to pay his debts, which, it is believed, they will
-very imarly cover, and the third was to depose the Seraskier, or commander-in-chief of the army. This noble, a relative by marriage of the late Sultan, was the very foundation and support of the system of peculation carried on for some years, and the greatest and wealthiest subject in the empire. He was sent for to the palace, and told to wait in the ves- tibule among the servants. He resisted angrily, till informed that this was the Sultan's order, when he submitted with true Oriental resig- nation, and was conveyed under arrest to his own house, where his papers and accounts will be investigated. He will probably die of consumption in a week or two, a disease apt to attack enemies of the reignino.t' Sultan, and his accounts be summarily closed by the con- fiscation of his plunder. The Sultan then issued a haft, or procla- mation, very general in its terms, with the exception of this para- graph : " I also firmly proclaim that my desire for the prosperity of my subjects will know no distinction, and that those of my people who are of different religions or races shall find in me the same justice, the same solicitude, the same persever- ance in assuring their prosperity. The progressive development of the rich re- sources with which God has endowed our empire, the true progress of the welfare which is to result therefrom for all who live under the shadow of my imperial power, and the independence of my great empire, shall be the object of my con- stant thoughts." Much is expected of the new monarch, a hale, hearty man of thirty, with one wife, who does not drink or smoke, is a capital shot, and plays the piano. One of the first acts of his reign was to. promote his music-master to the rank of Pasha. The new Seraskier Namik Pasha, an honest and able, but fanatical officer, said to have been mixed up unpleasantly with the Jeddah massacre.
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