Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-06-03 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE REVOLUTION IN TURKEY. The feet of a revolution having at last taken place in Turkey may be accepted as a sign that if the Ottoman Empire is to be extinguished in Europe, it will die hard. There must be some energy and governing power in the men who, without the shedding of blood, have succeeded so quietly in dethroning one Sultan and enthroning another in his place. When a revolution is brought about in this way it is clear that it accords I with the popular will, and that it was ripe for accomplishment. The event though important enough to startle, can hardly be called astounding, as it did not take Europe altogether by surprise. The antipathy of the reforming Softas to Sultan Abdul A ziz as the main cause of deepening degradation of Turkey, was known to be increasing, and there was a kind of expectation that what has _taken place might happen any day. The astonishing thing is that a potentate, who has been called "the most despotic and dreaded of Sovereigns"—who could dismiss a Grand Vizier at his pleasure, who did whatever seemed good in his own eyes, and who had always about him a subservient set of Ministers—should .have been compelled to walk out of his palace as tamely and ignominiously as a dismissed groom or footman. It is quite possible now to believe the worst that can be said about the weakandsensual indolence of the dethroned Sultan when he cravenly submitted to sign his abdiction, and allowed himself to be ejected summarily out-of-doors. An autocrat, whose will was once law, and whose sovereignty terminates thus, was only when at the height of his power a hollow sham. About fifteen years ago when Abdul Aziz became Sultan, he was spoken about as the destined saviour of Turkey, but in the course of years as the repulsive traits of his character—his avarice, his sensuality, his love of ease— developed from bad to worse, it looked as if he and Turkey were doomed to go down together. From this miserable fate the country is saved in the meantime by the revolutionary movement which has placed another occupant on the Ottoman throne. There is little use in speculating as to the probable results of the important event which has just taken place, until the new Sultan, Murad Effendi, has time to show in what respect he differs from his dethroned and degraded uncle. Fresh aspects of the Eastern Question may be expected speedily to arise. In Berlin the overthrow of the Sultan is considered to be the deathknell of General Ignatieff and Russian influence at Constantinople, and a belief prevails that the Triple Alliance—which had never the strength of threefold cord--will be snapped into pieces. Owing to the lethargy of the dethroned Sultan the party now in power dreaded the active intervention of Russia, and the first step of the new Government is likely to be to take more energetic measures to suppress the insurrections that are full blown in Herzegovina and Bulgaria, and the others that are threatening to breek out in parts of the Ottoman dominions. Until this is accomplished there can be no deliver:sues from the danger of active intervention at any moment, There was a menace in the words "more effeetive measures" contained in the Memorandum which it Was Jn the contemplation of the Powers to lay before the Porte. The wisdom of Britain in dedining to join in theotticial communication of the Memorandum is now made apparent by the entire change of front which the revolution in Turkey Lute brought about. Our Government has shown an equally wise taresight in having a strong fleet of iron°lads in the Mediterranean, :ea there is nis  saying what may happen before the excitement caused by a ohtnge of sovereignty  subsides. There is too ranch season to fear that, if the dethronement of the Sultan had not been accomplished without a struggle and without bloodshed, there might have been an outbreak of fierce Mahometan fanaticism which would have repeated the murderous Salonioa outrage on a more extended scale.