Accepts The Scheme

COIs'STANTinople, Oct. 17.- Said Pasha has accepted the seheme for reform in Armenia drawn up by Great Britain, France and Russia, and it now awaits the signatrure of the sultan. The sohemo is ahnost identical with the proposals of last May, which, in substance, were that the governors and vico govcrnors of Van, Krzeroum, Sivas, Bitlis, Khartut, and Treblzond, be Christian or Mussulman, according to the inclination of the population ; buf cither the governor or the vice govemor is to be a Christian, and the appointments are to be coafLrmed by the powera. Local and not state officials are to collect the taxes, and enough money is to be retained before it ig forwardod to Constantinopli) to pay the Li[x;nses of the local adininistration. Torture Wil] Be Abnlishcil. Complete changes will be made in the judicial system, torture will be abolished, the prisonswill be under surveillanct', the pólice will be composed of Christians and Turks equally and the laws against compulsory conversions to Islamism will be strictly enforced. The ambassadors of the powers expect that the whole question will be finally settled during the course of the week by the promulgation of an imperial decree. Contrary to general expectation, the high commissioner, who will be charged with the exacution of this schemo of reform, will be a Christian. This was the hardest pill for the porte to swallow and for a long time it threatened to bring about the most serious complications.