New-York tribune., 1876-06-21
TURKEY ADvANCING BACKYARD.

The course of the new Turkish Government
will hardly inspire much confidence either Ill
its strength OF in its wisdom. The disarlnihS
OF the Softas, it now appears, was dictated Dy
suspicion alone, and f0reshadOwed no such
concession as they might nave resisted. In
fact, we see NJ evidence, now that the SIX
Powers have tacitly agreed to let matters take
their course, that Sultan Aiurad will attempt
to carry out any general plan of reform. He
NAV arrange for tho regular payment OF in
tsregt ON the Turkish bonds nothing would
make him moro popular in the Christian cap
itals but the plan of gianting Constitution
and organizing q National Assembly viii be
postponed, and then forgotten. Whatever re-
forms are not inauguratcd now, will never he
voluntarily undertaken hereafter. Let an orl-
entail Prince be never so WISE and well-ihteh-
toned during his presumphve heirloom OF the
throne the possession Of power and treasure
never fails to develop the autocrat and the
yoluptuary which slumbcr in the blood OF his
race.
But Constitution and National Assembly,
giving precisely equal rights and equal rep
resenation TO all the subjects OF Turkey, Is
an impossibilty. The declarations of the
SOftas on this point are deserving OF little
faith. They arc shrewd enough tn avoid
uniting the sympatlies OF Christian Europe
against them; but the very words they use,
violating tho spirit of every Moslem traciton,,
testify to then duDlicity. The Arabic journal,
III JGraIb, published in Cousiantinople, in ils
account OF the deposition OF the Grand Nzicr
saya that when the Sultan sent 10 ask the Softas
whether they intended TO massacre the Christ
ians, the former answered: We are living
with the Christians like brothers under thu
Imperial shadow They thcreupon demanded
the deposition OF the Grand Nzier and the.
Shekh-ul- -lslam. The paper, which Is tfer or
Gan, adds the following comment: 1t Will
abe seen from this that The object o. he stu
"dents vas to insist on the common ights ol
the CLristians and Jews ~ well a. OF the
"Moslem." That this clas 81 long rg for 4
share in The Government W - lot dOubtt
that IL would accept, rather han lose tho
chance, Christian and Jewish equality, Is pos
sble but that it means anything else than
ultimate MOslcm supremacy viii lie doubted
by no one who knows the race. When the
Turk gives up his faith he Will honestly call
the Christian and jew brothers." and treat
them as such, but not before.
The reports from Jerusalem are probably
much exaggerated. There ha, always been
more practical tolerance there than N any
other city of Syria. If any Iii, ,uIbance should
arse, we shall first hear of l. in Damascus.
letter from Beyrout, in one of the last Lon
don papers, speaks of tho complete quiet,
order and security which then prevailed. The
news OF the revolution in Constantinuple may
have produced a temporary excitement among
tho Turkish population, and it will not be sur
prising if the same thing occurs in many other
parts of the widely-extondcd Empire OF the
Sultan.
Meanwhile, the Slavic insnrrection, 10 longer
fed from The outside, Will desperately en-
dcavor to keep up the unequal contest Tur-
key now has sufficient power TO suppress 1t,
in the end-unless some more urgent necessity
for the use of that power should arise. The
Government Of Sultan MuTad Is already Great
ing enemies in the capital, and we suspect
that he will hardly prove himself to be "J'he
Desired" Gas the name Murdd means) TO all
classes of his subjects