A TURKISH REVIEW OF ENGLISH HISTORY.

Kumara Times, Issue 1363, 12 February 1881, Page 2

A TURKISH REVIEW OF ENGLISH HISTORY.

The Turkish newspapers not un-, ■ naturally take a malicious pleasure in » rehearsing the evil deeds of other, nations.:, “Was there not a Goyernor Eyre bttce in Jamaica/’ asks one of these journals “ celebrated for his hang* / ings 1 and in Russian Poland was there *

not Mouravieff, sumamed the Hang* v man?” The “Osmanli,” nob contemporary criminals, has extended its researches to the Wars of the Boses and the Reformation. “ Historians say,” it tells its readers, “ that the atrocities committed in the wars of York andLancaster were worthy of the most , savage tribes in Africa; it can hardly ■ ? be believed that they took place in free .. England.” Crook-backed Richard is . not forgotten; but Mr Fronde -will be ; grieved to hear that his Tudor hero.l furnishes the “ Osmanli” with the most, forcible illustrations of the depravity '• of the English. It describes how the '■ love of a Ring for a damsel sufficed to , change the State religion ofGreat 1 Britain; it dwells,upon the evil fate of his many wives, and it sums up it's account of his reign as fotlow3:-—‘‘Thp number of the victims of Henry reached the enormous number 6f 72,006 souls. As for the wealth confiscated, that was incalculable. ■; Hbnry VIII. falsified the currency to,increase to the utmost the riches by which he was able to indulge his favorite vicOs.. At last he * repudiated his ~sebts and became bankrupt.” Thisdnteresbingjand arising compilation of . “ facts fcpmEnglish " history” is brought to -a close ing the saying of Walpoie4 member of. Rirßament; Thus are the sinS of invoked to condone the’ to-day. ’