We write before news has arrived as to the exact
nature of the terms which will be granted to the Sultan, but the news. of Friday morning seems to point to the fact that they will be as follows :—(1) The establishment of martial law. (2) The formation of a new Cabinet and. the election of a President of the Chamber in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution. (3) Discovery and punishment of the promoters of the revolt. (4) Enactment while the martial law is in force of laws relating to the Press, public meetings, vagrancy, and. political clubs and associations. (5) Reduction of the Con- stantinople garrison. ((3) Establishment of police and gen- darmerie for the capital on the Macedonian model. The knowledge that a great part of the Turkish population feel a superstitious reverence for the Sultan as the head of the house of Othman, and still more as Caliph, will probably make the Young Turks prefer to allow .A.bd-ul-Hamid to remain on the throne, though a Reuter telegram received at midday on Friday states that a hundred and fifty Deputies have voted in favour of his deposition. If they insist on this course, they run the risk of civil war breaking out in the provinces. But civil war would endanger their whole policy, and give opportunities for that intervention by certain of the Powers which they naturally dread.
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