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February 27, 1830 TURKISH CIVILIZATION.—The Sultan, according to the last ac- counts from Constantinople, is not marching, but galloping on the highway of improvement. Tea-parties are now common in the Seraglio, at which his Highness's ladies appear—veiled as yet, it is true—but one great slip has been made, they will cast their veils to the winds by and bye. This is not all. An Italian theatre is to be established for the royal diversion at an early day, and an agreement is said to have been already made with a manager. What next? Our contemporary, the Standard, who on the recent symptoms of breaking-up among the Ultra Tories has grown a-weary of this vain world, remarks, that "the intro- duction of the vices and follies of Europe is not the way to introduce European civilization." . . but what shall we say of him, when he talks of a taste for the music of Mozart and Rossini as a vicious, and of a tea-table party as a foolish indulgence?
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