The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-24 00:00:00

(Stamped ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

TURIUSH MISSIONS.

The following correspondence has taken play
between Lord Clereodun and the Secretary of the Turkish
Warless Aid Society:—

(Copy.)
Letter from the Earl of Clareedoe to the Committee of the

Turkish Missions Seciety.

" Foreign-office, Sept. 4, 1886.
" Sir,-1 am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to trans-
mit to you, for the information of the onions and committee
of lb* Turkish Missions Aid Society, an 'strut of a des-
patch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople,
trcm which it appears that the eases of religious execution'
at Aleppo sad Adrianople, alluded to in your letter of the
7th ult., were both on account of blasphemy; and that
since the year 1844. no clear instance of execution for apos-
tasy has been brought to the knowledge of Ltd Stratford.
I us, sir, your most obedient, bumble servant,
(Signed) B. HAMMOND.
' • "

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"Rev. C. G. Young, 7, Aiem•etreet, Adelphi."
Ramat of a despatch from Viscount Stratford de Radcliff
te the Rail of Clarendon, dated Constantinople, August
-..-...

21, 1846. _
" More than eleven years have elapsed since the Sultan
made his well•known declaration of March 21, 1844, and no
dear instance of execation for 'pommy has come to my
kaowledite slag. In the only two awes sated by the
Turkish Missions Aid Society in their correspondence with
your lordship, the crime imputed to the sufferer. was blas-
phemy, and sot apostasy ; sub, at Not, area the 10117/1/0
ties which I readied in answer as my inquiries respeifiag
the oisenivence at Adrianople, of which I had no intimation
tiU after the sentence had bees executed. The cane-
sponaence itself hears witness to the exhibition of the same
charge against the Aleppo victim. This, it is true, may be
• mere pretext, contrived to mask the application of the old
unrepesiod law, bat unfortssately it is one which may be
more easily employed than exposed."
The Committee of the 'Turkish Missions Aid Society to the
Earl of Clarendon.

" Turkish Minos' Aid Society, 7, Adant•street,
Adellabf, Sept. 15.
"My Lord,—l em directed by the Committee of the
Turkish Missions Aid Society to acknowledge the receipt of
your lordship's communication of the 4th inst., together '
with an extract of a despatch from her Majsety's Amber
*odor at Constantinople, on the subject of the religious
enmities. at Aleppo and Adrianople,which are now stated,
wording to the information given to Lord Stratford, to
have been for blasphemy, and not for: postasy.
" I am directed by the committee to state to your lordship,
inreply, that since the despatch of their letter of the 7th
ult. they bare received additional information in regard to
the more recent and notorious case of Adrianople, from
which it appears, on the authority of Mr. Zenop, one of
tbe native usistants to the American miationtries, a trust-
worthy witness, who was at Adrianople at the time of the
execution ' That it was known to everybody, and in every-
body's mouth ; and that all said that it wee toe a remands-
tiois of Mohammed, and not a syllable was lisped of his
(i. e., the sufferer) having been guilty of any ether crime ;
and that, after the event, he saw and conversed with some
of the companions of the victim, who said that he was
beheaded for rejecting Mohammei.'
" The most decisive etidence is, however, furnished in a
letter to Sir Culling Hadley, one of the vin.-presidents of
this society, from D. D—, • gentleman wall known at C.a..
stantinople, whose name the commutes are not at liberty to
mention ; but if your lordship will request Lord Stratford
de Redcliffe to communicate with Count Zuylea de Nye-
velt, the Minister of the King of Rolland at the Porte, he
will be enabled to give the name of his informant, and to
' verify the statement. It is to the following effect ' There is
no doubt whatever that the Turk executed at Adrianople was
afterwards 'spitted, when dead, with his bead between the
legs, a recognition of the fact that he bad become a (Natter,
acd that be was therefore not :merely • blasphemer but a

recognised apostate.'
"The committee, therefore, have a very strong conviction
that the execution was on account of apostasy, and that the
charge of blupbemy, to quote the words of Lord Strati
toed de Redeliffe, in his recent despatch to your lordship
' may be a mere pretest to mask the application of the old
usrepealed law.'
"I am further directed by the committee most respect-
fully to submit to your lordship whether the present may
not be a lavourable jencture for the Great Powers repre-
sented at the Porte to urge on his Highness the Sultan
that inumueh as the pledge of March 21, 1844, appear to
admit of afforest interpretations, sad as doubts (mist
respeoticg its application to the cue of Mohammedans by
birth, his highness may be pleased to mate it so compre-
hensive as to include the ezemption from the punishment of
de►th on account of religious offences of all classes of his
highness's subjects.
" I have the honour to remain, my lord, your lordship's
most obedient humble versant,
CUTHINST G. YOUNG, SOUetary.

"By order of the Committee.
"The Right Honourable the Earl of Claret don, ens of
her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State," dtc.
(Copy.)
Forerga-office, Sept. 17,1855.
" 80,-1 am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th instant,
and to request that you will convey to the committee of the
Turkish Miamians Aid Society Lord Clarendon's thanks for
their further communication as to the alleged cues of
religion executions in Turkey.
" A copy of your letter will be transmitted to Viscount
Stratford de Redcliffe, who hes been instructed to make lull
inquiry, and to report respecting the esecotion at Adrian.
opts, and to demand an explanation of the Porte as to the
interpretation put upon the law in such cum.
" I em, air, your most obedient, humble
(Signed) " R. HAMMOND.
" Rev. C. 0. Young, 7, Adam-street, Adelphi."