Lord Stratford de Redcliffe writes to the Times to deprecate
the policy of abandoning Turkey. He thinks such a policy might induce the Three Powers who partitioned Poland to dismember Turkey also, and would rather that England insisted on placing Turkey under tutelage. He explains carefully that this tutelage must extend to her internal affairs, and denies that it would be obnoxious to all Turks, or contrary to the faith of Treaties. He admits, however, that the tutelage must be under the Six ' Powers, and .in that admission, we conceive, rejects his own proposition. How could the six am- bassadors, three of them from free countries and three from countries believing in repression, govern Turkey? They would be unable to settle any question, and would be com- pelled to trust the only one which could supply the troops,— namely, Austria. Austria would be opposed by Russia, and even if she were not, why should Austria undertake so immense and invidious task merely to keep alive a Mohammedan Power in which she has no interest except as a reversioner? The better policy is to provide that an inevitable death shall not be a catastrophe, by detaching province after province from Turkey, and accustoming each to govern itself.
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