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Christians, is a peroeptible difference. Lord
Beaconsield would call it o detail, but then
details make up life.
At the Cutters Feast at Sheffield. Lord
George Hamilton. in replying for the Govern.
ment, bitterly complained of the attacks made
on the conduct of the Government regarding
Bulgaria. and said that the sending Of the leet
to Bssika Bay had no more to do with the
Bulgarian horrors than 1t had with the
Arctic expedition. That is q very bold state.
ment. If the Turks had known, as no one
knew till the l4lh Of July, that the fleet was
sent to B3sika Bay to overawe the Turks, not
to oVeraWe Russia, no doubt the statement
would have been true: But the fragrant indif-
ference, or worse than the Indifference of
the Turkish Ministry to the a~trOciOus conduct
OF its own Pashas in Bulgsria,-some of the
worst of whom it promoted, was doubtless
fortified greatly by the apparent support whioh
the English deet was even then giving It.
Lord Beaconsfeld writes to the Times to
protest against the notion that he had ever
raised a laugh at the Bulgarian atrocities.
my statement was,' he says, " in answer to
one that ten thousand Bulgarians had been
submitted to torture. I was perfectly grave
when l replied that | was ~sceptical as to such
occurrences, as massacre, not torture, was the
custom of an Oriental mot historicaD people.
Unhappily it has turned out that l was
correct. Certainly, on the occasion in question
there was a laugh, but it came, as was subse.
quently told, only from one Member. | hope
tao misplaced laughter of another is no proof
Of the levity of,-YOur 0bedieut servant. BEA-
CoNsFtELD,'' No proof at all. But Lord Baa-
consield does not seem to remember Mr..
DjSraelis phraseolOgy. Not once only, but
several times he made it his object to draw
d3wn ridiculs on those who questioned the
Government about these horrors. In this very
reply he remarked that Oriental peoples did
not usually resort to torture, but generally
terminated " their connection with oulprits in q
more expeditions manner" If that be not q
jooose paraphrase for massacre, w do not
know what \ joke is. Five days later, when he
might have known much Of the truth, Mr.. Disra-
eli replied, not indeed in jocose terms, but In
terms which showed how lightly he was
disposed to treat the NATTER" There is no
doubt that acts, on both sides, as would ne.
oe%ssarily be the case under such circumstances
were equally terrible and a~trocious !" Now lk
is quite certain that the acts on both sides
were not equally terrible and a%trocious, and
most probable that no terrible and a~trooious
acts were Committed on the Bulgarian side at
all. And as to the denial of torture-on
which Lord Beaconsfeld plumes himself
what torture can be worse than that inflicted
in burning children to death,-what moral
torture worse than the outraging of women
before they are beheaded If is levity to
make light Of what is grave, no donbt Mr..
Disraeli was guilty of levity repeatedly in his
answers on this subject no doubt that he did
it with his Judgment, and did it also with his
wit.
The outrages committed on Bulgarian soil
are apparently being initiated on Servian soil
by the victorious army of Abdul Kerim. The
Times correspondent telegraphs from Belgrade
on Wednesday that when the Turks get pos
session of Krusevatz, and have four roads lead
ing into Servian territory at their command,
the position of the Seryians will be most de-
plorable. The whole Turkish force is said
TO be 10000 men, by whom Servia will soon
be overrun. "The proceedings of the Turkish
troops on the road towards Krusevatz, and the
outrages already committed on women and
wounded men, show too plainly what is to be
expected, while the answer of the Porte to
the unanimous demand of the Powers for an
unlimited armistice is delayed" Again, "the
occurrence of the grossest outrages 10 Serviap
territory can no longer be doubted, as the vic"
tins have been seen by an English cOrrespou-
dent. The Servian Minister of Foreign Affairs
has made a list of forty villages utterly des-
troyed by the Turks" III. RlStics. In Note
to the Powers, says that in the district OF
,4~ t~fno~u.J. "a, To.,~fL nn0Af s.