The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-06

and dispose of large proportion oi the sue
plus gold in the public treasury--neVer more
so. But the wretohed bungler Wnom the
radicals have forced upon Grant will not act
mn TO the occasion, but continue to unsettle
confidence until panic bring the business oil
The oountrv about his ears. We have, indeed,
fallen upon evil times when such great powers
are reposed in incompetent hands.
AVDert Edward mad Abdul Axfx.
Ero,rt the NJ Y. Times.
A fellow feeling makes US wondrous kind.
Nowhere, probably, since his triumphal tour
in upsophistioated America, has the Prince of
Wales been so heartily received as in Con-
stantinople, where, says recent London
telegram, he has already arrived and been
"received by the Sultan with great splendor."
II is touching, this greeting between the
young heir to the English throne and the de-
baucher of the Bosphorus; but it is only fair
exchange for the oivilities shown to the latter
by England during his western tour. What
revolutions, what revenges has not time
brought about in the relations of cross and
crescent The heir to the crown of CWdr-de-
Lion plays friendly bout not with mace or
AK, but with knife and fork, as boon COM
rades and fellow-trenchermen, with the, sue
cessor of Saladin. 1t was a token of changed
times and manners when the "siok man of the
Bosphorus" arose, took up his bed, and
walked westward; when, against custom and
statute, and amid the doubtful head-shakings
of conservative Mahometans, the Sultan cleo
trifed the faithful and made an epoch in
Turkish history by gathering up his house
hold and starting to visit the Christian dogs
Of London, Paris, and Vienna. 1t is hardly
less wonder when Albert Edward makes a
new crusade to the inhdels, and is received
with open arms.
Steam, telegraph, and the printing-press
have at once revolutionizsd and saved the Of
toman Empire. II was the toss OF penny,
but the other day, whether the sick man
should die and be dissected, or undergo that
| injection Of new blood which, with nations as
| with men, may make even those in the valley
| and shadow of death live again. Ever since
| the allied Intervention drove of the Surgeon
| Gear who had prophesied the sick man 8 death,
| and who meant to make his word good, Turkey
| has become new nation. One might almost
say the shock it took from its danger of death
had re-toned its system. What we know, at
all events, is that, with the example of travel
and free intercourse which the Sultan set, and
with the new nineteenth century ideas which
now permeste Mohsmmedanism, Turkey has
aligned herself with the Western Powers in
the march Of progress, and is capable Of any
thing.
"The time has come" said the Sultan, in
that remarkable speech with which he opened
his last years Council, 'when Turkish man
ners must yield to European civilization
There was noble omen in these pregnant
words, themselves no doubt the fruit of the
Sultan's tour. And that they were not idle
: is shown by the spirit with which Turkey re-
oeived the Paris solution of the Greek ques-
ton. Before the Conference met, the Porte
acceded to and urged its gathering; when it
met, the Porte pledged its word to bow to the
decision and when that decision was made, ii
was accepted.
Another omen for the Ottoman Empire is
the peaceful issue of the Greoo-C Crstan aues-
tion-a matter surcharged with danger. Phi
lanthropically, some of us may have sympa-
thized with the Cretan insurgents, or depre-
Gated the harsh measures whereby Omar
Pasha crushed IL; but practically we must
admit that crushed 1t is. Sensational stories
Of new risings cannot avail against official facts;
and, meanwhile, the mutual disarmament of
Greece and Turkey has been followed by the
significant appointment of a new and ac-
ceptable Ambassador from Athens to Con-
stantinople. Outriding this storm, Turkey
may look with more confidence to avoiding
other breakers ahead.
We do not know, however, that we are
justified in divergiDg into these general re-
Elections dprepoS of the visit of the Prince Of
Wales. Very likely he knows little and cares
less for the new prospects of Turkey; man
of different stamp from Napoleon III (who
will not run from Paris to Havre without a
deep political purpose), he may, for aught we
Nevertheless, his visit will not, on that ac-
count, provoke the less comment, or be
watched and reported from day to day with
less interest; and il personal enjoyment be the
Princes end, doubtless he will be able at least
to testify that the Sultan's dinners are deli
cious, and that, in Thackeray's words, 'his
Port is Sublime"