The accounts from Macedonia and Albania do not improve. In
the former .province the rebellion is spreading, and the revolutionaries appear to direct their efforts against the means of communication. They are said to be in possession of large supplies of dynamite with which to blow up bridges. In Albania the Mussulmans are reported, on the one hand, to have secured the neutrality of the Christian clang, and, on the other, to have surprised on the 5th inst. the town of Okhrida, and to have massacred the Christian inhabitants. So the Sultan has despatched a Mission to Albania with a large, sum of money to conciliate the chiefs ; but they declare that no bribe will induce them to tolerate the reforms, which are accordingly being dropped on the pretext that the country is too disturbed for them to be useful. The failure of the reforms is admitted both in Vienna and St. Petersburg, where the uneasiness increases, but where as yet no new policy has declaredjiteelf. Only the Austrian Government is accumu- lating troops upon the frontier, and keeping jealous watch in Bosnia, where the Mussulmans are obviously growing excited.
