No further news has been received from before Plevna, though
the Turkish Commander on the Lom has made a reconnaissanr.o in force, during which, according to Constantinople, he killed or wounded 1,300 Russians. The Russians declare, however, that they beat him back with little loss, and as the Russians make no attempt to conceal their losses, but publish them every week, their statement is doubtless correct. There is, in fact, no news of interest from Bulgaria, except that contained in a letter published on Thursday in the Globe, a distinctly anti-Russian paper. It is from Mr. A. Baird Douglas, the young pro-Turkish English surgeon captured by the Russians at Telische, and dis- tinctly confirms the worst stories of the Turkish treatment of the -wounded. He saw these things himself :—" Imagine 200 or 300 naked Russian bodies lying bloated in the blazing sun, stripped of everything valuable except the little crosses which they wear round their necks. Imagine many of these same bodies with their heads cut off, others with their noses and ears cut, and nearly all mutilated in some way or other. Two bodies that I saw had evidently had fires lighted upon their stomachs. I had heard and read of such atrocities, but had treated them rather as the exaggerations of newspaper correspond- ents, but now there is no doubt about it. And remember that this is not done after the men are dead, but while they lie wounded and dying, for I noticed that those bodies whose wounds received in action were evidently, from their position, fatal ones, were not mutilated, but only those whose wounds were not neces- sarily fatal." These are the men for whose ascendancy in Eastern Europe Lord Beaconsfield and his followers wish Englishmen to Bght.
