It is said that as soon as the new cabinet is formed, Baron Gautsch will endeavor to bring about a meeting between the heads of the two parties which are so violently opposed to each other on the language question, and see if he cannot arrive at some understanding with them. It is also said that Baron Banffy, the Hungarian Prime Minister, insists that the Reichsrath must agree to the renewal of the Austro-Hungarian contract for one year, else Hungary will act independently of Austria, and a separation of the two monarchies may follow. After the news of Badeni's resignation there were still angry demonstrations in Vienna, but after the police had released Dr. Wolff peace gradually settled down on the city. * * * * * Turkey does not seem to have taken Russia seriously about the old war debt. In spite of her assurance that she had no intention of increasing her navy or enlarging her store of war materials, she has placed an order for one hundred and fifty large cannon with Krupp, the famous German gun-maker. These cannons will cost a large sum of money, and the various European Powers are watching with much interest to see what Russia will have to say to it. It is rumored that the Turks look upon Germany as their most powerful friend, and are willing to defy Russia or any other nation so long as Germany shows a disposition to stand by them. This winter is likely to give us some more interesting chapters in European history. * * * * * The Sultan of Turkey has fresh worries. The Albanians are now rebelling against him. Albania is on the western border of European Turkey; its shores are washed by the Adriatic Sea. It is a mountainous country, inhabited by a war-like race of people, who are much given to robbery and brigandage. The Albanians are a curious people. They claim to be descended from the Pelasgians, who were a people of Greece, supposed to be the most ancient race in Europe. They arrived and settled in Europe centuries before men began to keep records of the events that occurred, and so their origin is unknown. It is supposed they came from Asia, and probably from India. The Albanians base their claim to Pelasgian origin on their language, which differs from any known tongue, and cannot clearly be connected with any of the mother tongues. These mother tongues were the original languages from which the various modern languages are derived. More than one thousand languages are spoken on the globe, and these are so different that each is unintelligible to the speakers of the other. The study of these languages is an especial science. Students of this science, philologists, as they are called, have traced, classed, and grouped these thousand languages, until they have divided them into six main groups, or mother tongues. The formations of the verbs, the plurals, and the declensions are the main guides to the identification of a language.