Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01

Tne SeneaiORy 81 the EX-Euglish
Premier rs Given nv a Furkinh
EdtIOr-A Most Curious Article.
The correspondent of the Lon
don Times, writing from Pera,
says:
Mr.. Gladstone's letter in the
Times calling on the "Turkish or
gan" to produce proof of his
alleged completely in the treason
able designs of the Geshoffs reached
me last week, and | lost no time in
having his letter translated and
forwarded to the editor of the
organ.
The editor has not yet been able
to produce the promised substantial
tion Of his charge-at least l have
not seen or heard any more of it.
But he has sent me instead a Turk
ish paper containing a biography
of Mr.. Gladstone, which contains
so many curious, and, to me at
least, new facts, that have had it
translated, and will give the trans
lation, as nearly as l can, in full,
only emitting here and there an
expression too strong for English
taste. The biography is taken from
the Zaman, of the Sd of September
(Old Style), the organ of the Salo-
MICA government. What knowledge
it may possess of Turkish affairs l
have no means Of Judging, but the
subioined article will give a pretty
good notion of the value of its in
formation as to what goes on out
side Turkey:
Gladstone, the disturber, who
is in England the declared enemy
Of Ottomans, and, still more, Of
the religion OF Islam, who, for many
years has been heaping up all sorts
Of false charges against Islamism
and the Mussulmans; who, while
we are fighting the Russians, the
Moldayians, Wallachians, Monte
negrins, Bulgarians and Herzego.
yinians, one coming on after the
other, seeks publicity to raise against
us Servla and Greece, has, among
other motives for his conduct, one
which naturally drags him into the
grayest crimes and the most abject
turpitude. This motive is that
Gladstone, though honored and
generally known in the world, even
among the English, as an English
man, is in reality a Bulgarian, who
usurped the name of an English
man in order to become a somebody.
According to the biographical no.
tees which have reached us con-
cerning him, Gladstone was born
in 1896, the offspring of the head
long passion the original here defes
literal translation) of a Bulgarian
named Demitri, the servant of a pig
merchant named Nestori, living
in the village OF Tcbavra, in the
canton Of Kustendil. Up to the
age of sixteen years he assisted his
father in the business Of pig-keep-
ing, but then, impelled by his per-
verse nature, he BETRAYED there
again | have to leave the original)
the pig merchants daughter, who
was between fourteen and fifteen
years old, and being, in conse.
quence, unable to remain in the vii
lage, he fed to Servia and entered
the service of a mayor or Servian
pig merchant. Subsequently going
to London in the company Of the
pigs which his master sent there
for sale, he anchored there, and,
succeeding in earning his bread, we
do not know how, he wanted to
pass himeelf off for an Englishnan,
and for this purpose he changed
his Bulgarian name of Grozadin to
Gladstone; and, pushed by fortune,
was able to acquire great influence
and Importance in England until
he attained the position of prime
minister. Gladstone is SO destitute
Of virtue and humanity that he
worshlps gold more than the Mes
siah, and for gold is capable of SLAM
dering the Holy Virgin. The OF
toman goyernmentonce offered him
a salary of 100000 if he would
come and reorganize its financial
system, but on its subsequently re-
ipptinp his services the Inst of the