A remarkable letter in Wednesday's Tinzes, signed "A Con- stantinopolitan,"shows
how entirely erroneous was the strong state- ment in Mr. Baring's Report that it was to the absence of all regular troops in Bulgaria that the massacres must be ascribed, and that no sooner did the regulars come on the scene than the atrocities ceased. "A Constantinopolitan " shows from Sir Henry Elliot's own despatches, as well as from letters written from Bulgaria and published at the time, that there were no less than 3,000 regular troops massed in Philippopolis within three days of the outbreak of the disturbances ; that when, on the 9th May, Batak was destroyed, and when, on the 13th, Reschid Pasha with his troops destroyed the beautiful and wealthy village of Peroushtitza, the regular troops were already in great force in the province of Philippopolis, and were occupied in "heroically" scaling the intrenchments (three feet or four feet wide) of Otloukeuy, in discharging their guns upon large numbers of trem- bling men, in violating trembling women, and in destroying all the property they could find. Certainly the pleas offered by Mr. Baring in attenuation of the guilt of the Turkish Government in Bulgaria do not improve on a further acquaintance with them.
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