THE BULGARIAN ATROCITIES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 228, 15 January 1877, Page 2

THE BULGARIAN ATROCITIES.

The following letter from deputed representatives of the inhabitants of the district of Philippopolis, whose names, at the request of the writers are suppressed, for fear their publication might involve them in trouble and danger, was received by the editor of the Daily News: —" Sir, We, the undersigned, Bulgarian inhabitants of the district of Philippopolis, witnesses and victims of the atrocities which recently desolated it, beg to tender you our most heartfelt thanks for your noble exertions on our behalf, JSTo people had ever attained the depth of misery into which we have been recently" hurled ; by revealing it to the civilised world, you have rendered to humanity a service the magnitude of which no one who has not been an eye-witness of our sufferings can possibly conceive. The disclosures of your correspondents, Messrs. and MacGahan, confirmed as illbeen by the official Schuyler and Baring, have saved innocent life, have averted many an impending dishonor, have wiped away many a mother's and wife's tears. To each and all of these courageous lovers of truth we are deeply indebted. The sympathies which their reports have excited among the people of England form the grandest chapter of our history. We shall never forget the way in which the noble country of Wilbeforce, and Byron, hasbefriended us in this the direst moment of our national existence. Be good enough, sir, to become the in. terpreter of our feelings of unutterable gratitude towards your fellow-country-men, and to-convey to them our hope that their mighty voices will continue to be raised in favor of such administrative measures for Bulgaria as shall insure to her a future of unchecked development and untrammelled self-improvement. Philippopolis, 6th October." An address of a similar kind and of as highlycomplimentary a character, was presented to Mr. J. A. M'Gahan, whose name was said to have become a household word in the remotest part of Bulgaria.