That there were some Slavonic emissaries at work is undeniable; but it is equally certain that their efforts would have had no result but for the existence of unbearable ills.

It is time, surely, to give up the notion that peoples rise in revolt merely owing to outside agitators.

To revolt against the warlike Turks has never been child's play.] These events aroused varied feelings in the European States.

The Russian people, being in the main of Slavonic descent, sympathised deeply with the struggles of their kith and kin, who were rendered doubly dear by their membership in the Greek Church.

The Panslavonic Movement, for bringing the scattered branches of the Slav race into some form of political union, was already gaining ground in Russia; but it found little favour with the St.Petersburg Government owing to the revolutionary aims of its partisans.