Widnes Examiner. — 1895-08-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

GREAT MASSACRES. The following which has been taken from Ilaydns' "Dictionary of Dates," are among the most remarkable massacres since the time of Christ At the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70, 1,100,000 Jews are said to have been put to the sword. Cassius, a Roman General under the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, put to death in the year 165, 300,009 of the inhabitants of Seleucia. At Alexandria in 215, many thonsanda of citizens were massacred by order of Antoninus. The Emperor Probus is said to have put to death 400,000 of the barbarian invaders of Gaul in 277. At Thessalonica in 390, 7,000 persons invited into the circus were put to the sword, by the order of Theodosius. A massacre of the Danes took place in the southern counties of Eogland, in the night of Nov. 13, 1002, by order of Ethelred 11. At London it was most bloody,the church being no sanctury. In the massacre af the Albigenses and Waldenses in 1208, commenced at Toulouse, thousands perished by the sword and gibbet. , tt Sicilian Vespers" is the term given to the massacre of the French which commenced on March 30, 1282, at Palermo. The conspirators assembled on Easter Monday, and while the French (who had conquered Sicily in 1266) were engaged in festivities, a Sicilian bride passed by with her train. One Drochet, a Frenchman, used her rudely, under pretence of searching for arms. A young Sicilian stabbed him with his own sword ; and a tumult ensued instantly. The populace ran through the city, crying out" Let the French die," and, without distinction of rank, age, or sex, slaughtered all of that nation they could find to the number of about 8,000. Even the churches proved no sanctuary. The massacre of St. Bartholomew commenced at Paris on the night of the festival, August 24, 1572. According to Sully, 78,000 Hugenots, or French Protestants, including women and children,w ere murdered throughout , the kingdom by secret orders from Charles IX. at the in- , stigation of his mother, the queen dowager, Catherine de Medici,. In 1592, 65,000 Christians in Croatia were slain by the Turks. In O'Neill's rebellion in Ireland a massacre of the Pro- ' teetants broke out in October 23,1641. Before the rebel- • lion was entirely suppressed the number slain was, according to Sir W. Temple, 154,000. In the massacre of Glencoe about 60 men of the clan Macdonald were slain for not surrendering before January 1, 1692. Sir John Dalrymple, afterwards Earl of Stair, their enemy, obtained a decree, "to extirpate that set of thieves," which the king is said to have signed withom perusing. Every man under 70 was slain. This mandate was treacherously executed by 120 soldiers of a Campbell regiment, hospitably received by the Highlanders, February 13, 1692. Many women and children, turned out naked in a freezing night, perished. At Batavia 12,000 Chinese were massacred by the natives, October, 1740, under the pretext of an intended Insurrection. After a long siege by the Russians, who lost 20,000 men before the place, the town of Ismail was taken by storm, December 22, 1790; when Suwarrow, the most merciless warrior of modern times, put the brave Turkish garrison (30.000 men) to the sword,and delivered oir the town to pillage, and ordered the massacre of 6,000 women. In the French Revolution a dreadful massacre took place in Paris, September 2-5, 1792. Tire prisons were broken open, and the prisoners butchered, among them an ex-bishop, and nearly 100 non-juring priests. Some accounts state the number of persons slain at 1,200, others at 4,000. In 1798, the insurgent Irish burnt, shot, or pierced to death by pikes, 184 men, women, and children, chiefly Protestants, at the barn of Scullabogue, Ireland. On March 1, 1811, the Mameluses were decoyed into the power of the Turkish Pach,s, Mehemet Ali, and slain at Cairo. On April 11, 1822, a dreadful massacre took place in the island of Chios (now Scio). When it was taken by the Turks during the Greek Insurrection they slew 40,000 of its inhabitants. On June 18, 1845, above 500 Kabyles, at war with the French, were suffocated in a cave, a fire having been ' kindled by order of General Pelissier, afterwards Duke of Malakoff. An insurrection, promoted by foreign agitators, broke out in Bulgaria in May,`lB76. It was quickly suppressed villages were bunnt by the BashiBbyaztorookosp,s' S onie and ether 65 Turkish troops, and about 15,000 persons were killed. A