The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-26 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

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S 7 —highest sines noon yesterday.
53 —lowest this morning and during the night.
66 —this day at noon.
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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1856,

It is more than hinted that the Anglo• French
occupation of Greece will shortly cease, and that
Athens and the surrounding districts will speedily
be once more subjected to the tender mercies ol
Queen Amsrara. OTHO may be omitted from the
account, as he has been for a considerable time
little better than a puppet, the wires whereof were
pulled by his more energetic partner. It is un-
questionably well in every instance to permit the
internal Government of a country to be managed
by its own inhabitants, and to eschew foreign in-
tervention under any pretext-, however specious ;
but if ever there was a complete justification for
such interference, it is in the case of Greece.
There was no ancient dynasty withlong-established
rights to be regarded, no Sovereign chosen by the
free and independent voice of public opinion. Its
rulers were the mere creatures of the Great
Powers, selected partly for their convenience, and
to prevent a possible ground of dissension amongst
themselves ; and partly to promote the welfare
and prosperity of a people whose time-honoured
associations excited general sympathy and good
feeling. For these purposes they submitted to
incur a considerable outlay, becoming joint secu-
rities for a loan which they have been compelled
to liquidate from their own resources, the
Athenian Government having made no effort,
however trivial, to meet its just responsibilities.
Every just expectation has, however, been dis-
appointed. In place of observing the strict neutra-
lity which, under the peculiar circumstance of his
case, became an imperative duty, the KUM,
under the mischievous inspiration of Queen
AMELIA, displayed the utmost prejudice in favour
of Russia, and an impotent hostility against the
Western Powers. His Court became a hotbed
of Muscovite intrigue. Every thing was done to
promote the sinister views of the Autocrat, and
to defeat the object for which France and Eng-
land were lavishing the blood of thousands, and
tens of thousands of their gallant soldiers, and
tens of millions of pounds sterling. Revolts
were stimulated in the Ottoman Empire, by per-
sons in immediate communication with the Otto-
man Cabinet, and it would not have been very
difficult to have established the direct complicity
of its chief members with the untoward transac-
tions then taking place.

The internal administration was as lax and im-
potent as the foreign policy was injudicious and
indefensible. Brigandage and piracy were rife
throughout the length and breadth of the land
that

g, Was Greece, but living Greece no more,"
and there was security neither for life nor pro-
perty, even in the most frequented highways.
The Greeks themselves were naturally indignant
at the manner in which everything native was
treated. The spirit of Germanism was rampant
throughout the land. They were treated as a
conquered race. No one cculd hope for Court
favour unless through German influence. Queen
AXELIA surrounded herFelf with her countrymen,
and the HELLENES were treated with as much con-
tumely as our Saxon ancestors after the Norman
invasion. The mere suspicion of a tendency to
Nationality or Constitutionalisnt was sufficient to
insure the persecution of those vy ho had the temerity
to entertain opinions Ho uncongenial to the Court
atmosphere.

It was, under such circumstances' very different
indeed from ordinary occupation, that the Western
Powers were compelled to interfere. They • did
so to protect an ally from the grave consequences
of Muscovite intrigues, and a glaring breach of
neutrality, by the mushroom Court. They did
so to restore security for life and property, to
eau the patriots from the misconduct of those