THE OUTRAGES ON ARMENIAN CHRISTIANS.
THE English House of Commons is not disposed to drop the matter of Turkish maltreatment of Christians. The subject was brought up on the 3d inst., when Sir Edward Grey said that what little information the foreign office had on the subject was very painful. Fifty-six persons had been arrested, seventeen condemned to death, and many others sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. Subsequently the sultan commuted the death sentence of all but five. These have been executed within the past two or three days. From the evidence given at the trials, all of which has been carefully investigated by the British representative in Turkey and the report thereon forwarded to the foreign office, it was clear that two of the men executed were probably innocent of the charges against them. The British representative in Constantinople used his influence to convince the Ottoman authorities that the trials were unfair, but his efforts were in vain.