The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-29 00:00:00

THE THRONE OF GREECE.

A telegram in another column mentions tha
Prince of Leiningen as having been proposed as a
candidate for the Throne ofGrecce.
We are able to confirm this statement; indeed it
was to this prince that we alluded a few days
ago. His Serene Highness is a grandson of the
late Duchess of Kent, who was first married to
Charles Louis, Prince of Leiningen. Ho is conse-
quently related by half blood to her Majesty the
Queen, but in no way forms part of the Royal
Family of England, and does not, therefore, fall
under the exclusion of the protocol of 1830. His
Highness, who is a Protestant, is in his thirty-
third year, and was married in 1858 to the Prin-
cess Marie of Baden. He is a post.captain in
the British service, and commands the Magicienne
on the Mediterranean station.

It is difficult to see what objection can be raised
to a prince so fitted by age, character, and training
for the high position to which he will probably
be called. His Highness, excei tin not belonging
to the Royal Family, possesses every qualification
that could have been looked for in Prince Alfred,
besides being of more sui.able age, and a married
man.

The throne has now remained vacant so long
that it becomes of the highest importance that a
term should be put to this period of suspense.
We therefore trust that the Greek people, as well
as the Powers interested, will find in this nomi-
nation a satisfactory solution of the difficulties
that have hitherto surrounded the question.—
Morning Post.

TURKISH POSTAGE STAMPS.—Turkey has just
issued postage stamps, having long been the only
Power in Europe that had not adopted that mode of paying
for letters. The Turkish stamps are of four different
colours, and all bear the signature of the Sultan Abdul-
Aziz, the Mahometan religion interdicting the representa-
tion of the face or person.—Galignani.
AN AMERICAN STAGE SCENE,—A writer who
has travelled extensively says that he witnessed
rather a strange scene in Shakspeare's beautiful tragedy of
" Romeo and Juliet;" it was at one of the Western
Theatres. The piece had passed off well without inter-
ruption until the last scene. The character of Romeo was
excellently enacted and loudly applauded. The very
model of the lover was before the tomb of the Capulets,
gazing upon the motionless form of her who had so
attracted his soul, and meditating upon committing an act
which would send his spirit to that undiscovered country
where he supposed Juliet's had gone. Just as he exclaimed,
Here's to love I' and at the same time raising the vial which
contained the poison to his lips, a stalwart young country-
man jumped upon the stage,seized him,dished the vial from
his hand, crushing it into atoms, and yelling, ' Yer darned
fool,she ain't dead! Only been takin' a little sleeping medic no.
Didn't yer get the parson's letter P' Sirrah ' growled
out the enraged tragedian, while the house fairly shook
with laughter. ' Why, yer gal ain't dead, I tell yer.
The way it was, they wanted to make Julie marry that
chap thar,' pointing to Paris, whose business you have
just settled; but I tell you Julie war pluck—she got her
back right up and vowed she wouldn't do it, even if
while she war lying in the vault the ghost of the other
feller wheel you kilt should dash her brains out with the
bones of some of her dead cousins, Wal, her pluck war
up, and she took the stuff the parson fixed ; so she could
play possum till you got ham. That's the way it war,'
replied the countryman, giving the desperate lover a
tremendous poke in the ribs with his elbow, at the
same time loosing his hold. ' Curses on the fellow
muttered the raving tragedian as he stalked behind the
scenes. Wal, now,' said the countryman, fronting the
audience, if that ai'nt a leetle the dod darned meanest
cuss I ever did see, I hope to be swowed. That's all
the thanks I git for stopping him from pizanin himself.
Hope to be tarnly swashed if ever I go to interfere again
when a feller wants to murder himself,' he continued, as
he clambered back to his seat, just in time to prevent
upper story from coming in contact with the curtain as it
descended.