The almost total absence of detailed information from Con- stantinople
in the English papers is very noteworthy. We are told that the situation there is very serious. The grecit Pashas are fighting each other, being virtually ranged in two parties, one under Khaireddin, the Grand Vizier, who advocates conces- sions; and another, under Osman, who believes in obstinacy. The Sultan inclines to each in turn, and suspects both always, but is mainly preoccupied by the discontents in the great garrison of Constantinople, which are serious, and the suffer- ings of the people, who are almost starved by the constant fall in the paper-money. The Treasury find it nearly impossible to obtain money, all revenues being anticipated. They cannot pay the troops, and it is difficult even to feed them. Should food at last fall short, there may be a military insurrection, which will be directed this time not against the Sultan, but against the House of Othman. To aggravate the danger, an insurrection is expected of all the Arab tribes, who think the Turkish power expiring.
