The Times' correspondent at Constantinople gives a graphic account of
the assassination of Hussein Avni, which does not raise one's respect for Turkish nerve. The Circassian entered Midhat Pasha's Council-room—a large hall, with a bay window— and found seven Ministers at work. He shot Hussein Avni, and five of the other Ministers fled, and barricaded a door at the bottom of the room, or sat stupified, as Raschid Pasha did. None but Kaiserli Pasha attempted to seize the assassin— and he ran, too, when wounded—and of all the servants and guards below, none would stir, all dreading to be impli- cated in some plot. Hassan was not arrested for twenty minutes, and then by some soldiers and armed police from the nearest post, six of whom he shot down. From all that appears, if he had had ammunition enough, he might have been there now, —a sort of bullet which had lodged in an obese body.
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