The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF. THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(Proof!, 'the Times of this day.)
While the telegraph which is to annonnee the,
'sombardment of Odessa hangs fire, And Prince
-lrortschakoff contents himself with; informing the,
3ritish public that the allies have advanced a step
'a the way to. Parekop, we are forced. to turn
0 matters of minor importance, and to make some
)bservations pn what has been taking place in the
wecious little kingdom of Greece; and 'on the bei-
taviour of Otho the Witless, whom England,
i?rauce, and Russia set up to rule over the land
which was to reflect all the glories of the ancient
lenae. We must confess that the public are
iardly likely fo interest themselves greatly in a
;hange of Ministers in Greece. The old compari-
ion of a tempest in a teacup will occur to every one
,who for the last few woeks has glanced over the
occasional accounts of embroilments between the
King, the Queen, General Kalergi, and IV!. Mavro-
:ordato. We must, however, take events as they
occur. We cannot have a capture of Sebastopol
every day, and therefore we must occasionally be
Jontent with a miserable dish of Greek politics. .
There is no need to enter at length into the petty
intrigues which have ended with the dismissal of
die Minister of War. Let it suffice to say that
"ersonal enmities were the chief motives of what
las happened, and that General Kalergi has no
reason to proclaim himself a martyr to liberty and
the cause of the Western Powers. In times past
!very politician iti this little State enrolled him-
self in the ranks..of some foreign -party. There was
.he French party, the English, Russian, and Bava-
rian parties. The last seems pretty well extinct.
The Germans,- who followed in the train of the new
Hellenic Majesty, found but scanty inducemen is
co remain on so poor a pasturage ; most of the m
returned speedily to Fatherland-, and they have ha d
but few successors. Ten years ago there was a
great talk of the English party and the necessity of
'reserving our influence at Athens; but Admiral
Parker's bloklade destroyed this political section,
cud there is no reason-to believe that we have suf-
'ered by its extinctiou. M. Mavrocordato is now
.ts solitary representative. There remain the Rus-
.ian and French parties. The former includes the
King, the priests, and the great body of the peo-
ale ; the Queen and her Lathes of Honour are also
nthusiastic in their support. The French have
had the allegiance of the pure and patriotic Oppo-
ition,"the men who denounced corruption because
hey did not profit by it, and talked of reform un-
it they should rise to prolong the present system.
They do not seem to- have been much valued by
he present ruler of France, whose indifference to
heir virtues has sadly tried their attachment.
3-eneral Kalergi is certainly one of the most honest
,f the number, but he is, after all, only a hotheaded
hml ambitious Greek, as fond of intrigue and per-
:onal display as the rest ()this race. Having served
,vith credit during the revolution, and being well
tcquainted with men and politics in Western Eu-
,,pe, be was raised to power by the influence of
he allies after the occupation of Athens last year.
Whether he has fulfilled their anticipations depends
•ipon what they expected. His chief service has
wen the suppression of brigandage on the frontier;
n other respects his career has been remarkable
mly for a series of quarrels with the King and
Queen. The immediate cause of his downfall
is said to be his familiarity with a lady at Atheus.
The General wished her to be received at Court ;
-he Queen would consent only on condition that her
tusband accompanied her. Asa separation had taken
dace, this amounted to arefusal. Kalergi then wrote
L letter toMavrocordato, expressing his surprise that
Queen Atnalia should decline to receive a lady for
such a reason, and stating that he himself had been
,bliged to defend the Queen's honour on one
occasion. A duplicate of this letter he seems to
have sent to a French paper. The natural conse-
quence was his dismissal, which need be a matter
of regret to no one.

Alf that the Western Powers desire is, that both
King and people should keep themselves quiet and
forl:ea,r from molesting their neighbours. This is
not a course which they may choose or neglect at
pleasure ; they have no alternative, for any dis-
turbance on the frontier will call down something
flore than the disapprobation of the allies. As re-
gards domestic politics and Court scandal Athens
nay be left to itself. The Hellenes have escaped
with strange impunity from the consequences of
last year's delinquency. Headed:by the King and
Queen, the nation formed a crusade against the
authority of ,the Sultan in his own provinces. At
its inglorious close_ it was .thought that some pe-
nalty would be exacted whicS would deter them
from another attempt. The Greeks, however, ob-
stinately refused an indemnity, declared that the
country was too poor to' pay it, and succeeded in
inducing tee Western Governments to dissuade
the Porte from its claim. You cannot get blood
from a stone. However, as the relations of the
two couutries were to be placed on a new basis, a
treaty was negotiated. Ottoman and Hellene
troops were to co-operate for the extirpation of
-he brigands on the frontier. Otho's Minister for
Foreign affairs was to express his regret for past
events, and new commercial regulations were
inade, giving mutual advantages to the two coun-
tries. As the commerce of both is in the hands of
Greeks, it is evident that the same race has been
benefited by the concessions of the Sultan and of
Otho. The Greeks have therefore turned their in-
vasion to profitable account ; it is their habit, but
they must not think that they will be permitted to
renew their outrage. Whoever may he called to the
Royal counsels must acquiesce in the tranquillitywhich
the
;'flies impose. So long.as King Otho keeps
he eace we haven°
ssish to interfere in the arrange-
merits of his Palace "'
his a-
's
trouble enou,ech with our own szamutdehamb• We have had
the-women.
e Greeks
If it be a glory to ht -"le in
may be proud of their celebrifY, Zfo
recent tidies has inspired such hoped and gifen 'l"6h
trouble ; no people t'ists fofinerly so much landed or
is now so much abused. The afaifd Of (iresice for
years filled as many columns in European journals
as the'affairs of the United States. The habitual
state Of the acrferiimeht *as a crisis, which the
representatives of the leading Powers of Europe
watched with due aniiiety. All this is now past.
King Otho and his people IA longer interest the
world. The Greeks have to regain a place in the
good will of Europe, and even ir contintied
tional cetistence must depend on the policy of the
Court. Our own diredt felatiosts with this small
kingdom will be few, but its intercourse with Tur-
key must daily increase. Christians of all sects,
but especially the Greekst are gaining large elln"
by the present war. While the Musstilman popular
tion has been carried off by the conscriptions and is
in certain parts hastening to extinction, the Chris-
tians are increasing in numbers, and many are
amassing fortunes which would be large even in
England. The empire is ruined while the country
is enriched ; the power of the Sultan and his raoe
is gradually Wasting as the subject people advance
in wealth and power. Ho* to conduct the State
safely through these changes is a problem which
the Western Powers must solve. In this they 'will
probably have little assistance from the Hellene
Court and people, or from their co-religionists of
Roumelia and Asia Minor. All these entertain
views of supremacy which must divide them from
all sympathy with leranee and England. The allies,
howeter, will not relax from the strictness with
which they enforce their resolves, and, while they
view with indifference the fall of a Minister, they
will not allow any tampering with the policy which
it is their right to impose.

Prot Ike Mdireing Pod of this tedo
The Pureigii Nliniilter of. poghyid. has lld Mote
difficult task than that of dealing With those. small;
States who take courage from their inisidniffednd6
to be utterly bad and mischievous. They are Stfou
enough to be thoroughly
.troublesome—they are
tuo weak to be punished without raising a terrible
cry of martyrdom. Their rulers are the prey of
some small clique, who lead them amiss with the
most desperate pertinacity. Clever, reckless, and
without a tinge of shame, these intriguers set at
naught all ties of honour, gratitude, and patriot-
ism, and take their masters and patrons into situa-
tions whence they cannot escape without some
damage and a great deal of dishonour. Great Britain
has the happiness to be interested in more than one
of the,ie, and certainly the meanest, Most foolish,
and the most wicked among them, is the Kingdom
of Greece, or, we should rather say, the Court of
country Athens.
borne For 2woityhea patience—on the whole reallyars have the Ministers of this
wonderful—the mischief and the. violence into
which King Otho has been forced by bad influences.
At times they have been compelled to interfere,
and to show him strongly that England was deter-
mined to be treated with justice and respect.
It was not likely that the war with Russia should
fail to give the Greek Party, or rather the Camarilla
that rules Greece in its own manner, an oppor-
tunity of appearing in its peculiar colours. The
vast scale upon which the war has been rapidly car,-
ried on has taken the attention of the world
from tne misdoings of Greece; but it must not be
forgotten that that country was early in the eld
agamt Turkey; that, while preforming neutrality

and enjoying its privileges, her Court connived at,
and, we believe, incited the flocking of men and
officers to the Frontier Raids. It must be re-.
membered, too, that the only means by which
England and France could insure the respect'
which they had a right.to demand, was by station-
ing-an armed force at Athens and assuming the
slight material guarantee of a decided military oc-
cupation. Notwithstanding this security, we hear
now of a new difficulty at Athens—of a new act of
rashness and folly on the part of the Camarilla—of
a new blindness on the part of the King. The
Minister of War, 'General Kalergi, was one of the
most truly patriotic of the Mavrocordato Ministry.
He was the author of the Revolution which, twelve
years ago, gave Greece a Constitution which she
has not had the spirit, the vigour, or the cultiva-
tion to use with reality and effect. He did not
number among his advantazes that of being liked
by the King and Queen. He had the full confi-
dence of the Western Powers. He had not the
good fortune of enjoying that of his own Court.
On the strength of a charge of writing offensive
remarks on the proceedings of his Monarchs, the
dismissal of General Kalergi was demanded of
Mavrocordato, who replied that, if the General
went, the whole Ministry went with him. The
matter was referred to the Ministers of the English
and French Courts, as to two of the protecting
Powers of Greece. They expressed the confidence
that they felt in the Mavrocordato ministry, and
endeavoured in vain to bring the King to reason.
He remained obstinate ; Mavrocordato.resigried,
and there is now, we believe, a prolonged Minis-
terial crisis in Greece. The day after this resig-
nation, Mr. Wyse, as the elder of the two repre-
sentatives, waited on the King—explained to 14,x(
that nothing could be farther from the wishes 'of
both the Great Powers than any interference be-
tween him and his Ministers ; that he was at
liberty to dismiss and to choose whom he would as
advisers, but that the Western Powers having
learned, by a long experience, how mere a phrase
Constitution and Representative Government had
become in Greece, would henceforth hold the King,
who really possessed the sole guidance of affairs,
personally responsible for whatever might happen.
This warning is said somewhat to have perturbed
his Majesty, who has probably sense enough to
know that England and France are very much in
the habit of meaning what they say, and of carry-
ing out their expressed intentions. No substan-
tive Ministry is'yet reported. The Western Powers
have taken active nicasures for the observation of
the country, and are fully on their guard against
mischief. The Camarilla and the governing clique
are intensely delighted at having succeeded in an
intrigue, at having defeated, as they imagine, the
Western Powers, at having got rid of a patriotic
Minister, and an enemy to Russia, at having,
Heaven knows whom, in their hands, Heaven
knows what plan in their heads, to improve the in-
terests of Russia and to destroy the interest§ of
that unhappy Greece which lies at their mercy.
Such is our present situation with this miserable
Court of Athens, which has never done its duty in
the government of Greece. At the beginning of
the war with Russia we detected her in open vio-
lation of her neutrality. That'offence we stopped,
and took precautions against its recurrence. We
have now the strongest symptoms of a repetition of
the fault. Small though Greece is, , she has the
power, no less than the will, to do mischief in the
cause of Russia against the two Powers to whom
she stands so largely indebted ; and we hope that
those Powers will be prevented by no false deli-
cacy from measuring out to King Otho and his
Court, on the first sign of a relapse, on the first re-
appearance of treachery, the strong treatment
which he most richly demands and deserves.