The Government appears to have some difficulty in filling up
the Embassy to Constantinople, where it is, of course, indis- pensable to make a thorough change. The appointment has been offered to Mr. Goschen and to Lord Carlingford, and as the Cabinet will not venture to defy precedent altogether, and give it to the fittest man in Europe, Colonel Gordon, the search must recommence. The difficulty of the position, inherently great, will shortly be greatly increased, by the intrusion of that filthy question of the Bonds, which has spoiled all European action in Egypt. France is coming in, and will plead the necessity of " regenerating " Turkey, instead of superseding it, in order that the " for_ tunes of her citizens" embarked in Turkish Bonds may be protected. The Jew Rings are all alive already, and " Turks " go up or down on rumours that this or that Ambas- sador is to be appointed. Lord Granville will require all his firmness and all his suavity in making known to France, and to the speculators who are directing her, that the British Government is intent on political objects, and not on securing fifteen per cent, to capitalists who have had more than they deserve already ; and it is indispensable that the Ambassador should be a man insensible to financial pressure.
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