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lady, a good wife, and, if may judgeo of her
character from what have already seen of
her, she will prove a blessing to the poor in
the neighborhood of Tiehborne hall. 80
THE EASTERN CUES rION.
The End OF the Cretan difficulty Ap
prOaching. - TO- >
[From the London Times. Feb.

~, [From the London Times, Feb. A.. -.
For several weeks hundreds of women
and children have been conveyed on board
neutral vessels from the blockaded shores
to the friendly harbors of Greece, and this
exodus was hal ed by the well wishers to the
Cretan cause as an evidence ofa determina-
tion on the part of the Cretans to be rid Of
the -combatants, so as to be upincum-
bered in their movements and enabled to
| fight their battles to the utmost. On the
10th, however, the French gunboat Sdlo-
Tndndre, followed by an Ottomon frigate and
a corvette, entered the Pireus, bringing
back to Greece 40 of her volunteer war
riors. Others of their comrades were
waiting in the island for an opportunity of
embarking, and even treating with Mus
ltapha Pasha for permission to take their
passage in foreign vessels. Open war, even
in the mountain districts, seems. to be al
together at an end; though brigandage, or,
as the Greeks prefer to call it, guerrilla
warfare, may be kept up for season, or
even break out again and again for years.
| But the men who turned their backs upon
Crete would hardly have deserted their flag
If even hope of prolonged resistance had
remained. .s-lig.''J 9.I u slsT1s:sI zEN ili.'
The reception these disappointed heroes
met with at the hands of ireodntfyfnen,
|. is not the least remarkable incident in a
lcampaign which has been signalized by the
tragic episode of Arkadi. It is the ridicu-
lous only separated by one steps distance
from the sublime. The mob of Athens, on
hearing of the arrival of these unfortunates,
came down to the Pireus with a determin
| ed purpose to infiict upon them the chastise-
ment due to towards or traitors. AS soon
as the volunteers began to disembark they
were assailed with such "hailstorm of
| paVing-stones,p and such "a shower of
cudgels," that they were glad totake refuge
| m the vessels they had eft, and to seek the
protection of their crews. Some received
wounds, some were flung into the sea; two
or three, as 7S reported, were beateno to
death; and few would have escaped the
same fate had they been left altogether at
| the discretion of the infuriated rabble.
| The cries were "Down with the deserters,
and defilers of Hellenic honor! Throw into
the sea the renegades who saved their lives
on board Turkish ships % These patriots,
for whom ungrateful Greece had so harsh
welcome, seem, however, to have deserv-
ed a better reception, for it was less by the
| lead and steel of the Mussulman that they
werenverpowered than by the impossibility
of finding subsistence in the desolated
country. So long as focks roamPd on the
| hills they fought and conquered, and it was
only when the bones of the last sheep were
| picked clean that they came back to have
the reproach of having lived at free quar-
| ters in the land they were rescuing from
thaldom flung In their teeth. Those among
them who escaped from the hands of the
mob were put ashore in desert islet in the
Bay of Salamis, whence, it is to be hoped,
after time has been given for the evapora-
ton of unjust popular displeasure, they
will be allowed to reach their homes in
safety. 3at; At11 l.atY
| However absurd and wrong-headed the
behavior of the Athenian mob may appear
on this occasion, it may be taken as symp-
| tom of the earnestness with which that ex-
citable Greek nation looked upon the Cretan
struggle. 1t was too easy tor us at dis
tance to foresee that the einsurrection, unless
it could spread far and wide, and reach the
provinces of the mainland, could only ag-
gravate the sufferings of the Cretans.
These sufferings have, we have reason to
believe, been terrible. The Archbishop of
York published few days ago in these col
umns an eloquent and touching appeal in
behalf of $4,000 women and children and
helpless men," all Candiote refugees, ''re-
duced to the most utter misery" and pray
ed that, setting aside all question of politics,
the charitable among US would send relief
| -an appeal which we hope will not be in
effectual. AS the downfall of
the insurrection and the dispersion of
the Greek volunteers seem to have decided
the cause in favor of the Turks, and
diplomacy could hardly wheedle from the
Sultan that fair but desolated island which
armed force failed to wrest from him, it is
at least to be hoped that the representa-
tives of the Western Powers will exert
| Themselves in behalf of the vanquished
population. Three things" aceording to
a Turkish proverb, ''are utterly merciless-
time, fire and the Sultan" His Sublime
| Highness may not, however, be equally in
sensible to sterner influences, and all
should now be applied to incline his heart
| to humane and generous counSels.