CIVILISATION IN ENGLAND AND IN TURKEY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 789, 1 June 1877, Page 2

CIVILISATION IN ENGLAND AND IN TURKEY.

Whether it ho true or not that the Turkish Ambassador has hern instructed by h : s Government to make a collection of Britrih atrocities as a foil to those committed in Bulgaria, we must with shama confess that there is no lack of material available for His Excellency’s purpose. Take, for example, tho case of a man in Clerkcnwell, who came home drunk lately, and, after striking his wife, took up the coffin con'aining tho body of his child and threw it at her, tho corpse falling on the floor and the woman on tho lop of it. Her cries for help resulted in a still more violent assault, and the end was that ho was sentenced to four months’ hard labor. What, wo should like to know, will the Turks, with their Oriental reverence for tho dead, think of this Clerkcnwell savage, who, at tho very time when ho and his wife ought to he drawn towards each other by their mutual sorrow, uses the dead body of his little one as a missile with which to attack its mother ? The impression of callous brutality which the story conveys is truly horrifying. Savages, so-callcrl, it would certainly seem, never rcacli such depths of degradation as are attained under the baleful influences of existence in our cities,—Graphic,