, 1874-10-27
PROGRESS IN TURKEY.


From The Gec }0rE Times,
Rccont hcconnts ir0m CpnsLlLluopIn cO,l-
yoyed by tho Vienna Free Press, say that tho
Sultan in councillor tho Sublime Porto Inns
nuw got 4 Council of Stato-iH about to establish
tho succession Of tho ti,rouo IN thu eldest Sons
Of tho pQdishahs.. This il another, Of these
trying to adjust themselves to the march OF
tho military governments about them, anl
hold tloir magnificent Seat IN tue Bos,,
phorus;; ;r,,u ln their their efforts to ,iai THU ona
have proved themselves to bo moro objective ro-
forsncrs than tho isry Franks. Or my otllar poo
pie, wllilo their SultarB, wisely recognizing tho
nccd auu spirit Of the ago, Lave shown their
great superiority over tho other crowned lleaas
Of Europe. For whilo the Dourbons, tho Hups-
bnrEa, tho HoAenzo!leTis, tho Guolphs, and tho
rest have boon augriiy struggling to keep things
on the old footiugs, the Khasls for the lust SOW
enty yenrs have bacn tho worry foremost III carry
ing out, oftou With a high md bloody haud, all
aortH OF rulornB in thor monarchy. They soom
resolved to falsity tho proyorb ttlat Turkey In
Europe III but NJ, enrampniant Of Oreutnls OIL
the wrong sido Of tho sttaight.
These Turks (who mover assume tho namo of
Turk, sinco III tho East 1t signifies robbor) ,lrst
ca1no acroHs tho Dnrtlapollus. about GOO years
ago. BwarIning aud Hettling at Atlranople, which
they made their capital. a century lHtcr. 3lo-
manned H. Btormcd tic lust fortress Of tho
Greek Emperor, ontorel the city oyor tho doad
body. OF Constnntiuo pa!mologo1s (1453), urd
turned Couatantiuople into Iatalnbou. In MI
other hundred years from tllnt ato, tho Turkish
Etnpiro Of solyman tho Magnificent was Ut It's
loln Or provinces, with ruling puHhae. and four
others which wcro tributary. FroM tho time OF
Amulatl {15s0) tho Turks made no moro con-
quests but they maintained almost per-
PStns} pa1o %r .eDat on Axt@aan en 1son rors n he
gariNns, mud Russians. coping alHo with tho
VenotanH at ton. 10 tho fancy OF all Europeans
at that tisne, the region Of tho Dannbo and Boa.
phoyus was tho 1aud OF adventurous norois,n aud
rouIantio war, and all Princes aud men OF ol.is-
airy regarded ca,npagn against tho Ottoma.,s
us tho great duty or glory OF thcir lives. Tho
Eastern Qnestion" WAS then tar moro exciting
and pootical than 1t has boon in our day, though
1t can still hold out, on occahiot1, sonln OF the
warfare, ns everybody IL awnro. at last tho
science of tho Wcst told docsivoly III tho Htrl,g-
glo, when artillery practice bogau to replace tile
prowesa OF The cavalry onHo,s with ]nllco and
century, tho Troaty OF Carlowi.z {16y3} deprived
the Turks OF Hungary aud TranBylvan!n, md
otherwise showed that tholr victorious aaya wcro
At an anu.
With tho eighteenth, cen , ,eontury grey shs special
thoHo se1ni.Tartara OF tho Northwest, who tllell.
took up tho rolo OF oyorruuusrn which tho Ot-
tonaans could no longor play. From tho days Of
Petor tho, Groat, The Czara lept t!.or eyes on
tho Crlmea, hor people dug up from so!ua Of tho
rnna Of the place tl.o stone Of u brolon asch-
why boaring the inscription, 'Ilsls III tho loal
to Consta,itmoplo." This took ler fa,lcy great
y, and sl.o doularod there was III onon in 1t.
When, in 1857, sle met tl,s Emperor Joseph on
tho Hack aoa, tho pair discussed tho partition
Of Turkey, Poland having altoady houu partt-
toned. " But who 10 to hlyo Oonatantiuoplo 7"
aaid tho Gornan, .gEayey. Catherine, smiling,
put thu question by-a question her grandson,
Nloi,olaa, tricd to anewer IN 1855, Whom ho wont
for what no called tle kny u iliH house,"
At the cloao Of tho eigltoouth contury tho
Turkish 6ultans began to 300 that lhoy could
no longer afford to stand aloof from tho modern
prngteas of tAlngs. ant! aen III undertook to
Ing. ilo once said tllat, Il ho wore to change
his religion, ho would bo CATHOLIC, aoclng ti4at
all tue beak Wiuoa cana from Catholic countries.
Uut bis drst stop was not tho only difficulty,
Wlen he begin TO regulato the army aftor tho
European nao1el4 Tie Janl2krlss ps0tastsd yio-