The Sun. — 1844-04-10 (London, England)

WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TIES DAY. Morning 2 minutes after 7 Evening ... 36 minutes after 7, -------  The friends of humanity throughout the civilized world, may congratulate themselves on the signal success which appears to have attended the efforts of our Ambassador to the Sublime Porte to put an end to those excesses of fanatical bigotry against professors of the Christian faith, which have so long disgraced, and so recently polluted, Constantinople. Our readers will not have forgotten, among other instances of Mohammedan intolerance, the cold-blooded execution of an Armenian (if we rightly remember) which occurred in the capital of Turkey only a few months ago. The unhappy victim had been artfully betrayed into the expression, in some way or other, of a desire _ to become a Mussulman ; and, under the impression Perhaps the most remarkable event of that portion that the whole affair was one merely of banter or joking, he fatally assumed the turban for a day or two. -,,, ~fie, . - ~, year which has yet elapsed is, that 1 • , , yestersiat ': i price of the Three per Cent. lf he really meant but a joke in doing this, h© began to find that it was but a sorry one ; if he had been C613°111 1 '''''s '; . to par, in other words, that 104--pu4 were:, for- 1001. of this description of sincere in proposing to change his faith, he speedily thought better of it. In two days he resumed his 'stock !.•, -Iniiinfry pint" of view this fact must be reserdea ttAppe 1 verydegree of highest interest Armenian-Christian habiliments, and doffed his tur-, . t marks a point in the financial, ~..••- -- ban. For this last act of contumacy he was denounced s , he political history of the empire, by some bigot neighbours; taken before the Cadi ; . • h e shall be enabled to estimate, with denounced by the Mollah ; and sentenced to be decamore precision and n.f a better-A .ormed judgment than pitated. Sir STRATFORD CANNING, the moment that we could otherwise have hoped to bring to the sub. i the affair came to his knowledge, accompanied by re SECOND EDITION:  presentations of the imminent danger in which the wretched offender was, addressed the most urgent remonstrances to the Divan ; and, in personal conferences with the Turkish Minister of Justice (by whatever appellation that officer is designated) pressed for the release of the unfortunate Armenian. All his entreaties and negotiations were finally unavailing. The poor man's head was cut off; and, his body being exposed in the market-place, the head was placed between the knees, w ith the cap or hat upon it, to add to the indignity with which it was desired to visit upon him the penalty of the offence. The mob.of Constantinople, always to the last degree superstitious, fanatical, and brutal, indulged in atrocious gesticulations and pleasantries on the subject; and for some time it was impossible for any Frank—especially if he was attached to the suite or household of some one or other of the European Ambassadors—to show his face in the public streets without being reviled or hooted at, or even pelted, by a vile rabble of beggars, disbanded soldiers, &c. Sir STRATFORD, with his accustomed energy and spirit, brought the affair under the notice of the SULTAN and his Prime Minister. He would not be amused with vague and general promises of " managing these things better" in future. He did not relax his noble stand against these judicial and bigoted murders, till now so common in Turkey, until he had procured a solemn and formal undertaking from the Porte that they would not be again permitted.  This document has been given with certain formalities, too, which are well calculated to increase its actual authority and its influence among the native subjects of the Porte. We subjoin a brief extract from the correspondence of a Morning Contemporary on this subject : "