Unless we are greatly mistaken there will, within a short
Lime, be serious news from Macedonia. The Macedonian peasantry are tired of oppression ; and in district after district make violent riots, usually directed against local sub-Pashas. The Sultan, being reluctant to withdraw troops from Con- stantinople, where there is much agitation, is raising Bashi- Bazonks for Macedonia, by promising high wages ; and as these wages will not be paid, the irregulars are pretty sure to commit atrocities. Macedonia is visible, especially to Greece and Russia, in a way Armenia is not ; and a massacre of Greek Christians might compel M. Delyannis, Prince Ferdinand, or even the Czar, to interfere at once. There is evidently alarm in Vienna on the subject ; and the Bulgarians have just withdrawn their Envoy from Constantinople, nominally because Turkish gendarmes have transgressed their frontier, really, to be more free to act if opportunity arrives.
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