The New York herald., 1850-06-08
Ths ~ ate OF Europe - Russia, England,
France and Greece.


In vindcating the rights and honor Of Great |
s. itsin, with respect to the affairs of Greece the
London Times observes that the government
should have truth and justice on their side, and
pertinenty ADDS that they have "neither the one
nor the other" There was no necessity for this
acknowledgment of a world- known fact. The
humiliation Of the confession might have been
avoided, and the assured sense of the public mind
might have been permitted to ponder on the fact,
in the most perfect silence. The political sieve,
however, will sometimes let few pure drops of
truth run through, TO contrast foreibly with the
mass of incoherent matter However, 1t is not
our purpose TO enter into the external history of
the blockade Of the Piraus, or TO give any further
opirion upon the character sf the levi4han feet of
England that "harpooned the miserable mnnow,
the nfnitesimal State Of Greece" Th. noble at
tack and subssquen forbearance will take rank,
doubtless, with Sir Henry Wards recent chival-
rous acts, in the Mexican Style, in Cephaloaia,
where he shot dozen men-scoundrels, of course
at the drum head. Or, if that is too bloody
category it may be classed with long list of acts
perpetrsted by the statesmen of the British navy
in many other parts of the world, but chiefly upon
people who are too poor to own a navy, and some
times too poor, even, to pay their debts, or to OBJ
tain apowerfu protector.
Our immediate purpose is TO look into the mvs-
terry that lies at the foundation of the recent with
drawal from London of the French envoy NJ
Drouin de L'Huys. This mystery is hinted at, as
one, in the debates in Parliament in the ministerial
articles in the London Post, in the Anglo Russian
articles of the Times, and in the ntminsterial
fulmnations of the Morning Chronicle; bu, there
seems no Gdpus in the House of Commons, or in
al. l.
this modern Sphinx, which, after all, may prove a
very simple affair. There is contest between
France and Russia to ascertain which nation, in
future, is TO have most influence with King Ohio,
and England is anxious, very naturally, to know
whether or not she is TO be shorn of any of her
power by the future contingencies brought about
by Russian aggressions upon Turkey, whereby her
connection with the East may be che cked or con-
trolled The old cabinet of Ohio Wa. in the pay Of
the Czar and King Ohio, glad TO jump out of that
thra'dom, obtained a new cabinet, so as to keep on
good footing with France France, in the whole
affair, has been made the cats-paw Of Russia; and
it was with great diplomatic significance that Count
Nesselrode, in of his letters, stated that the
part taken by France relieved his master, Nicho-
las, from any inclination TO active interference
Still Russia has stood oil, and watched the game.
Baron BrunOw, the Russian ambassador in Lon
don, even went far as to have the measles or
some other malady, not to be in London on
the Queens birthday, and, to all appearance, to
be in keeping with the action Of the French ambas-
sador.
1t is not necessary however, to enter into all the
tricks connected with the history of this great di-
pomaiic movement upon a very small trivial affair.
One thing is certain, that King Ohio had blown
hot and cold between Russia and France, till he
took advantage of the easy suggestions of>thc
French agent, and that the whole matter is
left between England and France to settle the great
question Of national polteness while Russia keeps
in the background, providing all possible stimu.
lanis 20 France TO get up bcl'i, so that the
Auocrat may, in his turn, step in with "gosd
Offices" and re-establish the old order of things in
the most ant-republican manner possibis.
This is now the simple position. The only ques-
ton seems to be on the strength of what are termed
" friendly relations" Should these prove weak,
aHd tii, ties Le severed foi amOus, IN. would
will be in arms, and the crowned heads of Europe
will once more struggle together for the re-organi-
zation Of political virtue in la Belle France.
The whole affair may be considered piece of
intrigue, and the position in which
Lord Palmerston has placed himself may be justly
deemed quite ridiculous. There will be no long
contest, if any yet there may be prominent end
to very trivial beginning. We are ready to learn
more.