THOSE superior persons who profess and call themselves Pub­licists are now busy with forecast­ing the con­sequences of the Sultan of Turkey’s coup d’état, which, by the way, they had not the requisite foresight to enable them to predict. Some of them, however, appear to feel confident of the correctness of their assumption that things will now go on without a hitch, in spite of the uncertainty felt by others concerning that unknown quan­tity, the Sultan, who, for all they know, may not yet by any means have played his last card. Others point out, not without reason, that the sympathy ex­pressed by this country with the Young Turks’ movement will make it quite difficult for us to ignore the notice to quit Egypt, which will, in due course, be served upon us. It is possible that, in compensation for the unquestioned service the British Agency in Egypt has ren­dered to that country, we may effect an arrangement permitting us to retain our hold on the Suez Canal. A further consequence of the rise of a stronger Turkey may, it is hoped, be to unite the subject Christian peoples, who are now antagonistic, because their rulers are too weak to control them in a consolidated movement towards independence. Surprising and rapid though the Turkish Revolu­tion has been in its initial stage, there are signs that its course will not continue to be uniformly smooth.