10 AUGUST 1878, Page 3

It was announced on Thursday that Sir Henry Drummond Wolff,

M.P. for Christchurch, is to be the British Commissioner on the European Commission for the reorganisation of Eastern Roumelia. It would be difficult, we imagine, to find in the Tory party a more thorough-going pro-Turk, or one more likely to play into the hands of the Sultan. Nor has he ever given signs of that commanding intellect which would make him, almost in spite of himself, the ally of humanity, order, and civilisation, wherever he saw them likely to be endangered. The appointment is worse than we might have expected,—even from the Government of Lord Beaconsfield.