The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-10-10 00:00:00

BULGARIAN ADDRESS TO THE ENGLISH

PEOPLE.

The Daily News publishes the following address
from the Bulgarian delegates now in England, in
which they say: -" We have come to London to
deliver a petition to Her Majesty the Queen of
England, in the name of the Bulgarian nation. We
hasten at the same time to perform another
main duty. We are charged, sir, to express, in the
most solemn manner, the thorough and profound
gratitude of our nation towards the great English
people for the warm-hearted sympathy that they have
not ceased to show in various ways since the day, now
months ago, when they brat thoroughly comprehended
the unutterable atrocities of which our nation has
been the victim at the hands of the fanatical Turkish
populace protected in their shameful work by the
regular troops, and armed by order of the Turkish
Government, which was solemnly admitted twenty
years before to share in the benefits of the public law
and of the European county.' As the miseries and
atrocities to which our wretched nation has been
exposed were great and incredible, so the feelings
manifested on this occasion in so glorious a manner by
the great English people were strong—full of indig-
nation against the criminals and of sympathy towards
the victims. The atrocities committed in Bulgaria
have sent a shudder throughout the civilised world.
The charitable and humane sentiments daily expressed
in England, and which force a great people to protect
the credit of civilisation and of the human race, have
astonished the world. If it be necessary to go
centuries backward to find in the annals ofEurope—
if it can be found—an equal to the horrors of which
Bulgaria has been the theatre, it will be equally
difficult to find in theme distant times so magnificent a
spectacle as that offered by the English nation to the
world on the occurrence of these atrocities. The
English press, eo justly called in England the fourth
estate of the realm, gave the signal; the English
people rose; meetings were called and everywhere
held; eloquent and powerful orators spoke; cries of:
indignation on the one hand, and expressions of
sympathy on the other, were everywhere heard in the
most overwhelming manner. Statesmen of position,
and of undoubted authority in one way or other,
added their help to the movement which was con-
vulsing the country; learned men supported with their
pen the cry of the people for amelioration of the lot of
the wretched nation whose sufferings had given birth
to this agitation' churches and chapels re-echoed
with prayers to God to mitigate the sufferings of the
Bulgarians; societies were formed to raise aid and
to gave relief to the numerous victims, and English
charity, already proverbial, exhibited itself as of
inexhaustible value; ladies of all ranks willingly gave
their services, in order by their self-sacrifice to aid
this work of charity. We have ourselves heard your
churches ringing with ;realms fur our wretched
country, and we have MAD, with our own eyes, young
English ladies of noble rank working for the
orphans of Bulgaria. Is not that sir, a grand
spectacle ; showing that in England, at least, humanity
and Christian charity are not vain words? If this
spectacle provokes elsewhere the ahuiration of the
world, in Bulgaria it brings tears to the eyes of those
who will ever remember it with gratitude and hope.
The Bulgarian nation will never forget the eynipathy
which the English nation has shown to them durhig
these last trying days. Soule thousands of human
beings condemned by famine and other miseries to cer-
tain death are already saved, and it is to the English
nation that they will be indebted for the least of their
lives. Would to God that the wishes ef the English
people were shown in LW striking a mariner for the
regeneration and ernancipation of our unfortunate
country! Would that that could be realised at the
earliest possible moment! That would be, we feel
certain, the best recompense for all the synipathiar and
all the efforts which have been made by this nation for
Bulgaria. It is true that we cannot conjecture in what
situation our country will be placed as events unroll
themselves in the West, and we are by no mane
initiated into the mysteries of European diplomacy; but
if ever the Bulgarians are able to breathe again; if
ever they succeed in throwing off the yoke of slavery
which has weighed on them for five centuries; if ever
they acquire, in fact, the right to live, not ass nation
of slaves, but as a free people, governing themselves,
the honour of the achievniement will be due in the
greatest measure to the noble English people."

At Sheffield Mr. Barlow, master in lunacy
haa held an inquiry disclosing extraordinary
facts relating to Rim Elizabeth Shearwood, an
eccentric wealthy lady living at Sharrow, Sheffield, ,for
the purpose of ascertaining her state of udn.L he
family are wealthy. One sister, although worthislo,ooo,
wont hewing, and another, similarly wealthy, is a
lunatic. The evidence given showed that the subject
of the present inquiry hequently .at on door-steps
with only a chemise on. She generally kept meat a
fortnight lwfore cooking it. She we.. filthy in her
habits., and would lean cheques about or press them
upon the acceptant-nor urion,ipenueni.
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_ .
(hi Frhhty, at the Wellington Police Court, Salop,
Hobert Bailey, postmarder of Dawley, was committed
for trial at the amnia* on various eharges of exibezzle-
meat and forgery from depositors in the Post-office
Savings Bank, his total defaleat amounting to
about 1:11,000. The prisoner, who um also a Wesleyan
local preacher for the district, was highly respected,
and carried on a flourishing stationery and printing
business in addition to his other duties.
Thousands are _unable to take Cocoa because the
varieties conunenTY sold are mixed with Starch, under
the plea of rendering them soluhle ; utak really making
them war, henry, and indigo/flak. This may be *sat,
detected. for if Cocoa ran:gene * the asp it prowe the
eadieion 4 stank CADISURre Cocoa latince is genuine
It is therefore three times the strength of than Cowes.
sad • freshins Beverage like Tea or Coffee