It would be a good day for the Greeks if
Englishmen would call their country "Hellas," as they ought to do, and its people " Hellenes." The change is, we suppose, impossible, but a begin- ning has been made, for the City has entertained the "King of the Hellenes." An address was presented to his Majesty on Wednesday in great state, the Prince of Wales and the Premier being present. The Prince hoped, in a decorously discreet way, that the King would soon get his provinces; and Mr. Glad- stone made a bright speech, praising the steady progress of Greece, and the proof its people gave that they were "a race with • a great future as well as an illustrious past," and remarking on. the meeting of the Conference of Berlin, which opened that very day, said it would prove that "the assembled wisdom and might of Europe, when it speaks to the world, speaks in accents which denote reality, and which are destined to have practical effect." It would be well for Kadri Pasha to consider that sentence, which would not have been uttered if Mr. Gladstone had not been assured of its truth. He is not the kind of man who talks about reality when he does not know what he is doing.
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