The German Government is behaving very well. Being care- fully
informed by its military attachds, it is aware that the Otto- man accounts of Russian atrocities are for the most part inven- tions, intended to cancel the effect of the atrocities committed by the Circassians, and has sternly remonstrated with the Pashas, charging them with breaking the Geneva Convention, which is a Treaty. Austria and Italy have followed suit ; and the Porte will, of course, promise the most stringent inquiry, and perhaps hang a few Circassians, and then go on as before. Nothing short of the appearance of the combined German and Italian Fleets before Constantinople will stop the atrocities, for nothing else can make them disadvantageous to the Porte. The Turkish Government cares nothing about opinion, but it does care very much that its subjects should know that if they express sympathy with the invaders they will be given up to the Circassians, whom Mr. Layard—the strongest Turkophile in Constantinople—himself declares to be " robbers and murderers."
