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

LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1854.

Yesterday we published in our columns a re-
inarkableProtest, recently inserted 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 OTHO'S 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 SOVEREIGN 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

be assured the British Consuls in the Levant, The people and their independent representa-
tbrough a memorable circular, that the insur- tives are, however, becoming tired of these re-
peated
explanations—.each new one materially
zectionary movements in those quarters were
differing from its predecessors. They would
anything but spontaneous. Now that the gicatly prefer a simple, unvarnished statement,
protest, signed by Mr. WYSE and by Baron showing that the calculations had some slight
Routs are formally before the public, it pretensions to accuracy, and that what had pre-
viously been announced was fully and fairly car-
must be perfectly obvious to the meanest capa-
city how correctly Lord JOHN RUSSELL had been ried out, than the most elaborate apologies,
informed when he denounced the conduct of both couched in the most classical and appropriate
phraseology. They are beginning, in fact, to ask
King OTHo and Queen AMELIA in the House of • for ~ deeds " rather than "words," and to think
Commons, and how egregiously the member for that an ounce of performance is better than a ton
the West Riding and the member for Manchester of promises. Nay, more, they are beginning to
blundered when they presumed to accuse the Noble change an opinion, not hastily or recklessly
Lord of having spoken in terms of unstatesmanlike adopted, and to deem it possible to have a worse
intemperance. Financial Minister even than Sir CHARLES WOOD
himself. It is —even whispered that the
What, let us askpis the gravamen of the accu-
active mischief of the King STORK is less
cation, the gist of the statement compacted
into tolerable than the perverse and stubborn
this notable Protest
by the skilled diplomacy of the apathy that refused to notice the most obvious
representatives in Athens of the Allied Govern- incidents, or to remove any of the existing abuses,
inents ? Why, literally the charge directed against however injurious to the welfare and prosperity
the Greek Cabinet in the matter of these deplor- of the community. Mr. GLADSTONE must, then,
able insurrections resembles rather remarkably determine on making some decisive move to re-
another directed agttiwit a very different Ministry store his woefully damaged reputation. He must
home—bringui. not cling to old regulations, when they manifestly
somewhat nearer
g the accuser in lead to his discomfiture, but must look to the sub-
his deductions to the inevitable alternative of stance rather than to the form, recollecting that a
either credulity or connivance. According to the victory irregularly obtained is better than a de-
carefully-worded document, •
signed by the two feat, where the contest had been conducted on the
gmbassadors—either the Minister of Or was most scientific principles. If he wishes to re-
deceived in regard to his information,trieve his character, he will shake off the tram-
or he
adventured wilfully upon the grossest mis_state.. mels of red tapism, and bring forward a proposi-
The question at issue lies in a tion likely to prove acceptable to the people and
men ts. nutshell.
M. Raicos, the Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs, capable of being carried into practical operation.
r°, We shall briefly indicate the nature of what
official note, on the 7th of last
addressed an the Right Honourable Gentleman ought to do if
T BEY, the SULTAN'S Ambassador he
March, to NEME desires to obtain favour in the sight of the
Athens—in to the explana- tax-paying
at the Court of reply community. First, he ought to
the latter, in regard to circum- replace the Exchequer balances in the same con-
tions demanded by dition that they would have been but for the
stances which appeared" Conversion abortion." When he introduced
e Cabinet of OTHO, in the that brilliant
them the complicity of th conception to the House, he never
insurrection. In this men- fur a moment supposed that he would have to
ventured, it would seem, pay off, in hard cash to
dacious note M. PA/COS dissentients, eight mil-
on was en- ;lions, or even one
on the assertion that the rising in Epirus. million sterling. He fancied
of Turkish troops that some of the equivalentswhich tirely attributable to the advance
by I would have been readily
across the frontier, and to the perpetration accepted—that there
e_ I would have been a rush of Fundh ld
them of several atrocious acts of violence imm o ers, anxious
diately upon their invasion of the Hellenic terri-
1121. 1 I to participate in the benefits which he offered.
tory. It was thus daringly that the charges
- ,Had he not been egregiously mistaken in this
there would not have been a single
plied against the Athenian Cabinet by the expla- notion,
withdrawn from the public deposits
nations demanded from it in the name of his shilling
Government by the Ottoman Ambassador, were to satisfy claims which were never anticipated.
then,
wet by M. PAICOS with a series of bold recrimina- 1 Wily, should not the equivalents for to the dissentients be placed
tione. The fact of these recriminations—involving i the money paid