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NOTES FROM TURKEY.
THE following extracts from a letter dated Constantinople, March 7, possess an inte rest infinitely greater than all the crooked schemes of politicians in the same quarter of the globe:
'* At a village called Mackriquy, about two miles distant from Stamboul, on the : coast of the sea of Marmora, there has j existed for several years a little colony of ! English engineers, who, under the direc
tion of a Mr Hague, have been working iron mines, discovered by that gentleman, and carrying on an iron factory, also esta blished by the same person. It may be thought a difficult thing in this country, where foreign operatives have very high wages, and a great deal of leisure and li berty, to keep their conduct within the bounds of decorum. Such, however, is the virtue of the scientific education in theil own calling which these men have all re ceived, and of the easy circumstances they enjoy, that their lives are remarkably regu lar and temperate, and they feel that bj their example they may exert au innuenc for Rood on the natives who surround there which may be felt very widely. Chiefly then with this view, but also for their OWE advantage, they have formed a committee, Mr Hague being their president, for th« purpose <;f iouuding a mechanics' institute at Mackriquy. Already the members ol this society araouit to mote titan 300 ; ant its success, from another circumstance, ven remarkable and roost hopeful, may be said to be fully assured. The Sultan has taker] the project under his protection. He hs: engaged to build a large stone edifice foj the institute, and to furnish at his own ex pense all the books, maps, globes, and in struments for lecturing experiments lhaJ may be required. Tou will rightly con. jecture from this fact that not Europeans alone wilt constitute this association. Il will be made up of many people-English, A mericans, Armenians, Greeks, and Turks. The books to most of these, to be sure, will be sealed, though many Armenians and Greeks speak English and French. Gratuitous volunteer lecturers, however, may be found, especially among the Ame ricans, who understand the Armenian and Tm ki sh laiietiaffes. and it ia much less
I difficult still to fiad persons able to lecture ! in Greek. You see then the scheme has great possibilities of good in it. To the lecturers their gratuitous lectures will be an amusement and a pride, and auditu s will be eager for instruction, which will have for them the perpetual charm of no velty. The benevolence of the Sulla«, bis anxiety to improve the condition of his subjects, and Iiis due appreciation of bow this object may be accomplished, are strikingly shown by his prompt and spon taneous adoption of the plan the moment
it became known to him.
" Reforming progress will never be rea«. Used here by any thing the Turkish go.
vernment will or can do; but it maj, aad certainly will, in due time be realised by the incursions of European science and industry.
" I cannot omit here to mention another instance of the kindness and liberality of the Sultan's sentiments, the praise of which should be shared by the Grand Voder. The ISngiish. *.*., English and Scotch,
engineers, of whom I have: just; spokes* " C' have been hitherto without a place of Pro testant worship in the neighbourhood o£ Mackriquy, where so many of {hem reside. They have therefore, highly to their credit, whereby they have gained the respect of the natives, been accustomed fo bold a religious service every Sunday in the house of Mr Hague, a Scotch or an American, clergyman attending to preside at the
meeting. But now the Sutton has promised ~ to build for these engineers a Protestant chapel! He seems to have taken them altogether into bis favour. He has a model farm of some thousand acres close by. at St. Stephano, under the direction of an American gentleman, and his farm and his iron factory, with the English and Ame rican operatives and overseers, may be regarded almost as uoder his special pro tection. At least the promise to build the Protestant chapel is one which shaws very particular kindness towards them and con fidence in them, and will be an act itself so largely liberal, that it ought to put to shame Islam bigotry for evermore.
"A surgical operation, the patient being under the influence of ether, was performed here for the first time two days ago. A sailor of a merchant ship had his hip dis- located and his hip bone fractured, and had received some intestine injuries by the fall of a heavy bale of merchandise, from a crane in which it was suspended, upon him. Dr. Glascott, of the British hospital at Pera, performed the operation with great skill. The man was utterly insensible during the very difficult and, but for the
ether, most painful setting of the joint. There were as many as half a hundred people on board the ship to witness the performance and the effect of the ether. Both were completely successful. Though the man is in great danger, from his internal injuries, there is good hope of his recovery. No little sensation here has this proof of the virtue of ether in surgical operations caused. Orientals honour the medical and surgical science above all others."
TOM SNOOPS AND. HIS Wrm-«I never tried but once,1* said Tom, "to set at nougat the authority of my wife. You know her way -cool, quiet, and determined, as ever grew. Just after we were married, and all was nice and cosey, she got me into die habit of doing all the churning. She never asked me tn do it, you know, but then she-why, it was done in just this way. She finished breakfast Eather before me one morning, and, slipping away from the table, she filled the churn with cream, and sat it just where I couldn't help seeing what was wanted. So I took hold, regularly enough, and churned till the butter came. She ! didn't thank me, but look'd so nice and sweet
about it that I felt well paid. Well, when the next churning day came along, she dui the same thing, and I followed suit and fetched the butter. Again and again it was done just so, and I was regularly la for it every time, 3S©t a word was said, you know, of course. WeO, by and by this began to be rather irksome. I wanted she should ask me, but she never did, and I couldn't say anything about it to save my life. So on we went. At last» I made a
resolve that I wouldn't churn another time un less she asked me. Churning daj came, and when my breakfast-she always got nice break fasts-when that was swallowed, lhere stood the churn. I got up, and standing a few mi nutes-just to give her a chance-I put on my hat and walked out of doors! I stopped m the yard to give her time to call me, bût never
a word said she-and so, with a palpitating' - heart, I passed on. I went down town, ami vp town, and all over town, and my foot was as restless as was that of Noah's dove. I fiât, as
if I had done wrong-I didn|t exactly know "
how-but there was an indescribable sensation of guilt resting upon me all the forenoon. It seemed as if dinner time never would come, and as for going home one minute before din ner, I would as soon have cut my ears off. So I went fretting and moping about town till dinner hour came. Home I went, feeling very much as a criminal must when the iurv is but.
having in their hands hts his destiny~4ifie or death. I couldn't make up my mind exactly
how she would meet me-hut some kind of a storm I expected. Will you believe me-^sbe never greeted me with a sweeter snule-HBevejr had a better dinner for me than on that day ; but there stood the churn, just where I left itt Not a word was said! I fou confoundedly out, and every mouthful of that dinner seemed as if it would choke me. She didn't pay* any re gard to it, however, but went on just exactly as if nothing had happened. Bernie dinner
j was over, I had again resolved, ann, snoring I. back my chair, I marched to the chum, ena
went at it in the old wav ! Splash, drip, stifle, splash, drip, rattle-I kept it up! As if in
spite, the butter never was so long coming* X . -, j supposed the cream standing so long baa got
warm, and so I redoubled my efforts. Obsti
nate matter-the afternoon wore away^wlnle cï ^ ilk was churning. I paused at last from nat lexr : haustion, when she spoke for the fiirî liiii^ 'Come, Tom, my dear, yon hare «atúed «hat
buttermilk long' enough, if it's only Jbr^un^-""S you are doing itf ITtnew hoir-^wa8^i«S« nash. She had brought the burier in the«É^ ¿#5 noon, and left the churn standing mÜMthät* ^¡1 termilk in, for me to exercise ^ith« " J^aewi
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