A movement of a serious character is reported from Arabia.
The Arabs at once detest and despise their Turkish rulers, and the people of Yemen are reported to have risen and turned them out. That is important, because if Yemen estab- lished her independence, all Arabs would follow her example, and the Sultan would lose a large part of his Asiatic dominion, besides running the risk of seeing that struggle begin for the Khalifate which the Arabs have threatened for twenty years, and which, had Arabi succeeded, would be raging now. The Porte, in great discomfiture, has ordered ten thousand troops to Yemen, and though it is said that money for commissariat cannot be raised without suspending the service of the debt, some supply will certainly be obtained. The Turkish Empire, threatened on all sides, ruined by misgovernment, and honeycombed with treason, never fails to find men enough, and is never wanting in arms and ammunition. The devo- tion of the non-Arab Mussulmans, their traditionary know- ledge of war, and their utter unscrupulousness, when war is on hand, as to the misery they may inflict, make up for any defects of organisation. The Arabs, though finer men, with mental capacities such as Turks do not possess, are not half so obedient, and in every insurrection remain insurgents ; while their enemies, the moment they are summoned, become soldiers. The rising will be put down, but it is the only kind of movement, except a riot in Constantinople, which disquiets the Palace.
