The Constantinople Conference sat on Monday,—for the last - time probably
till the military operations have brought forth fruit,--though the Turks wish it to continue its sittings that England may be hampered by its proceedings. There seems to be a satisfactory hitch in the military arrangements between Turkey and England, the Turks altogether declining the English demand that their troops should be under the orders of the English Commander-in-Chief, and proposing, indeed, to take all the military operations upon themselves, the English to remain passive till that distant day,—the Greek Kalends,— when the Turks should have reduced Arabi to obedience. To such absurd proposals, of course, Lord Dufferin does not listen, so that there is every chance of Sir Garnet Wolseley doing his little job before the Turks become amenable to reason. This is, of course, much the best result that could happen. The Turkish troops in Egypt would be so many new difficulties and dangers, and to import new difficulties and dangers into Egypt is cer- tainly like sending coals to Newcastle.
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