The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-26 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY +EVENING, NOVEMBER

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LATEST PITELIAGENCE:
PRINCE ALFRED AND THE GREEK
THRONE.

A brilliant and very general demonstration in
favour of Prince Alfred has taken place at Athens.
The France contains the following paragraphs :

The latest despatches from Athena inform us that the
Anglo-Ilellenic committee has printed and circulated a
biography of Prince Alfred in the Greek language.
A photograph of the Prince is given in the title
page, and the same photograph is widely distributed
in the provinces. We learn at the same time
that an officer of high rank in the British navy, now in
Greece on a maritime mission, has sent a memorandum to
the Admiralty, in which he shows that Greece is capable
of furnishing first-rate sailors for English ships. This
report has, we are told, made a great impresaion upon the
Admiralty, and it covers one of the most serious aspects of
the Greek question.
It is rumoured in the Pirrus that the English are about
to establish a coal depot on the Isle of Lampe', one of the
northern isles of the Archipelago, in the Egean Sea. We
cannot say whether this report is well-founded. If it
be so, the fact has an importance which everyone
will understand. The Isle of Lemnos, placed at a short
distance from the Dardanelles, is an important strategetical
point. If the English should get a coal depot there we may
look upon the step as amounting to a taking possession of
the island. We know that they have already got Perim in
the Red Sea, which they at first pretended they were onry
going to occupy provisionally.

Accounts from St. Petersburg state that the Rue-

sian government energetically opposes the nomina-
tion of Prince Alfred. A flotilla, consisting of three
steams frigates and two sailing vessels, had been
ordered to hold itself ready for the Mediterranean.
In Austria the government is also hostile to the
wish of the Greeks. The Ost-Deutsche Post does
not regard the cardidateship of Prince Alfred as'
serious, but only as a political manoeuvre to set
aside the Duke de Leuchtenberg. England wishes
to do, it says, as she did in Belgium in 1831.
Then, also a Leuchtenberg, the father of the present
duke, was put forward as a candidate for the throne.
In order to set him aside, a report was raised that
the Duke de Nemours, second son of Louis Philippe,
would accept the crown if he were elected by the
Belgian chambers ; the intrigue succeeded ; the
duke was named, but Louis Philippe refused to
allow Lim to accept. The Duke de Leuchtenberg
was, however, defeated. " Should we be wrong,"
asks tho Vienna journal, "in supposing that
England is at present preparing a similar mano3uvre
in Greece."

The Nesse remarks that the moral triumph of
England in Greece, which disconcerts the previsions
of more than one European government, is easily
explained. "Does England," it says, "owe it to
the influence of her diplomatista or to her material
force ? No. Other states have equally able men
at their service ; others have also, like her, a nume-
rous fleet, and more than her, formidable armies. The
English nation to plead its cause has a power
more triumphant than that which force or intrigue
cau give—namely, liberty ! That which others
obtain by the sword, by blood, and by money,
England obtains by the thousand echoing voices
of its tribune and its free press. Other powers say
to the people, Beigreat '.' England says to them,
'Be free!' It is to this moral influence,
more than to any other, that we must attribute
the rapid, or rather the electrical success of the
candidateship of an English prince."
The independence also attributes the popularity
of the English prince "greatly to the moral in-
fluence which England exercises to its own profit
upon other nations by its liberal and constitutional
institutions." "Now upon this ground," it says,
" neither Russia nor France can contend against
her, and the success which Abe obtains at this
moment in Greece is but the corollary of the sym-
pathies,which she receives in Italy, without ever
having done anything to deserve them."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

tisox ocrit owx 001111SPONDEET.)
PARIS, TUESDAY EvENn4o.

It seems to me, from the subdued tone of the
government journals this evening, that they must
have received instructions not to make too much
fuss about the Greek business. The government is,
however, sending more vessels to the Levant. The
Turenne and Magicienne are shortly to join the
Fleurus and Castiglione.

The Bourse has somewhat recovered. Rents
rose 20c. for cash, and 15c. for account, closing at
70fr. 20c. and 70fr. 25c. Mobilier rose l6fr. 25c.,
and the Italian Loan 25c. In railways there is
little change.

M. Odillon Barrot takes the initiative of a sub-
scription for the unfortunate woman Rosalie
Oardin, whose unjust condemnation I commented
upon last week. Re sends 100 fr. to the Temps,
accompanied by a letter in which he suggests the
idea that in case of the execution of an innocent
person (an event which might well have happened
in the case of Rosalie), a curator should be allowed
to rehabilitate the memory of the deceased in a
regular action.
Mario, who, in consequence of the sad accident
to Mdlle. Emma Livry, appeared last night at the
Opera in the Huguenots instead of Massaniello,
found his voice fail him, and after being hissed so
completely broke down in the second act that he
volunteered to cancel his engagement. Prince
Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde were present
on this melancholy occasion.
The Daily News is seized.

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