The Constantinople correspondent of the Times recently tele- graphed that
the Turkish Government had sentenced a military student, named Ali Nasmi, to be bastinadoed for having written a letter to the Vakil, pleading for the recall of Midhat, which letter was not published. The unhappy lad received 200 blows, and died of their infliction. hitusurus Pasha immediately tele- graphed to Constantinople, and forwarded to the Times the official denial of the whole story. The writer, however, without having seen that denial, has forwarded details show- ing that at least the mother of Ali Nasmi believed he had been put to death. The Times appended to this letter a suggestion that the Turkish Government should produce the lad, and this was acted on at once, he being shown not to the correspondent of the Times, but to the eorre- spondent of a journal devoted heart, soul, and apparently under- standing, to the Turks,—the Daily Telegraph. The rejoinder has not arrived, and will be awaited with interest. There is not the slightest evidenee that the Telegraph correspondent knew All Nasmi's face, or that any proof of identity was offered
beyond his answering to his name. The question, it will be ob- served, is in no way one of the treatment of a Christian, and has nothing to do with the causes of the war.
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