The war has not altered the Turks. The Times of
Thursday publishes a shocking account of the atrocities perpetrated on some insurgents near Volo, in Thessaly, on the slopes of Mount Pelion, written by its own correspondent, Mr. Ogle, who has himself been assassinated by the Bashi-Bazouks, under circum- stances not yet investigated, but apparently because he interested himself in saving the households of the victims. The Greek Government intends to inquire narrowly into the affair, and the body of the murdered gentleman is to be received in state at Athens, but the principal comment of the Times on the cata- strophe is that the Greek Government exposes itself to contempt and suspicion by encouraging insurrection. When its corre- spondent in China was murdered by the Chinese, the Times called for reparation in its loudest tones, and compensation to the victim's family was exacted in the Treaty, but it seems in the present instance remarkably cool It has of late become- decidedly anti-Russian, and perhaps does not wish " to excite prejudice " against Turks. How any Englishman can read Mr. Ogle's description of Boulgarini and its horrors, and not demand that the Greek provinces shall be relieved of such a Government, it passes us to conceive. Batuk was hardly worse, except in scale.
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