AFFAIRS IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2955, 5 August 1878, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

The correspondent of the Daily News, writing from Constantinople on June 10, says:—-" lam informed on good authority that the dismissal of Mehemet Euchdi Pacha was due to the strong langusge which he used to the Sultan a few days ago. He told the Sultan that he must immediately put the Constitution in force, and proceed to open the Chamber, because it was no secret that all the people were against him, and, in fact, the army also. If the Sultan did not comply with his request, Euchdi Pacha said he would not be answerable for the consequences. At these words the Sultan became furious, and left, the room."

"A change of sovereign, if not of dynasty, is imminent. There are three candidates for the throne—Yussuf Issedin, son of the Sultan Abdul Aziz; Murad; and Eechid, the youngest brother of the present Sultan. There is still a fourth candidate, Midhat Pacha, whose party is probably the strongest, and expects to set aside the others, and see him Dictator. As for Mnrad, he is not much better than he was when dethroned. Eechid has no intellect, and Yussuf Issedin is not much better. When the present Sultan is dethroned there will be a terrible struggle for power amongst the four different parties. The result will of course depend on which side are the principal Turkish generals. "There are ominous signs of an approaching tempest. The army is showing a mutinous spirit. There is great excitement at Stamboul, and the police within the last three days have committed several highhanded and brutal acts upon perfectly innocent foreigners. They entered the house of a French subject two nights ago, breaking open tbe doors with the butts of their muskets. When the proprietor remonstrated they beat him on the head with the same weapons, and then said they were looking for brigands. The -thieves are having it all their own way, juicl reaping a rich harvest. ' 'TThe suppression of the Levant Herald is another ominous event. Last week that paper contained a letter, signed •' The Voice of Many Turks,'* written to the editor, telling him he had no right continually to attack Murad and his partisans, using strong language, and calling the present Sultan a usurper. The editor published this letter, offering to give the police the original document. The paper was immediately suppressed—not suspended —suppressed for ever. This is almost the first instance of such severity. Besides this, the editor, Mr Whittaker, had twenty-four hours' notice to leave the - country."