The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-24 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

PRINCE ALFRED AND THE GREEK
THRONE.

The desire shown by the Greeks to elect Prince
Alfred for their future sovereign is the leading
topic in all the continental journals. The IndApen-
dance goes so far as to assert that the French oabi
net has demanded explanations and a disavowal,
and that the question will be considered at a cabi-
net council in London at the beginning of this
week. So much importance is attached, it
is said, to the reply, that M. Drouyn de Lhuys will
go expressly from Compiegne to Paris to receive
it from Lord Cowley.

The Nord is greatly disturbed at the appearance
of affairs. "Public opinion," it says, "cannot
reconcile the manosuvres of the English agents in
favour of Prince Alfred, supported by a great
display of maritime forces, with the disavowals
proceeding from London. It understands
still less bow Greeks, who know by experience
what English policy is in the Levant, can let them-
selves be carried away by the dream of an annex-
ation of the foul= Islands, when it is very evident
that what England aims at is an indirect annexation
of the continent to those islands."

The Presse says :
In Greece the manifestation in favour of Prince Alfred
of England is becoming very serious. It is actively sup-
ported by the former insurgents of Nauplin, who have re-
turned to Athens. With them are political personages
whose influence is not without weight, such as Mavrocorclato,
Tricoupi, Kontos, and Zaimia. The masses of the
people are dazzled by the brilliant perspective which
the support of England opens to them ; first, a large
increase of pecuniary resources ; next, an aggrandisement of
territory, and the probable annexation of the lonian Islands.
The demonstrations of the people in the various localities

seem to form a sort of plebiscite which will weigh upon the
decisions of the future National Assembly. Is the hand of
the English government in this movement' Must we see
in it only a spontaneous impulse or the intrigues of a few
ambitious people! In either case it takes a character so
general that other candidates are not spoken of.
The Dfbats inclines to the opinion that England
only allows the name of Prinoe Alfred to be used in
order that it may sacrifice it generously when the
hour comes, on the condition of the sacrifice of
the Duke of Lenchtenberg also. " The English
people," says the &flats, " have never pushed the
chivalrous love of their princes to such an extent as
to cut off any part of the nation's domain to give
them with a foreign throne an increased territory,
especially when war might be the result of au act
so magnanimous."
The Constitution/6e/ reminds the Greeks of the
necessity of observing treaties, especially a certain
clause which excludes from the throne the members
of the reigning families of France, Russia, and
England. The Temps replies to this, "We
thought that we had done with this diplomatic
fetishism. The only way of respecting and prac-
tising non-intervention in Greece is to leave the
Greeks perfectly free to seek where they like the
prince that pleases them."
A number of Greeks resident at Paris have, it ap-
pears, issued an address to the future constituent
assembly of Athens, protesting against the condi-
datnreship of an English prince, earnestly contend-
ing that such a step would press more heavily even
than now the Ottoman yoke upon the Christians
of the east.