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London, England, 1863-03-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 27.

IT is said that a new candidate has been found
for the throne of Greece. Lord PAtmsaaron in-
timated last week that the Government was hoping
to be able before long to recommend a Prince to
the Greeks, and now the name of the Prince
WILLIAM of Gtucicsacao, brother of her Royal
Highness the Princess of WALMS is mentioned as
having been selected. So many failures and
mishaps have occurred in the business that we
may be excused for hoping that all has been made
safe this time ; that the PRINCE himself has been
spoken to on the subject ; that his father and
mother have given their consent; that King
Fasursicx VII. has no objection ; and that there
is nothing in the laws and constitution of Denmark
to hinder a PRINCE in the order of the royal
succession from accepting a foreign crown. If
all these things have been duly cared for, we trust
that the Greeks may be able to find in Prince
WILLIAM the sovereign they need. • We hope
so, not the lees for being told that this is a matter
of light importance, and that the Greeks had better
take the first man they can get, and ask no questions.
But a nation that has endured King Onto for
twenty years is not likely to accept a new King
with its eyes shut. It has known what it costa
to take the lightly given word of diplomacy, ever
anxious to relieve itself of temporary embarrass-
ment at the risk of injury to permanent
interests. The Courts of Europe owe some con-
sideration to the Greeks in this matter. It is
for their sake, and in deference to their ideas,
that the Greeks have been anxious to conform
their government to that of the states around
them, without inquiring too narrowly whether mo-
narchical institutions agree best with their situa-
tion and circumstances. Seeing that the states-

men of Europe are resolved to treat Greece as an
unsettled country so long as it has no king, it is
desirable that the interregnum should be brought
to an early dose. But when we are told that
monarchy is the certain cure for popular anarchy
and confusion in the finances, and is a pledge of
national progress, we cannot but wonder where
those who thus declaim have read the modern
history of Greece, a country where all those evils
have grown up rank and luxurious under a kingly
government.

- We sincerely trust that in the choice of Prince
Witi.um the Greeks may find a king around
whom they may rally and enter on a career of im-
provement which shall raise them and make them
equal to the destiny which has long seemed to be
in store for them in the East of Europe. If, pru-
dent and moderate, he is content to govern men
by serving them ; if he has tho tact to associate
himself with the sentiments, idesa, and interests
of the people, he may not only reign with distinc-
tion, but bequeath an honoured sceptre and per-
haps an enlarged kingdom to his heirs. The con-
diticnis of monarchical governments in our days are
at once harder and easier than they were in the last
generation. Crowns are still hereditary, but
they are won and lost with portentous
frequency. The firmest thrones are those of con-
stitutional monarchs who are not jealous of their
people ; but a constitution does not always save
a foolish or obstinate or incapable King. Prince
WILLIAM has a great advantage in not having
been cradled amidst the flatteries which have made
the King of Pausina'sreign a failure and a nuisance.
It is only within these few years that his family
have been drawn from a dignified privacy and de-
clared heirs of the Danish throne. The young
PRINCE has probably no false sympathies to cast IA
no prejudices to unlearn. Every Englishman will
love to believe that he is sensible and high prin-
cipled, because we know that his sister is so. The
parents who trained her must have good sons. The
PRINCE has another advantage, not to be under-
valued, in an assured position. In these days of
fluctuation and change it is a great thing for a
ruler not to be too dependent on his people.
Public opinion does not permit, as formerly,
interventions to confirm or restore unpo-
pular sovereigns; it is therefore the more
necessary that they should be protected against
the consequences of the fickleness of their sub-
jects. The continental Sovereign who has admi-
nistered a constitutional kingdom with most suc-
cors is the King of the BELGIANS ; but it has often
been remarked that in important crises the know-
ledge that he was ready at any moment to retire
to Claremont gave weight to his resolutions.
" Let us understand one another," said the Knee
to the Chamber in the confusion and excitement of
1848 ; " my only title to rule here is your free
" choice, and I shall rely on no other. If the
" nation wishes me to lay down my trust, I shall
" resign it to-morrow."

King LZOFOLD has never been in danger of
losing his throne, and we have no fear that King
WILLIAM 1., if that honour awaits him, will have
to look back to Denmark with regret The cou-
rage which he shows in accepting a crown
which .y) many others have shrunk from touching,
and in committing his name and life to the fortunes
of a small and aspiring nation, give him a new
title to our sympathy ; and there is not a man in
these islands who will not wish that his career may
be one of brilliant success.

Mr. Doulton will ask the First Commissioner of
Worke, after Faster, what steps he inteods taking to terry
oat those recommendation of the Royal Commissioners on
the Thames Embankment, "which are of ao imperial ra-
ther then of a musicipal nature, bowies reference to throw.
log open the site and impro►ing the approaches of the
Houses of Parliament ;" and call the attention of the
house to the desirability of extending those recommenda-
tions so u to "reader the line of thoroughfare between
Whitehall and Palace yard mores consonant with the archi-
tectural character of the new government offices and the
palace of the legislature, and better adapted to the Dfolllllli-
ties of the daily tetras/tog traffic."