The rebellion in Montenegro is assuming serious proportions. Omar Pasha
is about to enter the Black Mountain with 32,000 troops, but the Montenegrins are brave, determined, and favoured in an unusual degree by position. They have the sympathy of the Servians, the aid of adventurers from Hungary, the diplomatic sup- port of France and Russia, and the general approval of the Christian population of Turkey. They will give trouble, and meanwhile the diplomatists are as busy as bees, and as authoritative as if the doc- trine of non-intervention had never been heard of. The cause of quarrel is the old one. The Montenegrins, like most other mountaineers, decline to starve while the dalesmen have anything worth stealing, and, as the Turkish Government objects to that social theory, are trying to vindicate it by the sword. The political importance of the question arises from the fact that half a dozen Governments would like to have the Black Mountain, and, like other expectant heirs, are disposed to quarrel among themselves for their share in the con- tingent reversiot
