The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-06-08 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1878.  We learn from Constantinople that the Levant Herald having published an article which the Turkish Government considers seditious, the editor has been ordered to quit the country in forty.eight hours.  The remains of the late Earl Russell were interred on Tuesday in the family vault at Chenies in Buckinghamshire, beside those of his first wife. The chief mourners were the Duke of Bedford, the Hon. Rollo Russell, the youthful Earl Russell, Lord Charles Russell, the Earl of Mink', the Marquis of Lansdowne, Admiral Elliott, &c. The Queen sent a wreath to be placed on the coffin. Mr. IL B. Samuelson, M.P., having written to Mr. George Howell asking for the names of two persons from Aylesbury who could give evidence before a House of Commons Committee to show that an extension of the hours of polling is desirable, and having intimated that men whose evidence should be untainted by political (i.e., Liberal) buss would be preferable, Mr. Howell has replied "I fear that most of those with whom I am acquainted are tainted with the contaminating influences of Liberalism, and I have yet to learn that these ale, in their nature and effects, corrupt or vitiated in the slightest degree, the insinuation in your letter notwithstanding." The great sporting event of the year—the Derby—'cane off on Wednesday with the usual accompaniments, attracting quite as numerous an attendance and evoking as much enthusiasm as in previous years. Royalty was well represented in the Grand Stand, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of Connaught, the Prince and Princess Christian, the Duke of Cambridge. the Duke and Duchess of Teck, the Prince of Saxe-Weimar, and the Prince Imperial being present. There was also a large sprinkling of the aristocracy, and both Houses of Parliament were more fully represented than has been the case in some previous years. Mr. W. S. Crawfurd's horse, Sefton. came in first. The favourite, Count de Lagrange's Insulaire, was second, and Lord Falmouth's Childmic third.  Ministerial changes at Constantinople take place with a frequency which makes them bewildering, and robs them of all political importance. When Sadyk Pasha was deposed a few days ago, the office of Prime Minister was abolished, and that of Grand Vizier re-established. Mehemet Ruchdi Pasha was appointed to the latter position. On Tuesday he was dismissed, and Safvet Pasha, who was Foreign Minister in Sadyk's Cabinet was made Grand Vizier in his stead. Safvet Pasha also continues to hold the portfolio of Minister for Foreign Affairs. A more significant change is the removal of Main:amid Damad, the Sultah's brother-in-law and evil genius, from the position of War Minister and his replacement by Phospor Mustapha. The disgrace of Mahmoud Damad after a brief pe.iod of recovered power would be of good omen, were it not that these changes only represent the imbecile capriciousness of a weak and demoralised monarch.  Madmen and a few other strange characters have to be watched closely at Vines. Of course, this very true remark cannot have any reference to the difficult task Lord Salisbury is said to have before him just now. The London correspondent of the Dundee Advertiser says : —" I have good reason to believe that Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury do not go to the Congress in the most friendly and confidential spirit. If lam not misinformed, the real objoet of Lord Salisbury is to watch over and control the vagaries of his colleague. The Cabinet were rather dismayed when Lord Beaconsfield proposed that he himself should go, and they insisted that he should not g) without the assistance, as it is kindly put, of a colleague. It was therefore decided to send Lord Salisbury with him; but the real object of the Foreign Secretary is to see that his official chief faithfully carries out the views and decisions of the Government." We can only add very necessary indeed. Another attempt has been made in Berlin on the life of the Emperor William. On Sunday afternoon his Majesty was driving in Unter den Linden when shots were fired at him from the second storey of one of the houses in that thoroughfare. The shots took effect in the face, head, arms, and back. His Majesty was at once conveyed to the Palace and placed under medical treatment. A number of shots were extracted, and though there was considerable loss of blood, the wounds did not prove to be of a serious character. The person who made the attempt is named Dr. Nobiling. When arrested be wounded an hotel keeper and then endeavoured to comit suicide, but was prevented and taken to the hospital. The exasperation among the people of Berlin is described as intense. Upon the news of the attempt reachirg the Crown Prince and Princess of Germany, who were at Hatfield, they at once returned to London and left for Berlin. Nobiling has confessed that he held Social Democratic views, and had repeatedly attended meetings of the party. He had planned the assassinatiot for the last week, and considered that the death of the Emperes would promote the welfare of the State. •