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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1870.

THE Emperor has issued a manifesto to the French
nation, inviting the men of universal suffrage
to ratify, by their individual votes, the new Con-
stitution of France. This plebiscite will take
place on Sunday week, and it is generally
admitted that the conclusion is foregone. That a
majority of voters will be on the side of the Emperor
is deemed so certain that the appeal to the
nation will really be nothing more than
a ceremony. Why, then, it may be
asked, all this disturbance about the
plebiscite ? Why these resignations of Ministers—
these grave doubts on the part of the Emperor's
friends—theso transports of rage on the part of his
enemies? The new Constitution is a good one,
a great -concession to liberty, and it might be
urged that a formal ratification would make no

difference in the actual gain to the people. Unfor-
tunately there are divers circumstances connected
with this personal appeal which go far to
dissipate the notion of its harmless character.
The Emperor is supposed to be now establishing
pirl!lmentary government ; but the plebiscite
is itself contrary to all principles of a
.onstitutional system. If the nation is tc
be ruled by its representatives, it is a clear dis-
credit of representation to pass by the Legislature and
invoke the direct suffrages of the electors.
Moreover, the Emperor's mode of action throughout
this affair has been essentially personal
and arbitrary. There is nothing of the
nature of parliamentary government, either in the
appeal or in the manner of making it. The Emperor's
proclamation says nothing about a responsible
ministry, or the Legislature, or any other institution
calculated to restrict his own powers. It is full
of the great " I." It contains much of the
stuff which is to be found in all the Em-
peror's proclamations, with much that is offen-
sive in the way of allusions to his great-
ness, his elevation, and divers other matters
which have little to do with the welfare of France.
Of any signs that a great concession is to be made, by
which the French people are to be entrusted with
their own guidance, this proclamation does not con-
tain one vestige.
If the plebiscite were an isolated act, there would
be little occasion for complaint. The Emperor has
wielded extensive power for many years, and he is giv-
ing up at least a great portion of it. It is not to be
supposed that such a surrender can be made
without a pang. A personal appeal to the people
would be a convenient mode of retreating with
dignity. But the new Constitution provides that
the sovereign shall retain this power of taking a poll
head by head, and at the first opportunity
Napoleon has shown his determination to use
the privilege. The plebiscite is not an isolated act,
it is not a mere coruscation of blue fire in
the midst of which personal rule is trans-
formed into parliamentary rule : it is a fixed
principle of the Constitution. And as it is difficult
to conceive that an appeal to the nation can be other
than an appeal from some decision of the
Legislature, no wonder the friends of con-
stitutional liberty feel anxious. Such a
clause in the new Constitution is a disturbing ele-
ment, and to that degree it lessens the value of the
changes to which the Emperor has been induced to
azree.

VV HEN the hrst news of the capture of English-
men by Greek brigands arrived, we all hoped that
the affair would prove nothing more serious than
romantic, though disagreeable and costly, ad-
venture. It has ended in a terrible
butchery. All the four prisoners who remained
in the hands of the robbers have been put
to death in cold blood, because the Greek Govern-
ment would not grant the full demands of the
marauders. The exact facts of this massacre are not
yet forthcoming, but there can be no doubt that the
worst part of the story is true. The four
gentlemen have been murdered; and so far
as prasent intelligence goes, the criminals are still at
large, the Greek Government from first to last
having displayed the most perfect incapacity to en-
force its laws.

The story dates about a fortnight back. On
Monday, April 11, a party of eight travellers started
from Athens to view the field of Marathon. They
were Lord and Lady Muncaster, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
and their little daughter, Mr. F. Vyner, late 111. P.
For Ripon, Mr. Herbert, one of the
secretaries of our Legation at Athens,
and the Secretary of the Italian Legation.
Besides the travellers, the party included. a guide,
driver, and four gendarmes whom the Government
had allowed to accompany the expedition as an
escort. It is asserted that more efficient protection was
claimed and refused, but this part of the story must
be left for further confirmation. Everything went
well during the early part of the day. The travellers
r3ached their destination, and explored without
harm the famous battle-field where the liberties of
Greece were secured long before the opening of the
Christian era. But whilst passing through a narrow
mountain gorge, on their return home, a gang of
about thirty brigands assailed the party, and speedily
gained an easy victory. Scarcely the semblance of
a conflict took place. A. volley was fired at the
gendarmes, one of whom was killed, and another
mortally wounded. The captives were then hurried
off towards the mountains. It seems that a detach-
ment of soldiers, thirty-one in number were
on the route—sent apparently by the tardy Govern-
ment to act as an additional protection ; but these
were not able to arrive in time. Six foot soldiers
did, indeed, come up just as the brigands were
making off, but they were not sufficiently nume-
rous, and the fire they opened might have proved
fatal to the captives, had it been kept up. The
brigands carried away their prey in triumph. They
sent the ladies and the two surviving gendarmes
back to Athens. The five gentlemen, with
the guide were compelled to undergo a long
march, at the end of which a conference took place.
It was arranged by the brigands that the large ran-
som of £25,000, with a free pardon, should be
demanded, and Lord Muncaster was sent off to
make the necessary arrangements. Every-
thing was managed in the best style
of that brigand art which flourishes amid
the effilte Governments of southern Europe. Lord
Muncaster was not allowed to depart without a pro-
mise that if he failed he was to return, a further
stipulation being made that the lines of the captives
depended upon his success.
With this reasonable understanding that if he
could not arrange the terms he was to
return to be murdered, Lord Muncaster arrived
at Athens. Then commenced a miserable negotiation.
The money was soon found. But the pardon pre-
sented grave obstacles, and Lord Muncaster passed
again and again from Athens to the brigands, and
from the brigands to Athens, just as if the thirty
miscreants were an invading army having rather the
best of the situation. The Athens authorities
could not be persuaded to grant a pardon. Their
repugnance to such a humiliation was natural, though
the humiliation was of their own producing, and the
time for standing upon nice points of honour was
past. Infantry and cavalry were sent against the
robbers. They were, however, immediately recalled,
for they endangered the lives of the prisoners. Still
the Greek Government refused a pardon, whilst the
brigands with equal obstinacy insisted upon one, and
quite naturally, for of what avail could money be
without the means of escape ? The disgraceful situa-
tion proved too much for the patience
of the Ministry. They again sent out
troops; the brigands retreated; the soldiers followed
them up; and then came the horrible consummation.
There is no difficulty in determining the cause of
this catastrophe. The Greek Government is chroni-
cally incapable of ruling its territory, and on this
occasion it behaved with more than ordinary incapa-
city. l3rigandage flourishes in all the southern
States of Europe ; it is more than usually difficult
of . extirpation in Greece ; and the natural
perplexity of the problem is intensified by
the unfortunately incompetent character of
the present Administration. In choosing George of
Denmark for their King, the Greeks got a Prince of
a liberal and enlightened house; but the young man
who fell to their share would have shone to better
advantave in the home of his fathers. He is feeble.

and quite unequal to the duty of governing
a State where the King must necessarily be
something more than a mere shadow. The
duties of King George are properly not merely those
of an ordinary constitutional monarch ; he must, in
addition, personally supervise the business of his
kingdom. With a handsome, gay, weak trifler,
such as the son of the King of Denmark, it was not
likely that brigandage would decrease, or that any of
the mpny difficulties of Greece would be overcome.
Accordingly the pest bas in no wise diminished. It
is still rampant; a large number of Greeks embark
in a business so exciting and profitable, and of
those who are not brigands many actively
sympathise with those who are. Having
done nothing to repress brigandage, the Government
thought fit to assume a highly authoritative tone, and
to stand upon its dignity just at a moment when a
party of foreigners were in the hands of the
defiant robbers and threatened with death. It
might be all very well to uphold the law and refuse
a free pardon before the marauders had become
masters of the position ; but when the lives of
English and Italian travellers were at stake through
the incompetence of those to whom the Government
of the country is entrusted, the first care ought to
have been the safety of the prisoners. The Greek
Government muddled these lives away without
saving its honour. It first sent troops,
then recalled them; first took high ground,
and then relaxed; and after making itself ridiculous,
terminated the affair by making itself despicable.
The Times, with curious logic, observes that the
Greek Government had no alternative but to refuse
the pardon; but now we must take vengeance
on the brigands, and if the Greek Government is
not equal to the occasion, "we may tender help
sufficient to insure the desired end, and in-
sist upon its being accented." It seems, then,
that honour would not permit the Athens Ministry
to grant a pardon, but it will allow of the lauding of
a foreign force on Greek soil to enforce justice
against law-breakers. We shall not attempt
to reconcile these two propositions. The
Government ought to have given the pardon,
and it ought now to enforce justice, if
need be with English assistance. The only poor
satisfaction left is necessary alike for ourselves and
for preserving to Greece the vestige of some claim
to be treated as a civilised State.

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OSBORNE, April 25.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Iligh-
ness Princess Louise, walked and drove this morn-

The other members of the Royal Family also
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