The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-08-21 00:00:00

EVERT DAY LIFE OF THE SULTAN.

A salary of £2,000 a day will appear to those who
have but few wants a nice competency. That is the
daily wages of Abdul Hernia, the present Sultan 44
Turkey, and no Sovereign alive earns his money
hailer. Out of that sum he has, moreover, to pay for
his own board, fire, and candles ; his lodgings alone are
free, so that, cmululering the footing on which his
establishment is placed, he must be a inan of order and
economy to make both ends meet with so small an
income at his command. There in, indeed, no more
diligent or active man in his empire than the Sultan,
and it is literally true of him to say that he eats his
bread in the sweat of his brow. He gives personal
audience to everyone that applies for it, whenever it is
possible; when not, his first adjutant gives audience
for him. The six hundred wives of Abdul Aziz have
vanished, and Abdul Hatuid finds it as much as be can
d to meet the milliners' bill of a poor three dozen
spouses. This scanty harem leaves him a good deal
more time for devotion and State business, lie
leaves his apartment betimes, and bathes the prison
lils soul in tepid water, after which he stretches
himself full length upon is carpet and breathes a
silent morning prayer. He then drinks a cup of
chocolate, and proceeds immediately after to the
affairs of the State. Despatches are received and
sent, reports examined and approved of, expenses con-
sented to, decorations granted, ministers and am-
bassadors received, and that goes on for several hours.
Towards noon a second carpet is spread at the feet 44
the ltuler of the Faithful, whereon he prays again,
and then takes his second breakfast. After that he
goes out for a ride or drive, and when he returns he is
at the disposal of his family and the inhabitants of the
palace. He gives audience to his brothers and sisters,
listens to the report of the household officers, confers
with the chief of the eunuchs on all sorts of delicate
subjects, and gives him his orders. The chief of the
eunuchs ranks next after the Grand Vizier, and
whenever a despatch containing good news from the
seat 44 war comes in, it is he that is charged to read
it to the ladies confided to his watchful care. The
Imam, or chaplain of the l'alace, also Wlllas in the
evening, and the Sultan prays or reads some pious
book with him. Three times in the week the Sultan
takes lessons on the piano from a French teacher. M.
Paul Dotsap—that is, he listens to his teacher playing
a few morreaux, but never plays a single scale him-
self. Later in the evening he despatches more State
business, and than an hour before midnight, seem.
panted only by the chief 44 the eunuchs, be retires to
the mysterious recesses of the harem, where it is for-
bidden us to follow him.

MORE ATROCITIES.

SCHUMLA, Wednesday.
Some Turkish cavalry adva-ced,reconnoitring as far
so Kustendji, and found the place abandoned by the
enemy. Pressing forward in a north.westerly direction,
they came upon a band of Bulgarians under the leader-
ship of a pope. This band had taken thirty live
Mussuhnane prisoners, and after cudgelling and other-
wise maltreating them caused them to be bound
together in groups with their children and drowned.
Popes are everywhere to be aeon inciting to such nets.
Pena, Wednesday.
This morning the Sultan sent to me a request that I
should see a Russian prisoner just brought in from
Feki Saghra, where he was captured by Tahir Bey,
after Suleiman Pacha's victory. He serrate that the
Turks treated him remarkably well, irking him excel-
lent food and wine, and exchanging hid tattered
Russian uniform. Masein, who speaks with a gentle
manly a ceents told me that he was present at the
entry of the Rusaians into Eski Saghra, and that he
saw twenty Turhiah women and children shut up in •
barn, which was then covered with straw and set on
fire, the victims being burned to death and that " the
Russians and Bulgarians danced to the music of their
shrieks." The p6oners describes the Russian soldiers
as nearly starving, the want of food being very great.
Suleiman Pacha's attack, he says, was " terrible, ' and
the retiring Russians lost heart and were astonished to
find the Turks fighting so obstinately. This man gave
it as his opinion that the campaign is lost to the
RURSIAIIII, whom he describes an being greatly de-
moralised.
The Ottoman Bank at Constantinople, through the
director, Mr. Forster, has negotiated a new Thrkish
! loan of the nominal value of three millions. The Porte
I, to receive two millions and a half in cash.
Mr. Gladstone has written a letter with regard to
the alleged atrocities by the Ruesians, in which he
says—' The shameless wholesale lying of the Turkish
Government deprives its allegations of all claim to
value. There is however I think, evidence enough of
many cruel and horrible 'deeds. I myself should be
most thankful to anyone who could give me the means
judging whether they were due to Russians or
Bulgarians."

EXECCIION Or

ADRIANOPLZ, FRIDAY.
Bulgarian prisoners found guilty of terrible atrocities
on Turkish women and children are being executed.
The proceedings connected with their trial are being
legally and carefully carried out, and punishment in-
flicted only in well-ascertained cases.

BULGARIAN PETMON TO THN SULTAN.

According to a telegram in the Coloom Ge:eW,
dated Pers., Thursday, Ali Pacha, Governor of
Adrianople ham arrived at Comdantinople with a
petition to the Sultan, signed by 80,000 Bub=
among whom figure the Archbishop end the
of MAanople, imploring the clammy of the Sultan,

they

oonfordng that 01,7 have been guilty, and that
allowed thetre,elvem to be seduced by the Iteasian
emimark., and inNordsing to remain faithfel in future
, to the Sublime Porte.