Whether the cousins Geshoff, Bulgarian merchants of Philippolis and naturalised
English subjects, are or are not to be executed by the Turks,—they have been condemned to death for treason— still remains to be seen. Mr. Layard, Lord Derby says, reports by telegraph that the case against them is very grave, and no doubt the better they are thought of in Manchester,—and they deserve, it seems, to be well thought of,—the more likely they are to have committed " treason " against the system of brigandage which calls itself a Government at Constantinople. We will still hope that they may be spared. But the Turks are beginning to feel that they can and must do without England, and they are not anxious for that moderation in violence which we try to impose on their action, if they are not to have our help. They are evidently emancipating themselves from Mr. Layard's control, in spite of the tender sympathy which he evinces with their system.
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