Year: 1877

Some particulars are given to-day OF tho
deposition of the Turkish Grand Vizier Mid
hat Pacha. BY these it may be seen that
our surmise of yesterday as to the cause of
his fall was correct He did not perish be-
cause he lad become too mild for the fierce
Moslem spirit, and. therefore, was not
thrust aside to make room for more
aggressive supporter Of Ottoman ideas in the
person of Edhem Pacha for it is very doubt
fu. If the present Vizier is more extravagant
in his Moslemism than his predecessor was.
It Is true he is very demonstrative, and
made at the Conference an excessively gross
exhibition of bad manners, and SO may be
thought thoroughly pugnacious Turk.
But he has been the representative Of his
government at Berlin, and it is certainly
tendency Of residence at foreign courts to
give men . conception of ampler political
horizons than entirely home-bred statesmen
are acquainted with.


Midhat Pacha really fell in collision with
the Sultan. In days when the sword Of
Othman has been girded on SO many mere
voluptuaries it is refreshing to come upon a
Sultan who has in him enough personal
spirit and energy to be uncomfortable to
any one, more especially to man of SO
much vigor as the exiled leader of the Mos
lem revolt against European influence and
against any number of sultans who may put
themselves in the way. Midhat Pacha
was o statesman Of the cynical
type. He had observed that this
is mn age of constitutions and popular re-
volts, and saw very clearly that under the
cover of constitution on ndroit politician
can do what he pleases with country
while the name of popular revolt is SO
sacred that there is no villany but may be
made palatable if gilded with this device.
He made constitution therefore, and kept
sofia revolt always ready. With
his hand on the wires of this re-
volt, ready to spring it into action
at any moment, he deemed himself
supreme. He had but to give a sign and
sultans left the scene and other sultans
came in their places, and he had prepared a
change Of this sort for the present occupant
of the throne. But the untimely adoption
of an arrogant and offensive demeanor and
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on his guard and led to inquiry, and the
vizier found himself a prisoner without
capacity to spring his rattle for his three
thousand Ulemns.


It is thought at Vienna that the present
Ministry will make sacrifices to secure peace.
This is probably true. With the unpleasant
experience of escape from ruin at the hands
of an extreme party the Sultan has q new
opportunity to appreciate the spirit and pur-
poses of that party, and can scarcely sympa-
thize with them at heart. He gives the ap-
pointment Of the chief place in the Ministry
to one of their most conspicuous men, and
thus aims openly to satisfy and placate them;
but secretly he will be glad to strengthen in
the State party that takes different views
of the sacredness of the persons of padi-
shahs. As the plain and truthful note of
Prince Gortschakoff is now before all the
cabinets and Russia requests to be informed
if they propose to take any action regarding
the failure of the Conference some COM
munications will doubtless pass between
these cabinets and that of ofConstantinople on
this head, and if any new policy is contem-
plated it will soon become apparent.