The fall of Kars will, it is believed, deepen the
war feeling in Constantinople. The Sultan has been implored to "unfurl the Standard of the Prophet "—that is, to call all Musulmano to a
religious war—but has as yet declined. The feeling, however, is very strong, and the Constantinople correspondent of the Times confirms the story of the placards threatening Mahmoud Domed with death as author of the national misfortunes. He translates one in which the writer accuses the Porte—that is, the Ministry, not the Sultan—of selling the country to the Ruasians, calls on the patriots to fight to the last, and urges the assassination of Mahmoud Damad, whom he calls a " Yezid," or Devil-worshipper, —the strongest term of abuse a Turk can use. Much depends now upon a point on which, as we note, no correspondent throws the smallest light,—the composition of the garrison of Constantinople. It is said to amount to 30,000 men,—but men from whence ?
