The report, by Mr. Consul-General Fawcett, upon the murder of
Mr. Ogle, Times' correspondent at Volo, has been presented to Parliament, and republished by the Times without comment. ft is briefly that Mr. Ogle was extremely imprudent, joined the insurgents, and after the battle of 28th March, at Macrinitza, was slain by the soldiers following up their victory. Mr. Fawcett thinks there is no truth in the story of the assassination, and intimates that in any other country Mr. Ogle would have been shot as a spy. It is scarcely probable that Mr. Ogle's friends will be satisfied with this story, which they believe to be contradicted by the facts that a letter was received from Mr. Ogle written after the battle,
and that he was seen alive after it near Volo. Of course no evidence of assassination was forthcoming, for Volo is Turkish, and a Pasha was on the Commission, and Greeks, unhappily, quite understand the Hindoo proverb, " When in the water, don't quarrel with the alligator."
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