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These last are mere rumours. What is certain its that

the Mussulman excitement at Constantinople is again very great, and that the Sultan and his advisers, unless the fleet is sent up to pro- tect them, and to protect the Christians against a rising, may *loon cease to be their own masters. Popular opinion among the Mahommedans is violently opposed to the concessions demanded from Turkey, insists that Servia should no longer be left inde- pendent, and threatens to hoist the green flag, and proclaim a religious war,—which, whether successful or unsuccessful, would wreak terrible vengeance on the Infidels. It will probably take the application of both naval and military power to enforce on the Mahommedans of Turkey the mildest of the concessions on which public opinion in Europe insists.

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