The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-06-10 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

SUICIDE OF THE EX-SULTAN.  The Timea Paris correspondent telegraphs on Sunday A telegram from Constantinople received this evening announces the death of Abdul A.ziz. The telegram is horrible in its brevity. It says: " Sultan Abdul Aziz is dead. Stabbed himself with a dagger in the region of the heart. Will be buried immediately.' Doctors of the English and other embassies testify that the deposed Sultan committed suicide by cutting the arteries of both arms with a pair of scissors. He died at the. Tcheragan Palace at ten o'clock in the morning. He was buried at Mahmoud the Second's tomb in the evening. It has been generally remarked this evening as strange that the Sultan, who has always shown himself so feeble, should have suddenly displayed so much energy, and that, on the other hand, his death was of so little importance to anyone that it seemed repugnant to attribute it to others."  The Times has the following observations on this etriking event :—ln the East there is no great interval separating deposition and death, and few believed that Abdul Aziz, even though his live was not threatened by any powerful enemies, could long survive the ignominious tall which closed his career of selfish and ruinuous degeneracy. To such a despot, whose will has been obeyed with a subserviency unknown in the civilised countries, the lose of power means the extinction of all capacity of enloyment. Even the possibility of leading a life of sensual delights has no attaction for a voluptuary, who has exhausted all pleasures, except the inexhaustible, and for the future inaccesaible, joys of caprice. The suicide of Abdul Aziz is probably as natural a result of the Turkish revolution as any on which conjecture could have fixed. It is not the less an event which will deeply move Europe. A will debauched by unrestrained caprice cannot rest in unshrinking submission to destiny, and this last proof of weakness finds an interpretation in harmony with the other evidence of Abdul Aziz's visible and progressive degeneration in mental and moral fibre. The unfortunate man leaves a tangled web behind him, and though we can hardly believe that he had spirit or intelligence enough left to estimate ful y the difficulties and the dangers which are gathering around his country, some dim perception of his fatal influence may have penetrated his soul, at first stupified by disaster, and have given his reason a final shock. It is needless, at any rate, for us to go beyond the version of the fact which is presented in the bald official announcement. The death of Abdul Aziz removes tho ar,,,st formidable element of danger, and' secures for his country, more certainly even than his deposition, the breathing space which may give Turkey yet another chance of recovery.  The Daily Telegraph correspondent at Paris says :—"At the Foreign Office reception on Sunday night, the startling announcement was made of the death of the ex-Sultan Abdul Aziz. It prodneed a profound impression- There appears to be no doubt of the fact, inasmuch as it is said that official intimation of it has been received by the French Foreign Office, and also by the representative of the Ottoman Empire in this capital. According to the most generally oralited report, the ex-Sal:au committed suicide by opening a vein in his arm. I understand that this is the official account of the occurrence. Bat it will not surprise you to learn that a great many conflicting rumours are current on the subject, and that one of these ascribes the death of Abdul Aziz to assassination. While recording the sinister suspicion I am bound to add that I can trace it to no authentic source."