The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-11-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MIS.. the injustice of the Porte has been for the present defeated. In the course of March last there died in Cairo an Armenian named Anton Youssouf Messeh, who had been for over 40 years registered as a British subject, when it was found that he had left the bulk of a very large fortune (about £350,000), to his widow, with legacies to certain Armenian Churches of the Romanist obedience, and had forgotten his nephews, the latter protested that his will must come before the Ortoman or Egyptian Courts, as he was really a Turkish subject. The widow at once obtained a certificate that Anton Youssouf Messeh, deceased, was a British subject. But the resources of Oriental trickery were by no means exhausted. The nephews applied to Nubar Pasha, himself an Armenian, who communicated with Sir Evelyn Baring; and when our Minister in Eeypt applied at home for instructions, Lord Granville laid the case before the law officers of the late Government. Sir Henry James and Sir Ferrer Herechell decided in favour of the widow and that the will must be proved and the estate administered in the Supreme Consular Court. Constantinople at the Catholic Armenian Patriarchate then set himself to work to upset the decision. Diplomatic representations were made to Lord Salisbury, who left the question again to the law officers. But Sir R. Webster and Sir J. Gorst came to the same conclusion as their predecessors. An attempt was then made by the intriguers to use Sir Henry Wolff to gain their ends. It was hoped a wird from him might have influence at the Foreign Office. But here they met with a signal failure. The Under Secretary of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs then asked to Elf. 3 the Censul•General, alone, on important business. Mr. Fawcett presumably " smelt a rat," for before he gave admission to his room to the high functionary, he requested the attendance of Mr. Tarring, the Legal Vice. Consul and Assistant-Judge. When the Ottoman official was admitted, he presented the fulsome compliments according to order, and then repeated that his mission was to Mr. Fawcett alone. The Consul. General replied that he had no secrets from his " juge ad joint," and anything that had to be said must be said before both. Notwith• standing this, the functionary proceeded to develop a proposition that Mr. Fawcett should call cn Artin Effendi Dadian with a view to discussing the case of Messell's will and coming to "some arrangement." Mr.Fawcett, of course, replied that he had nothing to do with Artin Effendi Dadian in the case, and that it must take its regular course. Now the Sultan has issued an Irade ' ordering the authorities to administer the estate, but , Sir William White firmly refuses to permit the !rade being put into effect.  Whilst riding in a cab in Paris a woman, about 35 years of age, committed suicide by firing two bullets of a revolver into her head. The cabman did not hear the reports of the shots, and drove on until looting into the interior of his vehicle for the purpose of asking further instructions from his fare, he was horrified to find the woman lying dead ob the-floor of the cab is a pool of bleed.  A