OSMAN PASHA'S REPORTED SUICIDE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 51, 28 February 1878, Page 4

OSMAN PASHA'S REPORTED SUICIDE.

The Daily Newt has the following on the false rumour of Osman Pasha's death, which was recently reported :-— " Osman Pasha is more bensible than some of his admirerß. The false news of his death was eagerly received without any regard to itß doubtful origin in Constantinople or the entire lack of evidence to support it. The first news was spoken of it in one distracted journal as confirming itself, wbicb was perhaps the more neceesary, inasmuch ss the H3cond news did not confirm it. Comments were made, some more in grief than anger, others more in anger than grief. One admirer, after throwing out an obscure hint that Oaman had been made away with by the Russians, proceeded in rapid aberration to point out how natural, and, indeed, necessary, it was that Osman should have poisoned himself. ' Such a man, sorely wounded bitterly disappointed, and despairing of hia cause, might well have felt the cup of humiliation filled to overflowing when he found himself an object of high u magnanimous courtesy" among the superior persons of the Russiau camp. To be fed, paraded, and patted on the back by the Russian and Roumanian generals must have been torture to a man in his situation Bnd with his spirit. It ought to surprise nobody if he died of it, though its operation.' But Osman Pasha is not a woman to be 1 killed by kindness,' nor to give way to the womanish hysterics of exoitahle admirers. Instead of poisoning himself, he bad sent a telegram to his brother-in-law, acknowledging with evident pleasure the high appreciation shown by the Russian Emperor and the Grand Duke Nicholas of the courage and intrepidity of Oaman's soldiers ; gratefully testifying to the kindness with which the prisoners and wounded are treated ; recording his own good health and speculating on his future place of residence, without the slightest intimation of any design of taking up his quarters ia the other world, We trust

that Daman Pasha will not suppose that English opinion , even sane Turcophile opinion, requires bim to commit suicide under penalty of being eternally diegraced. Acute mania of this sort is confined to a sblisct and secluded few." «•*■ •■ ■ ii ■■■■■*■— -— _