The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-10 00:00:00

NEW TRIZATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.-
- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. 13. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE LI I TLE TREASURE. Mr.
Billington, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton.
After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L.Toole,
P Bedford, and Mrs. Billington.
To be followed by "GEORGE DE BARNWELL :
or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolgar,
Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bed-
ford, Stephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri;
columbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; Clown, Mr. W. Hildyard ;
ntaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and
Lertrand.

Commence at 7.

The Weather.--Sun Office, Feb. 8, 1863.

THERMOMETER.
Highest since Noon yesterday. 5O
Lowest during the night
This day at N00n.....

Barometer-29.97.
Wind—Northerly; light, with fine weather. Rain in the
night and morning.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY.—Morning, sh. 59m.—Afternoon, 6h. 20m.
To-woßitow.-Morning, 6h. 38m.—Afternoon, 11h. 2m,

ference of the Greek multitude has survived the re-

peated rejections of their more than complimentary

offer of a crown to the QUEEN, to the Prince, to the

Nation, to the Government. For this unsoli-
cited, this wholly undreamt-of tribute of
homage from thejlellenie people is really and truly

of this quadruple character.

It is a tribute of respect and admiration for Her
Majesty Queen VICTORIA as the most beloved
and the most purely constitutional of all living
sovereigns. It is a tribute of respect and admi-
ration also in another way for the fair and
stainless, and auspicious dawning of the reputa-
tion of the young Prince, Her Majesty's second
son, whom the more conspicuous among the
Greek people remember themselves to have seen
and welcomed at the Pirmas and in Athens a
very few years since, when H.E.H. was feted at
the British Legation there as the Royal guest of
his Excellency the late Right Hon. Sir THOMA
`NYSE, for so many years Her Britannic
MAJ ESTY'S Ambassador to the Court of Greece. A
tribute, also, of its kind quite unparalleled—this
offer of the Crown of Geese to H.R.H. Prince
ALFRED—has been in an especial manner to the
English people and to the English Government.
Never did a foreign nation more signally evidence
their appreciation of all the nobler attributes of
a remote community, than the Greeks have in this
way manifested towards the freeborn population of
these islands. Never has any race, with quite diffe-

rent antecedents, speaking a different language,
members of a different religion, shown forth in so rc-

markable a manner their sense of the grandeur and
beneficence of the principles upon which have been
based for centuries (more an I more broadly and
securely with the advance of time) the vast and
solid foundations of a far off Government. And all

this while the nation that was preparing
this spontaneous tribute to our institutions 1
has been growing up, as it were, under 1
the immediate shadow of the upas of the great
Russian Autocracy ! It speaks well for the capa-
bilities of the Greeks for better things politically,
that with so many baneful proclivities—here '
towards Russia, here to wards that particular por-
tion of Central Germany known as Bavaria—the
people, uninfluenced by the insidious tendencies of
the es-Queen AMELIA especially, and of her
Germano-Muscovite entourage, should have all the
while been cherishing in their hearts a secret fond-
ness for the free institutions of England, a respect-
ful homage for the character of our reigning SOVE-
REIGN, a lively personal interest in the second of
her MAJESTY'S youthful sons, an implicit confidence
in the integrity and goodwill of our constitutional
Government—a Government, moreover, which the
Greek people have thus glaringly manifested their
inclination if possible to imitate, if not to emulate.
Beyond all which, is it not quite apparent, from the
very nature of this instant declaration of the Greeks
in favour of England and of our English institutions
—is it not quite apparent, from this extraordinary
manifestation of public feeling in Greece so seen as
the Greek population could once more really speak
out upon the clearing of the political atmosphere 1
around them by the storm of another Revolution—
is it nut strangely and startlingly manifested
through their declaration in favour of Prince
ALFRED, how admirably well the late
Sir THOMAS WYSE had, for many years
past, up to the very date of his recent
death, represented thereat Athens her Britannic
Majesty and her Britannic Majesty's Government,
So well, in truth, had his Excellency presided over 1
the affairs of the British Legation there at Athens,
that scarcely had death removed him from the scene
when the Greek People at their earliest opportunity
I proffered to England this noble tribute of sympathy
and admiration.

In one instance alone since OTHO was de.
throned have the Greeks declared themselves
in favour of any Prince as their future Sovereign.
H.R.H. Prince ALFRED is the only Prince that
Greese has in this way selected and demanded as
her ruler. Three other Princes have been spoken
of as the possible Monarch, in lieu of H.R.H. ; but
those three have been proposed by others than
the Greeks themselves. Each of them in turn
has respectfully declined the honour suggested for
his acceptance—it may be from
,the very circum-
stance of its not having been one directly proposed to
them by the Greek population. The ex-King Con-
sort of Portugal, Dom FERDINAND, the widower of
Queen MARIA DE GLORIA—the Prince of LEINEN-
GEN, half nephew of Queen VICTORIA—the reigning
Duke of SAXE-COBURG, elder brother of his late
Royal Highness ALBERT, Prince Consort of Eng-
land! The last of these distinet and deliberate re-
fusals of the Crown of Greece may in some respects
be said to have been reiterated. For the offer had
been suggested to the consideration of the Duke of
SAXE-COBURG at some earlier stage of these nego-
tiations, and had been passed on by his Serene
Highness to the consideration of the young Prince of
LEININGEN. It was only very recently, on its
reverting to the Duke of SAXE-COBURG, that his
Highness definitively decided upon declining it.
Hardly, however, upon reflection, can these
refusals of the throne of Greece be in any way
wondered at. The acceptance of that throne,
under the circumstances, could scarcely be
regarded as other than an indiscretion. For among
all the Princes who have been asked to ascend it,
none of them, with the solitary exception of
11.1L11. Prince ALFRED, have been besought to
do so by the Greek nation, by the National
Assembly, or even by the Provisional Government.
The suggestion has come to their Royal or Serene
Highnesses indirectly, and therefore not very per-
suasively. Probably, now that Greece has been
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deemed impracticable by the British SOVEREIGN
and the British Government—probably now
that the Greeks have been made
distinctly
and unmistakably aware of this fact thus authori-
tatively, they, the Greeks, will upon a calm recon-
sideration of the situation, resolve upon a new
soleution for themselves.

As we anticipated at the outset, the suppression
of the Polish insurrection has not proved so easy a
matter as the Russian authorities Would have led us
to suppose. It was easy to treat the affair lightly,
to announce fresh conquests over the insurgents in
every successive telegram, to repeat continually that
Warsaw was quiet, and that the disaffection was
confined to the lower orders. The fact remains th,:t
notwithstanding the reported victories of the Rus-
sian troops, the insurgents are not discouraged ;
that instead of their forces dispersed, they are in-
creasing; that, far from the outbreak being re-
stricted to the ignorant peasantry, the great landed
proprietors are assisting the movement with horses
and provisions. The wide-spread and secret
Orga.
nision which is revealed by this simultaneous rising
in so many parts of the country is a sufficient
proof of the insurmountable difficulty which the
Russians will experience in subjugating such a
determined and unanimous people. That part of
Poland which fell to the share of Prussia, in that
disgraceful partition which is a blot upon modern
statesmanship, is beginning to feel the influence