Turkey, too, is getting on. Not only has Suleiman Pacha
been substituted for Riza Pacha, but there has been a complete re- modelling of the Ministry, and further changes are expected ; all tending to a change from the policy of Ottoman Conservatism to that of Progress. The Sultan is said to have asserted his own mastery, and the sickly boy has suddenly come forth as the young and turbaned Louis Philippe of the East. Accompanying these vigorous measures, there has been a great improvement in the personal consideration and kindness to the fallen Ministers : the bowstring yields to the retiring pension, and the Grand Signior learns that it is wisest to temper vigour with generosity. If these stories are true, opinion makes ample strides in Turkey, and a power is growing up in the crumbling empire which may not only consolidate it, but revive the glories of Mussulman Spain, and make for the fallen Empire of the East a higher destiny than it ever yet achieved.
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