New-York tribune., 1878-09-28
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DISSATISFACTION WITH ENGLAND-THE GRAND
RUSSIAN REVIEW.
fFRoM A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBuNE.l
CoNsTANuNoPLE, Aug 23.-The Turkish papers
are exercising potent influence on public opinion
concerning the Bosnian occupation. They have
been publishing news said to be received by private
telegram from Albania. They describe seven de-
feats of the Austrian troops by the Bosnians, and
comment edltorially upon the news in a sense un-
favorable to Austria. They constantly promis-
ing their readers new complications. The insurrec-
tion has thus been endowed from the outset with
a vast Importance. The papers had styled 1t q
permanent civil war before it had existed
week. They say that the Berlin Congress was mis-
informed, and would never have agreed to an oecu-
patton only possible by the use of many Austrian
troops as there are inhabitants of Bosnia. These
troops will have to corner catch and kill or reduce
to slavery every individual Bosnian. The inference
is obvious. The Emperor Francis Joseph, rid
ing roughshOd over the tenderest feelings OF
the Beys of Bosnia, is a selfish, Inhuman tyrant.
The result of this style of talking is a
great fervOr of feeling among the people
where Indifferent acceptance OF fate was
lately the only sentiment. AS Turkish newspapers
exist only by consent of the Government, and say
OF unsay by decree, it is evident that the Bosnian
resistance Is at least not strongly opposed by the
Porte There has been plenty of praise in the Turk
ish papers for the valor of the rebel leaders, but
have yet to see the first word Of sympathy for the
Turkish officials killed by them. To these Official
martyrs the Porte points as evidence that it is not
the author of the InsuTrectOn, The murder
of officials proves nothing. Doubtless the Minis
try did not contemplate such a result. If any
Pacha gave double orders, one set to the
Beys, to resist, and one set to the officials.
to YIELD he might naturally expect the officials to
find some way of escaping a conflict. 1t is quite
possible also that the foundation of the resistance
To the Austrians in Bosnia was order designed to
produce a mere demonstration that should back up
Safvet Pachas diplomatic representations The
Turkish conscience is not very voluminOus, and it
is not here alone that one hears of double orders
being given from the Porte. Every one who obtains
an order from the Porte for the furtherance Of any
particular business venture knows this. Urquhart,
writing from Albania in 1880 mentions a par
alle to the sacrifice of the ten Bosnian officials who
have so far been murdered by the insurgents The
Grand Vizier was then at Monastir with an army
operating against rebel Albanlans His General was
an Albanian Bey. who succeeded in gaining the
rebel Bey TO the side of the Turks, by threat and
promise and returned in high gee to the Grand Yzier
bringing the rebel and his chiefs with him. The
two Albanian beys, the rebel and his cOnqueror,
were drawn up IN line to receive them, but they
fred into the group of Abanians killing nearly all
of them and giving wild chase to those who fed.
The Grand Vzier could think of no simpler means
than this of being rid of dangerous captives.
Twenty or thirty faithful servants of the Porte in
cludng the General who had conducted the success
full campaign were sacrificed to this State necessity.
The rising in Bosnia and that in the RhCdOpe are
not the only hindrances to the return OF peace
The Albanans are devisng ways of resisting an
nexaton to Greece, Servia or Montenegro They
are on the best Of terms with Government author
tiles They could not hold their meetings if it were
not so. The Prizrend Council was followed by
another one at Monastr. The purpose of each was
TO obtain safety and freedom by returning to the
ways Ct the Fathers aud obeyng God. This is
practically the same the principle declared by the
Bosnians. The religious leaders of the MOslems are
the men who havo been using Influence againstPeaee.
The Albanians are simple-mnded people. They rob
people, but never secretly. II you WIN one Of them
to be your friend he is an Interchangeable friend.
Get one Of them to promise to carry thousand
dollars for yOu through robbers haunt in
the mountains and he will do il. The meth
ods by which they propose to win Europe
and appease an angry Allah are also very SIM
pie. The resolutions of the Monastr Congress
oppress Christians 2. We will not commit high
way robbery. 8. We will not get drunk, OF if we
do. we will not bring shame on the MOslem name by
doing il publicly. T. We will not allow the women
TO wear thin wells. 3. Frank shoes temptation
TO neglect religious abutionsj we will discard
them and return TO the yellow and rcd slippers of
our fathers am told that in the nelghborhood of
Dbr6 in Albania, murders have diminished fifty per
cent since the adoption of these five rules.
Armenian affairs, hardly as pressing as those
OF Albania, nevertheless constitute another Sc
rious hindrance to the restoration of confidence in
this country. The Armenians have learned the adj
vantage of keeping themselves before the public
The Porte has confded the restoration of order in
Armenia to a Bey, who is authorized to proceed
even to the execution Of Koords if necessary. The
measure is Characteristic of the Porte in that there
are not enough troops IN that region to hang
Koord. and the Government knows it. The Porte
has also asked the Armenian Patriarch to propose
reforms that will satisfy his people Especially he
is to suggest what is needed to develop agriculture
i'm the land of Araat. This proposition is very
comforting to the Armenian people, but the Yener-
able prclates of the Patrlarchs council are not
necessarily the men best able TO plan agricultural
reyivals, although the farmers to be encouraged
are of their flock: Moreover, there Is not the
slightest promise of any performance that shall tol
low the planning.
The condition of Roumela is not at all reassuring
The Bulgarians of ofPhlppopolis been protesting
against the separation of East ROumea from Bulga-
ria, and profess purpose of shedding blood in sup
port Of the protest. The Russians are not averse to
the protest, but they are very much averse to any
further independent action of the Bulgarians. The
Consular Commission sent to Rhodope, has gone the
rounds in fearfully hot weather, and has made
out q report which the Russian member
refuses to sign, but which is none the less
serious testimony to the failure of Russian
officers as civil administrators in mixed COM
munities The Russians are very sore about the
matter, for there is an imputed participation in
crime which is their share of every Bulgarian esca-
pade They are becoming harsh when they find
Bulgarians IN mischief. Several Bulgarians, charged