New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-02
ed again and again from the very best sources

assured again and again from the very best sources
that such is the case. The official orders from tne
Porte 20 to the Khedive and sustain him IN MS
position The orders to Arab Bey commonly go
through the religious hierarchy and insure 'ho
continued resistance OF the national party TO the
will of the Khedive Three or four weeks ago
several very great and holy men from Medina anu
Mecca were sent by special orders into Egypt IL
was surmised that they had been oanisheu lot soho
offence But their arrival at Cairo was followed ny
=. frosh outbnrst of @nationa'" feeling among The
Fovntans ana now ono OF these grea, men, VINO
bss beep IN this city for some days assisting in tho
councils OF the Government, has Just returheu 10
Fovpt with the imperial commissioner sent 10
bring Arab Bey to order The significance oil the
presence of that great and holy sheikh win the
commission is brought out by the positive state
meut of well-nformed Turks to the enec' tna'
while the commissioner is sent 10 CAIN Arao' DoS,
.ho shalh ;s sent to see that Arab Bey does LOT
listen TO the commissioner. and thai the reisiou'
element of the national party use force II noou VIC
to preyent Arabs surrender to the authority Vi '
Sultan as represented by the hhedNe mus 'ne
animation that demands Turkish intervention anu
the intervention ITSELF VIII oe lou"" " N"
from the same source.
The 5;nlomacy of the Turks is tangled wep' anu
the unravelling of it is extremely dithcult. Inc
various phases of the conflict look Ike chhos pay
"a boys game with boys. But tie game Is 'efrioS
da ,gerous and Europe may at any moment iaVc 'n'
whole Eastern Question again begging ior soiu-
zion. To so grave crisis has grown the Pe'9
clamor of few Egyptian officers about their pro
motions and their pay. ..
Thu Government hero is becoming very strict IN
;ts censorship of the press No book can appear
which has not first been read and approved by the
'oa.;als of the Bureau OF Public Instruction These
c;als ara as deeply buried in rejected manuscripts
s ths hardest hearted editor of a great magazine.
Rnt the censorship extends over the sale OF DOCKS
ana the use of them. and hardly week passes
xtbout the seizure of books by the police because
the censorship has changed its mind AFTER authorA-
;nr a publication. The control extends TO uusH"
x,ons and books taken from the hands OF schooi
children if they contain pictures which the ingenuity
of the police can transform into sedltious sueeoS-
t;or. At An exhibition of oil paintings held here
Iatelv two pictnres were removed by the ponce as
seditous. One of them was hunting piece anu
,.nrassnted two eagles in conflict with wounded
linn This picture as finally restored on the assur-
snce Of its owner that the scene was Dona-hde
attempt to delineate nature. and had no relerenoo
to any nations who have adopted the eagle as in
emblern in their arms. Turkiah editor was luck
less enough print picture OF the br'uee Oh sn'
mt Venice with some explanation OF lts history
and the tyranny of Venetian secret tribunals. Two
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found himself in arrest with the request that he
would explain what he meant to insnuate by pup
fishing a picture which referred to tyranny ana
sacret tribunals On his assuring his intorloeutors
that he did not refer to them he was dismissed Win
warning never to do so again.
The Lepant Herald the Oldest and only English
newspaper in this city, has lately gone through
most curious experience. 1t carees1ly admitted IN
an article of series French influence III the East
q vain attempt at calculating the amount OF the
blood of Osman which in the veins OF the impe
rial family of Turkey after four centuries OF admx-
ture with the mongrel blood which makes up every
barem. 1t was instantly suppressed without the
form of a decree from the Bureau of the Press by
vary seyere gentleman in the uniform OF the palace
After a week or two it reappeared under the name
of The Constdntin0ple Messenger. Three Gays Ialer
long decree from the Press Bureau formally sup
pressed The Messenger. The next week french
paper the emps de C0RstaRhnopte suddenly en-
larged its form and announced that III wouio De
served to the subscribers of The LeUdHt Herald Az
the same time it dopted the type and the advertise
mepts Of The Lepdnt Herald. The next day the
Temps de ConstaRnnopIe was suppressed. The
Editor of The Lerdnt Herald nothing daunted by
these two mshaps addressed himself directly TO the
household of the Sultan, using such good argu-
ments that in week he was able to issue by special
authorization a new parer, announced 10 take Inc
place of The Lecant Herald, and called me Eastern
Erpress Thus the offended dignity of Turkey is
saved and the editor proceeds smilngly on his way
Crimes of violence are increasing in the city.
Men have frequently been garroted IN the streets
ir early evening. Two days ago judge oil one Oh
the local courts was attacked at noon III by-way
in Pera by a mar who dew a dagger and tried to
secure the watch of the victim The judge cried Tor
help and three men appeared who proceeded to help
the robber and not the judge. Luckily some women
in a neighbonng house set up fearful yell ana
attracted the attention of passers In neighborng
thorou ghfare so that the judge kept bis watch
But nobody was caught. Yesterday, also in day
light a lady assaulted in the street and had her
earrings torn from her ears by ruhan VINO liter
aly tore away the lobes OF the ears. In all these
affairs the police is supine, and while intensely
active IN ferretIng out seditl"us Suggestions 10
harmless books has sense acute enough 10 per-
ceive wrong to be righted III a case OF highway
ronberY.