This insurrection in the Herzegovina is becoming more im- portant.
Serviana, Bosnians, and Montenegrins are hastening to the assistance of their brethren, .the Turks are defeated every- where, and Trebinje is besieged. The garrison have sallied out, but lieve• been driven in with slauglite4FiLitra place may fall, in whiclo case all Turkey north of the Babas Will be in corn- nintioass The Governor-General of Bosnia; the'llerzegovina, and Montenegro has issued an atrocious orders iiiloOling all Moham- med'ans to seize suspected Chrittiatis4nd oldestrg all who harbour rebels to be slaughtered, but the peasantry are only the more deter- mined, and at last the people at Constantinople have recognised that something is the matter. They have acknowledged that, "recent operations-not having had the effect of terminating the insurrec- tion;" the- Govereoz of Bosnia-must send more troops; and regi. ments have been shipped to the Herzegovina by sea. rt would' seem, from cloudy hints in the Viennese papers, that the Three Powers have- deeick,e1 to let the Herzegoviniens be slaughtered down, and then demand that they and the BoEmians shall be made as independent as the Roumanians. What England and France think of the matter does not appear, and does not signify.
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