, 1876-09-23

retreated to the House Of Lords in order to re-
main Premier as long as he can, without using
himself up with the late hours, iangling de-
bates, and endless interpretations of the House
of Commons. He has probably greatly over
estlmated the Influence he wields apart from
his ascendancy in the Lower House, and looks
forward to occupy for some years the position
Of LCrd PalmerstOn, as a quiet but popular
ruler through an irresistible majority. We
have argued elsewhere that be misreads bis
own position in the country but even if this
should prove to be the ease, the step be has
taken may still have been q wise one for him.
self. As long as he lives be will be o person
age, he can as q Peer address the country
when be pleases, and fond as he Is of exclusive
society, he may enjoy q rank which will pre-
vent any loss Of position from loss of office
being brought too closely home to him. He
probably despises an EarldOm, but be does not
despise Difference. The consequences of his
act will fall In the long.run rather upon bis
party than himself, and after all, be may urg0
that he brought them into power in their W
despite, and owes them nothing except thanks
for having at last discovered that he was in
the right.
The Do1g Nevs Of Friday august l6) pub
fishes q further series Of kilograms from Philip
popolis. They are almost too horrible to read.
Tie writer, who has hitherto proved most &C.
curate, afirms that the atrocities continue
that the Turks do nothing to repress the Bashi"
Bazouks, that the Pasha is disobeyed, and that
violations of Christian women occur everyday.
"Three thousand people were killed OF Otlukki
with fearful atrocities and violations. Children
of both sexes were carried about the streets on
- D1..J, woro h,rpt oHva fNb0
Mudir who outraged the Schoolmistress is q
drunken brute. At Bazardjik one thousand
peopIe were killed Offering no resistance, with
the same atrocities as at Batok. A bagful of
human heads from Bazardjik was emptied in
the street at Jambuli before the house Of the
Italian Consul, and eaten by the dogs. Every
BULGARIAN house at Jambuli was pillaged by
the regular troops and Turkish neighbours.
Women are outraged everyday" That is the
status q4o upon the basis Of which the British
Government proposes that peace should be
made.
The Christians Of Eastern Europe are pay.
Ing and are likely to pay a terrible price fox
The worst fact 10 their history, their atrocious
expressions Of the Jews, whom they hate,
partly for their creed and partly for their sue.
cess In b%usiness. The Roumanians in p~articu~
lar repeatedly compelled the Emperor Napo.
leon to interfere, and reused Sir Moses Monte
fore into active and persistent representations
to all the Governments Of Europe. They excl
ted by their expressions the implacable anlmOa
sity Of the Jews, and are now attacked by the
Vienne8e Press, which is almost entirely Jew.
ish, by half the Press Of London and Paris, and
by the British Premier, whose fat at this mo-
ment can make or unmake them. Even now
SO bitter is the prejudice in Roumania, that the
Government has the impudence to demand
that the rights of English Jews in Bucharest
shall be qualified by their creed. II. is hope
less to reason with q prejudice of this kind,
but there ought to be brains enough among
Roumanians and Servians to see that the total
abolition Of Jewish disabilities would do as
much for the Christians Of Turkey as a great
victory.
Mr.. Bourke is a very inconvenientIy honest
person. In the course of a speech In the
debate of Friday week, though defending Sir
Henry Elliott, be admitted that the Foreign
Office was totally ignorant Of the events which
had occurred in Bulgaria 60" The Government
really had no Idea of the events which had
occurred in Bulgaria until attention was called
to them In the House, and he gladly took the
opportunity of saying that the Government
and the country were very much Indebted to
the newspaper correspondents through whom
these events had become known" In other
words, be admitted that either Sir Henry
Elliott suppressed facts be knew which is
impossble-or that he remained ignorant and
lncTedulous of facts known to. newspaper cor