The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-06-17 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

MOSLEM ATROCITIES IN TURKEY. A letter from Belgrade, published in the Dai4 Yews, says —'As: the English Government appeal' to be so favourably inclined towaicls the Turkish national system, I think it may not be amiss to send 3ou a few instances of the manner in which this aye. tern is administered so far as the Christians are eon. ; cerned. All the latter ask is to be left alone, and not I have their hands hampered by the ridiculous efforts of ' diplomatists to settle a question which cannot be disposed of in any other way than by the sword. It is with a hope of arousing some of the innate admiration which the British nation feels for bravery and endue. tome, as well as its well-known sympathy for the dietressed inhabitants of any despotic Government, that I have carefully collected the following partial list of i atrocities perpetrated by the Turks ouring the past six I seeks. These statistics are official. Ti, begin, then: —On the B.h of April in the village of Bukoritsa, the Turks murdered in cold blood George Gatuhch and Paul Aradsigitch, and threw their bodies into the river Bosna. April 23.—The Turks killed and out in pieces a merchant, named John Strakitcb, from Teshnia, near Doboya. April 25.—Fcor Catholic peasants were murdered near Dobla. April 27. Near the river Bonus, in Doboh they murdered Osman the ferry boatman, and Osman the Pants. Tovannovich, and Peter St riegich. April 28.—Nearly all the orthodox Christians in Travnik were plundered in tbedaytime, and badly maltreated by Redifs, before the eyes of the 6lutasariff, the Turkish Government oiled. In Old ; Servia six Turks caught a priest, and after be ;ting him severely, subjected him to such outrages that they rem, dered him a raving lunatic for life. Mukbtar Pacba, . the commander of the Turks in Herzegovina, lured a , Montenegrin, named Tories Eavaebevieh, into his camp, and then cut off his head and sent it to Constantinople to show that Montenegrins were in the battles where he was defeated. This was done to palliate his defeat by the insurgents. From Bosni s we have particulars of the horrible treatment of the inhabitants of Cernavoda. They were colleted together under pledges of safeguard, and were then bound and carried off towards Rluich. On the way they killed, after most shocking treatment, ltt men at each bridge passed over. This was done by the Nizam, or regular troops. The soldiers entered all the houses in this neighbourhood, and killed the proprietor?, mutilated the children in a horrible manner, and nishonuured the women. The merchant Tergitch, from Non, in Bosnia, who had fled to Austria, returned on the promise of those 'reforms' that we hear so much about, and was murdered in the field of Tidorie by three Turks—Vur Stepiloh, Garret Prisau, and Jno. Shobat; and an Austrian merchant, from Ragusa, while returning to Kostainiza, was also slaughtered in cold blood. Five Bashi-Bazouks went to the house of a peasant named Pavitch, from B dere, and demanded dinner. After it was consumed these fiends murdered Pavitch, his wife and children. Vass Doshenovitch, in the Maiden district, had his eyes put out, and was robbed of one thousand ducats. Women and children have arrived here In Belgrade with their hands cut off, and one Montenegrin reached here with. out his nose. But it is useless to go on with these records of barbarity. Multiplication is only disgusting In such matters, and I have mentioned quite enough to satisfy any sane person that it is not diplomacy, but cold steel and bullets that must be left to deal with theee Moslems. The Ottoman Government at Constantinople, even if it had the intention (which I much doubt) at heart to stop these butcheries, has no power to enforce its decrees. The military governors and pachas of the provinces pay no attention whatever to the orders from Constantinople, when they are in conflict with their own wishes. Therefore it is useless waste of time to exchange diplomatic notes with the Porte, when the actual result in the interior is entirely unaffected by the operation."  THE QUEEN ANT) PUBLIC ENTERTAINbiENTS.  At a meeting of the London Court of Common Connoil, a few days ago, a letter was read from the Home Secretary respecting the invitation given to the Queen to attend the banquet lately given to the Prince of Wales. Her Majesty declined the invitation on dm ground that she did not attend public entertainments.  A