There is evidently fierce resistance at Constantinople to Count Andrassy's
Note, and according to the latest telegrams, which, however, may be quite false, a compromise has been suggested not very favourable to Austrian dignity. The Note is to be read to the Grand Vizier, but not left with him, and therefore not answered in writing. The Sultan will, however, accept the Note "ho principle" as one accepts the Ten Commandments, and sanction the reforms it suggests by a special firman for Bosnia and the Herzegovina. That is to say, the Pashas will issue any promises wanted, but willenter into no written engagement, to keep them. If this is the end of the negotiations, the insurgents, who are sick of &mans and Turkish pledges, will go on with their operations, and the correspondence will prove of no use whatever. It seems to be believed at Con- stantinople that this is precisely what General Ignatieff wishes, in which ease there will be trouble in the spring. The only thing certain, however, is that the Note was not accepted up to Friday, but that the Pashas had ordered another conscription, to replace losses in the Herzegovina.
