DEATH, OF EX-SULTAN MURAD.
The death of^the ex-Sultan Murad V. from diabetes, which occurred on 29th August, and was followed by an almost private interment on the next day, has, it is officially stated, gxeatly grieved the
Sultan ; but it must also have greatly relieved him. Murad V. has been a prisoner — very leniently treated, but still a prisoner — ever since his deposition and the accession of his brother Abdul Hamid in 1876, and probably owes his life to the Mahommedan respect for the mentally afflicted. He has, however, a personage of some political importance. He was quite unable to reign ; but discontented parties in Constantinople always used his name as their war-cry, each leader hoping, it is probable, to reign as Vizier of an enfeebled Sultan. His mental condition, indeed, was repeatedly denied, aparently in the teeth of evidence. Abdul Hamid will now be succeeded by a son ; but it is remarkable how the Princes of the Ottoman line contrive to keep in the shade. They dread the jealousies of the Palace, and efface themselves with a success which in a European Court would be impossible.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 98, 22 October 1904, Page 9
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