The British Government has lost the services of Mr. F.
I. Scudamore. He has accepted an appointment in Turkey, and has gone to settle the method of working the international postal system agreed to at Berne. He is a real loss to the Government, being one of those officials who, when there is work to be done, do it, and take the responsibility, and possessing an organising faculty which would have made him a great Chief of the Staff. He will be thrown away in Turkey, because he will probably object to turn Mussulman, and will not, therefore, rise high enough for his great capacity, his fearlessness, and his ingrained love of despotism to do any good to the Empire. With Mr. Scudamore for Vizier, Turkey might be solvent and General Ignatieff powerless ; but then most of the Pashas would be hanged.
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