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Show FOREIGN. C if X S T A X T I S i O I f . i : . A I'milc l'rcvalltnc Tho Hut'tuN MuateTsol'the Cl(y. London, 18. A letter from Constantinople Con-stantinople under date of the 1'Jth, says tho excitement during tho lni three days amounted to a panic. The demand for weapons both by the soltas and christians was fo great that most of tho shops in Stambotil have sold out their stock. Tho noftas, that in all perrons altachul to tho mosques in i any capacity whatever, uro prac tically masters ol tho situation; they number about 0,000, and their in-lluenco in-lluenco over tho proletariat is supreme. They utter threats against ! tho sullan and his ministers and against the christians. AUIiuiikIi quiet now they proles to ho friends lo tho lalter. Yesterday great numbers num-bers of thetn went to tho palaeo and demanddl iho dinminsftta of tho grand ! vizior, Mahotiuid Neditt 1'noha, thn sheikh, Ul Isliini, and the minister of war. The sultan renited fm an hour, but the clamor of thu mob firmly induced him to drmiind Hin resignation resigna-tion of Mahomud Ncdin P.inhn as grand vizier. Tho senno wan thu most riolous and disorderly. C m-Hlaiilinoplo m-Hlaiilinoplo contains only ,'100 rrgn-lar rrgn-lar soldiers, tho remaindur bem recruits. Tho Turkish otlicera openly admit their inability to control llii hilLnr. In eusn of an outbreak it ih gonorally behoved they would obey the softss. |