One Bishop has protested publicly against the support given by
her Majesty's Government to an Empire capable of repressing insurrection by extermination, and we need scarcely say he is the Bishop of Manchester. In a letter from him, read at a public meeting called to express the horror of the people of Manchester at such crimes, Dr. Fraser boldly advocates the abandonment of the superstition about 44 the integrity of Turkey," and affirms, "One could almost cease to believe in a Divine order of the world, if one thought that in the midst of the civilisation of Europe a despotism so cruel and vicious as that of Turkey could be much longer maintained." There is true feeling in the sentence, though not, we fear, true theology, unless indeed the whole mystery of pain be a sound argument for doubt. Dr. Fraser, however, may comfort himself. The Turkish Empire is not half as likely to live as American slavery was when the Virginians hanged John Brown.
