The progress of the Constitutional movement in Turkey is, we
are glad to say, very encouraging on the whole. At Constantinople the actions of the Young Turk Committee have been uniformly prompt and beneficent. The strikes, Which - threatened the capital with ugly complications, have been for the most part successfully ended, and the citizens, without perhaps a sufficient comprehension of the difficulties before them, march forward with light hearts towards the establishment of the outward and visible signs of the new Constitution. Medals in commemoration of the grant of the Constitution are to be struck at the Mint and sold, and a well-known architect has been instructed to prepare plans for the new Parliament buildings. Elsewhere the news is less pleasing. If many Armenians have been released from the Prisons of. Asia Minor and have thus been given a guarantee of the reality of the reign of liberty, the Albanians, as might be expected of that untutored people, show in many ways that they do not understand the first principles of Constitu- tional government.
