New-York tribune., 1877-08-07

are mere marauders laying hands on what theS
could find. On the comparative merits OF soldiers
of different nationalities Mr. Forbes saws:
will give the Russian soldier credit for being more
expgdons ana s~e%pny . not so gs' believe he pre-
fers 10 he termed When "fi there was IN tue Pare
abundance OF breai. meat, cOhee, sugar: Tobacco
ette paper and Writing paper uhoeclo'n,S ~, x, Srv oi
When came back there remained bnt ne uein.af ~ VI
these products Of nature and art The Russian on
feel deeply the dseredablc conduct OF norton or tr
soldiers. The blame is not with tue soldiers III i lnc
nature Of sOld'rt0 plunder when ne can sec o"a @
who could be trusted to restrain ts imnlse dIe
sorry to add saxon all ready to take avail of ne
fortune of war As FOR NE Brit,sh sotdl"r ne pas D, %
SGhtcst conscientious Scttes against rodbng c"W'
let atone shop"
That is the evidence of an expert, which lawyers,
at least, will know how to value. Mr. Forbes served
in the army before he served a correspondent,
and what he says about the British soldier may be
commended to the British journalist who lifts no
his hands in Pharisaica horror and thanks God he
is not as those Russians are.
Perhaps all things considered, it ls as well the
British soldier was not sent to Constantlnople the
other day. The march from Aldcrshot to windsor
aud the hardshIps he underwent while being re-
ceived by the Queen. were too much for hm. 100
much if il be true as stated that the casualties of
the day amounted to near 1000 out of the 1900
men engaged The corps might have gone through
centage. Heat and fatigue were the canse OF the
gaps i'm the ranks and there the usual eXplana-
tions that the men were over-marched and kept
needessly long under arms. Probably that Is true.
but there is no reason to suppose it would be less
true if the troops had been in actual service 1t Is
affirmed also, that the Queen had been expected TO
60 to Aldershot and review the troops there DIS
liking to expose herself TO the heat and dust she
ordered her little army to Windsor. 1t may appear
to the impartial outsider that the heat and dust were
not likely to be less for 1i,000 men marching from
Aldershot to Windsor, than for one elderly lady
driving from Windsor 10 AldershOt in her carriage.
But there can be no doubt that the army ought to
have been able to do what asked Of it, and If II
were not, the sooner the fact was ascertalned the
better 1t will not do for staf-oiiicers TO complain
of short notice." 1t might happen that q q Rus
slams would some day be so forgetful of good man
ners as to give them no notice at all
4 special correspondent of he Times with the
Turkish army i'm Asia Minor records his conversion
in the following explicit terms:
Naturally since | have been here have had many,
very mauy, opportunities OF conyefshS win AuIhisI
officer and men the so-cll.d Eastern Question, and
the consequence is thar, arriving in the countrv strong
Pnlorurk, deeply i'm rressed with the necessity oI pre-,
serving tine integrity Of the Empire n ORDER ID unod
British interests now fain would cry WI 4Ir tfee-
man, d" Perish India rather than one En-'i'h 9ol'eF
should fall fighting for Turkey
He r.peafed in emphatic words the too-famlliar
story of Turkish misrule extortion corruption and
incapacity so gross that the yoke bears almost as
heayilv on the Mussulmans themselves as on the
Christians He has been with a Turkish army in
the field witnessed the prvatons of the men from
"Criminaily faulty cOmmlssarat arrangements" ana
the sufcrings Of the wounded left to themselves;
seen for himself the oppression habitualy eXer-
cised on Christians by all Nlohammedans;" knows OF
the constant reports of our energetic Consul OF the
gross outraCes committed on Christian villages"
was himself also a spectator of the burning OF laz
Vairan on the 2Gth of June; aud has traverSed the
Armenian hamlcs all the hills silently testify
ing to the fact that oppression however much 1t
may be denied by Turkish officials, is openly prac-
ticed and connived at. The value Of Turkish tesl-
monv to Russian ourages is incidentally illustrated
by the remark, of the same writer in trying to de-
scribe battle: "Ihcre are few things more diif-
cult none more dishearteuing than the attempt to
extract Trustworthy information from Turkish
officials" little further, he tells Ms respecting the
battle Of Eshek-Knian that, though Mukhtar Pasha
claims a victory and the capture of two guns 1t was
almost a drawn fight, his loss enormous, and the
story of the two guns a fiction. G. 5.
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