The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-21

Is, perhaps, the least really extensive and efcient
Of the causes Of this unhappy movement =. Drouyn
de Lhuys may 60 too far when he treats the whole
affair mere court intrigue. But it Is as certain
that the immediate handspring Of the instruction
has been at Athens II Il that the origin Of this
Of all the other caamities which are falling upon
in one hard heart and selfish will at st. Petersburg
Hoe fonta derivata clades
In patriam popuiosque auxit
Appropriately to the time there appears in an
Athenian journal the Russian notice Of the Eprote
nsurrecti0n. 1t may be described in two words: 1t
dsclaims, and sympathizes: untruly the and in
sidiously the otherRussia did not stir the Greeks
to revolt, but she cannot but admit they justified
Russia does not pledge herseft aid the Greeks;
but accepts the aid Of the Greeks to nure the Sultan
Russia in short declares her views in this willy docu-
ment with her habitual smooth falsehood and thinly
coated selshness. She has deceived so often by de-
vices which to all but statesmen and diplomatists
seem transparent, that it would be rash to predict
her absolute failure in any new attempt. She has
been lucky liar, that we almost fear in that line
the influences Of her sinister and mendacious star.
But If the Greeks will only open their eyes enough
to read two lines Of the now world celebrated con-
velsatioDs with Sir Hamilton Seymour, they will
know at leas-what is not the intention OF the Gar
In trying TO bride England to permit or even to be
accomplice in what he would have, ne explicitly
avowed what he would not have. Neither Byzan-
tipR empire nor even strengthened Greek king
dom would the self-named champion of the Greek
Christians tolerate The Athenian Greeks know this
well enough. Do the Greeks of Thessaly and Albania
know it! II has sometimes struck US that ii might
be profitable use OF the press to print those few
sentences in modern Greek, and distribute them by
hundreds and thousands over all the Christian do
minions of the Sultan.
If there be even now on the hills Of Epirus, men
who have taken up the musket of the bandit with
kind of sayo to their conscience from the idea that
they robbng for their country it would be well
to deprive them of whatever shade Of sef-decepton
may aid them in adhering to an unjustfable rising.
Let them know what their weather. instigators
xl,o thair fnrt kun nh,
already-tha their cause is as purposeless it is
hopeless; and that if the Western Powers driven
into regarding their course OF aimless brig
andage it is because not even pretence is left for
giving il nObler name.
We repeat that, to the Greeks as such, England
has nothing but good will; and it would require
much misconduct on their part, much suffering on
ours to root out the feelings with which we are dis
posed TO regard them. Those feelings made Greece
independent, and they are not worn out. The Ian
guage the country, the traditions which the lellenes
of to-day inherit are such as to prevent their fate
from being the object of indifference to any cultiva
ted man nation. Neither are we among those
who regret the experiment OF their liberation nor
partial as its success has been, do we any suff-
Gent ground for resolving ii to have been failure
We say nothing OF the internal misgovernment of
the country, nor do we deny that Greek ministers
have but too easily been found to abet or advise
Bavalian court in it feeble roguery. But we look
ct the Greeks as people, and We see them appro-
priating the trade Of the Leyant; establishing
wealthy names in Manchester and in London; shoot
ing out visibly the arms of vigorous growth, in
spite OF THEN government. In fact, those who under
rate TIE value OF mere moral influences on people,
might derive grounds for correcting their mar
row opinion from the very progress Of the Greeks
during the last twenty years, outside their own
country, II not within it, We believe it to be per-
ectly true that their energy, their ceverness, their
mutual iiiendness, their manhood in short, have
received spur and achieved a stride from the fact
of their being nation. And we believe it not the
less because both the stimulus and the prosperity
kax. IeT, 1--t1
jects of the Porte. The Greeks are not liked by all
who come in contact with them; they have some of
the vices Of slavery aud some Of their own. The
"suppe Greek" was the phrase Of him who never
theless gave to their cause his life and his glorious
name. But they are tough as well as a supple
race: an enduring and climbing generation: and
they may be again a great if they will be good,
people.
and we tell them that but themselves can peril
that nationality. We wish them to be Greeks, but
we say that they shall not be Russians. We have
not freed the city and race OF Themistocles from
Mahometan satrap that they should hand them
selves and far they us over to the Muscovite.
Our minds are made up on that point; our cannon
afe ready 70 affirm our resolve; but we are their
friends still. God forbid they should force us to be
otherwise. Deep as the offence is which the Greeks
have committed against Europe, they have not sue
ceeded in FORGETTING its sympathy. Hitherto, how
ever little conjunction might be felt for whatever
penal con,e sequences followed the selfish ambition Of
the Bayarian court, the Western Powers would
deeply regret for the people of Greece the suffering
consequent upon whatever measures they might find
il necessary to adopt. But with all the world at
stake let the Greeks be certain that those measures
will be unfinchngly taken; will the indulgence
readily conceded to hasy error be due to per-
severance in wrong.
The Russian Navy.
Besides describing the shadows, the intricacies,
and the Notifications of the Baltic, lively writer in
Frosc,'S Magazine gives complete account of the
Russian fleet in the Baltic and in the Black Sea. The
writer vouches crcumstantally for the accuracy Of
his statement, and challenges comparison with the
English Navy List -
THE BALTIC FLEET.
Sailing Ships Of the Line.
Names. Guns. Present Station Division.
Russia ........1 . 40. Helsingfors. Sd, red
Emperor Peter 40. .Cronstadt .....lst, or blue
St. George the Con :
queror. ........ H.. I'd or white
Emgeiten ........... S4.. ...... LIST