The Times is very anxious that Colonel Gordon should be
appointed Governor-General of Bulgaria, and thinks if that appointment were made the Turks would have given the Bul- garians all necessary guarantees. It would have given none at all, as Colonel Gordon would not be at liberty to compel Mahommedan Judges to receive Christian evidence, but apart from that, the suggestion displays a delicious easiness of faith in Turkish motives. The Pashas are not defying Europe in order to have a chance of appointing Europeans to their best posts, but in order to keep them for themselves, with no worrying European Commissioners to inquire into their acts. If they are to give up their right divine to misrule, they may as well surrender it to Europe as to the Times, and to any Vassilivitch as to Colonel Gordon, who, to many other disqualifications, such, for example, as a dislike to slavery, adds the greatest of all,—a high and determined character. He might hang a Pasha if he caught him plundering, and what would be the use of the "integrity and independence of Turkey" then?
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