The fuller accounts of the earthquake at Constantinople, which took
place on Tuesday, July 10th, show that the .damage done to the buildings of the city has been very great. According to the correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, scarcely a house in Stamboul remains untouched, -and many families had not a roof over their heads on the 'Tuesday night. The Grand Bazaar has been lyre-eked, the massive stone vaulting having given way and crushed a num- ber of people in its fall. Fortunately, St. Sophia has been 'very little damaged, but the old walls have suffered consider- ably, and the minaret of one of the mosques has been thrown 'down. Outside the city the effects of the earthquake were still more severe. San Stefano is in ruins. Prenkipo is a mass of debris, and one of the islands in the Sea of Marmora las completely changed its formation, The Moslem popula- tion of Stamboul behaved with fatalistic bravery and cow- gposure. Not so the Greeks, Armenians, and Jews of Pere and Galata. They seem to have been seized with a mad panic. A screaming mob rushed from Galata on to one of the 'bridges only to meet another torrent of human beings flying from the opposite direction. One striking feature of the 'catastrophe must not be omitted. The earthquake began just about the hour of the midday prayer, and the Muezzins were actually calling the faithful to prayer at the moment of the 'first shock. "The cry of the Muezzin was still ringing in their ears,' God is great,' and they waited with awe and resig- nation to see what the Almighty had in store for them,"
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