_Law and Usage._--In _The Times_ of September 1, the Turkish correspondent
writes as follows:
"Mahmoud Pasha declared in the Divan of the 17th that 'he would divorce
his wife, but would not advise a dishonourable peace with Russia.' This
is an expression of the strongest kind in use amongst the Turks."
It is worth a Note that, in spite of polygamy and divorce, a common proverb
is monogamic, and divorce is spoken of as the greatest of unlikelihoods.