CONDITDION OF TURKEY.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1352, 1 March 1881, Page 2

CONDITDION OF TURKEY.

A correspondent writing to the Batty News from Constantinople, on 29th, says :—''Frdm Manellonfa we continue to receive most heartrending accounts of the condition of the people, and the Tnrka there are carrying on a degree from the havoc they wrought in Batak four years ago. In Armenia things have not unproved a whit. On the contrary, they aeem every day to be growing worse and wo'-se. ,The central Government here is -perfectly °pavalysed/ nnd does nothing. Anarchy feigns complete everywhere, and the poor people are ground down by exorbitant demands for money. Where this will all en Ino one can foretell, but assuredly it cannot continue for a very long time. The end of it must come some day, but if Europe does not interfere promptly to improve things, it is too ' dreadful to 'think of what the consequences lhust be. Tb.6 Turkish Government have never been free from corruption, but now it pei vades all classes of the officials, from the highest to the lowest The city is infested day and night by thieves and robbers, and the police are united "with them in plundering the people. There is perfect stagnation in business, and the courts are little better than dens of thieves and extortioners. People here really hope more from Mf Gladstone than fioya any other European statesman } but even he will be powerless to effect anything worth accomplishing if he is not prepared to set aside notes and recommendations and use force. I have always Buppo"*ed that the question will never be settled by the European Powers, but that the solution will have to be found by the nationalities which inhabit this empire. If war breaks, out in the spring, we shall witness some terrible convulsions in the Balkan Peninsula, which will arouse Europe from its indifference, and force the Powers to take action of some kind."