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Show The Iifchearlcui-d Turk. Loudon, 20. A correspondent at Constantinople writes that thu sultan had laith iu Mahmoud and Kedil, and in the military power of the empire, but that faith has now perished per-ished and the saddened sovereign sita all d;iy in the half-light of his faded chambers, fretting with aching heart and quivering nerves over the lost illusions of his abort reign. What now most troubles the ministerial mind is tho fear of some outbreak in the capital. The harmless demonstration demon-stration of tho s'jftas a fortnight ago has been viaited with gret aeverity upon that body, and upnn all wbo were suspected of friendship with Midhat, who ia Itudil'a Bcapegoat for all that goes amiss. This severity, the garbling of otlieial war news, the gagging of the newspapers, and the reports of reverse after reverse in Aaia has produced a ferment in the popular mind which endangers more than anybody else the sultan's throne. A correspondent at Athens telegraphs tele-graphs that the war feeling is getting deeper every day, and that there is scarcely any division ef public sentiment. senti-ment. Tbo Turkish chamber of deputies recommends the strengthening of the defences of the ports and the making of further enlistments for the army. |