text: " The political relations of the Porte with England and Russia frequently became the subject of conversation; and on one occasion when the concession lately exacted from the Porte of allowing converts to Islam to return unmolested to their original faith--a concession of all others most galling to the Moslem pride--was brought on the tapis this lady remarked "with an earnestness of manner which interested me and my friend extremely--'It is but the fulfilment of prophecy! When I was a little child I was taught that in this year great things would commence which would require three years for their completion!' Surely she drew a beautiful conclusion " adds Mrs Poole "and under circumstances of painful feelings to one strictly attached to the laws of her religion