The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-10-06 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

CRUEL CONDUCT OF A TURKISH COM.  MISSION IN BULGARIA  The special correspondent of the Daily 3euts at Belgrade writes: "Trustworthy private information from Bulgaria states that Blagtue Bey and Youvantcho Effendi, the Turkish Commission sent ostensibly to reinvestigate the atrocities, are really procuring signatures front the Bulgarians to a document expressing their complete satisfaction with the paternal government of the Porte, and requesting that no innovations should be introduced into the government of Bulgaria. The information states that all who refuse to sign this document are maltreated and tormented in every way that the ingenuity of these Investigators can si g.gest."  The correspondent of the same journal at Constantinople elves further instances of Turkish officialism unerring its victims into making professions of gratitude and respect for the "Sublime Psrte." The same writer says:—" It was announced a fortnight ago that the Guvernment had vromised £30,000 for the sufferers in Bulgaria. I.p . ri.ent time It has not. given a farthing, nor is there a.. ..11 to believe that it ever will. Even in ordinary . - • stances such a promise would only be made for the object of deceit. Thus, in the Asia Minor famine, we were told that the Sultan hod given ~t5llOO. I have made careful inquiry, and learn that to this hour not one farthing of this iouch-boasted subscription ever found its way to the sufferers. If Buell were the case with the sufferers in Asia Minor, it is evident that those in Bulgaria, against whom the hatred of the Turk has just found vent in general massacre and animal outrages, are not likely to fare any better." Many proofs are given by this writer that the list of atrocities already published has not exhausted the charges of brutality against the Turks. Among others is this one :—" A copy of the following letter from Colonel Protitch, describing the treatment of the Se, vian villagers, was put into the hands of the Right Hon. Mr. Forster by M. Ristics, and was, I believe, communicated by that gentleman to S•r Henry Elliot. It is dated Alexinatz, the :30ih of July, and is addressed to the War Minister at Belgrade. It Is important as showing that the Bashi•Bazouks in Semis are charged not merely with burning the villages bat with murdering the inhabitants: 'Yesterday the Turks have commined acts of barbarism in full day worthy of the inirtl'a ages. To the list of villages already de. sed by the Turks twelve may be added w' .1 had been ocsupied by our troops. and which ' .te become the victims of the Mussulman brir o. The villages of Tz,ie. Pailli,ta, Benhintzi, Ir .a Is Haut and I rnava le Bas, Topainsit7.B Is Haut a.. Topavnitza le Bus, Milikovtzi, and the Monasttry of the holy Virgin, Belie-Pdie, Drajevtzi, and lastly Meigrai, exist no longer. All have been reduced to ashes. Part of the inhabitants have escaped by fight. the other part have been massacred. All this has been done by the Turkish regulars, assisted in their work by the Bashi-Bazouks. While on our left wii g the Bashi-Bazouks proceeded to massacre and to burn everything, under the protection of the Nizarns, other bodies of regular,: traversed the other villages, and, approaching our advanced posts, reassured the peasants, and urged them to go on peaceably with their wort Then they began firing the villages nearest to our line, and began massacring the population. Afterwards the same lot fell successively on the other villages, the inhabitants of which had been reassured on their pas. sage. At Tozene they were all put to death, spaltiag only two young girls whom they have taken into slavery." The correspondent concludes thus: "As lam posting my letter I have received information from But more than confirming what I have stated above abo.to the condition of the people. But beyond that my ite Formant states that the Government promises to supply timber have all been broken; that they have supplied absolutely none; that the harvest is not yet completely gathered in, and that the inhabitants are forbidden to thrash their corn till the tithe gatherer has been round. He must then be paid by the corn first thrashed. Government will not remit the tithes. The condition of the people is, in fact, getting worse ir stead of better."  THE EHRORSHIRE EXAMINER: Pruted by ( )vr EN & JEFFREY, at their Offices, Yoke. ,treet, Wolverhampton, and Published by them OA I{ ENUATES, Salop.