10 APRIL 1909, Page 2

Another item of news from Constantinople is concerned with the

Yildiz garrison. Under the old regime the Sultan was surrounded by 'certain picked regiments, who, though they were supposed to be personally devoted to the Sultan, showed in other respects the evil qualities which belong to a Pretorian guard. It is a proof of the powee as well as the good sew° of the present Government that they have without a mutiny managed to remove both the black Zouave Regiment and the Albanian Regiment from the Palace. The Sultan is stated to have agreed to the new arrangements. This alteration in what we may call the balance of military power in Constanti- nople should have a very great influence in preventing that reaction which of late has been so much dreaded by the friends and wellwishers of the Young Turks.