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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1863.

by the coincidence of the dominant powe!s of the
European Continent. Before the ultimate decision
could be arrived at, before the new arrangement,
whatever that might be, could be carried de-
liberately and definitively into effect, the senti-
ments of France, of Russia, of Germany to a
certain extent, would have seriously to be con-
sidered. But for this, the arrangement proposed
by Greece seemed on the face of it so very
admirable and so very easy of accomplish-
ment l His Royal Highness Prince ALFRED to be
proclaimed King of Greece. England to be relieved
from tha long vexation of her irksome Protectorate
over the lonian Islands,by giving those seven islands
up gracefully and graciously to the Greek People,
who bad so long covetted that particular
acquisition—handing over the lonian Islands
to Greece as the munificent dotation ac-
companying her new Sovereign. H. R. H.
the third son of Queen VICTORIA, might then, it
was presumed by the more sanguine, have succeeded
to the expectant post hitherto occupied by his Royal
brother the new King of Greece—Prince ARTHUR,
in other words, assuming that brother's position,
heretofore, as the Heir Presumptive to the reigning
Duke of SAXE COBURG.

Than all which, in simplest truth, how really
preferable in every way is the newly suggested and,
to all appearance, virtually accomplished arrange-
ment! The result in all essential respects is
virtually to the Greeks themselves, almost as if they
had carried out their own original proposition.
It is not alone that they have got a young
Sailor-Prince for their new Constitutional
Sovereign. That they have that, is little more than
an interesting little coincidence, odd enough in its
way, but in itself nothing at all to the purpose. They
have had offered to them, moreover, and have judi-
ciously accepted, with the good grace of an instant
cordiality, a young Sailor-Prince, very much indeed
of the same age as Prince ALFRED of England.
What renders this ultimate selection of Prince WIL-
LIAM of Denmark as the new occupant of the
Throne of Greece especially propitious for Greece
herself, is the consideration that it is a choice
by which Greece secures to herself, still, the earnest
sympathy of England in all her after fortunes—
Greece by the acceptance of Prince WILLIAM (hence-
forth to be known to Europe as King GEORGE I.)
placing her liberties quite as directly under
the aegis of the Constitutional Government of Eng-
land, as if Prince ALFRED himself had been en-
throned at Athens as the Greeks had originally
intended. Nobly and with a most exemplary
self-command, have the Greek people been biding
1 their time while the question of their future King
has still remained undecided and problematical.
[
A haughtier or a more irritable race, under the
' .ike circumstances, might have been goaded into
declaring themseives petulanf.y for a pure demo-
cracy. Wiser in their generation than men like
Mr. BRIGHT, the Greeks have all along recog-
nised the superior advantages accruing to
a civilised people who give their choice, by
a very decided preference, not to a purely
Democratic, but to a Constitutionally Monarchical
form of Government. Looking at the full and raticnal
liberty enjoyed by England under the mixed sys-
tem of King, Lords, and Commons, Greece, if she
has failed to secure for her new Monarch the
brother—has eagerly accepted the brother-in-law—
of our future SOVEREIGN .

Lord PALMERSTON is certainly resolved to make
,he most of his Easter holidays, and he appears to

By a curious coincidence, H.R.H. Prince ALFRED
arrives again in England elmost 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 the fact may be expressed, its
instrinsic significance amounts to that. Immedi
ately after the faineant ex-King OTno had taken
his final departure from the shores of the classic
land his Majesty had during nearly one whole
generation so flagrantly misgoverned—immediately
the Athenians had been enabled at last to realise as
as a delightful certainty that they were 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 people 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
beet. 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
tt,is British nation has inspired into men living in
ether lands than the unanimous desire expressed by
the people of Greece, and not only by those who
live in Greece, but by the Greeks in every part
of Europe—to receive as their sovereign the
"'a of our gracious QUEEN—In which wish
th " were led, by a knowledge of the bless-
ings which our political institutions communicate
to the people
of these realms, and by an anxious
desire that they also
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proffered gift, however, by 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
ar;eedily 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-
among several of
naturally, a feeling of jealousy

reap golden opinions wherever he goes. He left
Glasgow only to receive new homage at Edinburgh,

and wherever he goes he continues to meet the
wishes of all classes by his happy style of address,

and his amusing manner of combining instruction
with amusement. His speeches are not of the
highest order of eloquence, but it is to be
questioned if a much more brilliant discourse
would have answered the purpose so well, or
have suited the requirements of the audience.
Ms lordship was presented with the freedom of the
city. The remarks of the Lord Provost were signally
appropriate, and he made one of those gracious and
genial speeches which are so pleasing at the time,
and afterwards linger in the memory of those who
hear them, and stamp their composer as one who is
equal, on an important and momentous occasion, of
rising to the height that is due. This is a faculty
that does not always exist even when the speaker
possesses great gifts, no quality is more rare
than ready adaptation to circumstance, and
few more useful or more agreeable. The
Lord Provost said that the corporation esteemed
it no small privilege to have an opportunity of tes-
tifying their acknowledgements of "the manner in
which his lordship, for the last fifty-seven years
unceasingly, devoted his whole energies and powers
of mind to the prosperity and welfare of the coun-
try." He also said that they did not consider him
so much as the leader of a great political party, as
the statesman, whose object was to enhance
the security and honour of this great empire.
This next passage is most suggestive, and interest-
ing to contemplate, " Since his lordship left the
roof and guardianship of their distinguished Scot-
tish philosopher, DUGALD STEWART, more than
sixty years ago, his life had been one of toil and
tumult, from which he might be said never to have
rested, but which had now led him to the first place
and to the highest honours. In almost all the
conflicts of that eventful and stormy period he
had borne a foremost part ; but they saw him
there again, verging on four-score,in the full pos-
session of bodily health and strength, with intellect
not enfeebled, and, better than all, with heart not
embittered." This was language worthy of the
occasion, and Lord PALMERSTON was equally
happy in his reply. He observed that
there were circumstances, both personal and
general, which rendered the gift bestowed upon
him that day peculiarly gratifying and
satisfactory. "It was, as you have observed,
within this city that I spent three years of my
life, in obtaining from the University of Edin-
bargh a part, and I will say the most valuable
part, of the instructions which I have received,
and therefore from recollections of auld lang syne,
I value the gift which you have conferred upon
me. I Cannot but remember also that the city
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that resulted from controversy,
history of
on to expatiate on the in-
and wisely asserted that it was by the free and
unfettered exercise of opinion that truth was
arrived at, and the public good secured. He also
said that there was one condition which should rule
and control party spirit, and that was expressed
in an old Dutch proverb—that :men may
agree to differ. There was nothing which
should prevent men from entertaining the
most diverse political opinions, and yet
preserving for each other the most profound respect.
They should not seek to win their adversaries to
their own opinions by the wind which made them
wrap their cloaks more tightly round their shoulders,
bat by the warmth of friendship and persuasion.
This doctrine comes most appropriately from Lord
PALMERSTON, who is distinguished for being the

our most important allies. It would almost inevi•
tably have led in the end—supposing an English
Prince 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 6f
events, while the transformation suggested by the
revolutionised Greeks was being effected, must-
,
without doubt, at heart, have regarded the accom
Vidhment of those events with suppressed and
rankling indignation. Besides, in other and more
obvious ways, for other and more manifest reasons,
the thing, as originally propose& could not so very
easily as the Greeks seemed to imagine, be carried
out. 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
only be pronounced by the great contracting parties,

foremost to open his doors to men of ail classes
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and shades of opinion, and often after a
stormy debate has he welcomed to his
mansion the leaders of the opposition
and been glad to exchange the heat and burden
of the day of strife in the political arena for the
amenities of social intercourse and the charm of
congenial intellects, This feeling imparts a chi-
valric sentiment to the rude and rough encounters
of public life, and seems to carry one back to the
days when honour was more thought of, and in-
dividuality was more prominent. Thus may
straightforward men in the prosaic days of the
nineteenth century share somewhat the noble re-
cognition of the knights of old—
" Of the stern joy that warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel."
Lord PALMERSTON also made an address at
the University, where he received the honorary
degree of LL.D. He said that the honours con •
ferred upon him that day were doubly grateful to
him both as regarded the present and the past.
He said that it some times occurred to one who
revisited the scenes cf his youth to find himself
unknown, and the place that once was thriving
now deserted. How different from what happens
today, said his Lordship. He then alluded to his
connection with that city in far-oft days, in this
forcible passage :—" It is pleasing to me to revisit
this building in which during three winters I was
daily and constantly bestowing earnest attention
upon the instruction I there received. For my
own part, gentlemen, I am fairly free to confess—
to employ a word which used to be a
cant term in the House of Commons, lam
proud to ackaowledge'—that if I have been
ii any way successful in public life, if I have
been enabled to steer my course in a manner satis-
factory to my own conscience, and to meet the
general approval of my fellow-countrymen, it has
been that in those three years which I passed in
this city I was furnished by able hands with charts
and compasses, which taught me how to steer my
course, to avoid many of the dangers to which the
voyage of life is exposed, to pursue in safety the
career which I was destined to follow."

(REUTERS TELEGRAMS,)

This is a pleasing interlude to the dull monotony
of the political drudgery, and the heavy burden
cares of the State which inseparably attend upon
the life of such a man as Lord PALMERSTON. Also
it might serve as an incentive to the young men
around him. "Go thou and do likewise" might
be addressed by their preceptors to those eager
spirits entering on life so live and act during a
' long course of chequered years, that if here-
after you re-visit the scenes of your
youth, you may look back from the confines
of your age with satisfaction on the prospect. The
most trying test of human actions and motives, is
to return in mind at least to the days of " auld lang
syne." Our Premier has stood this ordeal, and may
be congratulated on having so successfully acquitted
himself of the arduous duties that devolved upon
him, and on having exhibited a spirit worthy of a
veteran statesman full of years and honours, but as
buoyant as ever, and as ready to do service to his
SOVEREIGN and his country as when, half a cen-
tury ago, he entered on the career of public life.

AMERICA.
(Per Anglo-Saxon.)
NEW YORK, MARCH 21, EVENING.
General Sumner is dead.
An armed party of inhabitants have succeeded in
rescuing several deserters frcm the military autho-
rities at Rush County, Indiana, but troops were
sent from Indianopolis, and they were recaptured.
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THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

DAN TZIC, APRIL 2.

The Danziger Zeitung of to-day publishes a mes-
sage, dated Eydtkuhnen, April Ist, stating that
yesterday afternoon the railway communication
with Kowno was completely interrupted in the
vicinity of Maurnoze. A portion of the telegraph
wires, extending for about an English mile, has
been destroyed, and the rails have been torn up.
The same message announces that a special train
has been despatched with military against the insur-
gents from Wirballen.
Trains to Berlin are no longer allowed to pass
the frontier.

BRESLAU, APRIL 1.

The Breslauer Zeitung of to-day publishes a cor-
respondence from Warsaw, dated the 31st ultimo,
asserting that the Revolutionary Committee of that
city had resolved upon everywhere ordering the in-
surgents to lay down their arms, and that two in-
surgent leaders had already disbanded their forces.

DANIZIC, APRIL 1.
The Danziger Zeitung of today publishes a tele-
gram dated Warsaw, March 31, asserting that a
body of insurgents, numbering 1,500 men, stationed
near Muiszew, had been disbanded by order of its
chief, it being considered useless to continue the
struggle.

The same telegram asserts that the Warsaw
Revolutionary Committee had ordered the recruit-
ing agents to cease making enlistments.
The Danziger Zeitung also asserts that the Em-
peror of Russia intends granting an autonomy to
Poland, but will not grant a Polish national army.

CRACOW, APRIL 1.

The insurgent force commanded by Lelewel has
been dispersed, and part of it compelled to seek
refuge in Galicia. The Czas asserts, however, that
Lelewel has repulsed the Russian troops.