, 1876-07-15
AMERICAN KILOGRAMS,

morning supports Lord Derby's position
on the extraditi9n question. The writer con-
oludes as follows :-"Itis better that there be no
treaty at all than that England should yield to
any Power her immemorial right to know upon
what ground and for what offence the meanest
refugee is surrendered from her soil. That is q
principle which dominates British action in the
matter, and Lord Derby has the whole nation
behind him In the policy he has followed
throughout the present complication"
FRANCE.
PARIS, June 22nd.-It is expected that
President MaoMahon will, in a few days, cause
to be published in the Journal O6Gc5e5 letters
addressed by him to 81. Dufaure, President of
the Council and Minister of Justice, and Gene
raj de Cissey, Minister of War, requesting
them to order no further prosecutions against
the Communists, except in certain very serious
cases.
The Vienna Correspondent Of the DAILY
Neaos remarks as significant that the Austrian
official journal endorses ali argument in the
Cologne Gazette to the effect that the Powers
which signed the Treaty Of Paris are not bound
to protect Seryia against a Turkish invasion
undertaken as a punishment
A despatch from Pesth reports that one
S~clnVonio town in South Hungary has subsorib-
ed 100000 forms for the insurgents in Tur-
key.
TIE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.
LONDON, June 23.-IHs DztIY NelCg this
morning publishes a letter from It's Coustan
tinople correspondent, dated June l6. giving
details of atrocities committed in Bulgaria dur
Ing the insurrectiou, and which sill continue,
by the B4sbi BazOuks (fUrkish irregular
troopsl. The writer says all movable proper.
~ has been plundered, houses and villages
burned, and old men, women, and children
unfortunately slaughtered. 1t is estimated
that the province, heretofore yielded to the
Government on annual revenue Of 81 1000, 900,
will not pay one quarter of that sum this year,
or for years to come. Various estimates place
the number of lives sacrificed at from is, 900
Ito $4,000.
The correspondent names 81 villages known
to have been destroyed, Among the refugees,
the number Of whom is very small, there Is
not a girl of over ten years of age. In the
village OF Serustitza, In the district Of Philippe
polls, 1880 persons are known to have been
killed. This village consisted of 400 houses, aud
was prosperous and peaceful. Every house has
been burned and all the inhabitanoe killed ex-
oept a few women and children who took refuge
ia PhillippopOlis, aud some women who were
carried off by the Bashi-B azouks. These
c~ruelties have made a great impression at
COnstantinople. The English Ambassador has
interviewed with the Government to put an end
TO them.
In the House of Commons this afternoon Mr..
Forster said he would ask Mr.. Disraell on Mon.
day if the above account of the c%rueIties in
Bulgaria Is correct.
A special dispatch to the London Standard,
dated OonstantinopJe, Juae 81, via Athens, says:
Great uneasiness prevails and is increasing.
The palace of Sultan Marad is surrounded day
aud night by pickots of cavalry. Tha Russian
residents are sending their families away. Ibra,
him Pasha has been placed under arrest. There
are various rumors that he is implicated in Rus
sian intrlgues, and that he assisted Abdul Azia in
d~isposing of his treasure. The censorship of the
press is extremely severe. Three Turkish and
three French journals are now suspended. The
Government is fast becoming unpopular, aad will
speedily fall if it does not abandons It's undecided
attitude.