The Greek Chamber is trying to save to itself some
remnants of independence, and has demanded time to consider the programme which the Military League required it to pass without delay. M. Mavromichaeli, the Premier, no doubt hoped to be able to guide and check the League after swallowing its mandate. He is apparently discovering that to be a hopeless task. On Wednesday the Chamber was invited to discuss proposals which had been put in the hands of the Deputies only a few hours before, and when IL Dragomni and M. Theotoki (whose followers form a majority in the Chamber) demanded that the proposal; should be referred to a Committee, IL Mavro- michaeli was unable to resist. Yet he has at the same time to own the mastership of the Military League, and the League is openly and violently threatening the Chamber with a purge. On Friday the Times published from its correspondent a remarkable letter by a Greek, who describes the bitter feelings of the King. The King speaks as though he had been "thrown over" by the Powers in the matter of Crete. We can believe that he was encouraged to hope for impossible things, but we are nevertheless quite sure that the greatest need of Greece in the last few months was to be saved from a war with Turkey. We trust that the insurgent Greek officers will not be mad enough to
force the King to abdicate, for no one has served his country so faithfully and well.
