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When a Chauvinistic Government places a headstrong young officer, who

is said to keep the figure of Napoleon con- tinually before him, and who was a leader in the movement which led to the assassination of Nasim, in control of the Army, and makes no special provision for replenishing its treasury, we are justified in feeling that whatever may happen ought to cause us no surprise. It may be that we shall soon have serious news of Turkish enterprise in Albania. A raid and a rising have been vainly attempted at Avlona, but the evidence is so contradictory that it is impossible at present to arrive at the truth. According to the most startling state- ment, the intention was to place Rua Pasha on the throne. The Porte, as might be expected, denies all knowledge of this picturesque adventure.

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