The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-07-14 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

SLAVERY. in the Roman Catholic echoolis during.the times fixed for secular teaching, had an interview with his Grace The special correspondent of the Times, writing the Duke of Richmond and Gordon to urge that from Pera on June 30th, refers to the assassination of Roman Catholic schools should be treated in the same the consuls at Salonica, and remarks i—The eleven way as Proteicant schools —Sir Thomas Chambers, in wretches who suffered capital punishment at Salonica introducing the deputation, pointed out that, mixed were common malefactors, and scarcely worth the rope with the wirier teachingin the Roman Catholic schools, with which they were hanged, and of the real insti- there was alsoreligiousteaohing, with the commendation gators of the murders not one has been brought to of the Roman Catholic eeremoniee,Dilgrimages, worship trial, the Government not daring to rouse the fury of relies. and the depreciation of kroteetant item They which would be kindled among the Mahoitiedana contended that as the Protestents were bound bylaw to should it be linown that only one drop of prrolins abstain from all religious t• •ehing during the secular Mussuluian blood had been spilt to atone for the blood hours, and also from attai,s upon other Churc, eye. of the two Christ an victims, lit Bulgaria, on the con• reins, the Roman Catholics ought to be guided by the trary, the wholesale execution of men supposed to have same rules as mitiired by the Education Act. Again, been implicated in the abortive insurrection is incest- the Protestants were prohibited from appointing miniscant. Twelve of these wretches we, hanged at Tatar tees • r clergymen as teachers; the Roman Catholic Bar.ardik on the 20th. Two of thent were priests. schools were taught by the various orders of the Roman With respect to the horrors of which that once Catholic Church in contempt of tins general rule. flourishing province has been and is still the theatre, I What they aeked was that the Roman Catholics should beg to subjoin a letter, written by a man on whose be required to abstain from the breach of the law, end thorough information, on whose itupartiality, and even yield the obedience which was rendered by all other lo)al attachment to the Ottoman Government I have denominations.—The Rev. Dr. Rule, late chaplain to every reason to rely. I think it is of the highest imthe army ; the Rev. Mr. Beaman, Independent minisportance that the facts should be strictly inquired ter: an'. Mr. Baxter also spoke; and the Roman into and made manifest throughout all civilised Catholic books were produced—His Grace, in reply, countries:— said that the books should be looked into, and their As a general rule, the officers and soldiers of the complaints should be carefully considered.---The depuRegular .Iriny have behaved very well. The Govern- tation then retired. ment here has probably not ordered any general Inassacra of unarmed villagers, but it is directly responsible for these outrages, because it has known of them and made no effort to stop them, because it has ordered the disarming of the whole Bulgarian population, and then armed the Cireassians and Bashi-liazouks and turned them loose upon these helpless towns. " What has been dour by these savages? I. More than 100 Bulgarian towns have been utterly destroyed, although no pretext of revolutionary movements existed in regard to more than five or six of these. At least 25,000 unarmed and inoffensive people have been massacred in cold blood. According to the Turkish papers of Constantinople, at least 40,000, " 3. More than 1000 Bulgarian children have been taken and sold as slaves. They have been sok] publicly in the streets of Adrianople and Philippopolis. "4. Horrible t.,rtures .1 every description have been Indicted on thousands of those not murdered. The outrages upon women have been more general and snore brutal than in any case I ever read of. These outrages are more terrible, because Bulgarian women have higher ideas of virtue and chastity than those 7:f any other nationality in the East. If the women of England could know the facts, such a cry of indignation would go up as would rouse all Europe to action. ~c). At least 10.01s0 Bulgarians are now In prison and are undergoing tortures, many of them, such as have not been known in Europe since the Middle Ages, and uhich were formerly declared to be abolished in Turkey by the Sultan Ab-dul Med jid. 7. Many thousard refugees are crowded in the larger towns, where they suffer all kinds of abuse from the Turkish population, and are starving to death because the• Bulgarians are not allowed to help them.