23 DECEMBER 1865, Page 3

Three English gentlemen, Lord John Hervey, the Hon. Mr. Strutt,

and Mr. Coore, have been captured by brigands in Livadia, Greece, and compelled to pay 1,0001. each. There really in not sufficient capacity in these German Princes for the most ordinary work of government. We undertake to say that there are two hun- dred Leutenants in the Indian Staff Corps, any one of whom would with 2,000 soldiers in six months make Greece as safe as Suffolk, a task which King Christian, with his Danish drynurse, and a dozen " ministers," and a British guarantee, and 7,000 soldiers, does not even attempt. Mr. Ruskin says it is all our fault for sending a child to govern, and though the rest of his letter is rubbish, there is truth in that sentence.