13 AUGUST 1881, Page 3

The Porte is for once scrupulously fulfilling its engagements in

relation to the Convention with Greece. It is not only evacuat- ing the territory ceded with commendable punctuality, but withdrawing from Thessaly troops which it might still for a time retain there, so as to prevent the possibility of any collision. Mr. Goschen has certainly the credit of having persuaded the Porte that we really mean what we say. That was what, under Lord Beaconsfield's Government, the Porte never seriously believed.