The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-07-14 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

SLAVERY.  The special correspondent of the Tics, *irking from Pera on June 30th, refers to the assassination of the consuls at Salonica, and remarks :—The eleven wretches who suffered capital punishment at Salonica were common malefactors, and scarcely worth the rope with which they were hanged, and of the real instigators of the murders not one has been brought to trial, the Government not daring to rouse the fury which would be kindled among the Maholuedans should it be known that only one drop of precious Mussulman blood had been spilt to atone for the blood of thettwo Christian victims. In Bulgaria, on the con• trary, the wholesale execution of men supposed to have been implicated in the abortive insurrection is incessant. 'Twelve of these wretches were hanged at Tatar Bazardik on the '2oth. Two of them were priests. With respect to the heorors of which that once flourishing province has been and is still the theatre, beg to subjoin a letter, written by a man on whose thorough information, on whose impartiality, and even loyal attachment to the Ottoman Government I have every reason to rely. I think it is of the highest importance that the facts should be strictly inquired into and made manifest throughout all civilised countries:—  " As a general rule, the officers and soldiers of the Regular Army have behaved very well. The Government here has probably not ordered any general massacre of unarmed villagers, but it is directly responsible for these outragee, because it has known of them and , made no effort to stop them, because it has ordered I the disarming of the whole Bulgarian population, and then armed the Circasaians and Bashi-Bazouks and turned them loose upon these helpless towns. 'What has been done by these savages? 1. 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 the. "2. At least 25,000 unarmed and inoffensive people have been massacred in cold blood. According to thei Turkish papers of Constantinople, at least 40.000. "3. More than 1000 Bulgarian children have been taken and sold as slaves. They have been sold publicly in the streets of Adrianople and Philippopolis. 4. Horrible tortures of every description have been inflicted on thousands of those not murdered. "5. The outrages upon women have been more general and more brutal than in any case I ever read of. These outrages are more terrible, because Bulgarian women have blither ideas of virtue and chastity than those .7f any other nationality in the East. if I the women of England could know the facts, such a lcry of indignation would go up as would rouse al'. Europe to action. "6. At least 10,000 Bulgarians are now in prison and are undergoing tortures, many of them, such as have not been known in Europe since the Middle Aces, and which.were formerly declared to be abolished in Turkey by the Sultan Ab-drit Medjid. 7. Many thousand refugees are crowded in the larger towns, wheie they suffer all kinds of abuse from the Turkish population, and are starving to death bateau. the Bulgatia4e ace !tot allowed to help them"