The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-05 00:00:00

STRAND THEATRE.

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THIi EVENING, MAT 5,
THE THREE TURFCIAH RAZOR GRINDERS.
To be followed by PAUL I'RY.
After which, 41/11 ME ft FLOATERS, In which the French Ballet
Troupe will appear.
To conclude with PIGEONWIDDY'S PERILS.
Stan% Ss.; Boxes, 34.; Pit, -1 a. IA; tiallery, 'id.; Private Boxes,
l Is. 6.1., to be had of Mr. Ai'croft- IS, New Bond-street.

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Nelson Lea), enttled A OF r LIE APA NIISH WAR; or,
The Horse of the Wreck. Th horses expressly trained by Mr. W.
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Followed by an entire change of the qcene3of the CIRCLE Intro-
ducing Miss Kate Cooke, Miss Emily Cooke, Mr. t Cooke, Ilse
and Master Gee, and the most talented Equestrian and Artistes in
Europe.
Mdlle. Blanche, the celebrated Continental Artllte, on the
TIGHT ROPE.
MR. BRIGGS IN HIS PLEASURE-I OF 110R.SE.KEEPING.
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West.

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ltfJ WEVHEK.—Strx OFFRA, MAT 5.
TFIERUONETEB, n THE SHADE.
64—highest since noon yesterday.
44 —lowest this morning and during the night.
61-4 his day at noon.

BAROMETER, 29-74.
WIND, W.S.W.—Light breeze, with fine ,sunshiny
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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1854.

Yesterday we published in our columns a re-
markable Protest, recently inse:ted in the Moniteur,
the resolute and dignified Protest addressed, on the
20th ultimo, by the British and French Ambas-
sadors at Athens to M. Paicos, 'the Minister for
Foreign Affairs in King 0111eS Government. It
justifies, in an extraordinary manner, everything
that has hitherto been said in reprehension of the
Greek Court and Cabinet. It proves the accu-
racy of all the charges heretofore directed against
the Greek SOVEREICrN as the fomenter, if not the
actual instigator, of the risings in Epirus and
Thessaly. It demonstrates thoroughly that Lord
STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE was not mistaken when
he assuzed the British Consuls in the Levant,
through a memorable circular, that the insur-
rectionary movements in those quarters were
anything but spontaneous. Now that the
protest, signed by Mr. WYSE and by Baron
RouEN are formally before the public, it
must be perfectly obvious to the meanest capa-
city how correctly Lord JOHN' RUSSELL bad been
informed when he denounced the conduct of both
King OrHO and Queen Alfzu.t. in the House of
Commons, and how egregiously the member for
the West Riding and the member for Manchester
blundered when they presumed to accuse the Noble
Lord of having spoken in terms of unstatesmanlike
intemperance.

What, let us ask, is the gravamen of the accu-
sation, the gist of the .statementfr compacted into
this notable Protest by the skilled diplomacy of the
representatives in Athens of the Allied Govern-
ments ? Why, literally-the 'charge directed against
the Greek Cabinet in the- r. of-these deplor-
able insurrections resembles rather remarkably
another directed against a v:.ry differenttahietearticMcautiiuseviesrtri:yf
somewhat nearer home_h •n .
z
his deductions to' the inevitable`
either credulity or connivance. According to the
y the two
carefully-worded document, signed b
Arabmsadors—either the Minister of Oro
was
deceived in regard to his _information,- or h.
adventured wilfully upon the grossest rnis_atat,"
menu. The question at issue lies in a nutshell.
M. PArcos, the Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs,
addressied an official note, on the 7th of last
March, to NECITET BEY, the SULTAN'S Ambassador
ut the Court of Athens—in reply to the explana-
tions demanded by the latter, in regard to circum-
stances which appeared to prove on the very face of
them the complicity of the Cabinet of °TEM, in the
progress of the Greek insurrection. In this men-
dacious note M. PAICOS ventured, it -would seem,
ItAitthe Assertion that the rising in Epirus was en-
'tirely attributable to the advance of Turkish troops
across the frontier, and to the perpetration by
'them' of several atrocious acts of violence imme-
diitely upon their invasion of the Hellenic terri-
-tory. It was thus flaringly that the charges im-
plied against the Athenjan.cabinet by the expla.
nations demounted trots it.. in the name of his '
.Government by the, Ottoman Ambassador, were
met by 3/1:1"41c94 A*, a:aeries of bold, recrimina.
time. INt tao 39 r 4. voivia• s 1,

a number of explicit charges against the Turks---
a Iliac at once, in the natural course of things, to
the knowledge of the British and French Ambas-
* adors. They had already, no doubt, been watch-
ing with more than accustomed vigilance the progress
of events both in Epirus and Thessaly.Theywi
whecrhe
not ignorant of the particular occurrences
notoriously led to the conviction that the insur-
gents in those provinces had received from the
Greek Sovereigns the most considerable and direct
encouragement. They determined to take the
:matter seriously in hand, with a view to arrive at
-the truth as quickly as possible. In order to ac-
complish this desirable object effectually, they in-
stituted immediate inquiries into the statements
formally made by, the Greek Minister for Foreign
Affairs in an official document, as to the advance
of the Turkish troops across the frontier, and as
to the subsequent commission by them of a series
of heinous cruelties perpetrated within the
boundary of the Hellenic dominions.. " This in-
vestigation," says the Protest of 'the two Ministers,
dated Athens, April 20, " has been proceeded to 1
by all the means which an honest and sincere de-
sire to ascertain the truth could furnish ; men
have been questioned, and places and circumstances
examined." The conclusion reached, therefore,
in this matter is not a conclusion which has been
jumped at by the Ambassadors. They add, "We
are obliged to say, both on account of the duties
which we have to fulfil to our respective Govern-
ments, and of the general interest of truth, that
a great number of proofs of incontestable exacti-
tude has led us to conclude that the accusation
made in your Note, far from having any founda-
tion, leads to a result diametrically opposite, both
as regards the ensemble and the details." Where-
upon they enter into particulars. They affirm
that no corps of Albanians of about 500
then, as' stated by M. Peicos, in _ his Note,
passed into the Hellenic, territory on the 26th
of February.. Pursuing their . detailed con-
tradictions, they deny the statements put for-
ward by the Greek Foreign Minister as to
the conduct of Colonel . SKILODIBIOS, as to the
reported engagement between his troops and the
Albanians in the Greek territory, and finally as
to the latter having, at the close of, that engage-
ment, been repulsed beyond the frontiers they
were said to have invaded. After thus categori-
cally proclaiming the fallacy of these shameless
allegations made by M. PAICOS, the Ambassadors
content themselves with recalling to the knowledge
of that Minister the fact that .the engagement re-
ferred to took place, not on the Greek territory,
but at some miles from the Greek frontier,
under the walls of Arta! Then, continues the
Protest—" By whom and fur what reason has
such a perversion of facts been concocted? What
were the causes of it ? Who were the authors
of this machination ? We think (add the
Ambassadors) that it is not necessary to
pronounce in this respect." That they leave
for a more fitting and a more solemn oppor-
tunity. Later on, however, they speak thus
boldly and resolutely:—" We protest in the most
formal and most energetic terms against the viola-
tion of the Ottoman territory mentioned above,
aggravated as it has been by the attempt made in the
name of the Greek authorities to transform it into
an invasion of the Greek territory on the part of
the Ottoman troops." Enough has been said.
The condemnation of the Greek Court, and of
the Greek Government, has been already
pronounced. We shall await now, with
more eagerness, if possible, than ever, but
with less anxiety, the publication of the blue-
book, promised to be speedily laid before
Parliament in reference to the recent pro-
ceedings of King OTHO, and Queen AMELIA,
and their administrators—more eagerly because of
this new proof of their complicity with the
insurgents, less anxiously because this remarkable
Protest shows also that both France and England
have reason to be satisfied with their delicately
situated representatives.
1

This evening another "little bill" will be pre-
sented to the House of Commons. The guardians
of the public purse will be called tipon to sanc-
tion further expenditure in our Naval, Military,
and Ordnance Establishments, to, the trifling
amount of nearly Five Millions Six Hundred
Thousand Pounds sterling (5,595,8631). These
Supplementary Estimates will—without taking
into account the increase of nearly 3,000,0001.
previons!y sanctioned—very nearly absorb the
entire proceeds of the New Exchequer Bonds,
should Mr. GLADSTONE succeed in having the
whole amount taken. So that the coup try will
practically have to meet out of its ordinary in-
come; and that, too, when waging war with a
powerful opponent, some three millions of extra
expenditure, immediately after having paid
off old debts to the amount of Eight
Millions sterling, making the additional outlay,
within a single year, of eleven millions, exclusive '
of the six millions taken by way of loan. This is
certainly no trifling addition to burdens that had
previously been more than sufficiently onerous,
and quite enough to induce even a more plodding
and patient animal than John Bull to turn restive,
and kick off the unreasonable driver who endea-
vours so unfairly to overload kis charge. That
some such feeling is abroad may be easily con-
jectured from the fact thit n new financial state-
ment (Budget No. 3) is to be brought forward on
Monday evening, when we suppose the Right Hon.
Gentleman will endeavour by some new piece of
financial legerdemain to persuade the community
that all his brilliant conceptions were formed in
the most prudent spirit, and that they ought to
have succeeded, although, unfortunately, the
results were very different from what had been
anticipated.

The people and their independent representa-
tives are, however, becoming tired of these re-
peated explanations—each new one materially
differing from its predecessors. They would
greatly prefer a simple, unvarnished statement,
showing that the calculations had some slight
pretensions to accuracy, and that what had pre-
viously been announced was fully and fairly car-
ried out, than the most elaborate apologies,
couched in the most classical and appropriate
phraseology. They are beginning, in fact, to ask
for "deeds" rather than "words," and to think
that an ounce of performance is better than a ton
of promises. Nay, more, they are beginning to
change an opinion, not hastily or recklessly
adopted, and to deem it possible to have a worse
Financial Minister even than Sir CHARLES WOOD
himself. It is even whispered that' the
active mischief of the King STORK is" less
tolerable than the perverse and stubborn
apathy that refused to, notice the most obvious
incidents, or to remove any of the existing abuses,
however injurious to the welfare
.and prosperity
of the community. Mr. GLADSTONE must, then,
determine on making some decisive move to re-
store his woefully damaged reputation. He must
not cling to old regulations, when they manifestly
lead to his discomfiture, but must look to the sub-
stance rather than to the form, recollecting that a
victory irregularly obtained is better than a de-
feat, where the contest had been conducted on the
most scientific principles. If he wishes to re-
trieve his character, he will shake off the tram-
mels of red tapism, and bring forward a proposi-
tion likely to prove acceptable to the people and
capable of being carried into practical operation.
We shall briefly indicate the nature of what
the night Honourable Gentleman ought to do if
he desires to obtain favour in the sight of the
dothat
tax-paying community. First, he ought to
replacetin
Etxhycehequer balances in the same con-
" Conversion abowrtoi:nki." have been but for the
When he introduced
that brilliant conception to the Rouse, he never
for a moment supposed that he would have to
pay off, in hard cash to dissentients,
mil-
lions, or even one million sterling. eight
He fancied
l that some of the equivalents which he tendered
Iwould have been readily accepted—that there
would have been a rush of Fundholders, anxious
to participate in the benefits which he offered.
Had he not been egregiously mistaken in this
notion there would not have been a single
shilling withdrawn from the public deposits
to satisfy claims which were never anticipated.
Why, then, should not the equivalents for
4 to
the_rackuoY .1' tho dissentients bo placed
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