The Vienna correspondent of the Times states that the Com-
mission for the reorganisation of Bosnia has not found its work so hard as was expected. The executive organisation will do very well, when the offices are filled with honest and experienced men. No militia will as yet be formed, the province being exclusively garrisoned with Austrian troops, and the population systematically disarmed. The revenue is found to be about /600,000 a year, which can be increased by improvements in the Customs duties, and by selling the immense extent of State land still uncultivated to colonists. The tenure question will, it is said, be settled by carrying out Omar Pasha's arrangement, under which the tenant holds his land subject to a quit-rent to the landlord of a third of the gross produce, very nearly the English average on high-rented estates. The Begs have taken more than this, by estimating the crops at their own valuation, and demanding pay- ment in money ; but in future they will be limited to their third, while Christians will be allowed to own land. All these plans seem excellent, but we should like to see permanence secured to them by some formal arrangement as to the sovereignty. At present, it does not belong either to Emperor or Sultan, and the provinces cannot be administered by law, but only by decrees, like any other territory occupied by an invading army. The tenants, therefore, have no security that the Sultan will not come back, and replace the Begs over them.
