A TURKISH GENEALOGY OF MR. GLADSTONE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 12, 14 January 1878, Page 4

A TURKISH GENEALOGY OF MR. GLADSTONE.

A good deal of amusement wbb caused in (England by the. publication in the London Times of a biography of the,Rigbt;Hon. W. E. Gladstone, as it appeared in the Zaman, the organ of the Salouica Government. It is very significant of the love Turks bear to the denouncer of the Bulgarian atrocities, and Jikewise the. amount of reliance that can be placed oa the Turkish press in matters where their prejudices are concerned. " Gladstone; the" disjßrl>er, who is in England the declared- enemy of Ottomaus and, still more, of the religion of. lslam | who for many, years has been heaping up all sorts of false charges against lelamism and the Mussulmans ; who, while we are fighting the Russians, .. the Moldavaina, WallacbUns, Montenegrins, Bulgarians, and Herzegpvinians, one coming on after the other, seeks publicly to raise against us Servia and Greece, has among other motives for bis ■ conduct one which naturally drays him into the gravest crimes and. the most abject turpitude. This motive la that Gladstone though honored and: generally known in the world, even among the English, as an E'lHlishmau, is in reality a Bulgarian who usurped the name of an Englishman in order to become somebody. According to the biographical notices which have reached us conoßrning him, Gladstone was born -in 1796, the off- ' Bpriog of the- headlong passion (the origioal here defies literal translation) of a Bulgarian named Demitvi, the servant of a pig merchant named Neatori, living in the village of Tchavra, in the canton of Kustendi . Up to the age of 16 years he aseieteed his father in the business of pig keeping, but then, impelled by his perverse nature, he be trays d (here again I have io leave the original) the pig-mer-chant's daughter, who was between 14 and 12 years old, and being in conee-quence-unable to remain in.the villago, he fled to Servia and entered the service of a " mayor," or Servian pigmerchant. Subsequently, going to London. in the company of the pigs which his master sent there for sale, he anchored there, and having succeeded in earning his bread— we do not know how — he wanted to paes himself off for an Englishman, and for this purpose he changed his Bulgarian name of Grozadin to Gladstone; and, pushed by fortune, was able to acquire great influence and importance in England until he attained the position of Prime Minister. Gladstone is so destitute of virtue and humanity that he -worships gold more than the Messiah, aud for gold is capable of slandering the Holy Virgin. The Ottoman Government once offered him a .salary of £50,000 if he would come and re-organise its financial system, but on its subsequently rejecting his services, the lust of the gold, which had not gone into his purse, joined to the instincts of the Bulgarian, has made him perpetrate all the infamies which one knows, and which he still continues io perpetrate against the Mussulman religion and Government. HisgluttODy for gold makes Gladstone look yellow. According to those who know him, he is of middling height, with a yellow face, wearing closely-cut whiskers in the European style, and, as a sign of bis Satanic apirif, his forehead and upper forehead are bare; his evil temper has made hia hair fall off, bo that from a distance be might be taken for quite bald. He has a long nose, a long lace, and a very ugly mouth, as the words he otters indicate, and when he shuts his mouth two front teeth are seen protruding beyond the lower lip a ' decimetre ' (sic). In one word, he has a Btrange physiognomy." It should be mentioned that a vendor of pifje (the most unclean of animals in a Mahommedan'B view) is tha most despicable of all creatures.