New-York tribune., 1867-04-30

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TBt wAR-IREAcnERY OF THE GREAT TOWERS
SUCCESSES OF TIE CRETg gNs-THE sERvIAN COM
PRoMIsE-GREECE CHEAfBD BY FRANCE.
'''' O4' ATHENS, April D. 1857.
Not many of your readers arc, imagine, ignorant
of what the Eastern quostonis; buttew of them have
ever learned how infamous and unworthy civiliza-
1iOn is the European policy which creates the East
ern question" which is, simply, How far shall the
Christians of the East be kept il slavery TO the Turk
in order to serve the selfish policies of England
and Russiai In fact, Christ is to-day eIqci6ed
between the two gigantic thieyes-Russian greed
aud EDglsb prestige. A new martyrdom, in
Shich suffer millions, must be made, lest %
SSs s KS e. aagSSo agS @PS Sy g See ee
she has so long swayed the Oriental policy. But the
Roman leTss i LACKING to this cruCihk9G' and Christ
shall NOT die agaip-the immortality He gave His
Chnrch will carly il through noJe than tbis-m0le
than the prosecutions OF Gietq, more than the op-
pressions Of Thessal0nica and Ephesus, where the
FIRST planted seeds of Divine truth still struggle up
through the thOms which would choke them, bit
will not We shall both thieves dead they bones
broken by the indignant world, but Christianity VIII
come ont triumphant.
OF all the mcst infamous public declarations Of
public men-the most mOnstrOus OF false pIetenses
20 hide crime and bad faith1the speech Of Lord
Derby passes the worst. No Prime Minister OF En-
gland in the days of her worst and most selfish pol
lev ever uttered SO disgTaceful falsehood 10 con-
tepptiblea subterfuge, to hide disgraceful and
Se Crete has falsehood III it; and cOwardice that
ehoud bve brought to the whippng-pOst any school
boy was at the bottom Of the whole thing. May
Lord berby drop speedily into the political nonen-
tity which this speech makes him amenable 10.
But all this, STILL won't stop the progress
of the Eastern question, and Europe is
now drifting hepleSsly into a general and perhaps
ruinOus because NO one OF the Great GOWers was
great enough and unseltish enOngh TO see justice
done To Crete in the day of small things The CTetaIls
held out against AL force sent against then against
the power of their best friends even none Of whom
cta1 fo soc qhpIn i'm ADrl uuSubQueQ. uuiess
other provinces divided the force of the Turkish
amy. But now Spring brings its reenfoTcements and
force the Sultan send will cOunteTvali those.
Turkey emanclpates SerVIa, gives new freedom TO
Egypt throws overheard all the loose cargo she can
save herself from the storm arising but she won't
throw the only fatal charge-the heroic Crete
whose warriors now bleeding in the very heart OF
the empire, and who. in another month or two, viii
put the Eastern question out OF the category OF
Much excitement is created by the apparent
change OF policy OF France; but IT
only apparent. The Emperor plays his eyerlast
ing comedy; ee veers and turns as the winds OF
selfish interest point, and now having provoked In
GLAND 20 direct declaration OF policy adverse TO the
Christians, he suddenly abandOns her entirely tc
the isolation her seshness merted and goes 10 the
between the Gar and the Man Of December, and
peace-making England forced by European cOmbi
nation, which either by peace will ruin her prestige
and commercial interests, or by war will ruin heI
finances and destroy her supremacy. Ii all depends
an the price France getsfcr her treacheiy.
The SeByian compromise and concessions will only
luet Serva for the moment She the instrument Oi
Russia and viii obey the Car faithfully as the
the COssaeks Egypt on the other side is not to be
slenced with the title Of King. Both am directly al
speedy independence and will strike for il as soon as
Turkey y nextncably involved, as she soon will be
How the Eastern Christians can find their way Ou:
OF tins tangled web il hard to see. Eternal juet
zee and AN undymg spirit " nationality viii carry
them through but through how much blood and
misery first God only fOreseef all the provinces
must like Crate, pass through the Turkish fire, and
under the Turkish sword, He only knows But it il
day day we wait the OF aTedl rising not the
patient windngs Of day The word is not yet given
pour into the plains Of ancient Greece when the word
g.sn; but fear the enemcs OF the Emperor Of France
prevail and postpone the m0yenent until he hat
taken all his measures and liberty VIII break 0ni
cage 10 find herself IN another. d
1he Greeks are naturally inpatient and will not