M. Emile de Laveleye has done us an inexplicable and
most serious injustice. He has been publishing, in the Pall Mall Gazette, a series of statements, which we entirely believe, as to Turkish atrocities in Macedonia; and in his latest letter accuses us two or three times over of laughing at him and them. We are entirely guiltless, the offender whom M. de Laveleye justly reproves being, we believe, the Saturday Review. So far are we from sympathising with the Turks, that we hold Lord Granville's reply, when questioned on Monday by the Duke of Argyll upon the subject, to have been perfectly preposterous. He actually stated, as an argument, that the Turkish Ambassador "warmly repudiated" the accusations. Did Musurns Pasha acknowledge the atrocities in Bulgaria P or would he admit upon any evidence whatever, that any Turk, anywhere, at any time, was anything but the most just and merciful of mankind ? Lord Granville's confidence is a little too childlike.
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