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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3000, 26 September 1878, Page 2

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(PEOI{ THE TIMES, 9.)

, Continent^; ■-\ < '\ Constantinople, July 25 t 4-Yesterday-the British Embassy received official reports of continued .wanton destruction of Mussulman life and property in ihe: Phillippopolis district by Bulgaro-Rus-, sians. The reports are so well substantiated and so minutely detailed, that no room is left for doubt as to their accuracy. The horrors committed are so atrocious and revolting that their publication must create the conviction that unless a remedy is fqund against the recurrence of such savagery the new condition of the country under so-called Christian rule will be deplorably worse than even under Moslem domination at its worst. This state' of things calls for the indignant protest of all Powers laying claim to any feelings of humanity or civilisation"." ■ Buchahest, July 25.—Several battalions of Eussian Infrantry, with artillery, marched through the suburbs of Bucharest to-day en route for home.

It is stated here'that Bessarabia will be formally surrendered to Russia during the month of August. A number" of Russian administrators have already arrived in that Province. ■ A Turkish merchant of good standing in Kustehuk was here yesterday on business. He stated that his countrymen had found in their Koran a prophecy that h the year 1296 a Great Power would

come to the assistance of Turkey and she would then throw off her encumbrances. He declared that the Turks would never live under tbe Bulgarians.' He spoke in a friendly way of the Russians, and said his countrymen were well treated in Rustchuk, where the Russians prevented the Bulgarians from oppressing them; but .that when the foreign restraint was removed, a decisive issue would hare to be tried between Turks and Bulgarians^ and if the latter proved the stronger, then the Moslems wpu|d quit the country. The existence of a belief in such a prophecy as that above quoted, coupled with the feeling between Turks and Bulgarians and the social eon. dition of the two rival races, affords com* bustible material much too dangerous to be dealt with by paper agreements. Unless there are foreign troops, or at least foreign officers to command natives in all Bulgaria and Roumelia for years to come, there will certainly be anarchy, bloodshed, and ruin worse than Europe has ever seen in those provinces. Tbe merchant also stated that the Mussulmans cared nothing for the loss of the Dobrudscha, as the population is mongrel and contains very few real Osmanli. . Lieutenant Greene, the American Military Attache* at the Bussian head-quartern, has received the Order of St. Vladumir for. the G'ourko passage of the Balkans^ Beklin, July 23.—An exhibition of the written addresses presented to the German Emperor after the recent attempts on his life has been opened at 'the Old Palace at Berlin. Besides thousands of telegrams, there are more than 200 addresses, the number of signatures to each address varying between 10 and 10,OOOi Many of the addresses, ate perfect works of art, caligraphically executed and adorned with pen and ink drawings, water-colour paintings, and photographs. Most of the bindings are in bine velvet, the favourite 'colour «4>) the Emperor, with gold or silver claspt, and alto-relievos in the same nptau. To the addresses of all 1 the principal political, municipal, and learned .corporations in Germany are added those' from the German residents in Vienna, Festh, Dublin, Brussels, Antwerp, Bevel,,'Motcow, St. Petersburg, Switzerland, *c* Nearly all the addresses are in German, but there are several in Latin, Italian, Hebrew, and other languages. Tip contents of these loyal addresses ipeak for themselves; at to the getting up^ it has probably never been turpatted tor tatte, costliness, and art.' ■''•>. ' , i ,; r; >

July 24.—Mr Bret Harte has arrived at Crefeld, Rhineland, where he will reside as American Consult ' Switzebland, Gbnbva, July 21.—1n December last the Government of Geneva issued an order prohibiting Catholic priests of foreign bir f h from preaching or performing ecclesiastical functions in the canton without official license. 'Leave to continue their ministrations having been refused to several priests who had ministered many years, an 1 appeal was made to the Federal Council, who hare just re»dered judgment declaring the'action of the Genevtfse authorities to be in contra? ventionof that article of the Federal Constitution guaranteeing liberty of worship. They accordingly direct the order in* question to be annulled. July 24—The Petit Lyonnais, which, together with Henri Boohefort, discovered the soi-disant Vera Zasulitsch and feted her here a fortnight ago, now states that she is an impostor and that the real Vera has been transported to Siberia. Bomb, July 24—The Unita Cattolioa states it is absolutely false that the Pope's health has suffered on account of the great heat ;• that no one in the Vatican has discussed the question of any other summer sojourn for him; but that if a change of air becomes necessary, he must go! beyond Italy, because the Vatican is the only territory within its limits where his sovereignty is not disputed. ,