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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 3, 17 October 1890, Page 3

England owns Chili. This is the statement made by a French missionary now in the United States. He said with regard to the danger of an outbreak in that Republic that the Chilians are satisfied with their present Government, but they are not satisfied with the enormous revenues which they are compelled to pour each year into British coffers. The English not only own all the railrwads and the mercantile navy, but they also own the gold and saltpetre mines, the guano beds, have mortgages on most of the big landed estates in the country, and the burden is well nigh unbearable. If there should be any revolution in Chili it will be against the yoke of Great Britain. If the investment of English money can produce so much domestic trouble in South America, what will hinder the same cause from producing a certain amount of trouble in the United States.— Catholic Review. London August 2-— A special correspondent of the Daily News haß succeeded in obtaining admission to the Turkish prison at Uskub, Macedonia, a town of Furopean Turkey. It is a hundred miles by rail North-west of Salonica, and contains about 20,000 inhabitants. He found that the building contained 14'J cells, which were occupied by 1,811 prisoners, or over twelve to a cell. As a rule, the unfortunate victims are sent there to be confined from one to ten years each, but so great are their sufferings arising from the barbarity of their keepers, and the total disregard by the latter of all sanitary laws, that they rarely outlive five. In one cell, two and one-balf yards square, the correspondent discovered nearly a score of poor wretches panting for air and starving for food, having, in the way of the latter, nothing but bread and water. The greater number were stark naked and chained by the ankle and wrist. As if the gaolers were unable to inflict torture enough on their victims m the dens already described by the correspondent, be found in underground cells, said to be reserved for the worst prisoners, in total darkness, those whom Turkish tyranny had singled out for especial barbarity. Many were manacled to the floor, and others were chained to pillars. The latter method waa resorted to in cases where prisoners proved contumacious. But these modes of punishment were altogether too commonplace for the genius of the Turkish officiale. In order to force confessions where confessions would prove useful to those in power, the aid of the ant is called in. These insects are kept in small boxes for the purpose, and fifty of them are placed at ooe time on the naked body of the prisoner. It is also customary to cbaim men all day in the scorching sun in such a way that tley are unable to move. It will be remembered that the Bulgarian atrocities were first made public through the columns of the A'eivs by correspondent McGahan, and everything points to another crusade against the " unspeakabla Turk." As in the former case, the result was war, no very special gift of prophecy is needed to foretell hostilities arising out of the present troubles among the Armenians and the barbarity of the TurJt« in different parts of the East, as events of the near future,