All the Powers have during the week announced in one
way or another that they are either neutral or favourable to Russia. Germany, after some delay, has finally rejected the proposal of a six mouths' armistice ; Italy, probably prompted by a hint from Berlin, rejected it at once ; and France has an- nounced, in diplomatic phrase, that she intends to main-
tam n a complete reserve. The little States on the bor-
ders of Turkey have at the same time declared against her., The Roumanian Government has been offered terms of 801118 kind—probably independence and part of Bulgaria—which have induced Roumania to ally herself with Russia, and place her army on a war footing ; the Greek Ministry intend to demand a war loan of £2,400,000, and to call out 60,000 militia. The resources of Greeceare not great, but the Thessalians and Epirotes, aided by 5,00Q men, the money of the Greek merchants everywhere, and the perfect information Greeks possess at Constantinople, ought to be able to make a most important diversion. If the Greek Ministers can overcome their rather feeble jealousy of Prince Nikita and his influence in Albania, they may yet liberate the two provinces without which Leopold of Belgium declared that Greece could not be an independent country.
