September 3.
Now that the wildest of the first raptures with which the new constitution was hailed in Turkey have had time to subside a little, it may be worth while to review briefly the course of events up to date, in order, if possible, to obtain some estimate of what is to come. The change has taken place so suddenly, and apparently with such complete triumph on all points for the reform party, that it is still difficult to realize what has happen-.|ed, or to believe that so absolute reversal of the old order of things can he quite stable. For the mental pi we held of "a pi fleeing to the Selamlik through empty and closely-guarded streets," we are now hidden to think of him as bowing from an open carriage to the plaudits of an adoring multitude. Mussulmans and Christians are fraternizing in the common rejoicing, and in public embrace each other; Turkish journalists hold banquets to celebrate their freedom and send glowing addresses to his Majesty and political prisoners by the hundred are let out of gud, Original from
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