The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-06-03

Fish on the Winslow question, the BRUSH
government seems to have concinaed tha'
perhaps It NAV have acted hastily in refusing
to surrender Winslow, and has decided to
refer the question whether the act OF pari!a
meat of 1870 modified the terms OF the AS
burton treaty TO the courts. 1T now looks a,
if Winslow will probably be given up.
Turkey,
The Eastern question is looming up again
IN gigantic proportions. The terms agreed
upon by the Berlin conference, at which Rus
STA, Austria and Prussia were represented
for the settlement of the Turkish question
are officially announced to have been, IN
substance, that Turkey shall accede to q two
months armistice that she shall restore to
the Christians their houses, with years
food and exemption from taxation for three
years; that the Turkish troops shall with
draw from her European provinces except
from six fortified towns; that the HerZego
vnians are not to lay down their arms until
the Turks have laid down theirs: and lastly, II
these terms are not complied with ON the eX'
pration of the armistice, then the alliedpow.
ers will take suck measures as may seem
requisite.
All the European powers are invited 10
JOIN IN this proposal TO Turkey, but thus far
only Italy has assented to it. England, 10
the surprise and disgust of the three powers,
refuses, and France backs her up, the latter
proposing that instead of the Berlin arrange.
ment there shall be a European conference
summoned. And Turkey, encouraged by the
attitude of England and France, plucks up
courage enough to refuse point blank to give
its assent to the Berlin programme.
What will Prussia Russia and Austria do
do about it? They affect to believe that
though England may not be willing to join
them In their plan to quiet Turkey, she will
not oppose them should active measures be
be necessary 10 bring Turkey to terms; but
the action OF England tells different story.
The British government is sending fleet af-
ter aeet to the THrkish waters extraordinary
activity prevails in all her navy yards, and 1t
IS PLAIN she is preparing tor the worst Evil.
IDENTIFY the question is one in which the Brit
ish government does not conclude to remain
neutral and inactive; and the emphatic way
IN which the lately derided British power
looms up in the Oriental complication con,
trasts strongly with its indifference in the
Europe. With Gibraltar and Malta and the
Suez canal in her possession, Il fleet in the
Mediterranean strong enough to sink every
other vessel there, and Turkey as an ally,
England is seen to be firstrate European
power after all. No wonder, therefore, that
the other powers are perplexed at the failure
of the Berlin scheme
In the midst of these complications, but
apparently without much reference to them
or effect upon them one way or the other.
comes the startling new that Abdul Aziz, the
present sultan OF Turkey, has been deposed,
and: that the heir presumptive," Murad, has
succeeded 10 the throne of the Osmanlis. The
nature and purposes OF the conspiracy which
has effected this revolution are not clearly ex-
planned IN the dispatches, but powerful fac.
ton appear TO have been disguised with the
luxurious extravaganza and physical inanity
of the sultan, to whose vices and and incapa.
city they charge the financial disasters and
imperiled political situation Of the empire.
This faction forced Abdul Aziz TO renounce the
caliphate, in virtue Of which lie was the splr-
itual head Of the nation, and this act was at
once followed by his enforced abdication of
the throne At the date Of the last accounts
he was held "A prisoner. His successor is re-
ported to have agreed 10 the suppression OF
the seraglio, which has SO disastrously i'm
paired the faculties of his predecessors and
has consented to a reduction of the civil list
to five million ipiasters, andito the organiza-
ton Of permanent council or congress of
notables, in I'M itation of the parliamentary
bodies of the western powers. The change
appears to have been well received at the va
rious capitals of Europe, but there is no ap-
parent reason for expecting that it will have
any material influence In quoting the present
troubles in the European provinces.