, 1875-11-10

me story Is pr0DaDly a cahaFu, bullC on some
jocular suggestion. The Sultan does not want
to improve bis finances, but to get money,
which he can do easily by breaking his engage.
ments, and Mr., Gladstone, besides being a
steady friend of the Greeks against the Turks,
would be as powerlesS in that c|esspool of cor.
ruplion as Lord Hobart was. Only a Sultan
can reform Turkish administration, and that by
the Sa0re's edge,
The Lords of the Admiralty have rather
astonishe1 the world by their Minute on the
results Of the rate Court. Martial on the loss of
the Vanguard They Justify the Vice-Admi.
raj in command for continuing Tie rate Of speed
through the fog, though they censure him for
an opinion which he incidentally expressed,
that it is within the discretion Of leaders of d.
visions to act, with regard to speed in a foe,
independently of, and contrary to. the orders of
the Admiral. They also diSapprove the signal
made by the Admiral for he alteration of for
nation, as not tending to keep the squadron so
much under his control as another signal named
would have done. They declare the loss of
the Vanguard to have been chiefly due to
the slackening of the speed Of the Vanguard
and to the improper sheering out of line or
deyed by Lieutenant Evans, of the Iron Duke :
and they justify Captain Hickey in inoreas-
ing speed 50 far as TO recover his station,
He being warranted in s%upposing thst Her
Majtsty's ship Vanguard was maintaining the
speed at which she was going when she was last
in sight" As to the absence of the fog-signal in
the Iron Duke and the unrea illness of every
thing in the Vanguard for pumping and clos
ing the watertight compartments, the Admt.
rally Minute say not a word. The incapacily
which the catastrophe elected, seems ultimately
traceable to the grey matter of the Admiral
ty's brain.
The annual election of a Governor of Ohio
came off on the 18th. 1t was this year Of
great Importance, as the struggle had become
one between the advocates of "hard" and
soft" money, and was expected to show the
feeling Of the Western men on that important
point. The Democrat candidate, Mr.. Allen, is
a leader of the Iufationists, while bis Repub-
lican opponent, Mr.. Hayes, is strongly for a
resumption of cash payments. Up TO the very
day Of the election both parties were confident,
as the Democrats carried the State in 1874,
and the Republicans have the Administration
behind them. The result was the election of
Mr.. Hayes, BY q majority Of 1000, in an IN.
usually heavy vote. In Iowa also, which the
Democrats felt confident Of carrying, they have
been defeated by crushing majorities, the House
of Representatives being almost unanimously
Republican. The Democrats will allege that
this change IS owing IN great part TO General
Grants appeal to Protestant feeling"-that
is, to his denunciation OF State grants for
s~ectarian educalion-but though that may have
had some influence, the vote is understood to
show that a paper-currency platform will ruin
the party which adopts it.
NJ. de B%elcastel, a leading French Legitimist,
has published in the Unigera a somewhat note.
worthy letter TO his party. He pronounces for
a speedy dissolution. He says the Assembly
was weIl-meaning, and with a man Of genius
who understood it would have worked wonders
but no such man was forthcoming, and the
Assembly, "like all Assemblies, womanly rather
than manly" had a weakness. for Parlia-
mentary Government. 1t was this which
caused the failure Of the attempt to seat the
Comte de Chambord. M. de Bel castel there
fore calls on the Assembly. which has already
sat for FIVE years, to dissolve itself voluntarily,
so that there may be no suspicion of Revolu-
tionary victory, "no violent or premature
death" If the Legitimists will vote in that
sense, a speedy dissolution is certain, in spite of
the selfish reluctance of so many Liberals to
lose their seats.
NJ. Jules Simon has made a striking speech
at Cette. the keynote of which is, that the Re.
publicans, once a militant body, are now a
Government party, and should strive to make
the Rannhlic lived. Tho Ranuhlio ia NOT a