, 1877-01-17

OdEuUC al InO al &ulICu'S WuiCu Cdu
be advanced in favour Of the revolution
which Canning countenanced may be used
to-day. 1t Is generally admitted that the
territories OF the new kingdom were undu-
ly limited, so that the Greeks have not had
a fair chance. Mr.. Gladstone laments
this especially, The Provinces which
ought TO have been freed fifty years ago
are little better governed now than they
were then, and the moral right of %revolu-
ton equally exists. Mr.. Gladstone says
shat since tho Cfimean War Turkey has
trodden under foot the Provinces bought
for her with such an ~effuSion Of Western
blood and treasure. So far, then, as the
article has any influence in the East, it
will tend to make the Greeks cast in their
lot with the Russian Government, and
enter upon another war of liberation.
They will have at least the moral sanction
of an eminent Englishnlan, and the assur-
ance that they will not be restrained by
force, as they were twenty years since.
All that then remains is the military ques.
ton. Are they strong enough to go to
war against the Turks with a fair chance
of SUGGEST Now, we think that, as re-
CARDS Greece and the Greeks, it is better
that Englishmen should not have the res
possibility Of prompting a warllke course,
or hat they should ever appear to have
prompted it. We have enough to do with
the troubles that exist while actual inSur-
r~ectIons are on our hands We ought
not to wish to further contingent ones.
A year ago all the difficulties Of the
Eastern Question were confined to
Herzegovina and Bosnia, two outlying
Province almost severed from the Turkish
Empire by Montenegro on the one side
aud Servia on the other, The Govern
mants omitted to stay the growing evil,
and now Servia and Bulgaria are added TO
the Provinces about which Europe must
negotiate. 1t is the latter Province,
brought into notice by a sudden and un-
expected outburst of barbarism, which
offers the most portentious difficulties, and
which, more than any other, endangers
the success of the Conference. What if
we had Tbessaly and Epirus, and three
or four islands, on our hands also I 1t
is evident that the further the war spreads
the more difficult must be the final settle
Notwithstanding, of course, that the
OllOtldu "ilplI6 uOeS not COIHpleIe'y
perish under the assaults Of its enemies.
Therefore, though we have 90 right to
interfere with any race or nationality of
the Turkish Empire which may seek to
win for itself liberty or a better admins
%tration, it is not our duty nor our interest
to encourage an outbreak. A week or
two will decide many things. and among
them whether the time has come for q
fulilment of the great design of extend
icg thu Geek Kingdom. The meeting
which, as Mr.. Gladstone says, broke the
silence of the Pnyx after two thousand
years only gave a popular voice to dellbe-
%rations in which the chief politicians OF
the country have had "a share. All are
probably united in wishes, but there are
discussions 10 policy, and for the last. few
days a Ministerial crisis has prevailed
at Athens. The expectations which
influence the Porte have been described by
our Vienna Correspondent. While Greeks
and Armenians petition against the favour
that is demanded for the Slavs, the Sultan's
Government 10 not simple enough to be-
lieve that such a course indicates the feel
ing of its more energetic subjects. The
wishes of the Greeks will not be commu-
nicated through a Patriarch aud Bishops.
"Thsre seems" said our Correspondent,