New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-23
uIDUAT PASHAs DOWNFALL.


prFFERENT REPORTS IN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
MADE TO ACCOUNT sAnsFACTORILY FOR TIE
GRAND vIZlER'S DIssIIss AL-sEBIO-COMCAL IN
c1DESTs OF HIS ovERrHRow--g HE NEW MINIS
TIERS.
IFRoN THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TliA TIIBuNE'i
LONDON Feb 7.-Yesterlay morning brought us
A csnuiue seusatiOn--the news OF the dismissal OF
Ndnat Iasha tine day before All the leading morn
ing papers had special dispatches announcing the
event but they were OF the brefeSt and the reasons
assigned by different correspondents were various
and apparently all coujectural. Nor do we know to-
day very positively anything but the baTest facts.
Tcrc arr. indeed, plenty Of accounts; and eXIIana-
tons o.; M!dhats fall are by no means lacking. Ile
dnlGlty Is there are too many OF them,
and amy enc OF the theories advanced so confidently
is plausible enough. There may even be people who
would content themselves with tile official declare
toH that Mdha.s disgrace and exile were rendered
Necessary by constitutional reasons. 1t is the irony
Of fortune by which Midhat, who so often pleaded
hsnew Constitution as a bar TO the proposals OF the
Conference should see that same
apletezt for bis own removal. The lesson he taught
Ia, returned 20 plague the inventor. He has been
barishcd from the Turkish Empire, in accordance
with Article CHI. Of the Constitution, which gives
70 the Sultan the right to exile those who, according
to credible information of the police, endangcr the
security Of the State. 1t is true that the Sultan had,
and from time iInmemoria has, exercised this right,
always excepting the occasions when 1t has been
exercised Oh hlm. And 1t is Just absolute now as
ever
No doubt the next few days will bring further par
tcu!ars. but it is likely the world viii be adj
mitted to the secrets Of the Sultan's Palace BY
sitting the accounts already published an approx
maton TO the truth may be arrived at, and that is
as much as can be expected in Oriental affairs. We
probably shall not be larOut of the way if we assume
That Mdhat intoxicated by his apparent triumph
INST over Nehemet Rushdi, and then over the Con-
ference, became mtolcrable to the Sultan, over
whom, secretly or openly, he has domineered since
he came 70 power He believed himself a necessity
uat the key OF the situation IN his hands, ana
tA4i Tie Sultan must either govern III accordance
Win ms Grand YizieT's views, or give way to some
one who would There seems little reason TO suppose
tAa' Inc split between them occurred on any one
particular point; whether relating TO the Confer
eAee' OF 10 the peace negotiations with Servia. Inc
o'euiAsiautlal story related by the correspond
eAt Of one Of the most extreme Anglo Turkish
organs IN London may or may not be true.
According % him the Sultan is more
A"efal man than Midhat, and they quarreAed be-
cause Aldhat insisted on 50 many reserves and quail
Ieht TO saying that the Sultan DESTROYS OF re-
'.leung his own power, while Mldhat was DESTROYS
o extending it, or rather Of preserving more of 1t.
"O' avery likely thing, that. A Turk does not
oaae TO be Turk because he is a Sultan the Sui
'sh is the Grand Turk Of all. But there is no limit
Tie line traits which a TurcOphite expects you to
discover IN the object Of his alteration The rela-
uols between sovereign and minister being in tins
strained condition, Midhat grew sulky. The Sultan
'ook him sternly to task" Midhat replied
CURLY" and did not go TO the palace when
ne was sent for. Thrice this happened, and
meantime Midhat was plotting the overthrow
VI ms master It would be natural that, if such
we're the case Midhat should take more than ordi-
nary pains TO keep on mask of ciyihty till his plot
s~ npe; but suppose no general rules apply TO
sS Turks The police, at any rate, discovered what
was going on. Not merely was the Sultan TO be de-
posed, bat he was not to be replaced; Midhat him
Yen was 70 reign as Dictator A peremptory sum
.ous brought the eonspiratOr on Monday morning
lie palace. sGspectng nothing. lie was arrested