The Government have issued the Report of the Rhodope Com-
mission, with the signature of the Italian Commissioner, and have- forgotten to state,—if we may judge, at least, by the document reproduced in the Times,—that the Italian Commissioner with- drew his signature almost as soon as he had given it, on the express ground that he had began to entertain doubts as to the trustworthiness of the evidence on which he had relied. The Austrian Commissioner also,who was President of the Commission, did not sign the report ; and no one will accuse him of any great partiality to Russia. The Report of the Commission will indeed command even less authority than we supposed at the time of its signature, and though, of course, the evidence on which it was founded was believed in by those whose signatures to it still re- main, no impartial man should accept it without looking care- fully at the statement of the Daily News' correspondent, that the witnesses were " coached " beforehand in the evidence which they were to give. This has happened before within the last year, and it is not a proceeding at which the Turks, in spite of their supposed honesty, are at all disposed to crane.
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