Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1876-09-02 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PANAGURISHTA. (Otlnk-kui) was attacked by a force of ',Tiller troops, together with Bahi Bazonks, on the 11Ih of May. Apparently DO message to surrender was sent. After a slight opposition on the part of the insurgents the town was taken. Many of the inhabitants fled, but about 3,000 were massacred, the most of them being women and children. Of these about 400 beloneed to the town of Panagueishta, and the otM rs to nine neighbouring villages, the inhabitants of which had taken refuge there. Four hundred buildings, including the bazaar and best houses, were burned. Both churches were completely destroyed, and almost levelled to the ground. Jr one an old man was violated on the altar, and afterwards hunted alive. Two of the echools were burned, the third—looking like a private house—escaped. From the numerous etatemente mate to me, hardly a w ?man in the town escaped violation and brutal treatment. The ruffians atticked children of eight and old women of eighty, sparing neither age nor cm Old men had their eyes t.rii out arbt their limbs cut if, and were then left to die, unkss some mere charitably die. posed man gave them tho final thrust. Pregnant womr 0 vere ripped open and the unborn babes oarrit,hl triumphantly on the points of bayonets and sabres, while little eldlilteu lire made to b-ar the dripping heads of their comrades. This scene of rapine, lust, and murder was continued for three t's, when the enrvivers n ere Mac to burr 911.1 b .dies ::6! the dead. Tlni perpetrators of these atrocities wore Cliicfty r, pita troops eammandcd by Haliz Pada. The Take cla m and the villagers admit the death of fourteen Mussnlmans, two of whom were women, who weie killed with arms in their hands during ti conflict with a party that refused to surrender to the insurpeats.  The Daily News of this morning says—The Archbishop of Canterbury has received from the Metropolitan of Servia a letttr signed by representatives of the Christian people ,d Bosnia and Herzegovina, addressed to the people of England. The letter, which is dated June 14, is in the French language. The following are extracts from this (locomen: "It would only disgust fon to be made acquainted with all the outrages which the Turks commit upon our persons. Yen would refuse to believe all the crimes of thole maw beide', but the Serb has had to bear the blunt of them for nearly 500 years. . . What would you do, you English, if sour families were attacked, if you had to keep guard night and day over wife and diught.re, lest the 'lurk, impelled by the savage instinct which characterises him, :would seize upon them fir the satiation of his vile passion? What if for a whim he forced you to fat the roastd flesh of your own child, the sole consolation which God has seen fit to leave you in this life of suffering and bitterms, To (at tile flesh of tine's ownchild To see it slowly roastiug over a fire Horror? . You cannot for sheer disgust believe the savageries, can you? For all that they go on tinily throughout the breadth of the Ottoman Empire. Ask your Consuls, they will not hide the truth from you. Such is the life ta which the Christians of Turkey are condemned." The Arch,dshop of Canterbury has acknowledged this decement iot a letter which be writes to the Metroplitae :—" I beg, in the name of my fellowcounlrynatn, to sesurJ your Excellency of our symp:itity with the sufferiugs of thcwe whose cause you r -gnsent, and to express my firm belief that the Gwernment and people of England Wit do their beet to Oiminish the-esuffelings, and to redress their wrongs in the way which moy seem most just and most feasible."