The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-30 00:00:00

THE THRONE OF GREECE.

Tue complications that have in every case sur-
rounded this question seem at last to merge in a
definite solution. The various candidates have one
by one been disposed of. Prince Alfred and the
Duke of Leuchtenberg are excluded by the protocol
of 1830. The Archduke Maximilian, Prince
Nicholas of Nassau, and others, had perhaps no
chance from the first. Dom Ferdinand of Portugal
declined the honour pressed upon him. The
Duke of Saxe-Coburg raised difficulties that
seemed insuperable, and the candidature was
finally offered to the Prince of Leiningen. His
Highness, however, at the last moment felt
that he could not accept the proffered crown,
on the conscientious allegation that the habits of
his previous life were not such as to justify him in
accepting so great a responsibility.
It has therefore been most judiciously deter-
mined to have recourse once more to the Duke of
Saxe-Coburg. By one of those compromises which
are necessary in Stee affairs, his highness will be
enabled, with satisfaction to himself, and with
hopeful promise to the future of Greece, and the
desires of Europe, to assume the important position

:o which he is called. One of the drawbacks to

the acceptance of the Duke was the fact of his
having no issue. It has now been determined that
his highness shall declare his nephew—a young
prince of the Kohary branch—to be his heir. This
young prince will no doubt adopt the Greek faith,
which, by the existing constitution, is an indispen-
sable qualification for the succession. There re-
mains some difficulty about the Coburg constitution,
which declares that the reigning Duke shall reside
on his territories. This, however, may be obviated
by the assent of the States of Coburg.

There is little doubt that the Greeks will welcome
the Duke, and the Powers will view with satisfac-
tion his accession to the throne. We may now
hope that the prospects of the Hellenic kingdom
will offer no further subject for agitation among
the Powers of Europe, and that the prosperity and
security of Greece may at length be based upon
permanent foundations.—Morning Post.

DEATH BY FIRE.—On Tuesday, the 20th inst.,
a party of friends were assembled at the house of
Mr. Arthur S. Hill, Southfield, Clapham park. During
dinner a Christmas pudding was brought in on fire, and a
drop of the burning spirit falling on the lower part of the
dress of Miss Susan Hill, a lovely girl, twenty years of age,
immediately ignited the tarletan, and the whole dress was
quickly in flames. The flames were quenched as rapidly as
possible, but not before extensive injuries had been inflicted.
Dr. Spitta, a medical gentleman, was fortunately present,
and gave prompt and skilful help. Her father and brothers
were badly burnt in their endeavours to extinguish the
flames, and another young lady, whose dress caught fire,
most providentially escaped with a few burns. Notwith-
standing every care Miss Hill gradually sank, and died at
the end of a Week.

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THE CAMPAGNA.—Every where are deep brown
banks of pozzolano earth which makes the strong
Roman cement, and quarries of tufa and travertine with
unexplored galleries and catacombs honey-combing for
miles the whole Campagna. Dead generations lie under
your feet wherever you tread. The place is haunted with
ghosts that outnumber by myriads the living, and the air
is filled with a tender sentiment of sadness which makes
the beauty of the world about you more touching. You
pick up among the ruins on every slope fragments of rich
marbles that once encased the walls of luxurious villas.
The contadino or shepherd offers you an old worn coin, on
which you read the name of ( wsar ; ors scarabcrus which
he n
once adorned the finger of an Etruscan king, in whore dust
in
grows his beans; or the broken head of an ancient
jaraat:in imarble or terra-cotta, or a lacrymatory of a martyred
or au intaglio or
lvase
with the Etrurian red that now is lost,
that perhaps has sealed a love-letter
a thousand years ago,--Robs di .Roma, by William W.
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