The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-09
THE EASTERN QUESTION.
|Reyiew of the Present Situation and
u what it' POrteudS.

From, the London Standard, Jan. 26.
Are the Greeks aud their friends and sup
|porters quite right in the dioparaglng estimate
|they now form of the Emperor Napoleon and OF
France? Is it quite so certain as they profess
to believe that the Emperor will never pluck up
resolution to go to war? Aud are they justided
in assuming that FIauce will bear with equan-
unity every slight and insult offered her because
the writers in the opposition journals, and the
opposition speakers in the Corps Legislatif, re-
ceive them ali so F2ny godsends, and delight to
portray France to Frenchmen as fallen from her
high estate? is 1t not more PROBABLE that the
epposition, by dwelling incessantly upon the
faults committed in allo wing Prussia to assert
her supremacy over North Germany, and by
attacking the Emperor and the principle OF HIS
government with so much Virulence, Will at
last compel him to go to war? And granting
that such a war breaks out-ln which, from the
nature of things, Russia Will be an antagonist IF
France-what will be the chances OF Greece
Can the Greeks suppose that in such an event
they will be allowed to make their own
little game? May they not much rather fear
tbat in such crisis the old treaties which pro-
X tected them will be torn up and that Ne Otto
\ man. for all his numerical weakness and want
OF a future will find himself in position to
treat them dc hdut en- Dos. But the great war
may not come. Is 1t the less dangerous for
Y Greece to have made, by display of empty
cor, an enemy of France? We continue to
DglaDd as out of the question. Has not
e, In the long run, more power to help or
art Greece than Russia F? Are not occasions
.ely enough to arise In which the goodwill
AZ the French Government might be worth
everything TO Greece Aud this good
is It seems TO be, destroyed, SO far as the
Greek Government can do it, to please Russia
4 and Prussia, 10 gain the applause of the
mob in Athens and the encouragement aud
sdmiration OF a section OF foreign politicians.
I We have never concealed our opinion that the
Il Conference was great folly, and we have eX-
sressed In strong terms our opinion of the
ridjculOus character of the results which it has
achieved and OF which the governments con-
eerped affect to boast; but the folly Of England,
France, and Austria in entering into confer
ence 10 assert in stumbling manner certain
srnisms of international law would be trihing
com pared with that of Greece in Indignantly
DENYING the right of the great powers to read
her such Lesson.
Gre tan Regard for Turkish Concessions
The following letter appears in the Paris Sleek
al the 10th ult.:-
@pany persons who sympathze With the sutfsrings
al my country, Crete, have asked me whether we
ronld not, on obtaining reforms and coDce' slon9
submit ourselves again 10 the sultan IL the name
n,ess. NJ gwer Lhus:-NO, never. evea though
Tseeee. constrained by Diplomacy, abandon u.s. never
I'll we again fall under his yoke. The massacre o
ar children. of our wives and OF our aged men In
"a blood by the Turkish army, under the orders o
Tustapha Pasha aud Omar Pasha, can we ever
pe might pardon these crimes but on all the roads
:. "Creie the bones OF fathers scattered by the
wTarfs dragged from the tomb after two centuries o
1spcse do not permit us 10 forget or forgive. We
shs knsTy e,1sS how 70 f9lal our duty as we have
- III ain our uu'on with !reece, our country from
y Ahlch no human force will be Gole IN separate us
Fl Va with Ihis unanimous resolution OF my country
nsc ~ that the mission am now charged with to The
ggne,ted states OF America is connected.
ep' CONBIANTlHB VOLONDAKI,
e,saoent Of the Provisional Government OF Urete
u'ac Envoy Ex,raordlnary TO America,
psris. Grand Hotel, January 2j lee9