The Greek people are getting impatient of the timidity of
their Government. On May 28, the Chamber, by a vote of 71 to 42, elected a war candidate to the Speakership, and a great crowd of Athenians assembling in the square before the Palace demanded warlike measures. The King informed a deputation that he would appoint an acceptable Ministry, and M. Coumondouros ht s since accepted the Premiership, with a war-programme. He is not, however, supported by all the leaders of parties, and desires to wait at least until the Russians have crossed the Danube. It is probable that the insurrectionary Committees in Thessaly and Epirus will act on the news from Athens, but it is not certain, the Greeks lacking, so far as can be perceived, any efficient leader. They seem to think, too, that if they strike in after Russia has won a victory, they will be in time, quite for- getting that statesmen only regard the claims of those who have made sacrifices for them. Provinces are not won now-a-days by intrigue, and if the Greeks want their country freed, they must take their share in the cost of the operation.
