Mr. Shaw Lefevre delivered on Tuesday, at the Horns Tavern,
Kennington Park, a very masterly address on "the claims of -Greece," in reply chiefly to Mr. Hanbury's article on "The Spoilt Child of Europe," in the Nineteenth. Century. Mr. Lefevre showed how very much the opposite of a spoilt child Greece had really been.. Indeed we believe that she might much better be termed the Cinderella of Europe, —Turkey having been its " spoilt child." She had to -fight for some years, before Europe would listen for a anoment to her claim for independence ; when at last she gained it, she was restricted within boundaries quite too narrow for her free development ; she was, moreover, saddled with a thoroughly incompetent monarch; and of late she has been schooled and hold in by Europe, often to her own great 'disadvantage, under promises that have never been fulfilled. At Berlin she was apparently betrayed by England ; and even now her claims, acknowledged by the Powers at Berlin, hang fire, while Turkey strives steadily to ignore or reduce them. Mr. Lefevre showed the astonishing progress which, in spite of all dis- advantages, Greece has made in the last thirty years ; and he 'carried the meeting with him, in his eloquent demand that we should fulfil the hopes we have excited. For our parts, we think Greece would have done better to fight, and nog to trust to English blandishments.
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