TURKEY.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 288, 24 July 1860, Page 4

TURKEY.

V ,The foilowirißietterl)as rb.een. received ifrbnoL [, ;'f i yii^Tuj'ki^v.Oqvetn;men • jaj'^e passes of .troops on jtjhe rj>n|ier 3 o| JScyV» Ol ITEese r troops form eleven brigades, and:they, extend .along the Servian from we,

Eiver Sava to Bulgaria. A double chain of ad* vanced posts encircles the botjiadaries. ' The principal force is concentrated at Vichegrad, where the general staff and the artillery are stationed, and are guarded by some' thousands of Bashi-Bazouks, who are the terror of the, Christiana, on .whom ..their chief, Zaira Sultanowitcb, inflicts the most horrible tortures. The number of these troops, inoluding those who occupy the Her'zegoyine, exceeds 40,000. Thirty-six pieces of cannon have been placed in battery on the banks of the Drina, and the cavalry is cantoned round the Pashdiik of Zworinslri, whore Aris Pasha, well-knowo at Smyrna as the implacable enemy of the Christians, commands with the rank of Kaimakan. He fully maintains that reputation in this country. The chief command of the' entire - army is confided to Refrvioh Pasha, who possesses the entir i e,<sQnficfe.uce of the fanatical Beys and A gas. IHe inspected the Novi-Bazar,, Vichegrad, and the entire line of the Drina, and he then demanded reinforcements from Albania, and the ' Herzegovine. i There is an army of reserve ia these pro- | vinces and in Ptoumelia of 36,000 troops of the Nizam, beside numerous Bashi-Bazouk3 These hordes of barbarians Lave not received any pay for the last three months,., and they live by | plundering the Christian population. ' The Mahometans proclaim loudly that this considerable display of troops is directed against the free Servians, which fact is confirmed by- | the positions taken by the troops. At all events, • i the Porte is playing a< dangerous game, for the I eyes of the peasants are turned towards the Servians, from whom they expect their deliverance. The conduct of the Mahometans, who thus violate all international law in the ,raost gross and barbarous manner, has created a most profound impression among the Servians. Raoud Bey arrests the Servian merchants at Berber as agents of Prince Milosch. A great number of Servian peasants, from Lenitxa, who arrived here t© purchase timber, have been arrested and fettered; and, when their landlord came to demand the cause of this brutal treatment, he was served in the same manner. The Turks murdered a Christian, named Iva Miketich, at 'Touzla, and when his fellow-Christians complained to the Kaimakan, who was perfectly well acquainted with the assassins, ho gave an evasive answer, knowing perfectly well that we dared not name them, or we should ourselves be murdered. Another complaint made after the murder of a Christian named'Boza-Trinetch, killed by a Turlr, produced a similar result. A Turk cut the throat of a Christian in the village of Machete)), be* cause he saw a gold coin in his possession ;' and two Turks murdered a young female at Palanka, after having ill-used her. Two Pandours took a child and used it as a target, to shoot at. This revolting conduot is sure to produce reprisals on the part of the Christians. You see that, notwitstanding the humane disposition of the Sultan, notwithstanding all the houmayonns, tanzimats, and batti-scheriffs, the position of the Christians is not improved. On the contrary, the yoke is becoming more impressive and intolerable. Several Beys and Agas plunder them as they did at the most despotic period of Mahomedanisra. The Turks themselves ridicule all the proclama'ious published by the Sultan with respect to the Christians-—they call them papers steeped in honey. We constantly ask ourselves how Christian Europe, how civilized Powers, can suffer such abominable scandal. Two Austrian merohants were ill-treated, in the town of Toulza, by the soldiers. The Austriafi consUl demanded satisfaction,' and, not being able to obtain any, he struck; his. flag. It is thus that the. Turks conduct .themselves ■even-,towards Austria, who, [though ;usick herself* has used, every effort t6 defend -her neighbor, who is falling into decay. , : .:. i , ; In a word, we are now Suffering more iniquity ' than - ever we did ; nevertheless, we. have a. firm hope' of ; being efficaciously., assisted by ; , a { greajt Power .which : never, refused us its protection, "and we trust that we have seen yearly the, last of our persecutipns--we ; ,shall experience the joy of seeing Islamiisnitrampleci uuder foot," and the firoas of our1 Saviour triumphant. '*,'.' ; ''•■

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