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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 194, 4 December 1876, Page 2

" It's an ill wind that blows nobody good," and the horrors and atrocities committed by the Moslem miscreants in Bulgaria, have at least brought grist to the mill of one man—that man is the Hon. William Ewart Gladstone. It is asserted that no less than 400,000 copies of his pamphlet upon the Turkish outrages have been disposed off. As the work has been issued at the low charge of one shilling and sixpence, the lucky author's sympathetic sentiments will yield him £30,000 ; a nice little windfall. As pity without relief is—to use a homely simile—like ham without mustard, and as the literary work was but a very small labor to the right hon. gentleman, we wonder will he exhibit his sympathy in a tangible form, and devote the very handsome proceeds to. the alleviation of the miseries so graphically depicted. As the pamphlet has struck the key-note to popular favor, the ex-Premier is now more than ever the " People's William." The leading journals of the British metropolis would also appear to be sharing in the harvest, and the circulations of the Daily Telegraph and News are said to have reached 200,000 each day, on account of the sensational accounts of the murderous outrages with which their columns teem. Such is life, " One man's meat is another man's poison ;" and when the beam is tipped, the lower the one end descends, the higher rises the occupant of the other.