cii. XVI.] Turkey the Land of Freedom. 



prison ? " " No, no," said the man "you arc laugh- 

 ing at me. There is no such country as that, or 

 people would have gone to live elsewhere long ago/' 



Kadderly Pasha was much tickled by this little 

 story, and agreed with us that the Sultan's subjects 

 were not altogether so unhappy, only happiness was 

 one thing and progress was another. Of the poli- 

 tics of Europe he really sliowed great knowledge, 

 and even understood something of the state of 

 parties in England, appreciating accurately enough 

 the causes of the agitation, got up last year by the 

 liberals, on the Eastern question. He was polite 

 enough not to dwell on the vacillating policy of 

 our Government, thinking only that England was 

 making a mistake in allowing Turkey to be de- 

 voured. On the whole we felt that we had been 

 talking to an agreeable and superior man and one 

 who would be inexcusable, on any plea of ignorance, 

 if he failed to do his duty at Bagdad. 



An important consequence to us of this conversa- 

 tion was that it reinstated us in public estimation, 

 and, especially, in that of Huseyn. He, as a mere 

 niuteslierif and an Aleppine, was treated witli very 

 scant courtesy by the Valy, and, in his own house, 

 only sat down by request, and on the edge of his 

 chair, in the great man's presence. We, on the con- 

 trary, were given the best places on the divan, and 

 conversed familiarly, and as long as we liked, in a 

 foreign tongue which nobody understood, and which 

 therefore made the more impression. For what 



