MAIL NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 4257, 18 October 1876, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

(Par Arawata at the Bluff,)

Hail advices contain full particulars of dreadful atrocities in' Bulgaria, and scenes of. lust, rapine, and murder. At the village of Batak there were some awful outrages, and at other villages where there was a show of resistance three thousand inhabitants were massacred, mostly women and children. Churches and buildings were levelled to the ground, mothers were ravished in the presence of their daughters, and daughters in the presence of their mothers, sisters and brothers. The outrages at Cawnpore axe said to he far surpassed in The site for the Colonial Mnsenm baa been flnily fixed for the Thames Embankment. The buildings will cost L 250,000, and the contribution will be according to the amount of space required, India will have two-fifths of the space. The offices of the Agents-General of the Colonies will be within the building. Owing to a threatened attempt to release from Chatham prison some Fenian convicts and Bfflwell, ™® bank forger, a strong body of military is on duty night and day. One warder was offered LI,OOO o allow Bidwell to escape. Sir Stafford Northcote, in addressing a meeting at Edinburgh, denied that the Eastern policy of the Government had been hampered by the unworthy jealousy of Enssia or by fear of the Mahomedon subjects of India. He went <m to say that the Empire of India depended upon good Government, and that the Porte had sent a commission to Bulgaria armed with judicial power to inquire into the recent atrocities.

Newspaper correspondents generally consider the peace conditions imposed by Turkey on Serna inadmissible.