FATE OF SULIEMAN PASHA.

Kumara Times, Issue 518, 25 May 1878, Page 2

FATE OF SULIEMAN PASHA.

The Constantinople correspondent of the Melbourne Argus, writing of the bold and reckless Sulieman Pasha, whose name was so often before the public in the war, says:—“ It is incontestable that Sulieman Pasha had been a great favourite with the Chamber of Deputies. He had beeu a great favourite with Midhat Pasha. Ho had brought iuto action the chief part of the military force which had effected the deposition of Abdul Aziz; and the deputies may well have thought that if they should ever have need of a generalissimo for their protection, they might find an Ottoman Fairfax or an Ottoman Essex in the person of Sulieman Pasha'. I have a bad opinion of Sulieman Pasha, and I have little doubt that he was ready to conspire either with or without the Chamber of Deputies, and for any purpose, provided only that he could safeguard the interests of Sulieman Pasha. I am not at all sorry be has failed, and I am in no way moved by the ugly story which comes to us respecting him. We are told that he was arrested at the Dardanelles, taken on board an ironclad and carried out to sea; and that when in midsea lie jumped overboard and was drowned. We believe that an ancient mode of punishment, once very popular in Turkey, has been revived in his favour, aiid that he has simply been placed in a sack and thrown overboard. When I was a little boy and read the Bible at .my mother’s knee, I used to be much impressed by the words—“ Had Zirnri peace who slew his master?” It seems to me that those who cub short the political life of Abdul Aziz have not had much Midhat Pasha, tin* ringleader, is in exile ; Hussein lloni, the most daring of the gang, fell by the band of an assassin ;■ Refill- Pasha, who drew the Sultan’s curtains in the dead of night, and told him that his throne was lost, is a prisoner; and now, if all tales be time, Sulieman Pasha, who supplied the force which guarded the approaches to the palace of- the doomed monarch, rots at the bottom of the Sea of Marmora. The history of the Ottoman Empire has from the first been more romantic than tbe wildest romance, and not the least romantic chapter in it is that which relates to the conspirators against Abdul Aziz.