We ure so apt to look upon Greece as a hopeless, bankrupt, little country, crouted by sentiment and existing by the toleration of ils more powerful neighbours, that we are at some loss to understand the large since it is uceupy. ing at the present moment in European polities, For the Inst six weeks the Renter's telegrams have been full of the affairs of Greece. We know that her warlike preparations were une censing, and so formidable to Turkey that the fleet of all the Great Powers, excepting France, on the const of Crete, wan reinforced n month ago. On the of April the Ambassadors of the Great. Powers at Constantinople se identical note to the Greek Govern. mant recommending Greece ler monneing attitude, In nnawer to this mennee, the Greek Chamber, some days after, passed n vote of confidence M. Delyannis, and on the 17th of April, Greece was still maintaining her defiant attitude, and on the 20th, Gireoted the Athens garrison to the frontier, The next day the Great Powers, led by that eminent Greeophile, Mr, Gindstore, decided to send t recalcitrant, little country an nition ordering her to disarm withi eight Nevertheless the despatch of ti troops to the frontier was evidently carried out, for on the 24th of April misunderstanding, as an exchingo of shots is enphemistionlly culled, occurred between the Greek and Turkish vat ponto, The Great Powers were rently ao alarmed, that they refused tu necept King George's general prow mise 10 keep the pence, demandi precise nasurances; and on the 27th kent an ultimatum, signed by all except France, accompanied by a partial disarmament of the Greek fleet at the Pirwus; and the Intest information we have is, that M, Dulyannix bad replied that Greece could not submit to dictation, bat would disarm on a promise being given that her claims should be considered by the powers, Vhe epectacie of x poor little countr with w population of only two mil and without un active friend, placing Lergelf in armed opposition to neatly all the grent powers, is so unusual, that it is worth while to consider what the claims of Greece are, for which every Greek, from the prime minister down to the humblest. goatherd, is willing to make every ancrifice, and risk the entire ruin of his country, In this ense, the Greeks are not merely struggling to realise a dream. hey believe thei aelyen to be the legitimate heirs of the rich Buikan peninsula, and that Cone stantinople ix their destined capital, bat. these dreama they are willing to defer; they are struggling now for tangible claims, to which they have a treaty tight. Unless it were so, France would give them her passive support. The conference of Berlin svlemuly accorded to Greece a rectification, at the expense of Tarkey, of her north. western frontier. In Janina and Mestovo Ithere are still thousands of Greeks, Hangnishing under the hopeless rule of Turkish pasha, whom Greece was jaathorised by the Berlin conference 0 recover, and whom the Greeke feel that, after the success of Prince Alexander's coup d'état, and the great inerense of the power and prestige of Bulgari, they enunot afford (6 desert without suffering such a material and moral debasement as will defer for yenrs the realisation of their ultimate hopee, It in not merely a fancy on the part of King George and M. Daly-annie, It ig not a one of delirant voges, plectuntur Achivi, The whole i itting without a murmur to enormous snerifices, In the Cham. ber, party is forgotten; M. Delyaunis ed, not for showing loo not showing enough, Borced loans are exacted, trade is stopped, but nobody comple Fond as the Greeks be of money, the functionncies have cheerfully consented }to twenty per cent. of their salaries being deducted us a cuntribntion to the expenses of the war, Meanwhile, the situation is intolerable for Turkey her armies are ten times as Inrge aa those of Greece, so are hor expenses tenfold, and her finances are i lo better order than those tive enemy. The tension become too great for both countries, ruin is staring them both in the face, and it shows a remarkable forbearance on both sider, that the outpost affair Inst month waa not the signal for a general conflagration, That Greeve could be ensily crushed by the Turkish {armies, if Turkey were left a free hand, is tolerably certain; but the great object of Europe is not to allow war to bronk out at all in the Balkan peninsula, lest it should be impossible to confine it to the Lwo pro. tngoniste, Bulgaria ow bound to assist Turkey if the Porte is attacked, Servin which made a peace with Bul-gona the other day, but refased to wert nny express: of goodwill i the trouty, is probably not na willing to throw in her lot with Greece; and Austria is behind Servia, Russia, which does not want either Greece or Servin lor Bulgaria to become too strong, is watching to increase her own influence, jund the King of Greece is the brother of the Czarina, The course now suggested by M. Delyannis, that Greece should disarm on a prot that the Powers shall tuke lier claims into serious consideration, a solution of the difficulty that will relieve the Powers {from a position that is by no merino dignified, The spectacle of European [fleets assembled to overawe a little kingdom is absurd. On the other hand it would never do tallow Greece to imperil the peace of all Europe, as she would undoubtedly do by attacking Tarkey, The breathing time which acceptance of the proposals of the Greek Cabinet will give may be used by ite friends to good purpose, and enable them to obtain for Greece by penceable means some of the territory, or possibly all of it, stipulated in the Treaty of Berlin.
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