A correspondent of the Times at Scutari, in Albania, gives
a gloomy account in Tuesday's issue of the state of affairs in that province. Welcoming the Constitution at the outset, the Albanian Moslems speedily turned round when they found it meant equality with the Christians, and since the beginning of Ramadan have defied the Djimiet, or local Young Turk Committee, and insisted on the closing of the new club formed to promote the Albanian language. In the town the Christians are terrorised, while the powerful Christian tribes in the mountains have been alienated by the tactlessness of the Djimiet, and have lost all faith in the Constitution which they had hailed with enthusiasm. These tribes, ably led by Preuk Pasha, a chieftain recently released from exile, and the Abbate of Mirdita, are a serious faotor in the situation ; and though less well armed than the Moslems, who were equipped with Mausers before the proclaiming of the Con- stitution, constitute a powerful nucleus of discontent. It was anticipated from the very first that Albania would prove a grave obstacle in the path of reform, and these predictions seem only too likely to be fulfilled.
