Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-06
THE SULTAN UNEASY.
He Wants the British Troops Out Of
Egypt so He Can Get Slaves.
salisbury's Government would Be Badly
wOrsted in Vote of Confidence on
HIS African Policy.
coNsrANr1NoPLE ApYIcEs.

Special to the Gazette.
LONDON, June 5.-Advioes from Con-
stantinople represent that the sultan has
expressed anxiety to the British govern
ment to be permitted to resume his con-
troll as suzerain sovsr Egypt, the British
forces now in that country TO give place
wherever necessary to Turkish gar
risons. The Turkish sovereign
looks with jealousy on England q
prolonged occupation OF a country
which has been considered valuable
portion of the Ottoman empire and al
ways yielded a handsome tribute to the
always impoverished treasury of the
porte. It is reported also from Constan-
tinople that a powerful motive for want
ing to get rid of the British is their In
reference with the slave trade along the
upper Nile. The supply of negro slaves
for the Moslem harems has come almost
entirely from the upper portion of the
river, and the English have brought
such pressure to bear on the
local authorities in Egypt that
they are reluctantly compelled
to execute the DEGREES against the slave
trade adopted in Difference to European
influence, but never intended to be put
into actual enforcement. Owing to this
negro slaves have become very scarce
and costly, both in Cairo and Constan-
tinople, and there is no prospect of re-
plenishing the market. Many harems
are left entirely 10 the care of the old
women, in whom the average Turk has
very little confidence. 1t is believed
probable that Lord Salisbury's cabinet
will make some terms satisfactory to the
sultan, although no steps are being
taken toward an abandonm mt of Egypt,
and there IS probably no intention of
taking any such steps.
AN INSPIRED ARTICLE.
The Times leading article on the rights
of England and Germany in Africa is ex-
citing widespread comment, inasmuoh
as the writer thereof is believed to have
been officially inspired, if indeed the
article was not penned in the foreign
office. Other newspapers without regard
to political bearing, vigorously protest
against the proposal contained in the
article that measure of concession
should be made to Germany's claims
in Africa. Many members of parliament
unqualifiedly contend that Germany is
the one to make concessions which Eng
land should make no delay in insisting
upon. 1t is quite evident from the DRIFT
of popular opinion that the government
would be badly worsted in division in
parliament on any question of conf
dence in the African policy, and there is
a suspicion that the presumably inspired
article was put out as feeler.
EXPLOSIVES AND sEDITIoUs LITERATURE
The police of Wessenbsck, Germany,
have for some days past Swallowed new
conner in that place whose association
with men of soeialistio and anarohlstic
tendencies made him an object of sus-
picion. Through patient inquiry they
learned that his name was Steingleit,
that he had recently returned to Ger
many from New York, and that while in
America he was an ardent admirer and
follower of Johanna Most. To-day the
police visited Steingleit's lodging,
where they found quantity of ex-
plosives and supply of solutions
literature. Steingleit made his appear
auce while his room was being searched
and was promptly arrested and locked
up.
Cardinal Lavigerie, archbishop of Al
glers, is training number OF negroes as
physicians with view of sending them
to Central Africa.