THE ALBANIAN QUESTION.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2192, 5 March 1881, Page 3

THE ALBANIAN QUESTION.

One more step has been taken towards the ultimate solution of the Eastern Question by the revolt of Northern Albania against the authority of the Porte. The Albanian League, although dissolved on paper by Imperial decree, is now said to bo directing the energies of both the Moslem and Christian tribes against the Sultan. All males over eighteen years of age have been summoned to arms. A council at Yakova has pronounced in favor of war. The Turkish Governor at Prisrend has been expelled. Dervish Pasha has been doomed to die for his treachery to the Prince of the Miridites, who, by the by, is kept in solitary confinement in Constantinople. The movement in Albania, although ostensibly directed against Montenegro for the re covery of Dulcigno, is, as a wellinformed Constantinople correspondent states, really directed against the Turks for the establishment of Albanian autonomy. If (says a Home paper) Northern Albania rises in arms to enforce demands practically amounting to the fulfilment of the 23rd Article of the Berlin Treaty the task of the Powers in pressing for the execution of the provisions of that treaty in Thessaly, Epirus, Macedonia, and Armenia will be materially simplified. It would be a curious piece of retributive justice it the Albanian League were to bo the means of executing the stipulations which it was created to resist.