The extraordinary jealousy and distrust with which all Mahom- medans
at heart regard Christian interference has received another illustration. It is reported in a telegram received on Wednesday that Mr. Sinclair, the Colonel St. Clair of the Daily News' correspondence, has been compelled to fly from his own followers in the Rhodope, and has reached Constantinople. This Colonel St. Clair had taken command of the Musaulman insurgents in the Rhodope, who rose recently against Russia, and had risen to such influence that it seemed possible for him to found an independent principality, like Montenegro. His followers, however, suddenly accused him of a secret understanding with Russia ; he was compelled to fly, with his comrade, Mr. Paget, and after an arrest at Salonica, got safely away to the capital. The probability is that he was too humane or too reasonable, and so excited the enduring suspicion which has always been fatal to any European who, without turning renegade, endeavoured to secure authority over a genuinely Alahommedan tribe.
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