The New York herald., 1876-09-18

jurisdiction the case'' But he adds that honor,
duty compassion and shame are sentiments never IN
state OF coma The working men have led the way
toward protest. and shown that .the great heart OF
Britain has not ceased 10 beat" lie warns working
men ana the other occupants of the large towns that
they cannot overratc the importance OF their meetings
AS nkerman was the soldiers battle, so this is the
nations crisis" He warns them further that. as tho
nation much speak through the government. lit must
hrst teach IT'S government almost us 1t would lisping
child, what to say"
| is 10 recognize the magnitude Of the infamy There
have been perpetraied, undcr the Immediate authority
OF government to which all the time we have been
| giving the strongest moral and Tor part Of the
dn1s,n. l'me even material support crimes nnd and
all modern example, and so unutierably vile we'll
fierce IN chraccr that it passes the power OF heart to
conceive and of tongue and PEN adequately TO describe
them" Further, "the authors OF tue crimes are the
| promoted servants OF the Turkish government" Mr.
Gladstone next proceeds to sketch
WHAT THE TURKISH RACE WAS AND WHAT IT Is.
He reminds his readers that the Turks are the
mild MohaInmcdans OF India, nor the chvarous Salad
ins OF Syria, nor the cultured Moors OF spain. "rhcy
were upon the whole from the black day when they
! first entered Europe the one great anthuman spec
men OF humanity Wherever they went broad line
of blood marked the track behind them ana, far as
their dominion reached, civilization disappeared from
| view. They represented everywhere government
by by force, as opposed to eo'crnment by law.
lentless fatalism; for its reward hereafter
sensual Paradise" They were, indeed, tremendous
incarnation of military power, but they lacked the In
| teectual element Hence they we're obliged TO rely
Tho ability OF the subject Christian peoples for the
tons OF the were. in great part ntrustcd
to the bishops, and the higher work OF diplomacy and
states manshp fell to clever Greeks. Occasionally the
Turks themselves have produced real statesmen. hut
they have been "monsters, so TO speak, OF virtue or
intelligence Nay even the martial qualities OF the
race have amentably decayed Although II has bor-
rowed 200, 600 in twenty years and spent large
part OF that enormous sum on its army and navy.
1t has strain every nerve to defeat
Servi, whose population under 800, 600, whose
regular army estimated at from 1000 to 5000, and
whose other forces consist OF haii-drilled militia 1t
Is also lighting
FEw MoNrENEGRINs.
Upon these handfus Of our race an empire Of moro
than 80 900 900 discharges all its might; Tor this pur-
pose II applies all us own resources and the whole OF
the property OF its creditors and after TWO months OF
desperate activity, greatly pumcs itself upon having
ncompetcy succeeded against Servia and ess doubt
fully failed against Montenegro Shades of Baiaze,s
Amuraths and Mahmouds!' Turkey stood upon force,
and she has in tho main lost that force She has had
TO 60 TO a Prossian for the plan OF her campaign.
Power Is gone, and the virtues such as they are, of
power: nothing but It's passion and its pride remain"
rhe Crmean war gave Turkey twenty years of COM
parave peace.
THE BATTLE OF ALExINATz-- DEFEAT
AND RoUr OF THE sERvIANs.
belgrade Sept - correspondence Of London Times
The various divisions OF the Turkish Army
had already made vigorous concentrating movement,
consequent the reverse sustained by their right
wing when, with a dash they attacked and endeav-
ored to entirely break the Scrvian loft The threo
pachas-Abdul Kcrim Pacha. Eyoub Pnchs, and the
OF that am not sure-had managed to get the whole
OF their joint around the left bank of the
Morava TO effect this they had withdrawn every
man from the east and northeast of AexinatZ so
that he should have to bear the brunt OF
advance OF some 10000 or 10,O00 men, under
those commanders with perhaps the addition OF others
who were somewhere in the direction OF Gurresovaiz.
He had doubt that the plan OF tho Turks turn
his right wing II he succeeded in rcpcing such
then he thought Alexinatz was safc Tor he did
not believe the Turks would make another attempt
against II. If he did not why, then the situation
would be, indeed, grave. The general was then kind
enough to indicate what would be good position from
which Colonel Lloyd Lindsay and myself might see the
whole BATTLE certainly much Of 1t as could be
from any commanding position. 1t was pain
ul both Colonel Lloyd Lindsay and myself to observe
that the General seemed almost oppressed with tho
tas before him.
THE TURKISH ADVANCE.
The Turks madc creeping advance In a
nortbcastery direction the servian batteries, which
were Bella and tho moro northcrly Suotnaor there
two OF thcm-olcring very steady resistance by
a well sustained and regular nrc
If the reader will imagine himself sitting height
which only separated from tho undulaing plain and
tho villages have named by an Insignificant and wind
ing river he may, think, IRON little description,
obtain very good idea Of the position He is looking
to the east and has his immediate left but not
much on line with him that ne has TO his head
round TO look at IT, the town OF Acx,natz 4e will sec
the which being sent out from IL they |
cross the pontoon bridges the ittle river which
is other than the Mornva On the other side OF |
tho stream there is to his right the village of Preco
WITT Sitkowaz before him, and is Bella, only IL
rather toward his LETT hand. Just east OF tho |
villages the undulang ground with valleys behind
il and between 1t and the mountains which the
horizon beyond What call the unduating ground Is |
the OF little hills and hoows on which for the
most part the artillery fight is being waged. Just
about tho centre OF this line Of country sort OF
little independent hill, with gully or easy dcho at
each side OF H. Through those dcfcs the spectator
N lncp daSl
chain of small hills and the mountains beyond, and ho
perceives that this h,tle independent hill playing an
important part In the business OF the day, and Ia
likely to play n still rore important one before the
struggle is over
Because, to effect the bold object he has In view,
Abdul Kcrm Pacha must bring the whole OF his left
wing up through that valley. and the two dehes will
expose it to the OF the Servian batteries Hence
tho work being done by the artillery. The three
Turkish batteries on the left-that Is, advancing mp
from the souihwesi-are sufficient to silence the
two which the Servians nave III position TO the north
tempt has been going Tor two hours aud
hall The day beautifully clear tho AIR Is thin and
the only clouds TO be seen are those which rise from
the cannon's mouth at each Discharge UP to this one
could not say that there any advantage on either
side The Turks have the be OF IL IN the number Of
their guns. but The positions which the Servlans
HAVE TAKEN UP ARR DECIDEDLY BETTER
The anair's, however, becoming lnonotonous. when
the Turks the number OF their batteries from
three six and push nearly bait "a mule Their nro
begins to be tremendous. Not only their bat
terics but escu the guns OF each battery
erably apart but their fire is admirably concentrated
tho two Scrvan batteries now In action and the
range has by this time been asccrained so correctly
that the Seryian gunners are struck. Ten Of them
are wounded and carried of the field since the SIX
Turkish batteries have got into pay-nat rs, only half
hour Bot this day, when such nblcet cowardicc
was SHOWN by many OF the Servian infantry, It Is
but lust that the Scrvian artillery, who
regular troops behaved admirably Nothing could have
been SPIRITED than which the officers
and men stood by the guns.
sroRNfyG.
The Turkish enemy is stormingS Well
I cannot answer my own question. In my interroga-
ton have recorded TACT; the solution OF that fact
must leave others. But the events Of this very
eventiu day cnlm mnating. In Serv,a there Is
scarcely any twilight; bright daylight suddenly falls to
almost midnight darkness 1t was all but dark whcn
cut ana hoping that tho Turks might grant us
nirht Of peaceful rest IN Alcxnatz, We descended
from our hill, from which could longer see and
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