Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-13
The EAST.
Lord Derby's Defense of the Conduct of
the Disraeli Administration
The ''MOdiflcatiOn" Policy.
The Temper Of Europe Undergoing a
Menacing Change-Turkey Warned
by Derby and the Times.

q mohaClhS Cnange-Iurkey warned
/ by Derby and the Times.
Another Battle Without Decisive Result
Testimony from an English Gen.
tleman In Favor Of Turkey.
LONDON, September u.-Earl Derby
received to-day several deputations o
wOrkmen's societies, and, in reply tc
their addresses, said that the govern.
ment had been charged with indiffer
euce to the great crimes committed il
Bulgaria. All that had been done il
diplomatic matters, and in sending thu
F feet to Besika bay, was done, if no
before the outrages occurred, st any rate
before they were known. He denied
that tie government was in any sense
IespUnsibls for the outbreaks of fanat
icism among the Turkish population
He described the previous action of the
government, and said that they haC
J nothing to unssy of what they had said
and nothing to regret in what they haC
done. II the Turks believed that al
Europe desired to drive them back into
Asia, they would break out into ex.
cesses, prompted by revenge and despair.
He believed the conviction that England
desired fair play had done more than
anything else to prevent the war from
assuming the character Of religious
war, and to prevent the commission OF
atrocities In many provinces instead OF
L Il
position in consequence of the Crimean
war, which, at its outset, was pushed
mainly by the emperor of the French.
| Lord Derby said that he believed 1t
would be as much q mistake now as
formerly to let the Turkish empire take
care of itself. The state of its territorial
| integrity was real and permanent. The
| last word on the eastern question was,
"Who is to have ConstautinopleW An
attempt at partition would be the signal
for q general European war, but the re-
lstions between Turkey and her various
subject races had been modified repeat.
edly, and they might be modified again.
All the arrangements for local self-gov-
eminent which had been made with
Egypt, Lebanon and Crete had been
settled with the concurrence of the
guaranteeing powers, but he would never
| put his name to any scheme which he
believed would not work. AS to the fu-
tuTe, the British government was doing
all in its power to secure an armistice
and peace. The changes to be made must
depend upon the concerted action of all
Europe, and into the nature thereof he
could not now enter. 1t wss unjust to
denounce o whole race for the faults of
some. An endesvOr to blot Turkey from
the map of Europe would lead to q
war in which the Bulgarian horrors
would be greatly exceeded. 1t would
drive the Turks into Asia, and still there
would be many millions of christians
and Mohammedans living together, and
not in Turkish Asia only. I do not
think we could treat the question ID any
wsy that would more prejudics their
position than, if in feeling Indignation
against atrocities, we hold language and
display feelings against the whole Mo-
hammedan races, which would excite
feelings of mutual animOsity between
the two religions. Let me add word
of warning. Do not suppose because we
LOOK upon these questions from philan-
thropic point of view that all foreign
powers and foreign politicians do the
same; and as a sequel to this would
wish you not to ask your government
not to d. that which is impossible, be,
cause If you adopt that course you put
1t out of our power to do anything at all.
A member Of the depntation asked
Lord Derby what chance there was for
the adoption OF Midhst Pasha's consti-
tutional reforms, to which his lordship
replied that he did not know what were
Midhat Pasha's proposals. He was
kB,Ak Thak afh fodK kaoA
eral ideas about reforming the Ottoman
administration, but was not aware Of
the character of his project. Even If he |
knew it, he would not be prepared to |
say anything about 1t without some pre-. |
vi0us examination and study.
The Times to-day, in an editorial srti- |
Gle on the eastern question, says: '"rhe |
temper of Europe is swiftly undergoing |
than Russia might easily pass beyond |
the control OF statesmen. The very dam
GER of which Earl Derby warned Turkey |
threatens to become a reality. He said, |
with startling force, that q renewal of |
the outrages would be more disastrous to |
the Porte than the loss Of battle. If |
the statements regarding the atrocities |
in SerVia should prove true, it may mat |
ter little whether they should afterward
prove exaggerations. The Russian peo-
pie seem approaching peculiar state of
excitement, when even false reports
will make peace an impossibility. Every
day of warfare leads TO the likelihood
that the strife may overflow its present
limits. There are diplomatic signs which
might warn the Turkish rulers and show
q foothold on which they must pick
their way. They will find it less easy
than it has been in former timss to make
Turkey safe by exciting the jealousy of
rival powers. II they display their
wonted astuteness they will seize any
eXpedient that offers as 8 chance of
peace.n
BELGRADE, September 12-Though
accounts of some Turkish outrsges are
unhappily too well established to be
doubted, fair idea Of the proceedings of
the Turkish force is not to be gathered
from the fearful tales Iso carefully col
lected. An English gentleman, who
passed through the Servian district late
ly visited by the Turks, reports that he
had many opportunities Of talking with
the people whose homes had been alto
gether in the hands of the enemy, and
he met with not q single case OF gross
outrage. Before the publication of the |
order rendering soldiers mutilating |
themselves liable to the penalty Of death
or rimpris onment for life, many Servians |
had already been executed for that Of.
tense; on one occasion as many as forty |
in one batch were executed. There |
were hospitals, 1t is said, in which more |
than half the patients are OF this
class.
BELGRADE, September 12.-Oficial |
dispatches say there was severe fighting |
Sunday and Monday between Deligrsd |
and Alexinatz, in consequence of the |
Turks attempting to throw q bridge |
across the Navarro, in which they were |
unsuccessful. The Servian garrison at |
AlexinatS numbers sixty-four hundred |
men. HervatOvich, with twelve thou.
sand men, has retired from Gromada |
and Joined Tchernayeff at Deligfad.
Yesterday they gained the Turkish rear,
south of Djuries, when q combined at
tack was made on the Turks by the two
generals. The fighting ceased at night.
fall without q decisive result, and was
renewed to-day.
Another Call for Bonds.
WASHINGTON, September 12.-The
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