The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-07
OTTOMAN POLITICS.

OIIOMAN POLIIlOS.
From the ~ Y Tribune.
The Turco-Egyptian question is like a
dance of opposite partners-a step forward,
step backward, and now we have the return
STEP Ismael Pasha had hardly manifested
his submission TO the main demands of the
Porte when we heard that he had started for
Constantinople; but he had not put his foot
on shipboard before he concluded to stav at
home. Now, again, he is reported reconciled,
and, as ever, through the mysterious Offices of
what are known as the friendly powers
viceroy 1smael's chief troubles have been
first, the active presence in the Porte of his
disinherited brother Mustapha FAIL; second,
his supposed ambitious coquetries with the
Courts of Europe, and especially that of
Russia third, his purchase of ornaments;
and fourth, his contraction of budget loan.
Having yielded every point but the last, it
was feared that this final straw of exaction
would break the camel's back of viceroyalty
This was probably the one point of the diff
Guilty mentioned recently by telegraph.
At length, however, we are apprised of the
settlement of quarrel in which we suspect
that there has been cordial interchange of
Mohammedan duphcity. "God forbid"
writes the Viceroy, THAT L should have ever
taken any decision beyond the limits of the
rights and duties prescribed by the imperial
firmans." He submits that if he invited the
worlds sovereigns to Suez it was in virtue of
the high position which he fills under the
gracious auspices of the Sultan, and if he
was well received in Europe, it was likewise
due to the benevolent favor with which the
Padishah has honored him. He recounts
that he has scrupulously respected the repre-
sentatives of the Porte, and that both his
Withdrawal of troops from Gambia during the
Greek rebellion, and the European mission of
his Minister, Nubar Pasha, respecting con-
Sular jurisdiction, were approved and re-
cognized by the Sultnn's Cabinet. He re-
presents that, notwithstanding the charge of
the Porte that his people are overtaxed, his
revenue system is matured by an elective
assembly having the right Of examining and
fixing his annual budget Reminding the
Sultan of the deplorable state of Egypt when
he assumed the Viceroyalty, he points to num-
bers of schools and institutions formerly sup
pressed, to the redemption of great quanti-
ties of land, and-despite the debts left by
the late Said Pasha-the construction of
seven hundred miles of railway, as some of
the results of Niceregal well-doing Add
to these immigration, financial institutions,
increased trade, telegraphs, and the Suez
Canal In short the NIcerOy is enterpris-
ing-almost too enterprising for those who
have lately inspired the councils of the
Porte. But one point he has not answered,
lures with respect to his taxation-namely,
that of ''the enormous expenses which
have been incurred in the purchase of fire
arms, vessels of war, and the like" With
this objection, the brevet King of Egypt ap-
pears to have avoided anything like statisti-
cal encounter. The arms were reported
10000, and the budget loan which the Vice
roy was supposed to have contracted for their
purchase, among other Objects was $12, ,OOO,-
n;,. ,F all,
fiexion, lsmael Pasha's letter contains eau
ton We suppose that, if the news from
Constantinople be true, the Porte has con-
sented to compromise on the point of the
budget loan.
Withal, we conceive that the Viceroy has
been more or less an offender. BY the terms
of the tirman Of 1871, Egypt had no right to
vessels of war without the Sultan's express
permission; and we believe that this prohibi-
tion is unchanged so that in one respect, in
dependentlyof his questioned right to treat,
the Viceroy has sinned. Nor do we imagine
that III the event of a war the advantages
would be on the side of the Yiceroy True
enough, the Ottoman treasury is not full. but
we understand that it can borrow money at
II per cent, as against 20 per cent. or moro
IN 1861. Its deficit is about $40, 900, 900, or
little more than that of the Argentine Con-
federation, and not as much, perhaps, as that
OF Mexico, Brazil, or the province of Cuba at
the beginning of this year; we might also
add Prussia, as represented in the North
German Confederation. More than this. we
are assured that the empire is at peace, that
paper money has disappeared, that the pres
tige of the Porte has been strengthened, and
that the revenues have risen 10 per cent.
since 1862. Accepting but half of this as the
truth, the Ottoman Empire has still vitality
sufficient to defend its authority