The Greek question has been settled by the betrayal of
the Greeks. Lord Beaconsfield steadily resisted their claims, and M. Waddington and Count Corti, who fought for them, were only able to induce Congress to advise the Porte to grant them the territory south of a line to be drawn from the Salembria to the Peneus. The Porte, of course, will grant them nothing, unless coerced, and cannot be coerced by Greece, because England has assumed the Protectorate. The Greeks are therefore appealing to Paris, where the idea seems to be that as England is protector of Constantinople, France will be protector of Athens, and secure to her in the end Western Roumelia, the province which the Congress, almost at the end of its labours, formed of Mace- donia, Epirus, and Thessaly, under some sort of imperfect autonomy. The region for Greece to acquire is therefore well marked out. Crete is wholly abandoned, and the Turkish Fleet, now, of course, practically the English Fleet, will be sent there, to quell the " rebellion."
