New-York tribune., 1878-06-22
BEHIND THE sCENEs IN TURKEY.

TURKISH JUSTICE UsrEATED-CoNsPtrAIORs TX
ECUTED sG.RELY-mE SULTAN AiAniED-ruE
LATE CHANGE OF suSI.rEY-rHE UTruMAN
TARIFF.
tFEou A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or rHE TRTUNE.t
CoNsfASrINopLs. May 3O-Arrcsts were made
throughout last week until some sixty persons had
been arrested for completely u cine attempted insur
rec,iou These persons mainly among tie middle
class. One was a pasha OF whom no one ever heard
nor will again. The people arrested were marched
10 the palace under a heavily armed guard of two
soldiers 90 each prisoner After several days Of eX-
animation before @ Commission. the prisoners were
removed. last Sunday, 90 the War Department,
where they are to be tried for their lives by a court
martial Not that there is any aFprgcIable differ
euce between the court ciyii and the court martial
iu Turkey. The rule in each is 10 bring a man in
guilty. unless a person Of influence wishes
hrm acquitted. and the methods in both are
similar. The preliminary examination Of prisoners
Is conducted on the French principle, before
"mustantik,p OF juge d instruction. / was subjected
10 such anexamiuation here on suspicion of compile
itv in the Bulgarian IusuTfection Of 1876. The
mustautik. with two clerks and a single guard COM
posed the Turkish force employed on that occasion.
We all sat down about filthy table in a small
room in the Central Police Office, and the guard
locked the door on the inside and placed his back
against it. The QucstiouIngs were very search
ing, very complicated, and often returned
10 a subject already exhausted, with an
evident purpose of detecting some flaw
in the previous statements. The clerks wrote
both questions and answers on large sheets of
paper After the entire subject had been exhausted,
the memoranda of the clerks was handed me to read
and sign. Hardly question or answer was recorded
in the actual words Of the examination. Ii will be
seen that this system affords great facility Tor pro
vidiug testimony To be used on trial, even if the
prisoner is perfectly innocent After the eNamina-
tiou fine prisoner Is confronted with the great man
in whose jurisdiction the case has fallen. In my
case this great man was a graybeard Of benevolent
aspect who now commands the Turkish army in
Epirus. lie politely bowed ne out Of the building
I the case of those arrested as chief cOnsprators IN
this attempt 10 free Murad they taken before the
Sultan i'm person and then ordered TO the War Depart
mept During the night after the outbreak. there
wa, n great movement in the harbor, aad seamen
an shore were not allowed TO take boats % return
10 their ships until nearly dawn. About midnight
heard very plainly four voileys OF musketry,
which have not been satisfactorily explained. The
next morning the city was full Of rumors that an
other attempt bad been made to force the palace
gates What / heard was not at all the rafting
sound OF hlefring, but regular volleys Ot platoon
| am inclined to believe that during that mght
some persons connected with this affair were put
where they will make no more disturbance
shower Of decorations has fallen upon all officers
engaged in suppressing the outbreak. Private sol
diers engaged received royal laTsess OK I'OOO
piasrcs each, and the WOUNDED soiuieIs "eie eoiu
forted with 5000 pastres.
This outbreak has had very great eject on the
people and on the Palace. The people have been led
to reflect that the only fault Of the eonsprators was
that they had no better organization As to the Sui
tan he IA more than ever absorbed in anxiety about
his personal safety THIS feeling has been increased
NV the occurrence of many fires in the city. and by
the burning of the Sublime Porte itself. by an
eient usage discomfort among the people OF Con-
stant,nople il manifested by incendiary fires.
There is but one man upon whom majesty can lean
in sneb an emergency. That man is Mahmoud
Damad Pasha, the Imperial brother-in-law. There
.eems 70 be most fatal fascination about that mys-
- 49, erhe Turkish people find brothersn-law asOf-
fersive a ever Americans did. Upon the reileyation
| !, Mabmoud Damad TO power as Minister Of War