The news of the entire loss of his army and navy arrived in a few days, and the empire seemed on the verge of dissolution.

It was saved by the intervention of the great powers of Europe.

The apostate Jew, to avoid punishment for various crimes, professed himself a Mohammedan; and for crimes subsequently committed, he was strangled by the Turks, and thrown into the Bosphorus.

On the 12th of August, between three and four thousand houses in Pera were consumed by fire, with the loss of several lives and an immense amount of property.
The persecution had extended to Broosa and Trebizond; and at Erzroom, in ancient Armenia, where Mr.Jackson had commenced a new station, a letter was read from the patriarchate, warning the people against the Americans, and their schools and books.
The Egyptian war and its consequences broke the power of the persecution.

The Armenian Synod voted to recall all the exiles, except Hohannes, whom they adjudged to perpetual banishment as the ringleader of the "Evangelicals." At length an English physician, of humane feelings, being informed as to the facts in the case, stated them to one of the sisters of the late Sultan.