According to the latest 'accounts' froth 'Constintineple, the
quarrel between M. Constans and the Sultan has become still more accentuated. Abd-ul-Hamid, pressed by his fear that .Anarchists or assassins might enter his capital by the French quays, agreed to raise a loan of £4,000,000, repurchase the quays, and clear off all other French claims. The Ministry of Finance, whose chiefs are unable to pay the salaries of officials, remonstrated, and the Sultan recalled his promises to M. Constans, who thereupon threatened, if the agreement were not fulfilled in twenty-four hours, to haul down his flag. M. Delcasse fully supports M. Constans, •and threatens to release the " Young Turks " in Paris from police supervision; but it is not probable, even if relations are broken off, that the dispute will develop into a serious crisis. The Sultan, who is ill, and who has had recently to deal with a plot in his own palace, is frightened at his shadow, and will undoubtedly devise some compromise under which he will obtain the quays without forcing his Minister of Finance to resign. He is personally very rich, and though the Turkish Treasury may be overburdened there is always money flowing in.
