The Hawaiian gazette., 1873-01-08

which, according to our notion, would be the
most desirable.
As often in private life two individuals who
seem to be made to suit each other, somehow OF
other never can get up that intimacy which each
of them rather desires, so in the relations be-
tween Turkey and Austria, friendly as they have
been for so many years, there has never existed
that degree of intimacy which would have been
so natural between two neighboring countries
having so many interests in common, and not one
question to produce a difference between them.
l believe no Turkish statesman ever meets an
Austrian one without their assuring each other
mutually how thoroughly they are impressed
with the necessity of the tive countries being
very fast friends; and yet you constantly hear OF
how under one regime it is the French, under
another the English, under third, the Russian
influence and friendship which are most relied
upon, but never by any chance do you hear of an
Austrian influence or friendship This may be
partly the merit of the other Ambassadors and
the misfortune of ours, but the fact, neverthe-
less, is undeniable. Now there seemed at last a
chance to start this intimacy on the direct way
through the two Ministers for Foreign Affairs,
instead of the roundabout way through the Am
bassadors, when the fall of Midhat, which may
draw after it that Of Hail, destroys the chance.
No wonder that we are in bad humor. We
bemoan the fate of poor Turkey, where all is de-
pendent on the caprice of one man. exposed to
the worst intrigues and influences about him, and
who, moreover, has given more than one sign OF
mind more or less diseased. 1t is all the venality
and rivalry of women and eunuchs, the intrigues
of cOurtiers and vslets.
Those who can watch things more closely on
the spot are Of rather different opinion. They
are inclined to see rather method in the mad
ness. Not long AGO the surveying party of Her
Majesty's ship Clearwater made the discovery
that the proverbillly rapid current which runs
from north to south, both in the Dardanelles and
Bosphorus, is only surface current, and that
there exists an under current which runs with
prodigious force hack 20 the Black Sea- so that
by applying special apparatus the ships boats
we're in many places driven along against the
upper current with velocity greater than that of
the steam-launch belonging to the Clearwater.
Now, friends in Stamboul imagine that they
have discovered such an under current in the late
change from Midhat to Rashdi. You may re.
member that several times under the Viziership
It was rumored there was an intention on the
part of the present Sultan to change the order
IF succession by seniority aa to introduce direct
by liueal descent FROM father 10 son.
Once the rumors were s. loud and Persistent that
hey gave rise to quest ons and representations
N the part of several 0. the Powers Ofcoure
he answer returned by he Grand Yiziar Nah
noud was most manipulating sBay he made SO
ight of the affair that th,re rose out of ii some
title unpleasantness, some Of the foreign repre-
entatives having rather appeared in the light Of
Unofficial people who have more
opportunities of knowing what is passing behind
quite so light Of these
they are inclined to
Of Tie succession is