The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-30 00:00:00

THE TURKISH EMPIRE AND THE GREEKS.

Last evening a meeting was held at Crosby Hall,
Bishopsgate-street, the notice convening it stating that it
would be compo.ed of the friends of Greece." About
1,..0 persona were present, principally foreigners, and a por-
tion of them ladies. The Earl of Harrington had been in-
vited to preside, hut it was stated that he had declined, and
that he required a declarition that the persons ceiling the
ineetinEwere not parti.en+ of Russia.
The Rev. Mr. IiLitHLI.T was thereupon called to the
choir, and he said the object or the meeting was the pro-
motion, by pacific means, of the cause of Christianity as
ags.nstthe Crescent. By pacific means he meant diplomatic
means, or means aualegous thereto. They were not at
all desirous of promoting the designs of the Russian.,
but they wished to promote the formation of a Christian
empire in the east, having Constantinople for its capital.
Mr. PHRCY ST. JOHN then addressed the meeting. He
enlarged at considerable length upon the state of the
Turkish empire, which he described as being in a most
abject and degraded condition. Since iB2l Turkey had
ceased to take an active part in the affairs of the world; it
was a protected state upheld by the commiseratiog of the
great powers of Europe. It had no army, and no navy
worth the name. The population of European Turkey
consisted of eleven millions of Christians and three millions
of Turks. The merchant., the cultivator., the men who
did all the work, were the Greeks, but the Turks
tyrannised over them. The Greeks naturally looked
to Russia as the only power that had offered
to protect them. He thought, however, they were
wrong in this, for if Russia got possevion of Constan-
tinople the Greeks would fall under a despotism worse
than that under which tt.ey at present suffered. He
thought at the present moment it was the duty of England
to prevent the Russians from arriving at Constantinople,
and that the only mode by which they could oppose the
aggressions of Russia was by the establishment of another
power that would compete with Russia. He moved a
resolution, that an association be formed under the name
of the Eastern Christian League, to disseminate informa-
tion regarding, and to excite the sympathy of England in
behalf of, the suff:ring Christian. of the Levant.

Mr. Sulimn/ HIBBEBT etcondtd, and the Cm/Inman
declared it earned. _

Mr. Rowan Sr. ions( then moved another resolution,
that the sympathy of this country is eye to the eastern
Christians; and Mr. ANDKER EIGOPOLOUS, a Greek, in
seconding It, said the Oreels intended to finish the revolu-
tion thry began in Ib2l, and they could settle it with
Turkey if other nations would not interfere.
Mr. Szootunsrz then addressed the meeting. He con-
tended that a great deal was to be said for Turkey—that
its governaent was not more tyrannical than other govern-
ments, that it saved Kossuth from death, end he stated his
opinion to be that if auy change was made there ought to
be a republic in Turkey.
The resolution passed with half-a dozen dissentients; and
anther resolution appoititica • committee was also
agreed to.
The usual vote of thanks to the chairman wound up the
proceedings.

COMPLIMENTARY DEJEUNER TO MR. G. V.
BROOKE.
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Yesterday, a complimentary ddeuner was given to
this popular tragedian, at the Coalhole T , Strand.
About 50 gentlemen connected with the drama were pre-
sent. Mr. T. E. Smith, the lessee of Drury-lane Theatre,
presided, and in proposing the health of Mr. Brooke, stated
that while Mr. Brooke had been performing at Drury-lane
the nightly receipts bad been greater than at any period
during the last 25 years. The experiment of a morning per-
formance was tried the other day, much against the advice
of some of his friends. The result, however, was that the
home was crowded, ash: that money was refused at the doors,
and many took tickets for a subeequent night performance.
And after the performance in the morning hundreds of per-

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sons might have been seen taking refreshments in the
various houses of entertainment in the neighbourhood,

waiting until the evening performance commenced, that
they might see Mr. Brooke es the stage again. It was also
but judos to state that Mr. Brooke, though the best Shy.
lock on the stage, was by no means a Shylock of it, and
many poor mon could hear testimony to his generosity.
At the conclude• of his address, Mr. Smith, as • mark of
his esteem, presented Mr. Brooke with a diamond ring and
a dirk richly mounted with silver, to be used in his repro
eentations of Hamlet. Mr. Brooke suitably acknowledged
the compliment paid to him, and in the coarse of hie address
spoke gratefully of the friendly feeling which had been in-
variably manifested towards him during hie career on the
star.

INQUEST AT THE MILITARY LUNATIC
ASYLUM, YARMOUTH.

At the Aiseirssd inquest upon the poor man Oar-
bill, wheillatat lise Military Lustig Asylum, the aselhal
cease mid msleinate at the Maims Baepital(wheee• he
seeeniAy bees sienoved) mese . The sures
steed that the deemed hall hem es Waste of the Orissa
Hospital about Ogee years, and every ears hail bees Shea
of hb persenel laity. lie had Imes heard him
of any Wisely having bees dime to him, nor did kr=
that be had sustained any punks* to his leaving Air Yar-
mouth ; I. Set, it wee imPeaslidet Ise he had bees phial I.
• strait waistcoat, which ereall Mee gives hie' Meow
pain had Ms ribs bees broken. The guards sat amialeeds
who had neveyed him to Yarmouth swore most positively
that damsel had not 'mislaid the slightest ill-usage' see
say Wary es his journey. The heed gate-keeper of the Yer-
meads Amen. was examined, wed be &sled that any violence
whatever had bees used to diseased at this end, declaring
that not a head had been held up ageism him ; bat upon
ono el the guide who beought deceased hither being ex-
amined, he ewers most positively that Graham (the keeper
Waded to) when he arrived had taken deemed sad
" shoved (pushed) Me right down," sad thins took hiss
away, • statemeat that wed esbme by mother witness.
dr.ham,bovirever, continued to deny Ss charge, but
admit-
ted that he saw him " fall down." From the 'vides°, tithe
man who undressed deceased, it appeared that on the night
of his arrival he complained of the injuries he had re-
ceived in his side, but did not complain of anybody hav-
ing pushed him down. Tbe jury found a verdict,—
" That deceased died from injuries in his chest, received
subsequently to his arrival in Yarmouth Asylum, but how
or when received there was no evidence to show." They
farther expressed their unanimous opinion "that Jehn
Graham was guilty of using great violence and very im-
! proper treatment to deceased on the night of his arrival."
I Upon the delivery of this verdict, Dr. Dartnell, the senior
physician to the hospital, requested that some evidence
might be adduced as to the general management of the
asylum, but the coroner observed that it was quite unne-
cessary, as the jury did not wish to convey the slightest
miseries on the medical men, whose management they
did not doubt was perfectly satisfactory. Shortly after
the inquest the keeper (Graham) sent in hie resignation.—
Dry Post.

BERIOrS CIIAROS AGAINST A HIJSBAND.—NOT-
T 11101•11, WIDNIIIDAY.—An inquest, involving a serious
charge against • man named Edward Stevenson, alias
Thihon, living in Earl-street, has been held at the Watch-
house this afternoon. Stevenson had been married about
eight years, but had frequently been separated from his
wife. On the 22nd of July they met, after having been
parted for fifteen months, and soon afterwards they went to
live together again. About three weeks ago the woman
became very unwell, and, her illness gradually increasing,
terminated last night in her death, after having given pre-
SWIM birth to a child. Before she died, and when fully
conscious et her impending dissolution, she confessed that
she had been tampered with by her husband. These facts
having been proved, the jury found • verdict of " Wilful
Murder" against Stevenson, and he has boon committed for
trial upon the charge.