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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 10, 1863.

Ia the House of Lords, yesterday, Lord Wn.oT-
TEsLEY asked whether the Government proposed
to introduce any measure for carrying out the re-
commendations of the Education Commissioner!' as
t cCharitable Endowments.
Lord GRANVILLE replied that, with regard to the
recommendation of the commission, and especially
the principal one for transferring the business of
the Charity Commissioners to the Educational De-
partment of the Privy Council, he doubted whether
Parliament would consent to the principle involved.
The whole was under the consideration of the Go-
vernment.

Their Lordships adjourned at a quarter to six.
In the Commons Mr. LAYARD said, in answer to
Colonel SYKES, that no permission had been given
to British officers or subjects to accept commissions
in the service of the Taeping Emperor, similar to
the permission which had been granted to accept
service under the Emperor of China.

In answer to Mr. GREGORY,
Lord PALMERSTON said that a communication
had been made to the Galway Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company, to the effect that if the Admi-
ralty should give a favourable report of the compe-
tence of the company the Government would
recommend the renewal of the contract. The noble
lord also observed in answer to Mr. Seymour, that
the official communication concerning the election
of Prince Alfred to the throne of Greece had only
been communicated to Earl Russell on Saturday.
The Prince of Saxe-Coburg had been sounded
privately, but had declined to be put in nomination.
Mr. HENNESSY gave notice that he would here-
after call attention to the violation by Russia of
the treaty engagements with the European Powers
in respect to Poland, and to move an address to the
Crown on the subject.
Sir G. GREY moved for leave to bring in a bill to
amend the law relating to corrupt practices at
elections.

After a short discussion leave was granted.
Sir R. PEEL obtained leave to bring in a bill to
register births and deaths in Ireland, according to
the English system.

The house adjourned at a quarter to eight.

If ever a nation of freemen could be deemed jus-
tified in constituting themselves into a Republic it
must certainly be allowed that the Greeks are that
community. Prince after Prince has shrunk from
the allurement of their vacant:throne. The Royal
Crown of Greece would really seem to be a cap
that fits nobody. Whether it is that OTno has
so associated the dignity of BASILEIIS with the
idea of failure that the two have came in a man-
ner to be identified in the estimation of the Euro-
pean dynasties—whatever the secret source of the
reluctance manifested by royal highness after
royal highness may be—quite certain is it that
no one as yet has manifested the smallest inclina-
tion to assume that diadem. It must be allowed,
of corase, that the Greeks themselves have from
the very commencement until now looked solely,
faithfully, and consistently in one only direction. I
Solicitous above all things to secure the
blessings of a truly constitutional Government
as the one grand result of their last Resolution—
spontaneously—unprompted,
save by their own
finer instincts as vigilant and most discerning ob-
servers of all the various Powers-that-Be through-
out Christendom—the Greek's pronounced, as we
know, with enthusiasm, and. we might really almost
venture to say, with unanimity in favour of his
Royal Highness the Prince ALFRED as their own
chosen Sovereign. It was not, remember, a mo-
mentary outburst 'of enthusiasm, or in any way a
questionable display of unanimity. The enthu-
siasm of the Gr...nks was maintained through very
many weeks, Their unanimity was intimated
on every Possible opportunity. It assumed to
itself .at 'last, as the world will well recol-
lect, all -requisite substance and consistency—this
predilection of the Greekpeople in favour of H.R.H.
the Prince ALFRED—when, by the plebiscite autho-
risei, by the Provisional Government, a quarter of
a 7.nitlion of the male population of
the - kingdom, or
01 any rate of the would Ike kingdom, votes for
ALFRED the First, King of Greece. Nay, the pre.