The Bosnian rebellion would seem to have collapsed. The Austrian
Generals, though sorely hampered by difficulties of commissariat and locomotion, drove their enemies from the valleys, stormed Bielina, and finally occupied Zwornik, their last stronghold, without resistance. The Turkish regulars fought without much heart, and the Begs were probably few, their followers dispersing after every retreat. The War party in Constantinople is now ready to sign the Convention pro- posed by Austria, which fixes no date for the occupation ; and Count Andrassy is engaged in organising a civil government, which will probably be supplied from Croatia and Dalmatia. The Christian majority have plucked up heart to welcome their deliverers, and two or three broad roads will be driven through the province at once. There does not appear to be much risk of a brigand war, and the greatest immediate difficulty of the Government will be to raise a sufficient revenue, the Christians being much impoverished. With her natural littoral restored, however, with a few good roads, sure to be made for military reasons, and with two or three years of order, Bosnia ought to be an exporting province. The expectation still remains that the Begs, who were all Christians once, will turn Christians again, in order to keep their lands ; but many of them are emigrating into Thessaly and Roumelia.
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