The Anti-turkish Beach

TIiík is the image in Mr. Öladstoiie's spcccli at J!iriningb;nn wMcli the Lundon Spectator siiys is ('uut tlmn auy kuown in modern history. He is spe;iking of tlio AruieniiiuH, the BülgariaBS, t))o ScrviMiis, nuil tlic (í-rcoks wlio resisted ;ui(l brokc the fprce of tlic; Turkis}) inumliitiou ■vliicli eeaiuñes ugo tlir('ftt.'iult.o ovi'rllow Burope, :unl stiyg: "Tluy were liken ïillèlviug hem:)] vvliicli i sli'uiiiril the ooean, ïhiit Ixuicli, it. ís true, is ))i!iti-ii l.v tlic wavf-s; il ia laiil Jqsolate ; il procliioes nothiiig ; it beoomes, perhaps, nothing hut m:i a qf himiKlc, of rock, of ilmo.st asclosa B mweea ; but it in n [enoe behind whjoh the cultivnted earth can spread and escape the incoming tide ; and such waa, agaiust the Turlc, the roaistance of Bulgarians, of Servians, of Greeks- a resistanee in which one by one they fluceiiinbrd, wiOi tho single exception of the ever-glorions mouutaiueers of Montenegro, who have uever sneeumbed. It was that resistance which left Eirope able to claim the enjoyment oi' her own liberty, and to clevelop her institutions anxl her laws. ' '