NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE most momentous event of the week is the spread of the insurrection in Macedonia, its chiefs having "in despair" called the whole population to arms. The Bulgarian section of the people in particular has responded, thirty thousand men fairly armed are reported out, and, as they adopt the true tactics of guerilla war, the troops are baffled in their attempts to bring about great actions. It must be remembered that the Turks fight best in masses, and that the Bulgarians, who also have Mongol blood in their veins, are as stubborn as their oppressors. The whole Mahommedan population is, however, fearfully excited, and, supported by the troops, may pursue a policy of extermination. The move- ment extends from Salonica to the Adriatic, and the Asiatic troops, bewildered by the number and dispersion of their adversaries, unpaid, and half starved, are likely to commit fiendish excesses. As yet, however, both the Austrian and Russian Governments hold aloof, though a Russian Consul who threatened a Turkish sentry having been murdered by him, the Russian people begin to press upon the authorities of St. Petersburg. The precise demand of the insurgents, formulated in a circular to the Powers, is for a Christian Governor-General, with independent powers of internal ad- ministration, the usual method by which the Christian pro- vinces of Turkey have been rescued from their intolerable oppression.
