, 1876-09-23
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tH1S|cEt~"SO&S C0WtEHHe6 from .VTSE DOge,)
respondents, and we may add, to everybody
else in Constantinople. In retaining Sir Henry
Elliott therefore in his important post, the
Foreign Office announces to all the world that
it does not care to be accurately informed as
to Turkish facts, prefers, indeed, to know as
little as it conveniently can. We have no
doubt its preference will be fully gratifed till
the explosion comes. Then, as in 1870, it will
know eVerything,-that newspaper readers know.
Sir Charles Dixie on Tuesday august 15)
made q singularly heartless speech to his con-
s~.ituents at Chelsea. He read a letter from
the very highest authority who could be
found to speak on what had occurred" whose
name he suppressed only for official reasons,
as to the scenes which have occurred in Batok
and Tetar Bazardiik. The writer confirms to
the full all the statements OF the Dailg Neacs
correspondent. adding that great efforts are
now being made TO convict all Bulgarian
Sch0olmasters, priests, and n0tables, the object,
OF course, being to stamp out civilization and
chat Aohmet Aga and Chefket Pasha, the chief
agents in the reign of terror, have been promo.
ted, the latter being made Chamberlain to the
sultan. "At Batok as many as 1000 people
persisted. Many had their eyes cut out to
.eztort money, and were then boheaded. The
chief man, or Tch0rbadii-Tranda6l-Was i'm
RSASN AIN AOGStCN VI u spit 1uGIC were
1nnumerable instances Of fendish cruelty.
Pregnant women were ripped up, their babes
taken out and killed. Two hundred women
and children burnt alive In the school house"
Having read all this, Sir Charles Dixie affirm
ed that In India we had done all that the
Turks were doing now, that he conld not SYM
pathlse With the Christians, who had prosecuted
the Jews, and showed a total want of Chris
tian charity and that above all, he thought
hassla ought not to gain because she had
stirred up the Servians to war. We wonder, if
these unhappy Bulgarians we're respectable
English Folk, whether Sir Charles Dixie would
want any stirring up, or whether he would
thlnk England wicked for promoting an insur-
%reollon. We can understand Tory believer
In divine right holding such opinions, but what
new sort of Eadicalism is this which apparently
hnds favour at Chelsea.
Lord Northbro0k repudia}es he idea that wo
ought to support the Turks in their oppres-
slons because the Mahommedans in India sym.
pathise with their fellow. reIigionists. At an
entertainment given him by his former consti-
tuonts Of Penrhyn and Falmouth, he said sit
was excessively difficult in any country to
speak to the probable effect that any question
supposed to be a religious on0 might have upon
the people, and 1t was still moYe difficult to
speak with any confidence Of the effect Of a
Tellgi0us movement in another country upon the
people of India, but so for as he was
able to form an opinion from personal
observation, be believed there was no
particular relation between the movements Of
hahommedan populations In Turkey and India
and that the events now occurring in Turkey
and Servia would not have any son.
slblo elect upon India, so far as regards
British power in that Empire" We have
heard that Sir Salar Jung, a most competent
witness, while In this country expressed the
same opinion. It is the fate Of Mecca, not of
STEAMBOAT, in which Indian Mussulmans arc
keenly interested.
There Is still a paper in existence, the
Maternal Independent Of Leeds, which contends
for the Innocence Of the "Claimant,' and
maintains that votes should be given to one
candidate or another according to his bias
towards the Tiohborne case. On Saturday
last (August l0) this journal announced that
on the whole its constituents were resolved to
support Mr.. Barran against Mr.. Jackson, add
ing' however, in large type :-"It is with
extreme pain and regret we have to announce
that neither of these gentlemen has correct
views on the Tiehborne question, and that
althougn our numbers are very considerable, as
a party we are not prepared to bring forward a
candidate Of our own with any prospect of
success"
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