I venture to believe that your Lordship will derive the same gratification which I do from this result. No. 11. _Sir Stratford Canning to the Earl of Aberdeen_.--(_Received December_ 18.) My Lord, _Buyukderé, November_ 20, 1843. I have the satisfaction to state, that the Russian Envoy has informed me of his having received an instruction from his Court on the subject of the Armenian youth decapitated at Constantinople. His Excellency has given me to understand that the terms of this instruction are in harmony with the sentiments of Her Majesty's Government; and I presume that he will make me a more complete communication of its contents the first time we meet. I have, &c., (Signed) STRATFORD CANNING. No. 12. _Sir Stratford Canning to the Earl of Aberdeen_.--(_Received December_ 24.) (Extract.) _Constantinople, December_ l, 1843. Having sounded Rifaat Pasha as to his intention of answering the representations of the Five Powers concerning the late religious execution, I was told by his Excellency that, although the Porte wished to avoid any recurrence of that atrocity, yet, as such executions, divested of the objectionable forms which accompanied the Armenian's death, were obligatory under the law considered by Mahomedans divine, and might be forced incidentally upon the Government, it would be embarrassing to give an official declaration to that effect. Some ostensible record of the Porte's intention to avoid religious exeutions [sic] in future would, I humbly conceive, be satisfactory to Her Majesty's Government, and it would not perhaps be impossible to frame a reply, which might convey the required security without coming into collision with the Mussulman faith. There is reason otherwise to apprehend that the advantage now obtained will be of very short duration. P.S.--There is reason to fear that another religious execution has recently taken place in the Pashalic of Brussa. No. 13. _Sir Stratford Canning to the Earl of Aberdeen_.--(_Received January_ 5, 1844.) (Extract.) _Buyukderé, December_ 17, 1843. I have the honour to state, and I do so with much concern, that the rumour, which has for some time prevailed, of another execution, similar to that of the Armenian youth, having taken place by order of the Porte, is now confirmed. The statements inclosed herewith describe the circumstances as far they are known. One of them is an extract of a despatch addressed to me by Her Majesty's Consul at Brussa, which is at no great distance from Biligik where the Greek was executed. The other was communicated to me by one of my diplomatic colleagues.