Mr. Layard, besides peremptorily denying the charges brought against him
by Server Pasha, the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, has demanded his dismissal from the Sultan. This has been granted, and Server Pasha has consequently resigned the seals ad interim to some Pasha not yet named. The change is supposed in Constantinople to be a satisfaction to England. It follows from Mr. Layard's demand that Server Pasha did make the statement forwarded to the Daily News by its correspondent, and that all the abuse lavished on that journal for fabricating news is undeserved. Of course the fact of a statement by a Turkish Pasha is no proof of the truth of the statement, but in all other cases, Turk ophiks, and especially Mr. Layard, accept them very readily. We believe ourselves that Server Pasha, in a it of blind rage, strengthened his own private impression into a fast that he knew.
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