The Times' correspondent at Constantinople forwarded OD Wednesday a story
illustrating the present administration of Bulgaria. On Christmas Day a Turkish gendarme, enraged with the Christian Mayor of the village of Brankortsi, after a severe beating, saddled and bridled him, and compelled the poor wretch to carry him up and down the street, finally driving him to the village inn, where he threw the reins to the ostler, ordering him to walk his horse up and down. The landlord remon-. strated, whereupon the ruffian knocked him down, and ordered his victim to be fed with hay, which was actually done, the mayor pretending to swallow it, and being finally tethered up outside the door. He was at last released, on the intercession of an Albanian, but there is no redress, all Turks considering the outrage an excellent joke. That is the kind of treatment which goes on in many villages, yet the Ministry question the Christians' right of insurrection.
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