New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-26

south end to round out another Slave State south of
Kansas, or a new Slave State is to be made some
where else. When Free Labor is beaten in q
struggle il has to tahe the consequences; but when
Slavery is beaten, the next thing is to stop her
lamentations with the sugar plums of Compromise.
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tits 50 long since We have had any authentic bule-
tins Of the health Of the Sick Man. after their dscon
tnuance upon bis cOnvalescence under the treatment
Of the French and English doctors in consultation,
that We were agreeaby surprised at learning still
further good news Of his sanitary condition, and
that from source whence We had not thought of
looking for il. 1t comes from no less authoritative
a quarter than the British and Foreign Bible So
ciety the speakers at the last anniversary of which
congratulated themselve. and their coabOrers on
the probability Of the Sultan of Turkey becoming
Christian, under the influence of Bible which
the Society had rendered to bis acceptance, and
which he had graciously received. These excellent
gentlemen clearly believe that the age Of miracles
is not yet past and that the Sick Man may yet be
restored to sOundne.s Of spiritual health and be-
come an evangelical professor Of religion. But as
we are informed on the same authority that
"the operations of the Society have been
"emnently successful in India, China and else
where, our hopes Of this suspicious event are
less sancuine than they would have been had we
not been aware Of the peculiar means employed
for spreading the gospel in Catbay and the farthest
Ind Still, as We may very remember that our
own Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
few years since refused to condemn the practice
of pOygamy among certain many-wiyed con-
yertites of theirs, on the ground that such rule
might stand in the way of the introduction of the
gospel into Turkey, we are by no stif-necked
in our slowness of faith. Perhaps the readiness
which the successor of MahOmet lately showed
to be enrolled on the lists Of Order of Christian
chivary and to become Knight of ST. George of
England, may be regarded as hopeful sign of a
possible conversion.
While We cannot, at present, share in these
saDguine hopes of the translation of the Com
mander of the Faithful into the family of Christian
Kings We cannot but be sensible of liberal tenden-
cies on his part, which would have seemed
thirty years ago as unlikely his baptism itself
We mentioned some time ago the circumstance
that be now gives admission to the Dvan, or Great
Council of State, to Christians, and also to Jews,
as he has long done to negroes. This, certainly,
places him far in advance ofcertain Christian nations
who give themselves airs Of superiority over him.
Imogiuo Queen Victoria summonng Turk to her
Prvy Council; or Emperor Bonaparte admitting one
To bis Conservative Senate, Or whatever it is Called
or President Buchanan appointing a negro to
a Cabinet office. Beside this evidence of q con-
quest of universal national prejudice, We find
that be has created new department in his Cab
met, and appointed a Minister of Public lnstruc.
ton as its head We have no particular knowl-
edge of the fitness of SAM Pasha the Min.
lister in question: for the discharge Of his
important functions nor yet any very distinct ideas
as to what the field Of those functions is to be.
But the fact that Public Instruction is recognized
by the Sublime Porte as thing to be treated with
any thing but sublime contempt IL very curious sign
ofthese very funny times. What education there has
been in Turkey heretofore has been in the hands of
the religious and ecclesiastical authorities The Col
lege of the Ulemas has had the monopoly of man
ufacturing all the priests and the judges Of the
piIe, and their appointment has been virtually in
the discretion of the Shek FL Islam, its head.
Even if this step be only intended TO transfer the
control Of these important appointments from &C.
cesastical to civil hands, it may be attended with
important results which make no part of the con-
temptation Of the planners of the scheme Innoya-
ton can hardly have anything but good effect in
country of such stagnant institutions as Turkey.
ANY stone thrown into such pool must produce
wholesome disturbance.
Whatever the plans Of the Grand Seignior may be
as to the education of his subjects, hope they
may not be interrupted by the recent discovery Of
some Of the uses to which the aft of writing can be
perverted As the traveller thanked God that it
was Christian country, ON the shores of which he
had been cast away, when he saw a man hanging
on eibbet so the visitor Of those climes may
be moved 10 gratitude by the hopes of civilization
which the introduction Of Forgery there must en-
courage. ENLIGHTENMENT we have long since had
reason to believe was not confined to such good
Christians as Sir John Dean Paul and Redpath,
and our own Schuyler; but that it was virtue
shared by the followers Of the Prophet as well.
Only, as everything there belongs to the Sultan,
the pleasure of cheating was doubtless en-