The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-09-23

The CHANGE of attitude of England in respect
to the Turco-Servian war, is well calculated to
awaken surprise, but when the reasons are
known her action rebounds to her honor. Eng
laud is behind the Turks, and Russia behind the
Servians and as the question now stands, says
the n. Y. Herald, 50 it is an admission to the
world that England is too strong for Russia and
that she is resolved to hold the Levant as the
pathway to her Indian Empire But we learn
from our latest kilograms that the British Am
bassador at Constantinople has informed the Gov
eminent of the Sublime Porte that Her Britannia
Majesty withdraws her support of Turkey and
why On account of the Bulgarian atrocities,
committed by the Turks who slaughtered fifteen
thousand non-resisting villagers, chiefly women
and little children. What a frightful story is
told of this by the correspondent Of the Daily
NeIes. On approaching the ruins of the town Of
Batock he saw a host of dogs who fed at his APP
proach on horse back. And then he proceeds to
describe what he and his companions observed
from their saddles
On every side were skulls and skeletons. L
counted a hundred in one spot. picked and licked
clean, all of women and children. There were
skeletons of girls with long brown hair hanging to
their skulls. Near a church the ground was liter
ally covered with skeletons, skulls, and putrefyiug
bodies IN clothing, and between the clurcl ana
the school, there were heaps. out of which hands,
legs, arms and heads protTuded in CHASTITY cOnfu-
sion! l saw many little hands. heads and feet of
children Of about three years of age, and the little
girls were recognized by heads covered with beau
tiful hair. But inside this Christian church it was
still worse. The floor was literally covered with
rottiug bodies. l never imagined anything so fear
ful. There were at least three thousand bodies in
and around the church. We were obliged to hold
tobacco to our noses. In the school house two
hundred women and children had been burnt alive.
Of q mn inho Infants nnlU 1000 remained Mt the time
of this visit,--and their sorrowful wailing could be
heard far and wide. And one woman sat by the
wayside mourning and wailing over three little
skulls with fine hair ciinging TO them, which she
held in her lap!"
No wonder that after such q story as this,
Christian England can no longer stomach the
Turk. The wonder is that Englishmen and all
other Christian Europeans, do not rise up in a
crusade against the Mohametan monsters. But
the day must come and cannot be far off, when
the Turks, or rather Islamism, must be driven
out of Europe.
But although England changes her attitude in
respect to the atrocious Turks or Bashi Bazouks,
she does not change her purpose of holding In
dia, and the ways to India against all corners.
| She has asserted this purpose most Enthusiastically
| to all the world, by her Queen assuming the title
of Empress of India. In advising this, England's
great statesman Disraeli had no desire or pur-
pose to crafty a taste for empty honor or parade
but BY the claiming of a title which has been
most maryellously won, he makes q declaration
to all Powers interested, and to Russia in partie-
| ular, that the purse and the valor of Britannia is
| pledged as wholly for the maintenance of her
Asiatie Empire, as it is for the protection Of her
own fast anchored isle.