GREEK VOLUNTEERS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—My attention has been called to a telegram from the British Embassy at Therapia, dated July 14, 1876, respecting the enrolment of those unanimously loyal Turkish Christian Volunteers.
Permit me, Sir, as a Greek, to state what the Greeks think about this, and to say that the unanimity displayed by these Volunteers is exactly paralleled by the unanimity of the Greek papers, which speak with horror and disgust at such unnatural alliance. Every true patriot, they say, must blush for shame, even for the fifty Volunteers, riffraff though they be, who now march side by side with their ancient oppressors. It is not fair to judge the Greeks by the scourings of Galata; as well judge the French in 1871 by the conduct of a few lorettes during the burning of Paris.
The telegram says also that the Volunteer corps has a flag in which the Crescent and the Cross are displayed side by aide. Alas ! alas ! when I see them forced into such an unnatural juxtaposition, I can only think of our Saviour by the side of the
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