the Mosque CT
Omar itself. To the utter CONSERVATION of all Mus
sunen of conservative ideas the Grand Seiguor az
tended bell--a fancy dress ball, we believe it
wss-given by Lady Strstford de Redclfe, the
English Embassadress. Turks are usually to be
seen in plenty at those motley entertainments, but
th.y sre usually Of very Brummgen description,
and tsyor much more Of the costumers shop than Of
the Strsalo. But TO have the Grand Turk Of all
TLris, in his own proper person, going IN state TO
the ball of Giaour, swarming with fair inddcls
with uncovered faces and bsre arms, and to DO
received by one Of them ss bis hostess, is thing
never written before in history, and which could
not have entered into the heart of true believer
to conceive fifty years ago. We believe hn High
0e,s did not join "in the may" though au-
the nti, PareL has o picture of him whirled round
by Lady Stratford in the gddy Polka; but he
gave hs arm to his hostess to supper, and ate and
drank in company with Christian dogs.
"The charming Mary Montague" as well As all
travellers in the Esst, has impressed upon all our
minds the f1edness and unchsngesbleness of Turk
i,b IDEAS ard customs. Aud we oil have very
distinct conception Of Sultan sitting cross-legged
on his diyan, smoking bis chibOaque, amusing him
self by a sign TO the mutes 10 Attendance to bow
string some pachs that has offended him. or to
decapitate Grand Nizier who has forfeited his
favor. He is seen by the unbeeyers oUly on the
rarest occasions. His leisure is spent in the
Serago, where, whate7er dancing is dose, is for
biz entertainment and not for that Of the perform.
ers. where the charms Of the women are reserved
for his eyes alone, and where the flower path of
Irritation leads straight TO the sack and the Bos-
phorus. Alas, all these visions are OF the past
of the days of turbsns and aigrettes aad diamonds
and flowing draperies and yssaghans and sabers!
The turban has given way to the fez; the trcwsers,
vast and flowing, to the profane pansaloon OF the
naisbedevilg FrA.k; the gorgeOusly embroidered
Jacket to the rockcoat, ormess ana void OF grace,
which modern Europe wears for its sins. Who
can wonder, after this, that the Sultan should find
himseif az Frankish ball
The fact is, the Ottoman Empire has been going
to the dogs ever since MabmOu1 III. tho father OF
tie reignng Sultan, breeehed his subjects The
Herr Won Teu!elsdr6ckh bad reason-thero is great
virtue in clothes. No wonder the spirit and virtue
departed out of the Turks when forced to change
their Old picturesque costume. associated with all
the o'ores Of their race, for the forked awkward
mes. Of their pJesent sttirc. And indeed it "a past
a Jest that all these things have meaning deeper
thu what they wear Oh the surface. They are
signs of change and of national delapida.ioa. Nah
moud thought to renew the efete spirit Of MS peo-
pie by lkeuiDg their apparel to that Of the more
progressive Western nations. But 1t is not in broad
cloth OF boots that the spirit of nation dwells. So
these condesceI soDs to the customs of the infdel
they denote the foregone conclusion Of dynasty
totteripg to its fall. Imagine Amurs.h or Solym.n,
the Magnificent, going to Christian ball, or coan-
tensrciog the wife Of bis Embsssador in appearing
in public, among the infdel women of the Court to
which he was sent And Lord Lyndhust told US
the other day, in the debsta on the removal Of tho
Jewish Disabilities, that there were at least two
Christians aud one Jew at the Council table Of the
Sultan Christians and Jews members Of Tho Di-
van of the Sublime Porte What a confusion Of
our hereditary ideas! But it is confusion which
indicates radical and revolutionary change in the
ideas Of the governing minds Of Turkey-s change
spIinging from imbecility rather than from growth
from the need of external support, than from a
reaching after the better things of other nations
sn6 which is the symptom Of dissolution rather
than Of regeneration
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San ounce of prevention is worth pound Of
cure" says trits old proverb. Il should be in-