The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-09 00:00:00

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1 declare, as JAR in Eyre, all rivers open for traffic—by
force of Sir C. Stuart and MELLO'S Amazon Rio Brazil elec-
tion, attested in Adm. Hamond and Sectry Hill Sandys, on
the 1825 Holy alliance abolition of Kings' for the * Ccesar
Peru-edict 1547 Ind. Rota-crown Protector Lieut Ackerley,
Rae, as Ring John's Ist Montague 'n/ kin trust, was sworn-
in as Chief-judge, at Worcester's Crt. in Jan, 1837,4' by Gold
stick archer-Wm. 4 [whose JORDAN-daughter marries the
Captain's nephew, by 2nd-branch of Dartmouth's Slane
le Fleming Chamherlayne, in Leicester Denton Coke, Hun-
loke Shelley de Lisle Sydney-Jordan as Fitzclarence bar'd
in heraldry, like Eaton-hall Grey-Egertonhi//, by ' Somer.
set' Hill icasti—as Malcolm iii. line of Clare Lincoln-in'-
Lacy as Welsh Palo.;sten of Ireland, since 1825-37 by Bell-
alliance
on Law Crt-tie 1820 (2d) as the fist Civic Christian marriage
by Pomponia Groacina .:.-_- Plautus, 43 A.D. edict Claudii.
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papers, 1671 to 1843, on Car. 2 Hudson's Bay Corniffi' omn o'';
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tidal oath 6 &6 standard Meters for the 12 colony Jurats
on britain's 18 Ed. to. for New Albion Orecone Columbia's
Byres Cr Leet-Crt. pledge, on Convolute-rota corona.
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Maryland of Car. I. 1634 Indian 2-Arrow tie ? for Cherokee
Nation, 17P-74's Cecil le s' Exeter Change by attaint—so
Calvin-papist Quakers Percy-Smithsonian ' peculiar insti •
tution' on Can'ng's & Rush native, by Gladstone Hs. Com.'-
mittee, 1836. touch'ng Georgia's papal 'black-firm Southern
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war to extend Civil law Justinian code, 1. I. tit. I. §4, to
overturn the -U.S. '76 Union on the Jurat Common Law of
England—by
LINCOLN'S last Dec. Army word Nation,
against
Priestly interference with Indian Water-bailiffs.
(Signed) C. ' W' ACKERLEY.
England's Carib Ind. P. BASCIVET , . 36, Howland-st,
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Mansion-ha. 'Stocks-market' London, . , Feb.. , .

(From the limes' Correspondent.)
ATHENS, Jan. 29.

It is more than a month since the Assembly met,
and it has but just finished the preliminary work of
constituting itself. It elected its President and
two of its Vice-Presidents yesterday and is going to
elect the other two Vice-Presidents and the four
Secretaries to-day. This is much quicker than it
ever was done under the old regime, when Deputies
had salaries, and therefore never arrived at a true
appreciation of the value of time, and the work to
be done was greater, as the number of elections to be
verified was much larger, and as new rules had to
be drawn up for the Assembly and discussed. These
preliminary formalities, which in ordinary times
and a settled state of things might have been con-
sidered as entailing loss of time, proved under ex-
isting circumstances of great value.
When the Assembly met all was enveloped in
dark haze. The greater portion of it consisted of
new men unknown and untried, while those who
had played a part in politics before were scattered
and divided; thus, all elements of party organiza-
tion seemed to be wanting. The six weeks taken by
the preliminary formalities have developed these
elements to a certain point, although even after this
delay they are in very little beyond an embryo
state.

The process of development was not without in-
terest in a small place where every one knows every
one else, and where everybody's movements are care-
ful ly watched, known, and commented upon. A kind
of political chroniques scandaleuse reported every day
the changes in the situation. To facilitate party or-
ganisation, political clubs were tried on the model
of the " Rhigas Phereos," which dates from
the first days of the revolution. Scarcely a week
passed without announcing the birth of a new one by
placards all over the town. One day it was "The
Holy Struggle;" another day it was the " Popular
Opinion," or the Club of Athenians which was an-
nounced in a more or less pompous way, and found
its organs in the press. But the plant was an exotic
which did not prosper
.on Athenian soil, where
politics always loved seclusion anu mystery. Not
one of the more prominent men takes an active part
in them, although his name may figure on the list
of one or another of these clubs; the most of them
drag on a dreary, inoffensive existence little known
and less cared for. Small social meetings, private
interviews, proposals carried about by third parties,
were resorted to rather than public discussions in
clubs to arrive at arrangements. Such and such a
representative, said the chrontque, passes his even-
ings at the house of such a Minister. Such a mem-
ber of Government has made such proposals to such
and such an influential party chief. M. So and
So has been running about to arrange a meeting
between such and such persons, and so on.
It you watched the visible effect of all this under-
hand activity the impression was, that the greater
the activity the smaller the result, and after six
weeks of this work the Assembly is organised in
groups rather than parties.
The Provisional Government was formed under
too exceptional circumstances to contain the
germs of stability. Even before the Assembly
met it had been divided into several fraction'',
which have now come into the foreground. There
is first that of the President of the Provisional
Government himself, possessing by far the clearest
head and the strongest will among his colleagues;
he has been all along the soul of the Government,
carrying through most of his views in spite of the
strong opposition which he encountered occasionally.
Had these views been elevated enough he might
stand there now as the most prominent man of his
seeking
country, the representative of those ideas which
state
of thinßP, , every one almost of his actions
triampbed on the 10th of October ; but he was too
much saturated himself with the old leaven of
nepotism and small party spirit, so that instead of
to prepare the way for a new and sounder
to be only calculated to insure the longest
seemed
possible enjoyment of the high position in which
placed
by
he had been
circumstances. He tried to
make friends When he .
ought to have done good to
his country, and now that
has come, the friends, seeing hisM? time of accounting
have vanished one by one, precarious position,
, so that he would remain
almost alone were it not for an old acquaintance and
colleague, Riga Palamedes, who has thrown in his
lot with him. This latter, who is not without influ-
ence in his native province of Tri l't
po za and in the

Oid Admiral Cinaris, a rtif mber of the Provisional
Government, leads the second fraction. A bo;d
sailor once, but never a politician, and now, more-
over, ar. old man,
his name, one of the most respected
for honesty, has been more than once a rallying flag
in a country where political corruption was the
order of the day. But it is just this honesty and
single-mindedness which atrracts schemers, and the
schemers frighten away those who might have been
disposed to rally under his flag. It was only with
difficulty that he was prevailed upon to enter into
the Provisional Government, and he has kept aloof
from affairs, besides being ill most of the time. He
can reckon on about 20 votes.
The third fraction arose from a combination of the
members of the Ministry who have proved a stand-
ing opposition to the tendency of the President to
mono! olise all power in his own hands. This fraction
has more the prospect of becoming a political party
than the former two. At its head are Zaimi, the
Minister of the Interior, and Comondouros, the
Minister of Justice. The former, a son of Andreas
Zaimi, one of the most influential Moreote primates,
has himself fignrei among the Parliamentary Op-
position in the reign of King Otho. Although still
a young man, he was proposed by the Opposition
in 1859 as President of the Chamber, and was
elected in spite of the efforts of the Court and King,
who dissolved the Chamber in consequence. Co-
mondouros, although row Minister of Justice, is
admitted to be the best financial head in Greece,
and gets credit for being one of the cleverest poli-
tical partisans. As he has, like Zaimi, considerable
influence in come parts of the Morea, the union
between the twa has become a centre for the More-
ote party, just as the name of Grivas has become
the rallying point for the Roumeliote interest. But
Grivas, the
the Mountain, represents
merely Roumeliote interest,
of Zaimi-Comondouros. It tends
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to attract all those who have played a pert in poli-
tics before, and in general those who think the un-
compromising disposition of the Mountain impracti-
cable. Moderation and compromise is its motto,
and it has accordingly received the name of the
"Plain " denoting its antagonism to the Mountain
swtritallitsiPnucriles. Most
purist tendency
and its predilection for ab-
et pripof the political notabilities of
the old regime have joined it more or less, so that
not only in number but in political experience and
talent of debate it is certainly the strongest fraction
in the Assembly. It numbers from 70 to 80 members.
I have given you a sketch of the Mountain be-
fore. It was the first in the field, and seemed at
one moment fairly in the way of carrying every-
thing with it. In a constituent Assembly, which
has met to remedy the abuses and corporation of a
long reign, a flag with the motto, " Principles, and
not men," could not but have a large attraction for
all new men ; but it had at the same time the inhe-
rent weakness that its motto could not always be
acted upon in a case where there is little difference
as to principles, and where, nevertheless, men were
required to carry out the principles. At the first
occasion, therefore, when a question of persons oc-
curred, the Mountain split. The list was to be
made for the commissions which were to verify the
elections, and Deligorgi, the Minister for Public
Worship, and himself an influential and ambitious
young Roumeliote, seceded, carrying off with him
some 20 men. This split has never been 'mended,
and the fraction of Deligorgi has been oscillating
ever since between the Mountain and the Plain.
These latter two are so evenly balanced in numbers
that they have both tried to fix those who slide
along the slope, but their efforts have hitherto been
in vain.

The debate on the election of the Presidents and
Vice-Presidents of the Assembly, as well as the elec-
tion itself, has brought out for the first time the
relative strength of those parties or groups which I
have sketched. As has been the case all along, the
Mountain was the first ready with its candidate.
Weeks ago it was known that Balbi, one of the re-
presentatives of Missolonghi, was the candidate of
the Mountain. A lawyer by profession, he had
before represented his native place in the Chamber,
and hall earned both there and as Minister of
Finance a name for upright honesty and unbending
character, which, among his enemies, went under
the name of obstinacy. As he had played but a
secondary part, in politics, he possessed the valuable
quality of not being objectionable to any one. None
of the other fractions could find a candidate half as
good. In vain was meeting after meeting held ;
they produced no result. The only other name that
was brought forward was that of Riga Palamedes
by the friends of the President, but the very men-
tion of his name produced such an opposition that
it was soon dropped.
Not being able to find a candidate of their own,
the " Plain," which is often accused of looking into
and studying assiduously the reports of the French
Constituante in 1848, conceived the idea of imitating
the latter, and proposing the election of four Presi-
dents, who should preside in turns. It seemed a
strange way of getting out of the difficulty. Not
being able to find one good candidate, they tried to
find four. When, therefore, the first paragraph of
the new rules was brought forward fot discussion,
Calliges, one of the best lawyers and a representa-
tive of Attica, developed the idea in a neat set
speech; he was followed by several other clever
debaters, but the National Assembly of Greece is
the last body which is likely to be swayed by
speeches—every one had mode up his mind on the
subject. As it was known that the friends of the
President, unable to carry their candidate, Riga
Palamedes, would vote for the four Presidents, it
was expected that the Mountain would be left in
the minority. The vote proved the contrary, for
the Assembly rejected by 105 against 981 he amend-
ment 'Deligorgi and his " sliders" had slid up to
the Mountain. The explanation given is, that he
wanted to " house" Balbi, so as to have him out of
the way when the question of the formation of a new
Government comes on the tapis.
But the "Plain" would not be beaten. So, as
soon as the first excitement caused by the unex-
pected result was over, it mustered its forces and
brought forward an additional paragraph proposed
by Saripulo, one of the members for the University
to the effect that the election of the President and
Vice-Presidents, as well as of the Secretaries, should
be renewed every month. This was more or less
upsetting the first vote just given, or, at any rate,
depriving it of all its value. It was late in the
afternoon ; the excitement of the first vote had made
honourable members more fidgety than usual at
that late hour, and there are no whippers-in where
there are as yet no regularly constituted parties.
The result was that by a vote of 103 against 99 the
proposal for re-electing the Presidents, Vice-Presi-
dents, and Secretaries was carried.
This was on Monday. Next day was another
field -day. The 48th paragraph of the rules came
to be discussed. It proposes that the election of
the functionaries of the Assembly, and all personal
questions, should be decided by secret vote by
ballot. The contrary principle had been adopted
from the very beginning by acclamation, but now
that the definitive rules were discussed the question
was taken up. There was much talking on both
sides, the chief argument for voting by ballot being
that the long misrule had rendered people timid,
and that there was an apprehension that some
would not dare to v„ to freely for fear of personal ,

There is one feature in this contest far Presi-
dent and Vice-President of the Assembly which
promises well for the future struggle as to the
Government which is to follow next. None of the
parties cr groups seemed strong enough to carry a
candidate by its own strength, and at one time it
seemed almost hopeless to attain any result. Yet
at the last moment an arrangement was come to
which, if it does not satisfy all parties, nevertheless
solves the difficulty by a sort of compromise. The
Plain gained the point as to the temporary character
of the President, and yielded, in its turn, to the
Mountain in accepting its candidate.
The difficulty is no doubt greater with respect to
anew Government. Every one has his list, but there
is neither a chance of any party carrying its candi-
dates, nor of two or more combining. The idea is
therefore gaining ground to have no Provisional
Government at all, but Ministers chosen directly by
the Assembly, every one for his place, and respon-
sible; the most aged to preside, or every member
i❑ regular rotation. The scheme seems, certainly,
the best way out of the difficulty, and as such it has
no small advantages. It brings responsibility home
to the Ministers, who can now recure themselves
behind their colleagues, and there are no enemies at
the door to require great concentration of power in
the Executive. The National Assembly is the only
legal power in the country; it is universally recog-
nised and looked up to ; all that is wanted is to
have men to carry on the current business dur-
ing the short interregnum. The only thing to
be desired is that the Assembly shall be content to
control, and not meddle with the Executive.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The fine screw corvette Racoon, 22, 400 horse
power, Captain the Count Victor Gleichen, fitting
in the Medway to convey his Royal Highness Prince
Alfred on a special cruise, has been removed from
dock, and is now moored off the west shore, where
she is being completed for sea with all possible de-
spatch. The Racoon was constructed at Chatham
dockyard a few years back from the designs of Ad-
miral Sir Baldwin Walker, the then surveyor of
the navy, and is sister ship to the Clio, Cadmus,
and some other vessels of that class. She differs
only from a frigate in having no broadside guns
placed on her upper deck. She has on her gun deck
18 8-inch 68 pounder smooth bore guns, for throw-
ing either shot or shell, and two 40 pounder Arm-
strongs ; and on her fighting deck she has two 110
pounder Armstrong pivot guns. The Racoon has
but recently undergone a thorough repair and refit
at Chatham dockyard. It is stated that Prince Al-
fred has himself selected the Racoon for his cruise
from having admired her so much when in the Me-
diterranean. Tile Racoon is fitted for service on the
Home Station at present, and it is rumoured at
Chatham that she will visit Norway, Sweden, and
Denmark prior to proceeding to Australia, which is
understood to be her ultimate destination. A picked
band of 12 musicians will be attached to the Racoon
during the time she is in commission.
Rear-Admiral Robinson, the controller of the
navy, went down to Chatham dockyard on Satur-
day for the purpose of inspecting the progress made
with the iron and iron plated vessels under con-
struction at that establishment. After transacting
some business with Captain Fanshawe, superinten-
dent of the dockyard, the controller,accompanied by
Mr. Lang, master shipbuilder, and Mr. Hutchens,
one of his assistants, visited the iron frigate Achilles,
50, the iron plated frigate Royal Oak, 34, and the
iron paddlewheel steamer Recruit, 6. Every hand
now employed in the dockyard has been removed
from the wooden ships, and the whole of the exer-
tions of the'establishment are at present devoted to
the completion of the squadron of iron vessels. The
Achilles, which is by far the most important vessel of
any of those in hand, has made rapid progress
during the last few months, there being now up-
wards of 1,000 hands employed exclusively on this
ship. The first of her armour-plates has
been
confidently
al-
ready bolted to her sides, and it is ne
asserted that she will be completed and
in six months from the present time. The Royal
is entirely completed
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the shed under which the wooden frigate Belvidere,
51, horse power, is building, but which is shortly to
be taken to pieces and rebuilt on the large granite
slip, at the extremity of the yard,
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