HOW TURKEY IS MISGOVERNED.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 156, 27 November 1895, Page 4

HOW TURKEY IS MISGOVERNED.

1 he London co>respondent of tLe F Ag .. & that tlie situation ia the East i: t causes gitat anxiety throughout [j Europe. The state of Turkey is as || bad as it well can bo he. The Great E Powers appear determined to compel f§ the Porte to institute reform in j Armenia. Macedonia is in veiled re- j beliioti. Meanwhile the real govern- | ing power of Turkey is in the hands 1 of the cliques of favorites and eunuchs B who surround the Sultan. A man of || high tank in Constantinople in the |£ course of conversation with tee cor- g respondent of a newspaper pointed | out that the Grand Yizier, Said Pasha 1 •sithough au able and honest man, v, ® only the mirror of the Sultau, and I was not in immediate touch with the I administration of affairs, and tbis ad- f miuistiation was rot en au i corrupt. "Look at the.Alini.-trv of the inu rior," 1 said he, "every inoruing the Minister,? 1 son, Djeond Bey, goes do.va to [. I'hillippo'B. in Galata. ami traffics in : Government p sts as opcn.y as ti, ■ brokers around him iu shares. Vou j:may ask him,' What price Beyrout or | Sivas and for so uiany hundreds or 1 •hous.mds of pounds you may be appointed forthwith Jiaimakam, Mutes- j sarif or Vali. When you get to the post the iiist thing you do is to com- 1 inence recouping yourself for your outlay, as you do not know how hng vou tnav be left there. In order to s keep a good post the occupant must continually be sending presents to the | Ministry, and t-o we get extortions | and atrocities, and toe people are f tired of being squeezd. It is not only reforms iu favor of the Christians that are needed. The Mussulman population require them fully as badly. The whole Administration is rotten to the ; core, and bis Majesty the Sultan is carefulty kept in ignorance of the way he is served and betrayed. It is the palace clique which is ruining the empire-, and neither Said Pasha nor any other Grand Vizier can fight against it t Hi>> Majesty does .not like disagreeable truths, and when a Grand Vizier presses them home too strongly he jg , ■just dismissed. ... As Jong as ; our Administration, from the Grand Vizier down to theßaiallest Rai.mrikauj know ttiat their t -nure-'depends upon the caprice oj> "a, lew irresponsible palace officials you cannot expect any good fruits; The little band which tfige in his Majesty at \ildiz are quite aware of the immense strength of their position. From morning to night they have the Sultan's ear, and pour into it flattery and falsehood in equal doses. If anybody succeeds in reaching his Majest} r aid reporting some unpleasant fact, either regarding internal disorder or foreign intentious ; as soon as the door closes behind him | tne clique step in aud deny the whole story. If his Majesty eouid disguise j himself for a week, like Haroun-ol-Raschid, and spend it in the ciu'bs, , cafes and drawing-rooms, we should gel our reforms. But so long as lie remains shut up in Yildiz with his entourage there is small hope for us. . . . Ninety-nine hundredths of Turkey would be only too glad to give reforms to Armenia and to get reforms for themselves, but -0 men at the palace and their nominees ia t'le Ministry are sufficient to keep the rest of the Empire, and Kurope into the bargain at bay." Of course the remedy which in the first instance would suggest itself would be the do- I struction of the Turkish power. Hut what would or could Ij.) substituted for it? Would not the new system be worse than the old ? BURIED TREASURE. The finding of a buried treasure; near Ifighgato some years ago was rendered very remarkable, 011 account ! of the strange manner iu which the; veritablo owner made his appearance. Some laborers, grubbing up a treo in ' a field, found two jars containing nearly 400 sovereigns ; they divided the money amongst themselves, and were then taken aback by the lord of. the manor claiming it. Before this f 1 claim could be investigated, a tradesman came forward and stated that 0110 -- night, under a temporary delusion, lie had gone out and buried the money ; when he awoke, and for some hours afterwards, bo tried in vain to recollect the locality ho had selected, and; , only obtained a clue when ho heard a; rumour of the finding of 400 sove-j ' reigns. Tie was able to bring forward ; sufficient evidence in support of Ids singular story, and his claim was ad-: mitted.