The news from Macedonia grows worse and worse. An express
train bound for Constantinople from Vienna was blown up on Wednesday night at Kuleli B urgas. about half-way between Adrianople and Constantinople, and six people killed. The outrage is attributed to a Bulgarian revolutionary, but it is hinted that the Turks may have known what was coming and, as at Salonica, taken no pains to avert it. The Russian squadron has withdrawn from Turkish waters, the only effect of its arrival having been to extort from the Sultan the dismissal of some officials in Macedonia, a reprimand to Hilmi Pasha, and an application to Belgium for a few officers, six in all, to organise the Mussulman gendarmerie. They will probably arrive if their salaries are guaranteed, but they will be left without men to command or influence on the Bashi. bazouks. Meanwhile the insurrection has spread into the district of Adrianople, and on at least three occasions the insurgents are reported to have beaten the Turks. The latter are furious with the Russians, and indeed with all foreigners, but especially with the Bulgarians, who, as they believe, are the movers in the whole insurrection. They propose, there- fore, if Salonica, or Adrianople, or Constantinople is threatened, to slaughter out all Bulgarian citizens, and urge a regular invasion of Bulgaria. The Sultan has not yet yielded, but he has called out his last Reserves, evidently with a view, if he is pressed too hard, to crush the Principality as well as the in- surgents.
