30 SEPTEMBER 1876, Page 2

There is too much reason to fear that the blood-thirst

of the Turk awakened in Bulgaria has spread into Asia, and that a good many Armenians, the peacefulest of all Christian sects, have fallen victims to the wave of homicidal mania. The Times' special correspondent in Constantinople, writing yesterditweek from Therapia, says that seven hundred Armenian Christians have been put to death by the troops of the Reserve and the Mussul- man population at Erzeroum. It is not as yet certain that this statement is true, but it is rendered more probable from the re- ports received a few days earlier of outrages on the Armenian Christians of Yusgat, in the province of Aleppo, by the same class of troops,—violence to the men and violation to the women, —reports which have been fully confirmed.