ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5056, 7 June 1877, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

General Giant is about leaving America to make a lengthened tour in Europe. Two thousand men are now employed night and day upon the Paris Exhibition building. A new Stock Exchange for Glasgow has been erected, at a cost of ,£f>2,ooo.

Dr. Morley Harrison, a Manchester surgeon, was having a tooth extracted under the influence of ga*, when he suddenly expired. The Italian Chamber has passed a Bill forbidding the importation into Italy of grapes and other vine produce. Notice is given in the Gazette that her Majesty's birthday will be kept up on Saturday, June 2. It is said that the Prince of Wales intends setting the fashion of holding fancy dress balls during the season. The trial of the prisoners for the turf fraud, when they obtained £IO,OOO from the Countess De Eancourt, commenced yesterday. It is announced from Olympia that the German excavators have come upon some fresh sculptures of great value and beauty on the western side of the temple. Mrs. Sturge, the wife of a plasterer, living in Cleveland-street, Middlesex Hospital, has given birth to three children, two girls and a boy. The approval 'of the Chinese) Government has been given to the immediate opening of two additional ports—namely, Weu-chow and Wuha.

Several of the City Companies are now considering a scheme for the foundation of a college or school for the promotion of technical instruction.

Proposals in favour of fostering native industry in Canada have been defeated on two occasions lately, the majorities being 31 and 49. A large box filled with dynamite cartridges has been found at New York in a cask of wine landed from the Hamburg Company's steamer 'Frisco.

Mr. Walter, M.P., proprietor of The Times, has been attacked and robbed by three menin Rome, armed with stilettoes. He was not injured. Several arrests have been made. The editor of the Turkish Punch has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for the publication of a cartoon offensive to the Government.

Parliament re-assembled after the Easter recess on the sth. On the 10th, Mr. P. A. Taylor's motion for the abolition of flogging in the navy was rejected by 164 to 122. The Kev. Malcolm McColl has published a pamphlet entitled " The Eastern Quostion : Its Facts and Fallacies." It is warmly criticised by the Ministerial Press. Fifty or sixty people, it is stated, were recently crushed to death at the religious mc/a "held at Ajoodiya, near Fyzabad. The crowd of Hindoo pilgrims _ from all parts of India was enormous, exceeding 500,000. Her Majesty the Queen is in good health. She left Windsor for Osborne on March 28, and the Court will remain at the Isle of Wight until the early part of May, when the Queen will proceed to Balmoral. The Financial Committee of the Danish Folkething has recommended a grant of 125,000 crowns of public money towards the representation of Danish industry aud art at the Paris Exhibition.

A meeting held at Ottawa on April 10, adopted a memorial to the Canadian Senate requesting it to urge upon the Government the desirability of originating and pushing on public works, to alleviate the present destitution.

At the opening of a Free Christian Church at Birmingham, on the 2nd April, Mr. Chamberlain said he felt sure that the time was approaching when they would see the separation of Church and State. The Burials Bill would offend all the ratepayers of the country, and would not satisfy the dissenters. Active preparations are being made for commencing the work of draining the Zuyder Zee. The cost of reclamation will be nearly £10,000,000, but 500,000 acres will be added to Holland, estimated to bo worth between £SO and £6O per acre. A sculling match for £2OO a side and the championship of the Thames and the Challenge Cup given by the proprietors of the Nevicaslle Daily Chronicle, is to come off, from Putney to Mortlake, on the 2Sth May, between Robert Watson Boyd, of Gateshead, and John Higgins, of Shadweli. There were 24'8 hours of sunshine in London in one week out of 88'4 hours during which the sun was above the horizon. The sun shone on every day of the week, but only for Bix minutes on Monday. On Sunday and Saturday there were on each day upwards of five hours of sunshine.

A dispute has arisen between the United States and Russia in consequence of the latter prohibiting American whalers from cruising in the sea of Oehotsk. Massachusetts merchants assert that this was the cause of the loss of half their fleet in 1876.

The walking match between Daniel O'Leary and Edward Payson Weston for £IOOO, which has been for six days in progress at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, was brought to a close on April 7, O'Leary having accomplished 520 miles, and Weston 510, about 86 miles a day. News from St. Petersburg reports a considerable amount of distress to be prevalent, especially in the southern provinces, where typhus fever and other epidemics are rife. Mortality i 3 very great, the percentage of deaths being about sixty per cent, of the seizures. In the north, and indeed throughout Russia, there is distress of another kind, occasioned by the scarcity of money autl the general stagnation of business. The frost is very severe just now. At a meeting of working men held in Hyde Park on Good Friday, Mr. John De Morgan stated that an attempt would shortly be made to enclose a portion of Hyde Park for tho aristocracy. He added that he would have to go down to Richmond to pull down some fences which had been put up by the Duke of Cambridge, for they must teach even Royalty that no one should steal the land from the people. Large quantities of meat continue to arrive from the other side of the Atlantic. The Guion Company's steamer Wyoming has brought the largest cargo yet, consisting of 2200° quarters of beef, and 500 whole sheep. The meat arrives in excellent condition, and the sale is rapidly extending. A horrible scene occurred at Leeds, on the morning of April 2, at tho execution of a man named Johnson. On tho bolt being drawn, the rope broke, and Johnson fell to the ground. A second rope was procured, and after an interval of 10 minutes ho was hanged a second time. He then struggled for four minutes. Attention has been drawn to the case in Parliament. A " Tichborne Demonstration" in favor of the release of the convict Orton, took place in Hyde Park on April 2, about 10,000 being present. Previous to arriving in the Park tho persons concerned in tho affair met in Trafalgarsquare, whence, headed by Dr. Kenealy, who was accompanied by a young son of the Claimant, they marched to the usual place of meeting. There was nothing new in the speeches which were delivered. nUSSIA ANT) TURKEY. The correspondent of the Melbourne An/its, writing on April 13, the date when the mail left, describes the state' of affairs at that period as follows. It must bo remembered that war was not virtually declared till two weeks after that date : All hope of peace is abandoned. There is scarcely a glimmer of light on the horizon now. Turkey asserts her right to be heard, and her decision seems likely to bo the signal for immediate war. The concert of Europo has boon maintained after long negotiations in the nature of a protocol, but the protocol has no sooner been signed than it becomes apparently an ultimatum, and now Russia and Turkey stand face to face, and the time for pour parlors is over. The signature of tho protocol terminated another period of suspense. The month has been one of fluctuating hopes of the future. Tho issue we know was still uncertain, if the policy of our own Government was clear. When General Ignatiefr arrived in this country it was commonly assumed that poaco was secured. When he departed, it was generally believed that hosti-

lities were imminent. Suddenly we heard of the revival of the negotiations, and in a few days more the Ambassadors of the Great Powers all met at the Foreign Office to confer with Lord Derby. Then there was another diplomatic gathering at the French Embassy, and the next (lay it was whispered in all the Continental capitals that the protocol proposed by Russia, the terms of which had been so anxiously and minutely debated, had been actually signed in London. The present position may be best gathered from the official papers recently laid before Parliament. The history begins with the circular of Prince Gortchakoff, issued after the failure of the Constantinople Conference. In that document it will be remembered Prince Gortchakoff insisted that the Porte had made light of her former engagements, of her duty as a member of the European system, and of the unanimous wishes of the|Great Powers, and asked, in the name of the Czar, what the other Cabinets, with which Russia had previously acted in common, intended to do in this aggravation of circumstances. The English Government took time to consider the and in this course they were not alone, events in Constantinople, and especially the exile of Midhat Pasha, making delay expedient. Nearly a month had elapsed, when, on March 3, the Hussion Ambasador waited upon Lord Derby and requested him to postpone a reply still further until he had received certain additional explanations which Russia had to offer. These explanations ended in the production of a draft protocol, which Count Schouvaloff placed a week later in Lord Derby's hands, as submitted for the consideration and signature of the six Powers. _ It was accompanied by a statement of the views and wishes of the Russian Government. The object of General Iguatieff's journey, Count Schouvaloff stated, had been to furnish explanations as to the real views of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, and to facilitate a pacific solution. After the sacrifices which Russia had imposed upon herself, the stagnation of her industry and of her commerce, and the enormous expenditure incurred by the mobilisation of 500,000 men, she could not retire nor send back her troops without having obtained some tangible result as regards the improvement of the condition of the Christian population in Turkey. The Emperor was sincerely desirous of peace, but not of peace at any price. If the agreement'of the Powers established at the conference was now broken up, would notthat be a determining cause to induce Russia to seek for a solution either by means of a direct understanding with the Porte or by forco of arms, as the means best fitted to secure the maintenance of a general peace ? It was therefore suggested that the Powers should unite in a counnou declaration as to the necessity of an improvement in the condition of the Christian population of Turkey, and their intention to watch the progress of the reforms to which the Porte had pledged itself, while reserving to themselves to consider in common the course of action expedient should these reforms not be carried out.

Consequent on these representations, the draft protocol was considered in Cabinet Council, and a few days later Lord Derby was able to inform Count Schouvaloff that the Government was willing in principle to sign such a protocol, if an agreement could be come to as to its terms. A discussion then ensued as to the wording of the document. The unanimous feeling of the country would strongly oppose any undertaking which should bind us to action under conditions which cannot be foreseen. But for some _ days, it seemed, according to the current gossip of the capitals, as if the diplomatic corps of Europe, in the delicate balancing of phrases, were intent on emulating the greatest success of the Circumlocution office, and finding the means and how not to do it as the best solution of the Eastern question. These linguistic disputations belong to the past, aud have no present interest. We are now concerned only with the actual document, as finally settled, and as at length made public. THE PROTOCOL. The following is the English text of the protocol, with certain minutes and declarations by the Ministers signing it. These papers, in French and English, together with correspondence 'on the subject, were laid on the table of the House of Commons on April 5 : "PROTOCOL RELATIVE TO THE AFFAIRS OF TURKEY, SIGNED AT LONDON, MARCH 31, 1877. " The Powers who have undertaken in common the pacification of the East, and have with that view taken part in the Conferenc» of Constantinople, recognise that the surest means of attaining the object which they have proposed to themselves is before all to maintain the agreement so happily established between them, and jointly to affirm afresh the common interest which thsy take in the improvement of the condition of the Christian populations of Turkey, and in the reforms to be introduced in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Bulgaria, which the Porte has accepted on condition of itself carrying them into execution. " They take cognisance of the conclusion of peace with Servia. " As regards Montenegro, the Powers consider the rectification of the frontiers and the free navigation of the Bojana to be desirable in the interests of a solid and durable arrangement. "The Powers consider the arrangements concluded, or to be concluded, between the Porto and the two Principalities as a step accomplished towards the pacification which is the object of their common wishes. " They invite the Porte to consolidate it by re-placing its armies on a peace footing, excepting the number of troops indispensable for the maintenance of order, and by putting in hand with the least possible delay the reform necessary for the tranquility and well-being of the provinces, the condition of which was discussed at the Conference. They recognise that the Porto has declared itself ready to realise an important portion of them. " They take cognisance specially of the Circular of the Porte of Feb. 13, 1876, and of the declarations made by the Ottoman Government during the Conference and since through its representatives. " In view of these good intentions on the part of the Porte, and of its evident interest to carry them immediately into effect, the Powers believe that they have grounds for hoping that the Porte will profit by the present lull to apply energetically such measures as will cause that effective improvement in the condition of the Christian population which is unanimously called for as indispensable to the tranquility of Europe, and that having once entered on this path, it will understand that it concerns its honor as well as its interests to persevere in it loyally and efficaciously. " The Powers propose to watch carefully, by means of their representatives at Constatinople and their local agents, the manner which the promises of the Otterman Government are carried into effect. "If their hopes should once more be disappointed, and if the condition of the Christian subjects of tho Sultan should not be improved in a maner to prevent the return of the complications which periodically disturb the peace of the East, they think it right to declare that such a state of affairs should be incompatible with their interests and those of Europe in general. In such case they reserve to themselves to consider in common as to the means which they may deem best fitted to secure the well-being of the Christian populations and the interests of the general peace. " Done at London, March 31, 1877. " Munster " Derby " Beust " L. F. Menabrea " L. d'Harcourt " Schouvaloff." In connection with the above document, Count Schouvaloff made tho following declaration, placing, at the same time, a pro memoria of it in the hands of her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State :—" If peace with Montenegro is concluded, and the Porte accepts the advico of Europe, and shows itself ready to replace its forces on a peace footiug,_ and seriously to undertake tho reforms mentioned in tho protocol, let it send to St. Petersburg a special envoy to treat of disarmament, to which his Majesty the Emperor would also on his part consent, If massacres similar to those which have stained Bulgaria with blood take place, this would necessarily put a stop to tho measures of demobilisation." The protocol was signed on March 31 at

the Foreign Office, by the representatives of England, Russia, France, Germany, Austria, andltalv. Lord Derby came to Loudon for the purpose, and met Count Minister, Musurus Pasha, Count Beust, Count Schouvaloff, the Marquis d'Harconrt, and General Count Menabroa. Their Excellencies met in the simll Conference room, aud were engaged together for nearly an hour. Lord Derby then returned to Fairhill, where he is spending the Faster recess. The conditions under which the signature of England has been affixed to the protocol have already been explained to our readers ; but it may be usefel to repeat, iu the clearest words, that if peace and disarmament on the part of Turkey and llussia do not result from the protocol, it will ipso facto become void. But Russia has professed herself ready to enter into diplomatic negotiations with Turkey on the question of disarmament, if peace is concluded with Montenegro, and 'if the Porte also will to disarm, aud will give evidence of a serious intention to carry out the internal reforms that were demanded from her at the Conference. LATKIt WAR NEWS. The following items of telegraphic intelligence appear in the Indian papers:— A Constantinople telegram of April 18 states that the .Kashgar envoy has had an audience with the Sultan. A St. Petersburg telegram of April 27 states that the commander-in-chief of the Russian army has issued a proclamation disavowing auy intention of conquest, Russsia's object being the defence of the oppressed Christians. OAMARU HARBOR BOARD LOAN. The Union Bank of Australia having been empowered to negotiate a C per cent, loan of ,£65,000 for the above Board iu Otago, invited tenders to be sent in on the 18th April, tiie minimum price being fixed at par. The loan is the balance of an authorised amount of £IOO,OOO, and is to be applied to the extension and completion of the docks, wharves, and breakwater of the port of Oaraaru. £35,000 has been taken up in New Zealand. The tenders amounted to £31,900, 'at prices ranging from par to £lO2 10s. premium. No tender under £IOO 10s. received an allotment. Meanwhile a small municipal loan of Oamaru, of a total of only £BOOO, is now offering here by private sale at par with 7 per cent, interest. "These small loans (remarks Mr. Wm. Westgarfch) which are multiplying upon us, are subject to serious disadvantages, owing to the want of marketable quantity, while for amounts below £IOO,OOO a quotation in the Stock Exchange list is hardly to be looked for. These disadvantages compel a high rate of interest, and render sales difficult and uncertain." There are two modes he suggests of curing this evil. The towns, harbors, &c, may wait till strong enough to put out each a considerable loan, or they may form some kind of union for the issue of one uniform stock of marketable quantity. This latter is a new idea, and apprehended to be rather impracticable with communities quite separate in place and interest. Nevertheless it is worth consideration in its economic sense ; as involving probably the cost of only 5 per cent, instead of 6 or 7 per cent., and marketable instead of unmarketable securities. As liability must be joint and several, some vigilant oversight as to extent of borrowing might be expected from the whole over the doings of each.— Argus Correspondent. CAriAIN STEVENS OF THE BARRACOOTA. Colonel Steinberger, of Samoan notoriety, is avenged. His enemy, Captain Stevens, of H.M.S. Barracouta, has been dismissed the service, not for any doings connected with the incidents at the Navigators' Islauds, but for other matters. A court martial was assembled on board H.M.S. Duncan, at Sheerness, to try him on March 2S, and with the exception of the intervening Sunday and an adjournment of two days to enable him to prepare his defence, the proceedings lasted until Wednesday, when, after hearing the evidence of Mr. Budge, assistant paymaster of the ship, who was called for the defence by Captain Stevens, the Court adjourned, and after deliberating for six hours announced its decision. The judge-advocate, Mr. Eastlake, stated that the Court was of opinion that each of the eight charges was proved, and the sentence was that Captain Stevens be dismissed from her Majesty's service. The Court also expressed its disapprobation of the manner in which Mr. Rudge had given his evidence, and considered that it was untruthful, and intended to mislead them. Upon the sentence being delivered, the prisoner hurriedly left the Duncan for th e shore. The Barracouta will now be paid off, and placed in the Medway steam reserve, but no money is to be spent upon her, as she is one of the oldest steamers in the navy, and will soon be broken up, being in a very defective state. The court martial consisted of Rear-Admiral Fellowes, C. 8., president; Captaius L. Brandret, L. ITardinge, John C. Soady, and Darly Irvine. Mr. Eastlake was deputy judge-advo-cate, Mr. G. P. Martin prosecuted on behalf of the Admiralty, and Mr. G. C. Blake acted as the prisoner's friend. The first charge was that Captain Stevens asked Mr. Gain, the paymaster of the Barracouta, for £3O out of the ship's chest, and requested him not to enter it in the cash account, after Commodore Goodenough had refused an advance of £IOO to meet the expense of entertaining the Governor of Fiji and his suite. Other charges were that on June 16, 1876, he had made application to the commodore for a court martial on Mr. Gain on several charges, well knowing them to be false and vexatious, and that he had in other ways behaved towards Mr. Gain in a harsh aud unbecoming manner. Lieutenants Edwards, Maxwell, Angus Maeleod, G. H. King, and mauy other witnesses were called, and deposed to Captain Stevens' tone and manner being peremptory and aggravating to Mr. Gain, and said that to some officers he was in the habit of spealcing harshly, whilst to others he was the reverse, and his manner was decidedly unpleasant. Captain Stevens indeed seems to have been particularly irritating, and to have worried Mr. Gain in every possible way.— Argus Correspondent. ENGLAND DESIROUS FOR TEACE. _ This is one light iD which a Russian journal looks at England's desire for peace : —" If we withdraw our troops, will that bring lis the peace we desire so much, and prevent our having to make new sacrifices ? To this question our foreign advisors give no answer. Would they not in such a case be the first to speak of the impotence and helplessness of the Northern Colossus, with his feet of clay ? Would they not triumph at seeing Russia deal a death blow to her moral and political prestige among the Sclavonic peoples, thereby destroying in a day all that had been built up in the course of centuries ? England above all would then come forward to play the noble part of protector of the Sclavs, against further acts of violence, at the same time proclaiming, with greater zeal than ever, the sacredness of treaties. She would send to Turkey peaceful re"iments of financiers, tax-collectors, policemen, and other officials, thereby possessing herself of the country without conquest, as she has clono in India and is now doing in Egypt. The Sclavs would eujoy the same benefits as the Hindoos, and work hard to enrich business men in the city. Without firing a shot, England would before our eyes convert Constantinople, the finest harbor in the world, into an English port, aud the Eastern Question would then be settled for ever." INSURRECTION TN BOSNIA. The Vienna Press gives the following account of the proceedings of the insurgents in Bosnia and Herzegovina:—"They have begun their ' activity at ftvo points. One Islicla of 250 men had already established itself four weeks again . the mountain gorges of Maljevieza, lying iu the Posavina—that is, the district, between the Bosnian Savo and the Sorvian Drina. This tshcla expects to bo reinforced by tho volunteers who by the peace between Turkey and Servia nave become free. In the meantime they plunder the l:ulas aud outlying villages of the Sandj.ik of Tuyla. A second tshcla of 400 mnn is roaming about in the districts of Shupa and ICrajoa, near Banjaluka, and has itslaiiMn the Kossarnc Mountains. Then comes a scries of bands supposed to number 3000 men iu all, and extending ovor a lino of about seventy 1 English miles from Pctrovalu to Livno, ou the

south-western frontier of Bosnia. These are under the nominal command of Despotovich, aud are divided into three groups—the first is about Petrovatz, and consists of two tslictas, or bands, one of 250 men, under Simo Tahanka, one of the boldest and most notorious robbers of Bosnia, and another of 400 men, under Wid Mianovics. The second group is to the east of the sources of the Unna, and consists of four tshclas—oue of 200 men, under Damjani Djuritza; a second of 300 men, under Trifko Bundala; a third of 250 men, under Papa Babies; and a fourth of 200 men, under Papa Vukanovics. The third group consists of three tshctas. Two of these—one of 300 men, under Papa Karan, and another of 400 men, under Ilia Bilbia—are for the moment about the plain of Grahovo, while the third, of 200 men, under Prion Bono Dreshujak, a near relation of Mussies, is ou the slopes of the Prolog chain of mountains. From this it may be seen that the insurgents are following their old tactics, keeping along the Austrian frontier, where they have always a safe means of escape and are sure to fiud sympathisers. According to the same source, there are in Herzegovina two insurgent bands, acting independently of each other—that under Don Ajvan Mussies, consisting of 300 men, which is to form the nucleus of an eventual insurrection, and another, of SCO men, under the Montenegrin Pavlouies, in the Duga Pass—which seems destined for ultimate co-operation with the Montenegrin forces." The insurrection in Bosnia appears to be gaining strength. The leader is Colonel Despotovich, of whom we are told that he is a Servian by birth, who went to Russia twentyfive years ago, and entered the Imperial Guard. At the breaking out of the Servo-Turkish war he held the rank of colonel, and so n afterwards ho appeared in Belgrade as a colonel in the Servian army. At the period when General Tcheruaieff planned the expedition for the capture of Ak Palauka, early in July, a corps of 6000 infantry, one squadron of cavalry, and two batteries of artillery were placed under the command of the Austrian General Sfcratimirovich, with Colonel Despotovich as second in command. The expedition failed to accomplish its purpose, and returned to Tchernaieff's head-quarters. An altercation then arose between the commander-in-chief and his two subordinates, and these returned to Belgrade. Despotovich, after remaining there several weeks, went to Bosuia, and assumed command of tho insurgent bands in that province. Despotovich is described as a tall, fine-looking officer, and from conversations which The Times correspondent had with him during his sojourn in Belgrade, he is satisfied that he possesses qualities as a soldier which may cause the Turkish military authorities in Bosnia considerable trouble.

In the Banjaluka and Bihatch districts new bands of insurgents are continually making their appearance, and several thousands of Redifs have been sent to operate against them. The announcement has been officially made. The news was received by the rayah population with great dissatisfaction. It is stated that a band of Redifs a few days ago attacked the dwelling of the merchant Petrauovieh, in Ueshan, on the River Bosna, and robbed him of 1000 ducats, besides maltreating the inhabitants of the domicile. The loader of this band of Turkish reserve forces, Mia Dutschich, is said to be well known in Bosuia for his disposition for committing such excesses among the rayah population. On 21st March Perteff Effendi, the Turkish Envoy, bearing the Imperial Firman, went, in full uniform, and accompanied by a guard of honor, to present the peace document to the Prince of Servia. ALSACE AND LORRAINE. An Act of the German Parliament which onee threatened serious results now seems likely to meet with a happy solution. It will be remembered that when Alsace and Lorraine came under the German Government after the Franco-German war the inhabitants were asked to declare under which of the nationalities they desired to live, and that a large number went over to France. The question has again cropped up, and the deputies of Lower Alsace have received a friendly reply from Prince Bismarck to their complaint concerning the expulsion of "Optants" from Alsace - Lorraine. The prince promises that tho new rule shall be applied with clemency. As originally ordered, all persons who have served in the French army were to have been expelled. As modified, this regulation will be applied only to such persons as have served in France after 1871, provided the " Optants" are now willing to be naturalised. " Optants " now naturalised will, however, be required to submit to tho German law of military service. The text of a Papal decree has been published at Berlin, which lays down the formula of the profession of faith to be made henceforth by archbishops. It imposes, among other things, unreserved adherence to the decisions of the Vatican Council respecting the primacy of the Pope and his infallible office of teaching, and the repudiation aud anathematisation of all heresies contrary to tho doctrines of the Church. MORE TURKISH CRUELTIES. A correspondent, writing from Pera, says:— " It is my painful duty to send you a report of a recent atrocity perpetrated by the Turkish Government in the capital itself. The young students of the Military School, as I informed you, presented a petition to the Porte denouncing Midhat's banishment as unconstitutional, aud soliciting his recall. The students were marshalled out into the schoolyard, aud bidden to reveal the author of the petition. One of them, Ali Nasmi, a most promising pupil, aged twenty-two, stepped forward and avowed himself guilty of |the authorship. He was imprisoned and tried, aud last week condemned to receive 200 blows with a stick on the soles of his feet. He died under the infliction, after receiving 105 blows. Other equally sad consequences of Midhat's disgrace are worth recording. Said Effendi, a writer in Mussarak, is kept a prisoner, with a chain round his body and fetters on his foet, for denouncing the unconstitutionality of the Grand Vizier's exile. With respect to Kemal Bey, it seems that the Palace insists on his being condemned, and this sentence will soon be pronounced. One wonders what becomes of the liberty of the person, of opinion, of equal justice, and the trials with open doors. One wonders, above all things, what has become of tho abolition of all inhuman bodily punishment, bastinado, &c, solemnly decreed in a hundred Imperial Firmans."