The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-12-01 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

ATIZOCITIFS IN BULGARIA.  The special cinuniissioner of the Daily News, writing from Philippopolis, declares that acts of violence of the most flagrant kind are still occurring all over the country. A number of such cases he cites, giving the ' names of this perpetrators of them, and the dates of ' their occurrence. His closing' argument is that threats end remonstrances are thrown away on thee Turk. In the course of the writer's warmth° occurs the following:— _ _  " Do you believe in God ?" I asked of a loan at Otluk-keul, whose house had been burnt, whose wife had been outraged and killed, whose children had been slaughtered, and whose little daughter was so brutally maltreated that she died afterwards in a condition too fearful ,lAtitk so witliout a .I.l,:der.  " Yes," he replied, with a wild louk, " but I believe be is the Devil."  This inun ,sI have since learned, committed suicide, and he was then evidently going mad. And this is the condition of the Bulgarians now at this moment. Anarchy, oppression, tyranny, brutality, barbarism on one side; wretchedness, misery, humiliation, terror, dishonour, despair on the other. And there are people —educated, enlightened, civilimd persons—who tell us that this must go on , that things must remain as they are; that everything is as it should be; people, it would seem, who are without heart, without feeling, and withont pity. Was there ever before such a spectacle given the world ? Heee is a people weak and feeble, in its infancy, without a history and without a naive—an orphan, a foundling among the nations, to whom it looks in vain for help and protection a slave, an outcast, a miserable, wretched child, with a noble longing for something better --that is tring to educate itself, trying to improve, trying to learn, trying in a weak and feeble way to be something better than the slave and savage it has hitherto been, but in the power of a brute by whom, in mere wantonness amid devilry, it is humiliated, outraged, beaten, lashed, until its shrieks reach the dull ears of a startled Europe. On one side is a nation of a kindred race and language—a nation that has itself only just emerged from a stete of serfdom and tyranny, a nation that is yet supposed to be in a condition of barbarism, but whose heart is !tweed by a noble and generous impulse to help a feeble, wretched brother, and moved, perhaps, all the more easily by the near remembrance of its own sufferings and its own tears. But on the other side is a nation mighty in its pride of strength, enlighteved, civilised, relined, and Christian, standing at the apex of civilisation, with a history glorious for its science, art, literature, and deeds of arms, but, above all, for Its liberty and its free instititutions ; a touatry whose proud and just boast is that it not only guarantees liberty to its own citizens, but that every human being who crosses the charmed circle of its frontiers is likewise free. And the leaders of this nation, rofersing that religion whom cardinal doctrine is love for humanity, and pity for its sufferings and its woes, come forward and say. No. This struggling people shall receive no help; they must remain in their present condition of degrading bondage: they must be robbed, beaten, nialtreated, their wives anti &lighters outraged, their homes desecrated at the will of the !brutal sevagee who rule them. This infant outcast natiou, this child slave whose eyes are turned with imploring 1,,0ks to the mailed giants of Europe, shall receive no suecour ; it ni,,st remain a slave to the runken savage its present master, because—because -