The "Turkish question" occasions a painful duty to the news-
papers, which are obliged to write about it daily. As it has altered but little, in essentials, since its opening six months ago, but as sagacious publicists are expected to tell the public what to think about it daily, the writers are obliged to repeat the same thing six times a week. And if the device of reportinr,c, an asser- tion one day, and qualifying it with a caution next day, gave a little air of novelty to it at first, even that contrivance has failed ; and a six-months perusal of half a dozen main facts, and half a dozen consequent arguments, transposed to the last stretch of political permutation, has become rather fatiguing. Being only obliged to write a sixth time as often, and being blessed with a restriction of space, wo are better able to break off at the mere recital of the newest turn of the facts. The Sultan's declaration of war, then, has been notified to Prince Gortchakoff; with the further intimation, that as he might want further instructions from St. Petersburg, he should be allowed fif- teen days for the purpose. Prince Menschikoff has been appointed to superintend the government of the Principalities ; junction the Rus- sian army is moving up the Danube, as if to effect a unction with Austria by and by. The Emperors of Russia and Austria have
i met the King of Prussia at Warsaw, and nothing whatever is
known of the result, or of another meeting at Potsdam ; but there is a rumour that Prussia has declared herself neutral. Six regi- ments have been ordered from Ireland, "to relieve" others in. the Mediterranean, already augmented beyond their standing number, we believe, because certain regiments to be relieved at the last rotation have remained with those-that went to relieve them.
