NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Revolution in Constantinople has been followed by the death of Abdul Aziz, on the 4th of June. According to the official account, he committed suicide, cutting the arteries in his arms with minute scissors ; and nineteen physicians, "of sorts," testify, in a curiously forced and reserved way, that they saw his body, covered with coagulated blood, and with wounds on it which might have been made with the scissors shown them, and might have been self-infficted. The medical journals here obviously disbelieve the report, which, as Mussuhaan men rarely commit suicide—though Mussulman women do—and the ex-Sultan was a man of no nerve and devoted to pleasure, isprinz ci facie improbable. It is much more likely that Murad V., fearing dissension in Islam, religious as well as political, exerted his legal prerogative as Khalif of inflicting death without cause assigned on any subject whese continuance in life is dangerous to Islam. Such an act, in Mohammedan eyes, would be in no sense an assassination. The truth, however, will probably never be known, and except as indicating, on one hypothesis, that Turks remain Turks, is of little political importance. The serious question now is what Murad will do, and on this subject Europe has as yet little information. All that is known is, that be has given no Constitution, and has made no political promises, except those usual with Sultans on their accession. He pledges himself to grant their liberties to all subjects, almost in the words employed by his father, Abdul Mejid, twenty-two years ago.
