ATROCITIES BY CIRCASSIANS AND KURDS.

Large bands of Circassian and Kurdish deserters are prowling about the neighbourhood of this town, plundering and murdering to the fullest extent they are able. They are all armed with Governmsnt repeating rifles, and, as there arc no troops here, it has been found impossible to check them. Last night, a village within three miles of this was attacked, three men (Mahomedans) murdered, and 120 head of cattle driven away. It speaks well for the English name for the Turks, knowledge of English justice, and still more for the reputation in which our Consul here is held by Mussulman and Christain alike, that the villagers should in the first instance have come to M. Zohrab to beg him to submit their case to the Pasha of Erzeroum. lam enabled to state this as a fact, as M. Zohrab was in my rooms when the men came to him with their piteous tales. I have the more pleasure in making this incident public as I am aware that there is a very large party, many of my fellow-country-men too, who, having partaken of our Consul's liberal hospitality, do not hesitate

openly to bring accusations against v which they must know to be f a w *m Zolirab has not hesitated openly t nounce the system of oppression that in Armenia - He has not hesitated J 3 denounce the corrupt character nf majority of the Turkish Pashas »J? shew them m their true light to our to- • ters at Constantinople. The feelino n^' being of an eminently Turkophile pfi?~. j.ete M. ZohraVs reports have been S&?& received, and doubts have been throw* their accuracy. Ask any of the America^ °n sionaries in Armenia if theßritish ConsnU not rather underratedthan overratedthh barities that are openly comTiitted. Asktt? 11" to whom they turn in danger or * difficult 6111 ask them to whom they submit all casw, 1 oppression practised on the Protestant ask them who is accessible at all hou ' the day to Mahoraedau and Anw -°* English, American, Austrian, or Germ 11 ' alike, and they will at once answer■ \? Zohrab. To whom do the German dorf!" turn for protection when vnable to oht • 8 their just pay from the Turkish Gnva ment? To M. Zohrab. He is s ™Jlt and treasurer to the Stafford-house Co mittee here. He is the interpreter to Lorn Blantyre's doctors, and the instrument through which they obtain permission Z preform operations. He is postal agent house agent, and forwarding agent to tV majority of Englishmen here ; and there i! not one among us who on arrival did not meet from him a warm English \relcome and a comfortable meal, and for whom h? did not immediately find iouseroom T have travelled with him through the dig. trict, and can bear testimony to the -way in which the lower classes, the agricult'irjuists turn to him as a guide and a friend, and welcome him in their villages. Thoroughly acquainted with their language, -with theu manners and customs, he is at home among them, ever ready and willing to hear their smallest trouble, and never forgetting a promise. Because he openly denounces Turkish rulers and the Turkish Government, because he openly states his con" viction, founded on a tweaty-three years"' acquaintance with this country, that it-will be the happiest tiling possible for Mahomedan and Christian alike, when Armenia passes out cf the hands of the Porte; hecause he boldly repiidiates the inendacions statements of Eussian atrocities in Asia Minor, and because he has not hesitated to blame the Kurds, and their bigoted, fanatical chief, Ismail Pasha, as being the perpetrators of every oittrage committed in the Van and Alishgerd district, he is dubbed a Russian agent, and treated with discourtesy and disrespect by those from whom he is entitled to nothing but gratitude and thanks.