The Bulgarian Government has sent in to the Porte a
Note, believed to be serious, demanding the recognition of Prince Ferdinand. In this note, X. Stambouloff declares that the Turkish Government has delayed recognition for five years, and has thus brought Sofia into difficulties with the Bul- garians of Macedonia, who, he says, are two millions in number, and are nevertheless refused all ecclesiastical liberties. The Bulgarians at home feel, therefore, a dangerous sympathy for their brethren abroad, and if recognition is longer delayed, the Government of Sofia will be compelled to seek means of its own for ending an "intolerable situation." This amounts to a veiled threat of insurrection in Macedonia, where, however, the number of Bulgarians is exaggerated, and may extort from the Sultan ecclesiastical concessions. Mussul- mans do not care how Christians arrange their hierarchy. The recognition, however, will not be granted, nor any serious steps taken of any kind, until the Czar and the German Emperor have met at Krasnoe-Selo.
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