Mr. Bryce, M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, made a good
speech to his constituents on Thursday on the Greek question. Ho pointed out the grounds which justified and required the cession to Greece of Thessaly and Epirus. These were no senti- mental grounds. The state of these provinces, of which the great majority of the population was Greek, was a frightful state, and Turkey neither would nor could do anything to cure it. Greece, though she hoped for the aid of the Great Powers, " was quite prepared to go on alone ; and bold as the enterprise might be, there were some considerable chances in her favour." The preparations of Greece, however, would not be completed till the spring, and it was not necessary for Europe or England to declare any final intentions till then. Mr. Bryce was anxious to see the concert of Europe kept up, without which there was little hope of keeping the peace in the East ; and he did not hold that there was any greater claim on Eng- land to interfere than on any other of the European Powers. That is a moderate line for a pronounced Philhellenist to take. But is not all Europe bound, in the interest of general order, to enforce the decision of the Conference of Berlin,—a decision adopted with full knowledge, and adopted neither for the sake of pleasing Greece nor for that of displeasing Turkey, but solely to prevent the spread of anarchy ?
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