TURKEY. 



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out Bosnia and the Herzegovina. With regard 

 to tlio fifth point, rotative to the application 

 of the diroct taxes to meet the requirements 

 of the provinces, the note explained that such 



BOSNIANS. 



%n arrangement could not be brought into har- 

 mony with the general system of administer- 

 ing the Turkish finances. Nevertheless, in his 

 solicitude for the provinces devastated by the 

 insurrection, the Sultan had ordered that, as 

 an addition to the amounts already applied to 

 public objects in the Herzegovina and Bosnia, 

 a certain sum should be set apart, the amount 

 of which would be fixed on the basis of local 

 requirements, after the evidence of the ad- 

 ministrative authorities had been received and 

 the corporations interested had deliberated on 

 the point. The note concluded by stating that 

 there did not appear to be any perceptible dis- 

 crepancy between the facts in the case and the 

 formal standpoint taken up in Count Andras- 

 sy's proposals. These declarations were sup- 

 plemented by an irade granting a general am- 

 iiesty to all insurgents who within four weeks 

 of its promulgation throughout the country 

 should return to their homes. It announced 

 that the Government would have the homes 

 and churches of the returning refugees, where 

 they had been destroyed, rebuilt at its own 

 cost, and would furnish those who returned 

 with the means of pursuing their usual em- 

 ployments. 



HERZEGOVINA. The European consuls at 

 Mostar were advised by their respective gov- 

 ernments to negotiate with the insurgents, and 

 induce them to accept the propositions of the 

 Andrassy note as a basis for the restoration of 

 peace. The insurgents refused to entertain any 

 propositions of the kind, as they had no faith 

 in any salutary result following diplomatic 

 negotiations. A meeting of a number of their 



leaders was held at Suttorina, February 26th, 

 at which a manifesto was issued against the 

 acceptance of the terms offered by the powers. 

 It was signed by the Waywode Lazar Sotchitza, 

 the Archimandrite Melentii, Pico Paulovitch, 

 and the Popes Bogdan and Stembkovitch. It 

 pointed out the Porte's former failures to carry 

 out promised reforms, and declared that the 

 resistance of the Mohammedans wonld baffle 

 every reform ; the Mohammedans were even ex- 

 pected to revolt if an attempt were made to exe- 

 cute the reforms. The insurgents desired full 

 freedom and independence this, or nothing. 

 The paper contained an expression of thanks 

 to Austria for the care she had taken of the 

 Herzegovinian refugees, to Garibaldi for his 

 fatherly counsels, and to England that she had 

 at last recovered from her partiality for Turkey. 

 It compared the attitude of Servia and of Mon- 

 tenegro, to the disadvantage of the former state. 

 " Diplomatic combinations," it said, " are not 

 our business ; the European press may occupy 

 itself with them: we must proceed to fight, to 

 burn, to conquer. We cannot lay down our 

 weapons so long as we are not granted an 

 independence like that of Montenegro." The 

 manifesto closed with an avowal that help was 

 expected from Russia. 



BULGARIAN COSTUMES. 



DALMATIA. Baron Rodich, the Austrian 

 Governor of Dalmatia, was authorized by the 

 Imperial Government to negotiate with the lead- 

 ers on either side, so as to bring about a sus- 

 pension of hostilities, in order that an opportu- 

 nity might be given for carrying the proposed 

 reforms into effect. With this view he visited 

 the Turkish commanders, Ali Pasha and Mukh- 

 tar Pasha, at Ragusa, and the insurgents at 

 Gastelnuovo in the Suttorina. Mukhtar Pasha 

 insisted, as a necessary preliminary, that Nic- 

 sic should be reprovisioned from Montenegro. 

 Baron Rodich endeavored to make an arrange- 



