The publication of the diplomatic correspondence on the Grecian affair
throws an unpleasant air of ridicule over the whole subject, without disarming its ugly tendencies. It seems that the two most urgent points in the dispute which Sir Thomas Wyse was instructed to bring to a head were, the disregarded claims of Mr. Finlay, from whom a plot of land had been taken for some royal : - . •
..thout payment at his valuation ; and the claim of one , a Hebrew Consul to Portugal, owning British ails ta, whose house had been sacked in an Anti-Jewish
Finlay had high notions as to the value of rhaps not the less for its being the subject al dispute ; and Don Pacifico had still higher the value of his furniture and papers—his
very bed was worth 1501., sad his papers would have made good claims on the Portuguese °merriment, amounting to some 25,000/. The tlaily jenniais have been meow and heated on this fertile subject for the whole week: Lord Palmerston's enemies are shoed at his embroiling England. for trifling personal interests ; his friends stand upon the " prineiPe.' It is awkward that he should select such very doubtful and small matters to illustrate Feat principles : but Lord Palmerston likes to worry little states; it is safe ; and after all, he seldom means much harm. The Greeks seem to take the affair quite seriously, and stand manfully by their Bavarian Government.
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