So RUSSIA, TURKEY, AND BULGARIA. 



No sooner was Gabriel Pasha the new Governor General enthroned, 

 than he set himself resolutely to work on behalf of Russia, by the 

 dissolution of the National Assembly, and the election of a stout 

 Russophile .majority ; he dismissed the anti-Russian ofiScials, and 

 surrounded himself with men loyal to Russia, and favourable to 

 Russian policy. 



Here then were all the elements for opposing factions, the necessary 

 fuel for firing an insurrectionary movement, and what wonder 

 was it, that the smouldering embers inevitably burst into a 

 revolutionary flame, fanned in every direction by the gusts of an 

 unpopular and distasteful rule. 



The crisis arrived, a proclamation influentially signed and widely 

 circulated was issued, calling upon the people everywhere to rise in 

 arms against the Russianised Government, and the country marched 

 rapidly towards Revolution. 



At various places simultaneous demonstrations were evoked, headed 

 by popular leaders under the popular flag, with the one cry of Union 

 with Bulgaria, the troops fraternised with the revolutionary party, who 

 surrounded the Government House at Phillippopolis, seized without a 

 blow being struck the Governor General, Gabriel Pasha, and the 

 Commander-in-Chief Borthwick Pasha, and conducted them amid 

 loud hurrahs to a place of safety. 



Events now marched rapidly ; amid great popular enthusiasm the 

 leader of this bloodless revolution Dr. Stransky, was elected President 

 of the Provisional Government, their popular soldier in arms General 

 Nicolaieff was chosen the Commander-in-Chief of the Roumelian Army, 

 and the " reveille " was sounded for a general call to arms, in defence 

 of popular rights and the national cause. 



To complete this new political edifice, to give the finale to this 

 sudden somersault of executive authority, one step more was necessary 

 the election of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria as Ruler of the United 

 Provinces, and herein constituted the gravamen of his offence in the 

 eyes of the Russian Government, and the real cause of his subsequent 

 deposition. 



A deputation from the new Provisional Government, proceeded in 

 hot haste to Tirnova, and offered him the Crown of Southern Bulgaria, 

 and without a moment's hesitation he accepted the flattering proposal, 

 and a few days afterwards entered the Capital, Phillippopolis, amid 

 tremendous enthusiasm. 



Herein was the great offence given to Russia by Prince Alexander, 

 for he had connived and fraternised with the anti-Russian party in 



