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

I'HE SUN, LONDON, .MONDAY EVENING,

'` ANNA FORGET " that Signor GIUGLINI
sings in the GREAT ST. JAMES'S HALL on
WEDNESDAY EVENING, February I. This being most
positively his last appearance in England previous .o his de-
parture for "Vienna," Admission Tickets, ON p, SHILLING
ACFI, should be secured before hand, at Austin's office, 28,
Piccadilly. Sofa stalls, ;',s. each.

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thirteen characters, solely sustained by E. Marshall.
The Comic by Unsworth, in his celebrated stump speech,
" Or any other Man," Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, Frank Hall,
and Miss Laura Sanders.

GRAND OPERATIC SELECTIONS, as usual, conducted
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ALCESTE
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Other Operatic Selections, Choruses, four-part Songs, &c.
George Hodson's Irish, Miscellaneous, and Ventriloquial
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Unsworth's great Stump Speech, " Or any other man."
Eugene's burlesque Scenas and Dances.
Miss Caroline Parkes' Pantomimic Sketch, "Little Rdd
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W. Randall's New Comicalities, and other varied attractions
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Hall, 6d.—Balcony and Stalls, Is.—Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.
In rehearsal, "HE LINE THE HUNTER," a Cantata,
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THE GREEK REVOLUTION.

(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-
fully 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," R hich 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. Bat the plant was an exotic
which did not prosper on Athenian soil, where
politics always loved seclusion and 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 chronzque, 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.

If 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 fractions,
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.
Rad these views been elevated enough he might
stand there now as the most prominent man of his
country,
pb
ed nthoereresentative of those ideas which
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the 10th of October ; but he was too
much saturated
calculate
possible way for a new and sounder
nepotism and
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state of things, every
spirit, so that instead of
seeking to prepare
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lot with him. This latter, who is not without inffuls
ence in his native province of Tripolitza and in the

neighbouring districts, is too much compromised as
a supporter of old ways of corruption to find any
one willing to go with him ; so he throws himself
as a pis aller into the arms of the President, de-
serted by every one else. Together they may count.
on about 25 or 30 votes. Had the elections of
Sparta, Argos, and the Maina passed, things might
have been different, for as the members for these
places were all more or less returned by the interest
of Mavromichali family, the Minister of War, who
blongs to this family and who all along has been
pulling together with the President, might have
brought over a considerable Parliamentary array.
Old Admiral Canaris, a member of the Provisional
Government, leads the second fraction. A bold
sailor once, but never a politician, and now, more-
over, an 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 reekop 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
monopolise 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 figure.? 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 now 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 Mores, 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
as the party of Grivas, the Mountain, represents
something more than merely Roumeliote interest,
so does the party of Zaimi-Comondouros. It tends
to attract all those who have played a part 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
with its purist tendency and its predilection for ab-
stract principles. Most of 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 vrrify the
elections, and Deligorgi, the Minister for Public
Worship, and himself an influential and ambitious
young Roumeliote, seceded, carrying off s ith 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 had 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 t heir own,
the " Plain," which is often accused of lo( Ling into
and studying assiduously the reports of ti French
Constituante in 1848, conceived the idea of ,mitating
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 foi 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 made 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 98 the 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• Pres-
idents, 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 vote freely for fear of personal

EBRUARY 9, 1863_

consequences. Cases were quoted of the first As-
sembly in 1843, in which members who had voted
against influential persons had to rue for it. The
Mountain repudiated this notion, and voices were
heard, "We will protect you ;" but when it came
to the vote there were 102 for and as many against.
As the temporary President, who voted like the
rest, had no casting vote, the amendment was lost ;
but the result did not satisfy the " Mountain," so
they tried the issue once more on the question
whether the vote given. referred only to the election
of the functionaries of the Assembly, or to the
whole paragraph of the rules proposing secret
voting for all personal questions. It was decidedly
bad tactics to venture on such uncertain ground
with a weakly organized force, and the result was
to change what was a drawn battle into a decided
defeat.

These preliminary combats and their result had
taken off a good deal of the keenness which would
otherwise have been shown in the struggle for the
Presidency. As the functionaries of the Assembly
are to be re-elected every month, it was not so very
important who was the first President. The Plain
had even at the last hour been unable to find
a man of their own ; and, besides, there was per-
sonally no objection to Balbi, proposed by the
Mountain. Thus it came that when yesterday the
Assembly met for the election of its President,
every one knew that Balbi would be named with a
large majority. And so it proved; he had 155 votes
out of 207, the rest being some for Moraitini, the
President of Areopagus, a man who was on both
lists as first Vice-President; some for Kriesi, the
temporary President; and 29 blanks, which every
one knew meant the friends of the President, and of
his candidate, Riga Palamedes.
The President elect, a little old man with a white
moustache and short cut whiskers, was called up
and assumed the chair which was vacated by his
predecessor, after a few words of thanks to the
Assembly, which elicited well-merited applause.
Although scarcely equal to the task of keeping dis-
cipline in so undisciplined a body, he has worked
to the best of his powers, and with a good humour
and patience which has conciliated to him the good
will of every one. M. Tricoupi, late Greek Minister
in London, and now representing the Greeks of
Manchester, proposed a vote of thanks, which was
carried by acclamation. The new President like-
wise addressed the Assembly, calling upon it to
help him in his task, which otherwise would be-
come impossible.

The election of the Vice-Presidents was more in-
teresting than that of the President as a trial of
strength. There was little question about the first,
Moraitini, for he figured on both lists, and was
elected by a large majority. The second on the list
of the " Plain" was Loudos of Patras, and he was
elected by 116 votes, 20 of these bearing his name
alone, and supposed to have been given by the
party of Canaris, which, although usually with the
Mountain, is said to have had an objection to voting
for the second candidate of this latter, Boudouri of
Hydra, who, in consequence of this defection, ob-
tained only 87 votes, which are reckoned to belong
to the Mountain alone. Today the two other Pre-
sidents are to be voted for among those who had
the greatest relative majorities yesterday.

There is one feature in this contest for 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 or 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
Plaingained 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
in 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. The 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 ou 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
this
wards of 1,000 hands employed exclusively
eoenn
ship. The first of her armour-plates
hcas
onbfidentl
al-
ready bolted to her sides, and it is now confidently
d ckey
completedhandsare
asserted that she will be completed and
The Royal
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herk, dock,an d
a isnentirelyh number
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employed in erecting the shot-proof turret on her
inartmhoeura-dpiloaitninngg,
upper deck, After visiting the iron paddle Wheel
steamer Recruit, which is undergoing some very
extensive repairs, Admiral Robinson proceeded to
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the shed under which the wooden frigate Belvidere,
b 5 el taken horse
toP piecesw e r
slip, at the extremity of the yard, on which the
Royal Oak was built, The Belvidere is intended
to be reconstructed as an iron-plated frigate of the

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Royal Oak class, although on a somewhat different
plan. The designs have been prepared by Mr.
Lang, the master shipbuilder at Chatham, and ap-
proved by the Admiratty. As soon as the hands
now employed on the Royal Oak are released from
that vessel they will be transferred to the Belvidera,
the reconstruction of which will then be com-
menced. After giving various directions as to the
work connected with the several vessels inspected,
Admiral Robinson returned:to the Admiralty early
in the afternoon.

The screw steamship Mars, 81, 400 horse power,
Capt. J. N, Strange, lately returned from the
Mediterranean, was paid off at the Nore on Satur-
day, under the superintendence of Capt. C. Wise,
aide-de-camp to the Queen, and superintendent of
the dockyard. Notwithstanding the large number
of men composing the crew, and the considerable
sum paid away, the work of paying the ship's
company was completed early in the afternoon.
The Mars was commissioned on the 20th of Jane,
1859, and has since been attached to the Medi-
terranean squadron. The captain, commander,
and the greater part of the officers originally ap-
pointed have returned in her. The ship's company
was remarkably healthy, and througt► the exertions
of the chaplain, the Rev. S. W. Payne, the
temperance movement had made great progress on
board. Prior to the vessel being paid off on Satur-
day Capt. Strange assembled the ship's company,
and expressed to them the pleasure he had experi-
enced in having commanded such a generally well-
behaved crew, and the hope he had that he might
again meet with most of them in any future ship to
which the Admiralty might appoint him. He then
presented Corporal E. Everest, Royal Marines, with
a silver medal, which, together with a gratuity of
£5, had been awarded him by the Lords of the Ad-
miralty for long service and good conduct. The
Mars will be placed in the third division of the
Chatham Steam Reserve until again required for
commission.

Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam sloop Alecto,
commissioned by Commander Blake, was hauled out
of the fitting basin at Woolwich on Saturday, in
readiness for sea. Her destination is stated to be
the south-east coast of America, to receive the Ar-
dent, ordered home. The Alecto takes out a small
number of supernumerary officers for the 51 gun
frigate Forte now on that station on account of the
large number of ablebodied and continuous service
seamen returned from leave during the past fort-
night, and berthed on board the flagship Fisgard. at
Woolwich, now amounting to upwards of 300 men.
The second-class lads entered weekly for the train-
ing and receiving ships Implacable and Impregna-
ble at Devonport are ordered to be transferred to
the Hebe hulk during their detention at Woolwich.
These lads during the past month have fallen short
of the required number (although a great many have
presented themselves for admission), on account of
the regulations which are strictly observed. These
are as follows :—" No boys, under any circumstances,
will be entered under the age of 14, or over 16. They
must be well grown and stout, of perfectly sound
and healthy constitution, free from all physical mal-
formation,wand intelligent, and they must produce
their register of birth, or declaration thereof made
before a magistrate. The consent of their parents
or nearest relatives must be given in writing, and
the boy himself must be willing and desirous
to enter. Candidates must proceed to Woolwich
at their own expense, and present themselves at the
Fisgard's office on each Thursday morning at ten
o'clock, and, if,rejected, will have to return at their
own expense."