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A TURKISH MoruER.-A Smyrna cor.
respondent Of the Boston Atlas save:


We had a horrible spectacle a fortnight
since IN the square bNtore the mosque in
the grand Bazaar, the dccaplation of a
young peasant who had killed a ncighbor
IN drunken quarrel, aud was punished
through the perscyering agency ol bis vic.
Tins mother. who has spent the eighteen
months that have elapsed since the crime
was committed, In unceasng efforts to ob.
tain tho fatal funln. She made three
voyages 10 Coaslanli1ople, before the Ulema
would grant il; but she finally obtained Il,
aud came back lrlunphanily demanding its
execution. Ten thousand piasires. vine.
yard aud six camels were vainy offered as
blood money; and when, after six horribly
cruel cuts, the e1cculionor bad severed the
culprirs head, tho avenged mother dipped
her hand in the blood which spouicd from
the neck, moislened her lips with it, and
cried, "Now, my boy, your mother has
done her duty ~ Happily these tragic
scenes are Of rare occurrence, aud we may
hope 10 SEQ an ameioralion IN the laws
aud punishments, as The Uicmd, who ARE a
race ofbereditary theological Judges bitterly
opposed to reform, have at last decided 10
send three SoflaS (students,) to Franco,
that they may study European jurispru.
dence