There has only been one little massacre in Turkey this
Week, at Cwsarea, where Sixty Armenians were killed on a false rumour that they intended to rise. Quiet is reported from Anatolia, and quiet, of a kind, undoubtedly exists in Constan- tinople, the police making incessant arrests and the garrison being everywhere visible. More than a thousand Armenians have been "ordered to return to their homes," which means ruin, and the Liberal Mahommedans are too completely overawed to disturb order. The Sultan, living in his garden-house, and changing his room every night, still masters all around him, and has some ground for his boast, that if he is left alone he can maintain order. His success, however, disposes of his principal argument against the introduction of the guardships, which is that it will excite Mussulman feeling against the Christians. If his Majesty can so easily protect the Armenians who are powerless, be can protect the other Christians who are sure to be avenged. If it were not so, the threat of massacring Europeans would be a reason for the appearance of the fleets, instead of the guardships. Even Mussulman fanatics would hardly commence a big murder with the guns of a European fleet pointed on their city.
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