American Citizen

The Situation in Turkey.—A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette writes from Constantinople: "Arms and ammunition to a large extent, have been brought in recently, and although the importation has not been allowed, smuggling has been actively carried on. I have it on the authority the leading house in the trade that many thousands of revolvers have been sold during the past week. These arms are not re-exported, but remain here, for what purpose is yet to be seen. An uneasy feeling exists more especially among the Mussulmans, but whether they mean mischief, no one can yet positively say. The ferment among a section of the Franks is easily understood by the fact of Russian agency being actively at work. We are as fast as possible drifting toward great and dangerous complications, and the Eastern question will, in coming events assume vastly wider proportions than we have yet known. As an evidence that there is reason to apprehend some movement amongst the fanatical section of the Mussulmans, I may mention that no less than a hundred of that party were recently arrested, and without any form of trial, summarily sent away to a remote province in a Government steamer."