Did The Sultan Kill Himself

[From the New York Sun.] Mankind will be apt to remain in doubt for some time whether the deposed Sultan really committed suicide or whether he was assassinated, according to the old Turkish custom whioh has been illustrated even within the present century. It is the official announcement that he committed suicide ; but the fact of its being official does not give assurance of its trustworthiness. The conspirators of the Divan had learned that the news of the strangling of the dethroncd sovereign would not be received with satisf action by the Governments of Europe. ïhe Ernperor of Bussia had instructed his Ambaasador at Constantinople to look after the safety of Abdul Aziz, and Queen Victoria had sent similar instructions to the British Ambassador. The Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs was so stirred up by the reports sent abroad on the subject, that he telegraphed to the Turkish representatives at all the courts of Europe a hasty denial of the " malevolent ramors concerning the deposed monarch's fate." But it would not be out of keeping with Turkish tradition, if at the time this dispatch was sent out, Abdul Aziz had already been disposed of. The very day after his dethronement we received a dispatch, which was immediately contradicted, that he had been suddenly ovortaken by death. It will be hard to penétrate the mysteries of the palaco of Tcheragan, in which he has been confined since his overthrow. There is doubt that, if he was assassinated, the new Government would deny it, and trust to the concealment of the fact. Whatever may have been the fact, it is certain that Abdul Aziz must have been almost distracted by the troubles which preceded his dethronenaent ; and, therefore, the account of his suicide is not entirely incredible.