The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-02 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

TEIEAT RE-RON AL, HAY MARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
On EASTER MONDAY, will be performed MUCH ADO
ABOUT NOTHING. Hero, Miss Ellen Terry ; Beatrice,
Miss Louisa Angel.
After which, an apropos Dramatic Sketch,. introducing a
Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of Wales in the East.
To conclude with BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pamela
her first appearance), Miss Maria

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. PECTHER.
On EASTER MONDAY, to commence with an Original
sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
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After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
THE
Drama, in Three Acts, Quartered Pr3loque, entitled
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feral and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter,
suoported n
by Messrs. G. Vinig, J. Brougham, H. iddi-
combe, W. Wltyre, F. Charnles, Garden, Raymond, H.
Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E.
Lavenue, and Elsworthy.
Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H.
Ai arnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
Lessee and Manager, Mr ',lndus.
On Easter Monday the drama of AURORA FLOYD. Mi4s
Amy Sedgvrick, Miss Henderson, and Mrs. Simpson ; Messrs.
Roxby, G. Melville, G. Belmore, C. Seyton, Wallace, and
Collett.
To conclude with a new whimsical Extravaganza, entitled
BEAUTIFUL HAIDEE ; or The Sea Nymph and the Sallee
Rovers.

W THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
.1_ Solo Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING (ttth time) AURORA FLOYD. Miss
Avonia Jones, Miss H. Simms, Mrs. Billing•ton ; Mr. Benj.
Webster, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Billington,
Mr. Stuart, Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith.
After which, A VALENTINE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul
Bedford, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss Seaman.
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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1863.

By a curious coincidence, H.R.H. Prince ALFRED
arrives again in England almost simultaneously
with the advent of the Telegram from Athens
announcing the recognition by the Greeks of Prince
WILLIAM of Denmark as their new constitutional
Sovereign, under the title of King GEORGE the
First. In a manner, it might be said, that the
Crown of Greece is the Wedding Gift from the Second
Son of our beloved QUEEN, to the Family of the
Bride of H.R.H.'s Elder Brother, the Heir Appa-
rent. However tLe fact may be expressed, its
instrinsic significance amounts to that. Immedi-
ately after the faineant ex-King OTHO had taken
his final departure from the shores of the classic
laud his Majesty had during nearly one whole
generation so flagrantly misgoverned—immediately
the Athenians had been enable at last to realise as
as a delightful certainty that d they ware at last
effectually and for ever rid of the German Court
and of the intriguing Queen Consort, remarkable,
this latter, if for anything, for her most undeniable
Russian proclivities—the one distinct and instantly
avowed decision of the revolutionised peoplo of
Greece, was that Prince ALFRED of England, and
no other than Prince ALFRED, should, as inevitably
as the sunrise follows the dawn, appear in due
course as the result of the recently proclaimed
Provisional Government. In this, obviously,
they were precipitate. They counted without their
host. They made certain that the Throne had only
to be proffered, to be accepted. But, however much
they may have been mistaken in thus jumping to a
wrong conclusion, the meaning of their choice of
Prince ALFRED, unsolicited and spontaneously, was
from the first instant of its announcement, beyond
the reach of misapprehension. Alluding to which
only a day or so back at Greenock, the noble Pre-
mier, Lord PALMERSTON, himself remarked with as
much truth as emphasis, that" there cannot be a more
striking proof of the respect which the conduct of
this British nation has inspired into men living in
other lands than the unanimous desire expressedho
by
the people of Greece, and not only by those w
live in Greece, bat by the Greeks in every part
of Europe—to receive as their sovereign the
gracious Qti Eli N—in which wish
son of our
they were led by a knowledge of the bless-
ings which our political institutions communicate
to the people or these realms, and by an anxious
desire that they also might, by taking a British
Prince, have a guarantee that they would enjoy
blessings of the same kind." The acceptance of the
however, by
proffered gift, the young Prince, or
rather by his Royal mother (announcing the deci-
sion of the Crown through the medium of her MA-
jESTY's Constitutional Government) was recognised
seeedily enough as something quite impracticable.
Desirable in many respects it might be, but, altoge-
ther, it was impracticable;
It must almost of necessity have excited, not un-
naturally, a feeling of jealousy among several of
our most important allies. It would almost inevi-
tably have led in the end—supposing an English
l'rince to have been enthroned at Athens—to the
estrangement from us of more than one powerful,
and at present friendly, Government. Rus-
sia would have been piqued, :and, worse
than that, aroused to a sense of alarm by the plant-
ing of a new branch or offshoot of the British
dynasty so close upon her frontiers. France, even
if she could have remained a silent spectator r 4
events, while the transformation sugge..3ted by the
revolutionised Greeks was being effected, must,
wi:hout doubt, at heart, have regarded the accom-
p'ishment of thoac events with suppressed and
rankling indignation. Besides, in other and more
obvious ways, for other and more manifest reasons,
the thing, as originally proposed,could not so very
easily as the Greeks seemed to imagine, be carried
tent. The question was not one that simply had to
be decided between Greece and England. It
was rather a problem, the solution of which could
oniz be pronounced by the great contracting parties,