The most recent advices from Constantinople represent the po- sition
of Turkey and Russia as being anything but settled. As to the extradition question, the reports fluctuate so that it is im- possible to come to any certain conclusion upon its actual state : suffice it that the question is still kept open ; a fact in itself of no small significance. Meanwhile, Turkey extends a marked hospi- tality to the refugees ; and the Ambassadors of Austria and Rus- sia are so impolitic as to testify displeasure. In short, the feeling between Turkey and Russia is evidently one of hostility. A writer in Constantinople expatiates on the favourable condition of Turkey for entering upon war,—her increased army, her aug- menting resources, her immunity from debt, her known sym- pathy with Hungary. It might be added, that she has shown not less sympathy with the Italians in the revolutionary service of Hungary. Curious, if Turkey should unite with the champions of " progress" in the Mediterranean
