urssiA. 



086 



ami ;: i- not accounted a crime. 



Alth" ^'indcr liy enviou-. fate, v. 



eeased to In- nil.- nation, tin- sons of 



lOtber. It is this which tin- world cannot 



i will iu-\ , :n-.-ia, 



\ Servian prieM, 



iovitch, and a Croatian agitatnr. I'r. I'o- 



,d themselves fully as .-iron: 

 ."ibject. Tlu- Kmpcror and Kmpre- . 

 rounded by tin- youinrcr member- of their fam- 

 1 on May Jiitli a deputation of the 

 iiiade some complimentary remarks 

 ling .-[leakers of the congre , in- 

 cluding Mr. Militinovitdi an.l I>r. 1'olit, and the 

 Kmpcror dismi cd the deputation with tlio 

 following words; " Farewell, gentlemen. 1 

 salute you, my dear Slavonian brethren, on 

 ir coinmon Slavonian soil. I hope you 

 will bo s-iti-licd with your reception here and 

 at Mo-cow. Au retoir!" Previous to their 

 departure tin- delegates issued an address of 

 thanks to the Russian people, in which they 

 exhibition which has been so suc- 

 hly held at Moscow has afforded us an 

 unity of cementing the relationship 

 which connects the Slavonic nationalities, and 

 of making acquaintance with the great Itus-ian 

 people. This meeting has had no political ten- 

 dency. To no nations are the efforts of the 

 lians a source of danger; they tend, on 

 the contrary, to further the civilization of the 

 world." On December 28th a draft of the stat- 

 of the society, called the "The Slavonian 

 Committee," appointed to regulate the scien- 

 tific intercourse between all Slavonian nationali- 

 -ubmitted to the Government for its 

 sanction, and it was expected that the society 

 would l>e placed under the control of the Min- 



I Public Instruction. 



The Panslavoiiian tendencies of the Russian 

 Government could not fail to establish un- 

 friendly relations with Turkey and Austria. 

 With regard to Turkey, the Ru-sian Govern- 

 ment did, not hesitate openly to espouse the 

 of the insurgents in Can.dia, and of the 

 discontented Christian provinces in general. 

 The Turkish Government was urgently advised 

 ;:it the independence of Candia, and the 

 demand-i of the other provinces; and when this 

 advice was not accepted, Kussia tried to bring 

 about a joint intervention of the Christian pow- 

 ers, in order to obtain a final solution of the 

 Kast.-rn question favorable to the claims of the 

 Christians. 



The Russian rule in Central Asia is making 

 steady progress in point of extent and consoli- 

 dation. In .Inly an imperial ukase was issued, 

 altering the military and civil administration in 

 the Russian provinces bordering on China and 

 Central Asia, bringing them under the same 

 general government established for the prov- 

 inces of Turkestan,* and giving them the same 

 organization as a military district. The mili- 

 tary and civil administration was declared indi- 



* Erected In February, 1865. (Set ANNUAL CYCOLP^EDIA 

 forl- 



visible, and tin- don:. 



be admini-tered by native! cho-en from among 

 the people. A d jut :i ir < iicnd Kaiifiimnti was 

 appoint-d < iovernor-f M n.-ral of Turk. 



In March the Journal de 

 lirought a corre-poiidcnee from T i-hkend, the 

 cominei-eial mart o! 'Central Asia, which 

 was incorporated with Ru-.-ia in JMU, in 

 which it was Muted that the inhabitants of 

 Shehri Seby, a town in the south of the khanat 

 of llokhara. applied to be annexed to Ru-Ma, 

 and that their petition, taken into consideration 

 by the commanding general of the u-w R 

 province, \va- forwarded to St. JVtcivburg. 

 Shortly after, it was reported that a contlict 

 had taken place between the Emir of Bokhara 

 and Shehri Seby. Uotli reports appeared to 

 -or Vamhcry, the well-known traveller in 

 Central Asia, of considerable importance as 

 illustrating the plans of Itns.-ia. <>n the 

 itself, Vambery, in a letter to the London 

 Times, dated April 1st, gave the following infor- 

 mation : " Shehri Seby (the " Green Town ") was 

 called, in ancient times, Kesh, and has, since 

 Clavijo (1403), never been visited by any Euro- 

 pean. Its inhabitants, about 25,000 in number, 

 are of a most turbulent character, which is 

 owing partly to the warlike race of that dis- 

 trict, partly to the strong position which tho 

 town itself, a considerable fortress, occupies by 

 being protected on the east by two citadels, on 

 the north and west by the river Shehri Seby, 

 as well as by large tracts of marshy land, 

 which make it inaccessible to an enemy. 

 There is, besides, in the Ozbegs, who belong to 

 the Atchmaili tribe, from immemorial time, an 

 implacable hatred to the ruler of Bokhara, who 

 seldom failed to get into enmity with them, 

 and very often got the worst of it. Although 

 abandoned to themselves, they stood sieges 

 sometimes of two years' duration, and should 

 they get any moral or physical as-istance from 

 without they could resist much longer, and this 

 would be an essential help to any army en- 

 gaged in war with Bokhara." The peace over- 

 tures of the Emir of Bokhara were agreed to 

 on the llth of July. In accordance therewith, 

 hostilities were not to recommence except in 

 case of extreme necessity; the Emir of Bo- 

 khara, on his part, to trive orders for the . 

 tion of hostilities. The envoy from Bokhara 

 has given guarantees that this condition shall 

 be fulfilled. 



The English papers in India published a letter 

 from the ''official news writer" of the Indian 

 Government, dated Khokan, September 6, 1867, 

 on the progress of the Russians, from which 

 we learn that the rulers of two inaccessible 

 and unknown mountain districts lying bet \vivn 

 Khokan and the loop of the Upper Oxus, named 

 l>erwaz and Karategin places heretofore alto- 

 gether unknown have been spontaneously and 

 strongly recommended by the King of Khokan, 

 to whom they were heretofore tributary, to 

 tender their full allegiance to Rus>ia, without 

 loss of time. For this purpose their agents 



