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.-THE TERCENTENARY OF HARVEY.

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ERUPTION OF MOUNT HECLA.

A REMARKABLE CASE.

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THE AUSTRIAN ARMY.

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RUSSIAN VIEWS OF WAR WITHj…

THE CALLING OUT OF THE RESERVES.

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HOW THE GREEh. INSURRECTION…

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HOW THE GREEh. INSURRECTION IS CONDUCTED. A despatch from Volo, dated the 4th, says: The body of Mr. Ogle, the late correspondent of the Times, has been found headless in a ravine, and brought in. It bears marks which will be ex- amined and reported on by the doctors. A scar on the wrist, of long standing, enabled a friend to identify him. An immense crowd has assembled, and in the deep sorrow which this event has caused every other interest is forgotten. Among the people are refugees from Bulgarini, whom he so lately assisted, others from Macrinitza and Portaria whom last Friday after the battle he comforted with the assurance that he would go down to the Consuls and get them to protest against the soldiers entering the villages. The late correspondent of the Times wrote as fol- lows from Volo: In an insurrectionary war like that which is going on around me, I cannot speak with any certainty of events which happen beyond my per- sonal observation, and I have hitherto confined my excursions to the three districts already mentioned. I In these, I do not think that the insurgents could muster on any given day more than 3000 men, and of the 3000 not more than one-half are constantlv under arms, including all the volunteers, who number about 750. But, notwithstanding the unwarlike character of the native population, if we take into account all who during the present movement have bad a shot or two at the Turks, or at least have enrolled their names, the insurgent force acting in this neighbourhood must be put down at between 5000 and 6000. I know a smuggler who, having dodged the Ottoman authorities for five years, seems to have lost in one or other of the ports he frequents all his ideas but one, and that one is that the Turks are blockheads. Perhaps he has reason on his side. The Caimakam of Volo pathetically remarked, "These people come and pay me compliments one day, and the next are fighting at Macrinitza." He was quite right. One man went to ask a favour of him with his shirt-cuffs black with gunpowder. Another habitually salutes him limping from a wound which he received in the hrst battle of Platona. And these men, who fight and cringe on alternate days, are they on whose authority it is asserted that no insurrection exists. The Turkish force operating in the sa.ne three districts numbers between 7000 and 8000, mostly regulars, and almost entirely drawn from Asia Minor, though a few battalions are Albanians. A large rein- forcement is expected daily. The mode of warfare adopted by the insurgents is the only one suited to the circumstances. It is necessary for them to economise men, and to avoid the disheartening effect of a decided defeat. The object kept in view is not so much the defeat of the Turkish army, as the expulsion from the land of the machinery of Ottoman Government, and the affording an opportunity to the inhabitants to express their true sentiment-. They should, and generally do, strike no blow without a fair chance ?f gainThrGreJks8^1rate8ica1.01" P0litical adraH" tege. lbeureeis, with few exceptions, have no idea of fighting in the open. They are too intelligent to stand up and be shot at; and this, with the political considerations already mentioned, determines the nature of the tactics which they have re- course to. They keep to the mountains, descend- ing into the plain only to capture Turkish ccnvoys of previsions — an operation which they effect with great success, even under the castle. Posted on the heights, bfhinj rocks and breast- works of loose stones, they fire with deliberate aim at the advancing battalions, and retire with scarcely any loss before they can be surrounded. HoweTer strong a village may be, they never occupy it, but take up positions on the surrounding heights to avoid, as they express it, being taken as rats in their holes. In this way the defence is sometimes successful, sometimes not; but it in never disastrous. If we compare the two opposing forces as regards humanity of conduct, we find that the Greeks, though irregulars, have immeasurably the advantage. I hftye before today described some cf th« atrocities committed by the Turkish troops, and I will not dwell on a distasteful dubject. Notwithstanding them, tboug reprisals are to be expected between even the most civilised armies, the insurgents have acted with justice and generosity. With one exception, when an murdered a Gheg to show his zeal for the Christian religion which he had recently adopted, prisoners have been well fed, and released with all •elFj their arms, which were re- 81Eg t0 the Turkish Government. °fe case money has been given to them to enable them to purchase food by the way. Civi- f i7 am^8ted haTe been Pai«J for the loss of time incurred. The horse of a postman requisi- tioned during an engagement was returned as soon as it could possibly be dispensed with. These things I have heard, not only from the insurgents, but from high Turkish officials, and from some of the men themselves. Surely such rebels were seldom seen Many of them, indeed, are little fit for the rough work of war. One leader sighs and sajs—"If they! let me have my way, not so much as a nose should bleed." Another prominent volunteer ran to Captain Axeles, when the Ghegs began to retreat at the battle of Zenia, exclaiming vehemently, "It is horrible! It is horrible! Do net kill them."

5 BREACH OF PROMISE CASES.

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THE MILITARY SITUATION IN…

THE CHANGES IN THE CABINET.

TURKISH REFUGEES.

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THE BURNING OF THE SPHINX.

DEPUTATIONS TO LORD GRANVILLE…

ON BOARD HOBART PASHA'S FLAG-…

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