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LONDON, TH;7RSDAY, APRIL 28. 1870.

THE Prince of Wales has u .doubtedly gOO I ground
to complain of the treatment he has received from
the public press. Since the first trial of the Dior,

daunt case, scandal has been unwarrantably busy
with his name ; and, fwgetful of its proper
dignity, the press has in some instances lent
its aid to the spread of unfounded rumours. Whilst
the famous divorce suit itself was in progress, a
gross breach of confidence was committed by the pub-
lication of the Prince's letters to Lady Mordaunt
Those letters were surreptitiously obtained
by a reporter. They were hawked about for sale to
the var 04 London newspaper ofiic and press
associations ; but, without exception, every London

journalist declined to close with the bar-
gain. The editor of the Birmingham Post,
however, was less careful of the honour of
his craft, and gave to the world a private
correspondence which had not then been read in
court, and probably never would have been. It is
to v.: regretted that the contempt of court involved
in this transaction was not more severely dealt
with. Both for the protection of the Royal Family
and of careful journalists, such a departure from the
right course ought not to have passed unnoticed. It
is one of the misfortunes of royalty that it cannot
avail itself of the usual means of security against
libel and misrepresentation, whilst the press, of all
professions, is most liable to discredit through the
error of a single member.

In this instance one indiscretion speedily
led to another. The sub-editor of that
Sheffield Telegraph, left one evening in charge
of the paper, received a scandal-mongering
telegram which he not only inserted, but ably im-
proved upon by adding the names of the Earl and the
Countess of Sefton. The public mind has been effec-
tually disabused of any belief it may have placed
in this rumour. No one, however, would
feel regret if the originators of this scandal were
awarded substantial punishment. Unfortunately, in
this as in many other cases, retribution does not fall
upon the original offender. The proprietor
of the Sheffield Telegraph, who is also the publisher,
will have to answer for an offence in which
he did not participate, he was away at the time
when a telegram was forwarded from the "Press
Association " stating that the Prince of Wales would
be a party in the forthcoming divorce suit,
and'his assistant completed the mischief by adding

the names of Lord and Lady Sefton. But
as Mr. Leng hOlds the responsible position, the
weight of this "deplorable indiscretion," as he
naturally calls it, falls to his lot. It remains
to be aeon what atonement he will have
to make. Under the circumstances we should
scarcely like to see Mr. Leng undergoing a long term
of imprisonment. There appears to be no mode of
making his subordinate bear the punishment of the
offence which he committed, since the official pub-
lisher is responsible for whatever appears in the
paper. The position is one which is
not usually provided for in practice.
Former generations were more provident.

It was understood to be the regular business of •
publisher to expiate in gaol the offences of the editors
but this function is so little thought of now that
proprietors not unfrequently become their own pub•
fishers. As it is clear that the fault was not a
personal one, it is to be hoped that no
personally unpleasant consequences will befall Mr.
Leng. The proceedings will unquestionably be of
service in putting a stop to the imputations which
have been, showered down upon the Prince. The
secure gain of such an end will be ample reason for
mitigating the severity with which all concerned
would otherwise be visited.

Tom: official correspondence which has passed
between the Foreign Office, Mr. Erskine, and the
Greek Government, touching the late deplorable
events, fully confirms the opinion that the
demand of the brigands for a pardon
ought to have been conceded, and that four
lives were lost because it was refused. The Greek
• Ministry appear to have acted with incredible want
of judgment and prudence. All the circumstances
are against them. The threats of the robbers
to murder their captives, if pursuit were at-
tempted, had been proved by experience to
be no idle attempt at coercion. The ways of
brigandage are as well understood at Athens as the
ways of poachers are in Lancashire; the Greek
robber is an atrocious ruffian, who, by his long and
successful defiance of the Government has attained
somewhat of the dignity of a regular foe. At least
he has on many occasions made terms with as much
authority as an invading and successful army. In
both Italy and Greece the Government has been
compelled ,to haggle and treat with a band of cut-
throats who had previously secured their
position by the capture of valuable hostages. This
case, then, presented no novel features—save the
unparallelled audacity of the capture, the impor-
tance of the prey, and the exceptionally incompetent
behaviour of the Government. There was no lack
of entreaty and strong representation. A note from
one of the captives, Mr. Herbert, earnestly
deprecated the idea of pursuit as likely to
lead to fatal results. The British Ambassador at
Athens, Mr. Erskine, was prompt in demanding that
the ransom and the pardon to the brigands be granted
as the only mode of saving the captives. In address-
ing the Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr.
Erskine says :—" The Minister of War has already
given me a solemn promise that no attempt shall be
made to pursue the brigands until the captives are
released, a threat having been made by the
brigands that the least attempt to molest them
would be instantly followed by the massacre of
the whole party, and I trust that you, sir, will
take care that this engagement is religiously kept."
r 1 Cllren lon nirto a formal request for a pardon ,
to the Greslc representative in London, and when
told that the Greek Constitution would not allow
an amnesty,ruicklyreplied that the Constitu-
tion had been €0 often and systematically violated in
matters of internal administration, that it could not be
taken into account when life was at stake. And yet
the Athens Administration not only gave no pardon,

but attempted a pursuit of the brigands, and thus
directly caused the murder of the captives.
No doubt it is humiliating for a regular Govern-
ment to treat with a small gang of marauders.
But the humiliation lay not in the negotiation itself,
but in the discreditable state of things which
gave rise to it. The Greek Government had lost
its honour before the captives were taken, and it
could not regain it by any high-handed proceedings
afterwards. Incompetent government—corruption,
neglect, mismanagement—such are the causes which
have had the effect of enabling Greek brigands to set
the law at defiance. To insist upon the letter
of the Constitution, to refuse the only
practical remedy which offered itself, was
merely to set off the original source of disgrace in a
stronger light. There was only one consideration for
the Government in such a position—to save the
lives of the foreigners whom its incapacity had
betrayed; and then if the lesson had been
turned to good account it would have been well.
The brigands had become masters of the situation;
they merely employed the ordinary machinery of
their dark trade; and there could be nothing
gained by refusing to admit the fact.
Of course the matter now becomes a grave national
question. Such redress as is possible must be
exacted, though it will be only dignified
and proper to avoid the extravagant tone
of bullying which has been advocated in
some quarters. There is nothing to be gained by
calling the Greek Ministers murderers, after the
fashion of the Standard. Greece is a small and
weak state, England a great and powerful one.