15 NOVEMBER 1879, Page 12

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

THE EASTERN DIFFICULTY.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."1

collect from the telegrams that the alarming crisis in Constantinople might be tided over by the appointment of Baker Pasha to a high command or governorship. Scott, describing the Porteous riots, says that the whole matter ended in the grant of a pension to the captain's widow,—i.e., "in making the fortune of an ex-cook-maid, which was the lady's original vocation." Would it not be odd if the threatened bombardment of the Turkish capital should end by making the fortune of an ex-colonel of cavalry, who left the English Service under circumstances which would hardly be deemed a recom- mendation to any people but the Turks.—I am, Sir, &c.,

A LOOKER-ON.