The trial of the Pashas and others accused of the
murder of Abdul Aziz began on Monday, in a great tent outside the Yildiz Kiosk, before a tribunal composed of threeMussulman and two Christian Judges. A wrestler named Mustapha, a gardener, two eunuchs, and an attendant or two were accused of the actual murder; and Midhat Pasha, Mahmond Damad, and Nonni Pasha of having ordered the crime to be committed. The wrestler and the gardener confessed, their confession was corroborated by ladies of the harem, and it appears to be true, as, indeed, no one who knows Constantinople ever doubted, that the late Sultan was brutally murdered. It is very probably true, also, that the ruling " Commission," or rather junta, consisting of the three Pashas named, and Hussein Avni, the Seraskier, gave the order to kill him, as the murderers would not have run the risk without their protection ; but the evidence offered in Court was all either insufficient or suspicious. As regards Midhat, the heaviest testi- mony was that he had admitted the order, in conversation with an acquaintance. The Court, however, after two days' trial, found all alike guilty, and sentenced them to death. They are allowed an appeal to the Court of Cessation, which, however, will hardly be effectual.
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