Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-16
A NAVAL DEMONSTRATION
Is Probably the Term Which It WEI Assume at
 an Early Date.
THE SULTAN IS HAMPEREp BY HIS HARsM
sassination- -Rosebery Is Ready to Throw Away His Hand--High-
 lander Calls uarcourt.

ter)-The developments which have manifested themselves since the cabinet council, which was held on Tuesday, indicate that the government has de- cided upon taking some definite action against the porte.
 The communications which have been sent to Russia and France by the for eign offices urge the necessity of making a formidable naval demonstration in the = Bosphorus without delay. The sugges- tions made by Russia and France, that conference of the powers be held. do not suit, as they are in the line of Lord Rosebery's policy. It is plain that the premier either wants to have Great Britain committed to a strong and prac- tical policy of pro-Armcnian interven- tion before the conservatives get into office or else he perceives that a con ference with the powers might entrap England into discussion of the question of her occupation of Egypt. The former might be desirable to the liberals, but the latter would not be welcomed by any party or faction in the kingdom.
 The Speaker, in an article, ostenSibly based upon information received from Constantinople but really inspired by a cabinet minister, declares that com bined demonstration of the powers. is the only feasible and proper method of dealing with the Porte.
 The article declares that the Sultan is not the sole master of the situation, as is generally believed. According to this statement the Sultan had actually pre- pared d reply to the identical note of the powers accepting the terms laid down by them when he received warning that IT he persisted in the course indicated by his reply he would unquestionably meet the fate of his uncle Sultan Abudul Asiz. Heeding this warning the sultan withdrew his answer.
 The gathering of the fleets at Constan- tinople, the Speaker adds. will have great influence upon the conspirators. who are pulling strings even to the utmost re- cesses of the imperial harem. These worthies are prepared to ridicule the idea of English pressure upon the Porte, and they are also prepared to assassinate the sultan if he should dare yield to out side influence.
 They will come to think differently. however, the Speaker says, 1T they see the combined irun-clads representing the real force which they are setting at de- fiance.
 The liberal organs generally assume that the defiant attitude taken by the porte is due to a notion on the part or the sultan and his encourage that there will soon be change in the British government which will involve com plete change in EnglandS s foreign pol icy It is true that small pro-Turkey party continues to exist among the con servatives, but within recent perlod extraordinary transformations or opln- ion in regard to the best means Of deal- ing with the eastern question have taken place among the leaders and the rank and file of the tory party, and, al- though no authoritative pronunciamen- to has been issued from Lord Salisbury or any of his immediate followers. it is an open secret that the traditional pol icy concerning Turkey will be departed from when the conservatives obtain office.
 Lord Salisbury may have no cut and dried plan, but the conservative organs, which reflect the opinions which pre- vailed in the Carlton club, are now ad- vocating reconstruction or the Balkan government by permitting Bulgaria to absorb Macedonia and even Constanti- nople giving Greece some extension of her frontiers and confining MoSlem dom ination to a portion of Asia Minor. This of course means war, but war is in the air.
 Many have been the assertions and denials that Prime Minister Roseberry was anxious to lay down the cares of office, but this authoritative statement was made yesterday when Lord Rcse- bery confessed in speech in the Clerk enwcIl district both his desire to retire from the premiership and that the time was near when the government would be overthrown. He said that arnang the many castles in the air in which he in dulged was one for the day when lie should be released from his post This day, he added, was not remote. though its nearncss might he overc stimatsd. This uttcrance coincides with what the United Press reporter has privately heard a cabinet minister remark anent his personal ara ngeincntS. He said: 'I am making preparations far long rest from official work aft..r parliament rises. I intend to take long ahsencs from England and shalf have time to re- turn 10 my old studies
 The same feeling of conviction of the collapse of tie party ir tha coming clec- tions perYasies the liberals un'ess some thought, such as the political res urrection of hIr G!aGs toae should rA- animate thc party they Will enter the campaign dispititnd tl,a. their defeat will be an overwhelming disaster The present position of ,lie party is so crit ical that every bye-cleetian i:as beco:na momentous.
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