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we believe heartily with Professor Lankes.
ter. That there is nothing to investigate
IN the direction of these phenomena, at
least if you go not to professionals, but to
the cases in which they occur in private
lite, is one of Professor Lankester's little
bits Of dogmatism, Of which every man
must judge according to the contents of
bis W experience.
It is tolerably evident that General
Tcharnaieff and the Civil Government at
Belgrade are not quite at one as to the
policy to be pursued, and that the view OF
the General has the greater weight of the
two. Prince Milan, though he has not
yet accepted the title of King" has not
ventured yet publicly to refuse it, and
there can be no question that the refusal
to prolong the armistice merely for ano-
Their week came from the Generals head
quarters. Russian volunteers are daily
flowing into the lines by hundreds. and It
is now said that not one of General Tchero
naief's leading subordinates In command
is Servian, every one of them being his
own countrymen. The General evidently
appreciates the political Importance Of
the English popular movement, and In a
brief manifesto put forth on September IS
he insists that the last events in ENG
land, where a general movement of SYM
pathy is taking place, have terminated the
hopes Of the Slavonic peoples y and that
q the status quo ante 6e1unt for Seryia, with
local reforms for the Christian provinces,
would be q mortal blow for this country
without independence" To the solvent
action of diplomacy" he attributes the
disregard paid to the popular opinion in
England and Russia, and he evidently
counts-not enormously, we think-ont that
popular opinion to paralyse the diplomatic
efforts made in an opposite direction.
The real attitude of the various Gov
ernments does not seem to be very clear.
1t is said that Russia wished to insist on
the " political" autonomy of the Christian
States, which Austria opposed, and that
Lord Derby wished for the word " admin.
i~strative autonomy" However, this was
all mere verbal discussion. What is more
important, if true, is that the Gar still
h0A0o AooO W VIC GupCAOL Va 61uStLLhS dAQ
that the Sultan is said to be strongly in
favour of concession to such terms as Eng
land has proposed. And we'll he may be;
for they really mean the old state of things,
with q new batch OF political PROMISES
the form Of inconvertible paper which
Turkey has always found most productive
and least embarrassing.
There is too much reason to fear that
the blood-thirst of the Turk awakened IN
Bulgaria has spread into Asia, and that q
good many Armenians, the peacefulest Of
all Christian sects, have fallen victims Co
the wave of homicidal mania. The
Times special correspondent in Constan.
tinople, writing yesterday week from
Therapia, says that seven hundred Armeni-
an Christians have been put to death by
the troops Of the Reserve and the Muasul-
man population at Erzeroum. It is not as
yet certain that this statement is true, but
it is rendered more probable from the
reports received a few days earlier of
outrages on the Armenian Christians OF
Yusgat, in the province Of Aleppo, by the
same class Of troops, violence to the men
and violation to the r a@' sror 20 no ,Opo
hich have been fully c 1'As s''" s
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