The porter who related this story was himself saved from
death by the Greek Embassy, into which he fled for refuge, and which forwarded him to the Pirmus. This is the kind of scene which has been going on all over Turkey, and which has so alarmed even Europeans that a correspondent of the Vossische Zeitung, who has been very accurate, declares that a massacre of Europeans was ordered from Yildiz Kiosk on the 26th ult., and only prevented by some Ministers at the Porte who still retained their heads. The statement is in- credible, because no Minister would have resisted the Palace; but it is, we believe, true that many experienced Europeans expect a general massacre in Constantinople, the Mussulmans declaring that if they are threatened they will destroy the city and all infidels, flying afterwards to the Asiatic side. They would think twice of that threat if armed ships barred the passage, and if it were well understood that their rulers would be held personally responsible.
