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Show Tho Terrible Alrocliles In Bul-Kurln. Bul-Kurln. London, S. There was an animated ani-mated debato in the house of commons com-mons last niflht on the Bulgarian atrocities. Tne Times Bays: Once more the massacres in Bulgaria have Occupied the attention of tho house of commnna. In a lew tl.iya the members will have separated; but for this wo might expect ft series of debates, de-bates, in comparison with which that of last night could bo considered gentle- and subdued iu tone1, fur thnre can be littio doubt that ue are on the verge of a revolution surpassing anything any-thing imaginablo. 11 civilized men could have rvive-d the barbarity of tho Tartar conqueror, the wild and senseless destruction of human life, which modern students ot history have been disposed to look ocas fabulous, fabu-lous, lind a parallel in tho deeds perpetrated v. ilhin the last tew weeks at a few days journey from our shores, in our own age. We mint turn to Aahanteo or Dahumey fur anything similar to the ghaslly spectacle presented by ihe Turkish provinces. Ac-cording to the testimony, ot which tnere can be no reasonable doubt, tho helpless inhabitants inhab-itants uf mo district, about Tartar Buzardje and tbiliipolls, men, women wo-men and children, have been slaughtered slaugh-tered by thousands and their towns and villages utterly destroyed. It seems likely that tnoae whom human incredulity has led to suppose that the accounts have been exaggerated, will have to abandon that supposition. supposi-tion. The testimony of eye witnesses and tho admissions of members of the Turkish embassy charged with tho investigation of lucso massacres, give reason to believe that there has been nothing less than a general mas-cacre" mas-cacre" oT the population, against which the Turkish government lets loose its bauds. Furthermore, there is tho (strongest evidence that these atrocities have not been tho work wholly or even principally of the Circassian Cir-cassian settlers, but of the Turkish irregular ir-regular troops, commanded by duly appointed officers, sent into the country coun-try expressly to strike terror into the population. What passed last night in the house of commons shows the astonishment aston-ishment aud horror these deeds have j aroused, George Anderson intro-1 duced the subject, aud one member! after another rose to express his in-1 dignation and lo protest against the attitude of iudiflV rence on the part of the British government, and still more against the tone of apology which bad been detected iu the ! utiicial communications. One under secretary for the foreign department assured the house that the premier was not disposed lo treat the subject with levity, but on the contrary would give it his anxiouB consideration. It was incumbent on him not to say a word wilbont the greatest circumspection, circum-spection, until he bad ascertained the exact truth, but if the atrocities turned out 10 be true, no man would more sternly vindicate humanity than The old plea of exagcerationwas put once more forward, and newspaper correspondents were taken to taBk as persons satisfied with a very small amount of evidence, and who took a great deal of their information at1 second hand. We may venture to suggest to the official speakers that the time is past when this style of apology will have any effect. Burke read a dispatch from Bering, one of the secretaries to the British legation at Constantinople, dated J uly 2 ir at the outset of thelinquiry, in which he estimates the number of victims to ' have visited the village. I hardry dare ?peak, eays Mr. Baring, but my present opinion, which I trust hereafter to b able to modify, is that about 12,000 Bulgarians have perished. We shall see shortly in what direction Baring's opinion will be modified, but fear that the killed are likely to surpass very much the number of 12,000. |