New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-26

have sad u rtp.y: If you do notaoAieve toe uss
:. c,..ibe With the resources you haTe. yca N
.. r.,,r b. in a situation 10 commsnd grster N.
&" ,,urces. lou talk Of poverty. yet sperd nou
:" upon your C.ur. proportoustely' THAI any cous-
(" nv IN Eurupe. Your revenues sre large eocasA
:. 4 prvpery spph,d. not only te meet al realy a..
:. cs..srx Expenditures. but to open means Of con.
=. ,,,,;c.t,p for the want of which the indutp
=. &C ,our country languishes"- have more IL,
once beard the feeble plea: " Our Court mus h
" suitably kept up. There cannot be throne mt
=. out large expenditure. We Greeks are tsa,
=. crstic. but the Crest Powers gave us tArocs
8, and since we have accepted It, the country woax
" hs f.orsc,,l if the ususl accessories Of thr,o.
" were wanting.
The Rcysl Palace at Athens cost two nalloas N
dollars. For thi. sun tie Greekshsvea "a ir,uec.-.
usIy Pile of Penteiic marble, ss large Backlog
bsm. or the R.sidem: at Berlin. Ore fo1rsh Of es
morsy would have built beautiful structure, pro
portioped 10 the size ard meals Of tie county.
The King has salary of one million OF drssens
(sl66 6t6) per snnum, which, to bis credit b
.perds in aid about Athens. Tie Court Ias
swallows up about ore-twef'h OF the eotrs r'
erues. Then there is q list Of ss.aTied and pe-
stoned cfficis!s-civi. military and naysl-sucAs
no country in Europe, relatively exhibits. nn
NAVY there is just about one offi;er to everytm
ane a half mer; in tie Army, which numbers?M
all tod, there are 10 lees than serenity senera
The r, avenues Of the country amount TO somssas
more than SO, coo, 0o0 annually, which, lori poN
lstion of / 100, 600, is sum sufficient not ollyfx
the mscbiDery of Cove nmeut; but the rapid dsva.
opuent Of the present neglected rssource' yeIil
is ea.y to see how, between useless expenditure
ard official venality, toe whole OF 1t IS 'wIaovA
up. Norway, with smaler revenue and alsryw
population, .upports her roads. schools, coslesS
steamship lin,s army, navy snd police, aud ksSr
out Of debt.
TIE absurd jealousy of the Greeks tends still fu'.
tber to retsrd any thing like Progress. There uss!
have been large immigration of German srsn
to the UT cultivated lands of the lsthmus and The
Mores. but no the pure Hellenic stock musssa
be corrupted by foreign CRAFTS. The first thing@
Legislative Assembly did, after Greece received,
Constitution, wss to pass law, ceprHinsl
htteroch,hones Greeks born in Crete, Chloe, CO.
,tantuople, or anywhere outside the llnh Of To
present kingdom) of equal civil rights. Yet ts
greatest private benefactors of Greece-ArasA
Rhzsr, Sna, and Others, who have FOUNDED
or supported her institutions Of Learning, ei
ence and charity-are heterorhttons III,
shameful law has since been repealed
but the .sme relish policy prevails, aud ID
1T I'D OF mskirg Greece rsllyiug port for ts
pride ard national feeling of the entire HAlsac
race, the re.ut has been to ALLEVIATE its scsttstx
fragments The Greeks dream Of q restoration n
the BY zantine Empire, rather than of the ancient
republics or confederacies. They are itshnsb
grasp Thessaly aud Macedonia Con'tsptn0pt
mere or less distant, lee in the plans and hopcd
every Greek-snd they will never get it.
Some travellers point to the Constitutions Of
Greece, and by enumerating some sounding fes-
lures, such as suffrage, free speech, free press
religious liberty, education, &c, giSe the iuHs
sion that the Government is strongly Democnssn
its character. But the fact is, the King does notu
deTstand a representative goyernment-he does @
even comprehend its frat principles; and eversina
be was compelled to sign away a portion Of ks
power, at the canOn's mouth, his whole study hn
been To recover il again. Thsnks to the facilitS
afforded him by the Constitution ITSELF he has src.
ceeded The Senate IS not only named by te
King but the Nomarchs also, and he has the ngti
of choosing the Demarcbs out Of the three cpd-
dates who have the largest vote. One of these thne
is to be in the interest Of the Court, and hu
the whole government Of the country is throw
zen of Athens once said to me: 1t is hopeless
to expect anything like a just and decent sdmin-
"istration of Government under the present sy'
Item. We once, here in Athens, after great Ia
"bor, and not a little intrgp,, succeeded Ia pre-
" sentlDg three candidates for the DemNchy '''
"of whom were just, enl ghiened men, Of om q"
party. The third was stupid sss, whom We gr
vailed upon the Court party to select, believlcgH
to be morally impossible that no would osaa
"the Office. But it was all in vain; the King ~
pointed the ass" A few days ago, a Coutb
vorite was appointed to the chief rank 10 hs
Navy over the head Of the venerable Cansr,
whoee nsme will be remembered as long y ts
world hoDOrs q deed Of splendid heroism The trN
old man Immediately resigned, and sent back 10 tS'
King every order or token of honor he hsd s'
ceved at the hands Of the Government.
1t is wearisome task 10 wade through the sV
l't Of abuses, which are kept alive by the ndosa~
and apathy no lees than the corruption Ofthc Gresh
nor can refer to them without the hunIllsta
consciousness that my Hellenic friends hsvem
right to @k, referring TO our own legIsten;
" Are yoa without sin, that you should cast sss's
" at usl" The rapid decline Of political mofsg
at home Il speak without reference TO p,tD