The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-17 00:00:00

Rome and Italy are thus briefly spoken of :

At the commencement of the present year the French
Government remarked with satisfaction the calm which had
succeeded in Italy to the excitement caused by the Roman
question. Men's minds in that country do not, however,
yet appear sufficiently disposed to grant the reciprocal con-
cessions which require on the one hand a respect for rights,
and, on the other, regard to the necessities of the age, for the
work of conciliation to be resumed with any hopes of success.
In the particular position in which events had involved the
French Government, the greatest service it could do to the
Italians was to remain inaccessible to the divers passions
which were in agitation around it. The Emperor's Go-
vernment is conscious of having laboured in such a manner.
so far as was in its power, to prepare the future. These
adjournments have not been without advantage to Italy,
Adopting the generous intentions of the Sovereign Pon-
tiff, the Roman Government has endeavoured to re dize
some of the reforms demanded in the administration of the
States of the Church. We have reason to hope that that
task will be continued. The Italian Government on its
side has applied itself to organize the new kingdom, to de-
velope its resources, to constitute its military state, to re-
press brigandage with our loyal co-operation, and to dis-
courage those feelings of impatience to which it was re-
solved not to yield. There is reason to believe that those
fortunate influences will tend to dissipate suspicions, and
give rise to feelings more favourable to a reconciliation.

The termination of the arrangement concerning
the valley of the Dappes is merely mentioned; and
then the affairs of Greece and the acceptance of the
new King are explained in these words;—

The three Courts, the protectors of Greece, came to an
understanding at the end of last year to maintain the stipu-
lations of the protocol signed by them in 1830, and which
excluded from the Hellenic throne the members of their
reigning houses. The only really serious cause of compli-
cation having been thus set aside, the three powers occupied
themselves in selecting a prince who might be recommended
to the suffrages of the Greeks. The French Government
felt no interest in the research beyond that of Greece herself.
It had already repudiated the traditions of a policy seeking
its success in struggles for exclusive influence—a policy
from which Greece had too long suffered, and which has
never procured anything beyond illusory triumphs and real
embarrassments. It therefore declared itself ready to accept
the candidateship of any prince who, by his personal fitness,
should offer desirable guarantees. As soon as the name of
Prince George of Denmark was mentioned, we made known
at Athens and at Copenhagen that the Emperor Napoleon
would see with pleasure an election which must be equally
agreeable to each of the three protecting Courts. We re-
' joiced at the vote of the Greek National Assembly, and we
announced that we were ready to co-operate in the arrange-
ments destined to ratify it. A conference was opened in
London, and it sought for the means of reconciling the ac-
cession of a new reign with the treaties on which the exist-
ence of the Greek monarchy is based. The new King has
accepted the obligations contracted by the Bavarian dynasty.
The three Courts, on their side, have not relinquished any
of those which result from their collective protectorate,
such as it was settled at the time of the foundation on
Greek independence. They, at the same time, consented
that the guarantee under the safeguard of which
the kingdom is placed should be extended to the ter-
ritory of the lonian Archipelago, the abandonment of which
was implied by the declarations of the English Cabinet.
The Powers have, on the other hand, maintained the fa m-
cial arrangements previously concluded with Greece, while
facilitating in favour of the Sovereign the creation of an
annual dotation. The principal conditions of the establish-
ment of the now dynasty are set forth in the treaty signed
at London on the 13th July last. The English Govern-
ment pledged itself at the same time to agree to the annexa-
tion of the Seven Islands, if such a measure were in accord-
ance with the wishes of the lonian Parliament, and ob-
tained the assent of France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
The vote of the Parliament of the Seven Islands was unani-
mous, and its decision will be sanctioned by an interna-
tional document. Strangers to the incidents which led to
the fall of the Bavarian dynasty, we had vainly attempted
to enlighten by our counsels a Government which we saw
was destroying itself, and when that event took place we
had_r
allies.
other duty to perform than that of consulting with
"n. les. We did so free from any engagement in the past,
aZkll27i,til:otit any particular interest to secure in the present.
morenot b particularly to remedy a state of things which
arrangenamt free from danger, we only assumed, in the
lity be made, the part of restricted responsibi-
Vire are I,4o.B:aged to us as a protecting Power of Greece.
extension of
et seeing happily cleared up a crisis the
in the East, Gre,,'''ight have led to serious 3omplications
generation from tb:, she is prudent, may date her re-
ds she will have ftt teerri°d• We shall rejoice at it the more
with _head a Sovereign belonging to a
country connected
tions. France by old and eordial tradi-
The relations of Prance with
to be quite satisfactory, Turkey are declared
Danubian Principalities is
the situation of the
The situation of the United th
vrtti:calluded to :
We regret
t'oP
liities of Moldavia
and Wallachia does not,
hoesen founded on
di: provinces by
the present time to the hopes which 4'4% respond up to
the new order of things constituted in t
operation eaftive
the convention of August 19, 1853. Grave sensions ha
broken out between the reigning Prince and the- e ve
Assembly, at a time when the union and cc. 14
was indispensable to organise the country to which Bur, all
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had given the charge of shaping its own destinies. ifpit
become necessary for her to intervene afresh to modify the
Constitution of the United Provinces, the French Govern.
ment will be disp;sed to come to an understanding with the
Porte and with the other guaranteeing Powers to facilitat©
the reforms which may be judged opportune.
The situation of Montenegro is thus alluded to :
The war which broke out in 1862 between Turkey and
Montenegro will have changed nothing in the territorial and
political status of the latter country, as constituted by the
arrangements of 1858. Nevertheless, as military block-
houses have been built by Turkey in the Montenegrin ter-
ritory, many Cabinets, and particularly Vienna, have
joined us in representing at Constantinople that the main-