The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-16 00:00:00

hear tidings that Mr. LINCOLN has been compelled
to give up his vaunted independence of tone to-
wards those who only seek to do him a service, and
through Lim to further the interests of the mighty,
nation whose destinies he for the moment sways
and of his dealings with which he cannot render
us at all a satisfactory account.

If ever nation has had inducements to transform
itself from a monarchy into a republic, it is the
Greek nation nowadays. Several months have now
elapsed since, in sheer disgust and exhaustion, it
threw off the yoke of its faineant King OTHo and
its intriguing Queen AMELIA; and, to this moment,
it has failed entirely in all its multifarious attempts
to induce any one of the European Princes to
accept the questionable boon of the proffered Sove-
reignty. En gland, Belgium, even France, to say no-
thing of divers among the scarcely recognised Prince-
lings of Germany, have in turn but looked askance at
the ♦acant throne and the bauble symbols beside
it. If ever that dolefully vibrated scrap of latinity
might be justifiably quoted anew, it would be now

—the dreadful " Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes."
The dona now being the empty Crown and the
long impugned and neglected sceptre ! The
PRINCE ALFRED, Second son of England and Heir
Presumptive of the Ducal diadem of Saxe Coburg
and Gotha, disdains to give the proffered allegiance
one serious thought of acceptance. His uncle, the
reigning Duke of the last• mentioned principality—
the Serene Highness whom his Royal Highness is
to succeed—does give the offered crown of Greece
a thought, it is true—but his deliberation only leads
to his rejection of it. The Prince of LEININ-
GEN son of the half brother of our gracious
QUEEN—thinks no otherwise. When placed
within his reach the opportunity has no
temptations. The Prince of LEININGEN prefers
to wear his epaulettes as a Captain in the English
Royal Navy, to don the ermine and the purple, or
at any rate to be lifted up on the shield of the
Greek Sovereignty. The Second Son of Belgium
arrives TIO less naturally or less promptly at the
same conclusion. The Prince NAPOLEON still pre-
fers to cast a sidelong look to the chance of a diadem
that may just possibly, he conceives, be
picked up somewhere, somehow, sometime, in
the midst of the Italian, or it might be
even in the thick of the Polish confusion. And
now what is the imminent possibility at Athens—
the imminent possibility resulting from these re-
peated and certainly irritating refusals? Why—
not that the Greeks, not that even Athenians turn
from the thought of a King to that of a Republic !
Saith one of the last rumours coming to us from the
" It is currently ,believed that CALERGI,
one of the three new Dictators, will pass into King
under the aegis of the Emperor of the FRENCH."
From King Log, 'yclepped OTECO, to King Stork,
surnamed CALERGI, it may really turn out that
there is no wider a step there than is proverbially
even between the sublime and the ridiculous.

Every day the Polish insurrection gathers fresh
strength and importance. It is no longer the un-
calculating and undisciplined outbreak of a few
unarmed peasants—it is the organised uprising of
an outraged people, resolved once for all to wrest
their liberties from the grasp of their oppressors.
The aspect of affairs has rapidly changed in the
last few weeks, and whatever the eventual result
may be, it is clear that there is no fear of an
immediate Russian triumph, since the insurgents
are taking steps which prove their confidence in
their resources and their prospects. General LAN-
GIEWICZ is appointed Dictator of the kingdom, an
office for which he would seem to be fitted, not
only by his military talents and successful gene-
ralship, bat by his political sagacity and prudence.
His old companion in arms—no less a celebrity
than GARIBALDI—having offered him the aid of
his dauntless sword, Gen. LANGIEWICZ has thought
it more prudent to decline the offer for the time.
While thanking, with due cordiality and gratitude,
the generous chief, who had himself organised a
successful revolution, and exercised the authority of
a dictatorship, the Polish General pointed out to him
the urgent need there was of pressing every class of
Pole into the cause, and the risk of alarming some
cautious or timid spirits by the sound of that ter-
rible name which is looked upon as the watchword
of revolution. The prudence of this reply, if true,
was not, we may
_hope, assisted by any personal
jealousy. The dignified and patient attitude of the
Poles has long excited the admiration of Europe,
and it is doubtless wise to preserve the national
individuality of the revolt, instead of allow-
ing it to be regarded by the lovers of
order as merely a - fresh development of
democratic restlessness and insubordination. Such
can scarcely be the case now. The efficiency and
authority of the Polish Governments may bear
comparison with the stern discipline of the CZAR
himself. A civil Government has been appointed
with regular official functions. An orderly sys-
tem of recruitment has been organised throughout
the entire kingdom. Disobedience to the conscrip-
tion is to be punished with death, but there will be
little need to fulfil this threat when 100,000 recruits
are impatiently awaiting their admission to the
ranks, and are only kept in forced inaction by the
lack of arms. This difficulty, however, is not likely
to be of long duration. Arms are constantly being
smuggled across the Austrian and Russian frontiers,
and very recently a large quantity of arms which
were being secretly conveyed into Servia fell into
the hands of the insurgents. All over the country
a postal service has been established, which
transmits intelligence with surprising accuracy
and promptitude. Every landed proprietor is
compelled to keep two horses ready saddled
day and night for this service. Meanwhile the
constantly increasing number of the resignations
show that the wavering classes are beginning to
join the revolutionary standard. The insults offered
by the Russians to the national churches have en-
listed the Catholic clergy on the side of the insur-
gents. The resignation of the Archbishop of
WARSAW, if the rumour prove correct, will,
doubtless, be the forerunner of many another
secession. It is reported, we know not
with what truth, that the EMPEROR would
be glad to come to a compromise, and to restore the
charter of Poland, for the inefficiency of his troops,
in face of the insurgents, is becowing daily more
manifest. Wholesale embezzlement is said to be
going on in the Russian commissariat department,
while the falsehoods published in the official reports
afford a very convenient shelter to the defaulters.
Meanwhile the European feelings on the sub-
ject have not changed. France and England are
still warmly sympathetic, whatever their leaders
may be. To-morrow is, strangely enough, appointed
for a public demonstration in both countries. In
the city of London a meeting is to be held under
the presidency of the LORD MAYOR, expressive of
sYmPathy with Poland, and recommending the
Government to withdraw its countenance from Rus-
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this meeting until they have been duly advocated
by the respective speakers, merely observing that
the time and subject of the meeting are both appro-
priate for the expression of the views of a free
people.
In France, by a singular coincidence, the report