NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE news from Constantinople is serious. The Armenians of the capital are, of course, greatly excited by the outrages on their kinsfolk, and on Monday a body of them resolved to " demonstrate " near the Porte, and present a petition. Their Patriarch advised them against this course ; but, influenced, it is said, by the "Revolutionary Committees," they persisted, and assembled in crowds before the official palace. The police, who were warned, ordered them to dis- perse; someone in the crowd fired at and killed the officer in command ; and then the police charged, killing and wounding with their swords. The wounded were carried into the Pre- fecture of Police, and were there, according to the testimony of eye-witnesses in British employ, put to death. On Tuesday the theological students rose, bludgeoned every Armenian they met, and, aided by some gendarmes, broke into an Armenian restaurant and murdered fifty persons whom they found there. The respectable Armenians are flying for safety to the Patriarchate and the church there, and it is as yet uncertain whether they are being besieged, or whether they are protected by the armed police. The Sultan, greatly alarmed by the disturbance, has dismissed Said Pasha, the Grand Vizier, and appointed Kiamil Pasha, who, like every other Turk we ever heard of, is a "broad- minded man." The Christians of Constantinople are, never- theless, greatly alarmed, for the Sultan is not dismissed ; and it is he, and not any Minister, who governs, and resists all demands for justice to Christian subjects.
