TURKEY SINKING TO EXTINCTION.
Whatever Turkey does, whether she be steeped in her ancient poverty or rich with fresh loans, whether left to herself or strong in European alliances, she is falling to pieces. Some, indeed, hold out a hope that, if left to herself, she might carry out reforms; but on one point all are silent, and that is, what all these reforms are to end in, and what is to be the reformed Turkish Empire of the future. It is a castle in the air. The Turks are incapable of representative institutions and constitutional government. Their pretense of it, whether honest or not, is an illusion. They have it neither in their race nor in their creed, nor even in their circumstances. It is the common assumption of every speaker, on whatever side, that Turkey is in this evil case. Whether she be oppressor or oppressed, mistress of her actions or under evil possession, it all comes to the same thing; that the world is seeing the last of Turkey. Her visible and awful changes are not those of development, but of dissolution. Then comes the question, Are we to attempt to keep life in the body, to infuse young blood, to inflate the collapsing lungs, to warm the chill extremities, and flatter ourselves we can make her once more a living thing? Is it possible? Is it desirable? Is it even right?—London Times.