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London, England, 1863-02-05 00:00:00

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THE GREEK THRONE.

GOTHA, FEB. 4.

The Coburger Zeitung of to-day gives an officia;
confirmation to the news that the Duke of Saxe.
Coburg has definitely declined to become a candi
date for the throne of Greece, and announces that
his Highness will himself make public a full v.ccouni
of the negotiations which preceded this refusal.

ATHENS, FEB. 4.

The Nati:mal Assembly has unanimously passed
resolutions decreeing the Throne to have been for-
feited by Otho, his Queen, and dynasty, and to have
become vacant.

The National Assembly also declared Prince
Alfred to have been elected King of the Greeks by
230,000

FRANCE.

PARIS, FEB. 4.

Thd debate on the Address in reply to the Em-
peror's Speech commenced to-day in the Corps
Legislatif.

M. Plichon, Who opened the debate, principally
spoke upon home affairs, and zensured the Govern-
ment system in regard to the public press, and the
interterence of the Administration in electoral
matters.

M. Kolb-Bernard delivered a speech upon foreign
questions, in which he drew attention to the dif-
ference between the policy of England and that of
France. M. Kolb-Bernard eulogized the policy of
France in Cnina, Cochin-China, and Japan. He
then touched upon the Eastern question, and said
that England was too powerful at Constantinople,
and endeavoured to maintain the atutus quo in
Turkey from purely selfish motives. He said that
England alone sympathized with the Druses after
the massacres of the Lebanon, and continued :

" England wishes to make the onerous gift of the
lonian Islands to Greece in order to insure to herself
dominion over the Hellenic Peninsula. England
remains the ally of the Sultan ; she places herself
as the shield of Turkey, and thus strengthens her
position. England has occupied Perim and covets
Lemnos and the Dardanelles."

M. Kolb-Bernard also said that he hoped Austria
would unite with France to bring to a solution the
Eastern question. " Russia," he said,—
" Wishes to conquer Constantinople, and at the
same time odiously oppresses Poland. She has also
just inaugurated man-hunting under the title of a
conscription. (Applause from several benches.)
Russia proclaims a liberal policy in the East,
aspires to the Protectorate of the Christians in the
East, endeavours to hasten the work of dismember-

ment of Turkey, and has become an ally of Pied-
mont for this purpose. The policy of France in
the Kist is conservative. She must protect the in-
terests of the Christians, and place herself between
the different ambitious parties which covet the pro-
vinces of the Empire which is falling to pieces."
In reference to Italy, M. Kolb-Bernard said that
the policy of France in Italy was to protect Catho-
licism. He maintained that Italy did not wish for
unity, and believed it impossible to reconcile the
maintenance of the temporal power with the pre-
tensions of the domination of Piedmont. In con-
clusion, M. Kolb-Bernard expressed a hope that
France would return to her historical and tradi-
tional policy.

L' Opinion Nationale learns that M. Guyard
Delataine has presented to-day to the Chamber of
Deputies an a wendment relative to Poland, and
applauds the step thus taken as an initiative reflect-
ing honour alike on the deputy and on France
whose name he speaks. It observes that the Prus-
sian Cibinet has only confirmed its anticipations by
issuing a proclamation against the insurgents, since
nothing else could be f xpected from a government
which makes Divine Right its ideal. It says
that King William has despatched one
of his aides-de camp and a superior officer
to Warsaw charged with a mission relative
to the affairs of Poland. He is at the same time
concentrating Lis forces on the Polish frontier, and
the Prussian railways are encumbered, it is said,
with soldiers directed towards Posnanie. It has
been thought that Austria was less hostile to the
insurrection ; but the Court of Vienna could not
isolate itself from Prussia and Russia, and it is
announced that the chef de police has published a
manifesto, threatening the penalties of the law
against . recruiting agents for the Poles. It is
rumoured that the Russian Government was en-
dettiouring to•provoke an insurrection in Gallicia,
in order to force Austria to co-operate with her in
repressing the national outbreak, The movement
is constantly 'Spreading. The insurgents are already
tolerably organised, and commanded by old officers
General Vysocki is said to have taken the direction
of the movement. General Czaykows, who has left
Turkey in haste, where he had joined the army, is
at the head of the bands which have penetrated
Volhynia.
A war of words is raging between the different
organs of the French press on the subject of Poland,
some observations of Le Constitutionnel having ex-
cited the anger of L' Union, supported by Le Siecle
and Le Pays, who accuse Le Constitutionnel of
Russian sympathies. Le Constitutionnel indig-
nantly declares that it is on account of its love
for Poland that it beholds these outbreaks with
affliction, and asks which are the truest friends
of Poland, those who encourage her to hopeless
attempts or those who strive to convince her that
such efforts only retard the era of peace and re-
generation which, according to Le Constitutionnel,
has already commenced.

Le Steele gives a list of the princip,il contribu-
tions to toe t awl tor tie distres,ed cotton operatives,
and announces that the subscriptions received at its
own office for the purpose realised yesterday the
amount of 155,0001 r. In the same journal we find
an interesting article from the pen of M. Ferdinand
de Listedme, recommending the erection of a grand
central museum of the Industrial Arts, similar in
design to our Sourn Kensington Museum.

The Minister ot Public —lnstruetiou has trans-
mitted to the Miniser of the Interior the Nu ra of
200 tr. as a new r-üb,eription from' the Imperial
Lye, urn ot Rouen to favour of the Orphe/imat of
the Prince Imperial. .

The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Misses
Longley have arrived at Lambeth Palace from Addington
Park.

Her Highness the Princess Marie de Philippesco
and Sir Stephen Bartlett Lakeman have left the Bruns-
wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for the Isle of Wight.
the Duke and Duchess of ALirlbJrough and
family have arrived in St. James's-square from Blenheim
Palace, Oxon-
The Duchess of Beaufort comes to town to-day
from Badminton.

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MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. 4.

The Queen drove out yesterday, accompanied by
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess
Helena, and attended by Lieut.-Colonel Du Plat.

Sir Andrew Bachanan remained at Osborne yes-
terday after the Council, and returned to London
to-day.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. An appeal from Madras, " Ramasaurmy
Jyen and others v. Veneata Achari and others,"
part heard, was resumed and concluded. The lords
present were—the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and
Turner, Sir J. Coleridge, Sir L. Peel, and Sir J.
Colvile.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial Office from the Governors of Canada and
Malta.

The Marriage of the Prince of Wales.

The marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
with Princess Alexandra of Denmark will take place upon
Tuesday, March 10.

By her Majesty's command the ceremony will be per-
formed in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in which
chapel the Prince of Wales was christen ed, and by which
arrangement the Queen will be enabled to be present in
private, which could not, under existing circumstances,
have been the case at the Chapel Royal in London.
Upon the 7th of March the Princess Alexandra will
arrive in England, and upon her arrival at the Bricklayers'
Arms station will drive, accompanied by the Prince of
Wales and the members of her family who come to England
with her, and attended by her suite, through the City and
West-end of London to the Paddington terminus, on her
way to Windsor.

The arrangements will be much the same as on the occa-
sion when the Princess Royal left England after her mar-
riage.

Drawing-Room and Levee.

The Queen has commanded that a Levee shall be held at
St. James's Palace on Wednesday, the 25th of February,
by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, on behalf of
her Majesty.

All presentations will be considered as being made to her
Majesty.
The usual regulations will be observed.

The Queen has commanded that a drawing room shall be
held on Saturday, February 28, at St. James's Palace, by
her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia, Prin-
cess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland, on behalf of her
Majesty.

All presentations will be considered as being made to her
Majesty.
Th e usual regulations will be observed.

We are authorised to state that the Queen, having gra-
ciously taken into consideration the interests of trade, does
not require any Ladies to appear in mourning at the Draw-
ing-room announced on the 28th inst., excepting the Ladies
of the Corps Diplomatique, the wives of the Cabinet Minis-
ters, and the Ladies of her Majesty's Household.