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\ friend just returned from Constan- tinople, informs the editor of the New York Evening Post, that civilization is making evident and rapid progress among the Ottoman nation. The Turks of the present day, are not the Turks of the last century. They are kind, courteous, and mild, in their manners and the bigotry of Islamism no longer exhibits itselfin rude epithets, applied to those of another faith. The term Christian dog is out of fashion. The razor has been introduced, and though the old men still retain and cherish the venerable incumbrance of their boards, the younger Turks have shaved away all but pair of mustachios on the up- per lip, retaining not even so much as the faror7se worn by some of the exqui- sites in this country. On all public oc- .casions. at parades and spectacles of all kinds the women make their appear ance in great numbers, wearing, how ever, the oriental veil, which covers only the chin, the upper edge of the forehead, and small part of each side of the face. The late introduction of press, and the establishment of fa news paper form an important era in the his. tory of Turkish civilization. Should the progress of improvement continue as 1t has begun, we may yet see the Otto man empire outstripping their Russian neighbors in every thing which makes Ia cultivated nation.