, 1876-11-08

new broom by dstractors, but to whose man
agement of affairs much Of the good and evil Of
the present situation may With reason be impu-
ted. Sir Henry Elliott had to represents to the
Sultan that England had been greatly moved
by the recital of the excuses of which some of
the Bulgarian districts have been the theatre,
and to insist on the prompt and exemplary puu-
ishment of the principal offenders. The Sui.
tan, properly I" coached" by his Ministers, will
have been ready to answer that the wishes Of
the English people have been anticipated, and
that the Commission appointed to inquire into
the atrocities 10 Bulgaria and to deal with the
guilty according to their deserts, has already
been for more than a week installed in she very
centre of the ravaged districts. His Majesty
may probably not know, and his Excellency
may deem it irrelevant to inform him, that the
President Of that Commission, Sadoulsh Boy,
IS enjoying at PhiIippopoh the hospitality of
that Aohmet Agha whose hands wsre imbrued
deeper than any other In the blood of those
Bulgarian victims, nor that when Schiades. tho
most reputable Christian member Of the Oom-
mission, carries his zeal in cross Examining Wit
nesses further than seems oxpedient to his col,
leagues; the latter violently interrupt and
silence him by tue CHATTER Of ,}air paper cutters
watch they strike au-c.g GA Ao cable. The
real truth is that tAose Bt|gll@u outra9cs, ii
traced to their original causes, might be proved
to be rather the deliberate act OF the Govern
ment than the sudden impulse of popular
passion, and diplomscy can hardly expect that
the Porte will ever criminato itself. 1t could
be shown that the Circa9sians and other saw
ages were many years ago settled among the
Bulgarians, with a view to terrorize that iuofon-
sive add thriving population, and that when
the population goaded by il~-treAtmont. listened
t. the slgges ions of their would b. DELIVERIES and
youtured Oh a premature movement, the savages
were armed aud turned against the d-feuce-
less people by the agents of q Government
which had at haod and which actually sent more
than sufficient troops to the seems of the
disturbance, if its purpose had been merely to
Quell the Instruction, and not rather to guard
against its spread by a wholesale aud indis-
criminate slaughter. The Bulgarian horrors
are, however, too threadbare and Improbable
a subject to have long engaged the attention
of Abdul Hamid and Sir Henry Elliott. The
questions of so Armistico and the conditions of
peace were more to the purpose, aud Sir Henry
can hardly have been less explicit in his inter.
view with the Sultan than he was when he
addressed the Grand Yizier or the Minister of
Foreign Aft IRIS in the lame Of the Six Powers.
Here also, as in the case of the Bulgarian
massacres, the Sultan will have had it ia his
power to assert that he has not only lorestalIed,
but greatly exceeded any demand that may
be urged upon him, for if his Government
has not, with very good reason, accepted the
Armistice, it has consented to q truce which
has only been brought to an end by the rash
ness Of his adversaries, and if he or his Minis
tiers have objected to the autonomy proposed
by the Powers 10 behalf of some Of hi Provin-
ces, they have beon and are celebrating a
constitution for tho whole Empire which,
among other blessings, will now create that of
local selfgovornment for all the Provinces.
Sir Henry may have replied that, although
such Il liberal measure as the Porte oontem-
plates, if carried into effect, might be salts
actory to himself and to the Government
ana people of England, as we'll as to some
Of the other Powers, it would fail to please
Russia, which always stood up for a J0nd tide
Armistice, which claims for Bosnia and H9r-
2ogovina, and, perhaps, also for Bug ria, a
politioa, as we'll as an administrative autonomy
analogous TO that Of Servi4 or Roum4aia, and
which has too little faith in the Porte not to insist
on its demand Of solid guarantees. But here
the SultAn, if either a shrewd man himself,
or shrowdly advised by his Ministers, will
have found it easy to turn the tables on the
Ambassador by saying How am / to under
stand your Ezcellency ? How is this ? Is
Russia as great a bugbear 10 you as she is to
me, and do you require that protection from
her which you SO generously bestow upon me :
D.hOl1 NV uaesn1a o-o oO.n ma, -.I,c -n