23 APRIL 1881, Page 2

The Albanians have, at last, broken into open revolt against

the Sultan. The facts are not yet quite clear, but it is reported from many quarters that Dervish Pacha, Governor in Albania, and a very determined man, was moving with 10,000 regulars to occupy Gusinje, when he was attacked, on the lath of April, by 15,000 Albanians. He defeated them, he says, but with such loss that he has telegraphed to Constantinople for rein- ' forcements, and has not arrested their leader, as he intended. The effect of this collision will be to compel the Albanians to appeal for aid to Austria, as we are privately informed from Athens the Epiretes have also determined to do. As the Austrian Government desires to conciliate everybody between

Novi Bazar and Salouica, the Austrians will give the Albanians and Epirotes all the aid possible without open war, and as Enirotes and Albanians must now assist each other, the Sultan will find a difficult campaign upon his hands, in which the Albanian guards of his capital will be furiously against him. Had Epirus been coded to Greece, the Mohammedan Albanians, surrounded by Christian States, must have clung to the Kaliphate as their only protection. Now Turkey will lose, under one form or another, the whole coast of the Adriatic.