The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-06-03

as have been or may bc accorded to the Slu,.nt.
provinces. On Tuesday the King snmron"i
Comoundouros to form a new Cabinet md ~
Friday tho now Premier announced tho, ,L
Government proposed to double the strengr,a,
the army, 10 call in tho reserves and to,,i,e,
volunteers. new loan Is to be contra.toln rJ
new taxes imposed for this object Atth.soa'.
time the Premier declared that the G y..r,,'"',
would suppress all revolutionary agitaiio, ~
the border provinces. This was nlcroslow -,
n desire to give satisfaction to the d.,,l.,,a,t.
world, as sclt-organizod armed bnnd. b,l az
roady begun to invade Turkish TERRITORY
In Asia Minor things look less sntisf,.or,
stu Tor tho Turks. 1t has been discovcroIt finn,
instead Of having over 10000 men un,l,r orn,,
as the Ottoman Government believed i, Loi
only 1000 troops were in tho field. and u,oss
badly armed and provided for. Stealing sootns
| To have been going on in every deunrtronto a
tho military administration. and Mukhtar
Pasha, who has as yet distinguished hims,lI
only by prompt retreats, has been repor,odon
day rs having been placed under the orders q
Djcni Pasha. and on the next as having been
recalled altogether
In addition TO perjury, maladminlsration.
and military incapacity. Asia Minor has been
| blessed with the appearance Of the plague The
Lerdm He,dd states that in the second half a
April over 500 deaths from this dscasc had
been registered in Bagdad. 1t Is added. how.
ever. that the plague has not yet spread beyond
the Dagdad district.
At Constantinoplc the palace clique has again
gained the upper hand. permanent Coun.
ell Of War has been formed. and ono Of its
first steps was to revoke tho order pro.
hibiting the enlistment Of foreign volun-
tecrs and the formation OF foreign legions.
Tho Sultan has. under tho pressure of this
/ (punpil Of War ,I hn
ton Of IA Hungarian legion. The authorization
was given despite the representations of Count
| Iichy. the Austrian Ambassador, and the ur-
| gent discussion Of Gen. klapka himself. The
great Hungarian patriot and old Minister II
War of Hungary in 1s49 is II seems now the
leading spirit at the War Office at Constantino-
Pile He seems to advocate the abandonment Of
the direct defence of the Danube and a concen-
tration OF the army along the line Of the Bal
kans. and the probabilities are that his plan will
be adopted. This may be very reasonable
thing to do, but sure 1t is that plan of this sort
will render the campaign more protra.tcd and
much less interesting for the outside world No
the crossing OF the Danube has always been one
| OF the most picturesque and sensational fea-
| lures Of the wars between Russia and Turkey.
In England too. the Turks have suffered
| signal defeat The great debate In the House
OF Commons has proved triumph for Mr..
Gladstone. Even papers like the SATURDAY Re-
riec acknowledge the fact. and the eX-Prcmier.
who had lost nearly all his prestige. and ren-
dercd himself almost ridiculous by writing too
many pamphlets and magazine articles is now
as great "a man as ever with the Liberal or Rad.
| zeal party. Tho Tunes. which, from the first.
went with him on the Turkish question de-
! clarcd this on Friday. by saying: All that has
| the true and cleur ring Of liberalism in tho
country. all that may be counted upon 10 endure
and have weight in any future contest between
| the two great parties Of the State. now attaches
itself to his name"
The ovation which Mr.. Gladstone received
yesterday at Birmingham is another Indication
that public opinion is growing more and moro
hostile TO the pro-Turksh policy Of tho
Cabinet
France holds aoof from Eastern complica-
tons. She has her hands full with her own af-
fairs, which do not seem to improve at all.
Broglie and Fourtou are carrying ON through-
ont the provinces the shake them up system
on u very large sralc-among the Projects, sub
Protects and Mayors. Large numbers of these
officials have already been dismissed and re-
placed by men Of mOnarchical views. II is to
these new functionarics that the Duke de- Brog-
| lie looks for managing the new election in tho
interest Of the anti-kepublican party. The Cab
met has not agreed on any defined policy yet
beyond that of opposing the Republicans Tho
Duke and his colleagues do not declare lhcm-
selves either for the Count de Chamhori tho
Count Of Paris, or the son of NAPOLEON III.
They want simply to got a monarchiral \-~em-
bly,. and leave il To Doe then decided who b. 10 10
the ruler OF Franc" No doubt seems 90 Boz en-.
tcrtained 10y them that they will hculla to So
cure an Assembly of this kind hat th" poops
at large seem Ia have made NJ their minds
that II shall not bee SO. The President