TI ORD G. HAMILTON, who ought, as Secretary for India, to
be cognisant of all that is doing in Eastern politics, made an important statement in a speech at Ealing on Wednesday. He congratulated his audience on the termination of the difficulty with America, and the conclusion of disputes with the Transvaal, and stated that there was "a probability" that "a satisfactory arrangement" would be come to for the purpose of arresting the misgovernment in Turkey. The tone of the best French papers confirms this belief, as do also one or two facts reported this week from Constantinople. One is that the Sultan has obeyed a peremptory order from the Ambassadors to recall an agent whom he had sent to Crete to thwart the Christian Governor and another is that he has nearly made up his mind to issue an amnesty to Armenians. He had actually signed the decree, when it was represented to him that orthodox Mussnlmans would not like it, whereupon he delayed its publication. He is just now arresting, exiling, and, it is alleged, torturing Young Turks in great numbers—seventy a day sometimes—and is therefore not massacring Armenians. M. de Nelidoff returned to Constantinople on Wednes- day, and we ought therefore within a week to know what reforms the Czar has agreed to include in the joint repre- sentation which is to be made to the Sultan. He will, it is believed, ask, as usual, for time to consider his reply.
