Mr. Gladstone, writing on Sunday last from Hawarden to the
Daily News,—which published his letter on Tuesday,— enclosed a report he had received from Armenia of the out- rages of Moussa Bey, which appears to confirm all that has been said to the same effect in the papers on Armenia lately presented to Parliament. Mr. Gladstone remarks that he has not forgotten the conspicuous part taken by the Daily News in establishing the horrors committed by the Turks in Bulgaria in 1876, and expresses the hope that the British Government will probe these statements to the bottom, and will freely avail itself 'of the powerful aid of public opinion." The account forwarded by Mr. Gladstone is one of murder and outrage committed by Moussa Bey, with a hundred followers, in the village of Khartz, between Moosh and Bitlis, in Armenia, in the month of March last, and of the helplessness of the Armenians to obtain redress. The account confirms charges made against the same Kurdish chief in the papers lately presented to Parlia- ment, and Mr. Gladstone speaks of its source as one which has every presumption of trustworthiness. We have since learned by telegram that Moussa Bey is on his way to Con- stantinople for trial, and that the witnesses against him have also been sent for by the Sultan, though it is added that the Kurdish chief has forwarded a considerable sum to the capital on which he is supposed to rely for an acquittal. We trust that Sir William White's influence at Constantinople will more than outweigh the influence of bribestransmitted thither by a Kurdish chief.
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