The Times correspondent at Constantinople, telegraphing on Wednesday, states that,
curiously enough, the settlement of the dispute has caused some disappointment amongst educated Turks. They had hoped that Great Britain would be forced to take energetic action, and that such action might have ended in a radical change in the whole state of things at Constantinople. This means, of course, that the reforming Turks hoped that defeat by a foreign Power would have had the effect in Turkey that it has had in Russia, and have led to reform. The Times correspondent also tells us that there is a widespread impression that the Sultan's Palace advisers, in urging him to resist, were inten- tionally goading their master to his ruin. "The idea is that most of them, having accumulated considerable wealth, would be extremely glad to see the end of a regime under which they are never certain of their position or their property or even of their lives." This probably does them injustice, says the Times correspondent, but it is characteristic of the estimation in which they are held.
