Turkey shows signs of a little advance in political intelligence.
Riza Pacha, the Seraskier, has been superseded by the appoint- ment of Suleiman Pacha ; Riza being a representative of Turkish Conservatism, Suleiman of Progress : the caftan and wide trousers cede to the coat and pantaloons. The Porte, too, is falling in with the etiquettes of diplomacy, and grows reasonable on the subject of Syria : Abd-ul-Medjid and his Ministers have been made to understand the national policy as well as official decency of not maintaining whole provinces in a state of chronic anarchy, and of sending discreet officers to govern the Druses and Maronites of the Lebanon, instead of setting them to combat like fighting-cocks and then shooting them down for their pains like wild-fowl. The Turks are decidedly advancing beyond that stage in the art of government when subjects are regarded as a kind of fene, preserved for the use and profit of their lord and his servants.
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