Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-17
SERIOUS OUTBREAK IN CoNsTANTINopLE.
Last Hours of the "Sick Man"
Correspondence of the New York World.
CoNsTANTINOPLE. July q. 1850.

| rapidly. Inc STATE Ol Dyfld mas gone on from
bad to worse. he letters which we receive
from, Beirut are full OF tales of blood, almost
too horrible to be repeated. They seem but
a repetition of the scenes witnessed in the late
Indian rebellion, some of them surprising
anything seen there
Mothers have been used as blocks to chop
off the heads Of their children dying men
have been forced to eat their own flesh un.
| armgd and unprotected men, women, and
| children, have been murdered in cold blood by
| the thousands, often in the presence of the
Turkish troops More than 10000 Christians
are now homeless wanderers, without the
means of obtaining their daily bread.
Now we hear that the MdhomeddaS mot the
| Druses of Damascus have risen upon the
Christians, burned the consulates, wounded
the American vice consul, killed the Dutch
consul, and destroyed the whole Christian
quarter of the city, numbering every Christian
they could lay their hands on and the end is
not yet. My letters from Darbeker, Aleppo,
and other cities OF the interior, speak of the
immediate prospect OF such outbreaks in those
cities, in fact all through Asia Minor. We
cannot but hope that these things will not be-
and they may yet be averted if Fuad Pasha
succeeds in Immediately quelling the revolt in
Syria. AT Constantinople itself we ha re much
to fear. a most serious outbreak took place
here last week, the particulars of which will
give you at length
On Friday, July 10, Protestant Armenian
died at Ballat, one of the quarters of Constan.
tlnople proper. On Saturday his friends pro-
| ceeded to bury him i'll the Armenian burial
| ground, where his wife owned lot. For ten
years Protestants have buried III the old Ar.
menian burial places without moestation, it
| having been decided by the Turkish govern
ment and the church that these belonged TO
the Armenians as II nation and not as a relig.
| inn ,ns,N -
the procession moved for the place of burial.
Suddenly mob Of the lowest class of Arme.
mans rushed upon them with loud yells and
fierce threats, declaring that no Protestant
should be buried in that ground.
The small police force at hand could not
quell the riot and it was at length decided to
send messenger'to the Armenian patriarch
He soon returned with large police force and
an order from the patriarch 1.-THE head of the
| Armenian church III Constantinople) for the
immediate burial of the man in the ground.
Still the mob refused TO permit the burial and
drove of the officer of the patriarch beating
him almost to death. Night now came the
mob increased, and the police took possession
OF the body and of the clergyman who was 10
officiate at the funeral. The whole of Sun
| day and Monday were spent in running back
ward and forward between the Porte and the
| Armenian patriarchate, and in truitless nego-
Saluerlnn
strength and ferceness, and large police and
military force occupying the ground. After
full hearing of the case, the Porte decided that
the right of burial belonged to the Protest.
| ants, and the general commanding the troops
| at ConsantnOple was ordered to clear the
| ground, and allow the Protestants to bury
their dead.
On Tuesday the porte became SO much
alarmed by the extent of the mob and the
| his ground and sided with the mob, that they
revoked the order OF the day before, and or
dered that the body should he inferred else.
where. Very good said the Protestants; give
us an honorable burial place anywhere and we
will bury our dead and discuss our rights
afterwards. AT this juncture Sir Henry Bull.
wer, the English ambassador, and Hon. james
| Williams, our minister resident, heard OF the
state OF things. Unsolicited by any one, they
Immediately came SConstantinople, called
! upon the Armenian Patriarch and demanded
that he should give ms consent to the burial
in the burial ground Immediately Under the
influence OF these gentlemen he consented
! They also went to the porte, and insisted
| there that proper military force should be
sent Immediately to the ground and the Pro
testant honOraby buried. Here, too, they
prevailed.
This was Tuesday afternoon. A force was
! sent, and after a severe conflict with the mob
| i'll which the soldiers were ordered to use only
| the butts OF their muskets--the ground was
cleared, about thirty of the mob being badly
wounded. But as it was now evening, it was
determined to postpone the burial until We'd
nesday forenoon. On Wednesday the minister
OF war, Ria Pasha-the Zabtich pasha or
commanding general-with several thousand
troopS-the Armenian patriarch-the Baroutji
bashy-the head man OF the Armenians here
the head of the Protestant community and a
small number Of Protestants, and an immense
mob OF Aruenians were on the ground. A
place for burial aUittm the cemetery was selected
and agreed upon by the pashas, the patriarch
and the PrOtestants; the grave was dug and
the body ordered to be put in.
The mob now became furious, and endeavor-
ed 10 press torW ard to the spot. AT this june
ture Rlza Pasha's courage seemed to fail him,
and he ordered the grave filled up and anoth-
er one dug in the middle of neighboring car
rage road. In this most dlshonored place the
Professionals, as previously advised by the am"
bassadors and missionaries, refused to bury
their dead. The pasha would not yield, and
the Protestants retired, leaving the body in
the hands Of the Turks. BY this time it was
buried in the street, alter which tile immense
mob were allowed to rush over the grave, each
one trampling and splitting upon it.
Alter this by way OF palliating his disgrace.
full conduct the pasha ordered that the road
should be turned aside and obterated, and
space enclosed around the grave. This was
DONE and it has ever since been guarded by
company of soldiers. The excuse which the
government oherfor this conduct is that this
mob really had nothing to do with Protestant
ism, but was got up under Russian influences
Tor the purpose Of bringing about collision
between the Turkish soldiers and the Chris
tian population OF the city. They say we
knoO that il the soldiers had been allowed to
fire upon this mob, an immediate Instruction
would have broken out all over the city.
There is undoubtedly some truth in this
statement, but no more unfortunate policy
could have been devised, under the present
circumstances, than TO call out large militia
| ry force, and then allow it to be overcome by
the mob The result might easily have been
! toretod The experience of single week
has proved it experimentally. A mob has
driven the Protestants-since the trial last
| Wednesday-trom their homes, not only in
Ballat, but also from Samala and Hasskucy.
| TWO other quarters OF CODstantinope In
| each instance they pretended to believe that
there was dead Protestant concealed in a
certain house. In both Balat and Samata
Protestant worship has been suspended by the
Zabtch Pasha, TO prevent outbreaks.
In view OF this state OF things on Friday
last, meeting was held at the English palace
OF all the protestant ambassadors They sent
most earnest and decisive protest 10 the
| porte, and made important demands, which |
am not at liberty to repeat.
On Saturday last, the American residents
here received formal notice from their minis
ter that the greatest caution was necessary to
be observed, rs affairs here were in very
troubled state and an outbreak might occur at
any time, On Sunday, under the pressure of