The Sultan appears to be more intent on deceiving and
terrifying his Mussulman subjects, than on refusing re- forms to the Armenians. The decree granting reforms applies to the whole Empire, but it will be executed only in Armenian districts, and the Ambassadors are privately assured that the Commission appointed to watch over its application will be most respectable men. We dare say they will be, but will they stop, or be inclined to stop, the massacres of Christians by mobs, which are still expected in at least six places ? The Sultan could stop them if be pleased, if he only showed half the energy he is displaying against discontented Mussulmana. Izzet Eddin, a reforming barrister of Constantinople, recently arrested, was, it seems clear, tortured and beaten on the stomach till he died; and, according to the Standard, fifty Softaa who approved revolu- tionary views were taken to the School of Medicine, interro- gated, and executed at once. They were all, its correspondent affirms, drowned in the Bosphorus. As slaughter of this ' kind is the natural and proper business of a Sultan, Mahom. ruedan Constantinople is reported to be happier, and the expectations of a revolt are dying away. Mr. Kinglake, it is clear, possessed great power of insight. He declared in " Eothen " that an Asiatic "never respects you until you have done him some violent wrong."
