The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-07 00:00:00

It is a mere matter of time; few, if any, recover—
few seem to wish it." This, as many will remem-
ber, is but the reproduction of accounts we had
from those whom benevolence induced to witness
with their own eyes the horrors of the Irish Famine.
The practical conclusion with regard to the opera-
tives is that now is the time to prevent the rapidly
approaching evil. " Let this population get," says
S. G. 0., " below a certain physical condition, and,
in my belief, the wealth of the world could not then
arrest destruction from tens of thousands of them.
They must have good and proper food, and enough of
it ; they ought to have every possible means of such
employment and recreation as shall keep them, if
not hopeful, at least free from over-depression ; for
thus only, should cold come on them, can they be
kept from fever, or the atrophy from which there is

no recovery."
We adverted to this subject yesterday, but we
make no apology for returning to it again, backed
aslour yesterday's observations are by the appeals of
such an authority on this subject as S. G. 0. We
are strongly impressed with the conviction that no
time is to be lost. The various relief committees
must be liberal. They must not think of husband-
ing their money now in hand, but of using it to
avert the present danger of allowing the physical
depression of the population to become a fatal one.
They must have faith in the results of urgent and
universal appeals to supply the demands of the
future, and act emphatically on the divine lesson,
that " sufficient to the day is the evil thereof."
Very probably the National Exchequer must be
resorted to at last; if it be, the funds voted could
hardly be entrusted to better management than
that of the various committees, which by the time
Parliament meets will have served their appren-

ticeship in the practice of administering extraor-
dinary relief. On this point, however, we would
offer a suggestion to our warlike Premier. We read
of various employes, in different services, being
called on to contribute " a day's wage " towards
the Lancashire sufferers. It is often generously
done by those who can ill afford it. We suggest to
Lord PALMERSTON that the nation might contribute
a year's cessation of increased war expenditure in
time of peace. All England will, we think, agree
that to stand as still as possible in naval and mili-
tary matters would be no loss to us whatever. If
we stop all enlistments in either service, fill up no
vacancies, lay down no new ships, proceed as slowly
as possible with those we have in hand, leave off
costly experiments, giving our inventors a year of
cool meditation over their schemes—and above all
lay not a brick, or drive a pile for the forts, which
we are not under contract to do—if we do these
things, we shall be only one year behind in the foolish
race which an Emperor began, perhaps, but
which an aged Premier persists in keeping up. A
year later with preparations, certain not to be
wanted, can do us no harm. A year's neglect of a
population which our blockade system has starved,
would see thousands of them in their graves—and
would leave the remainder in a condition little fit
to renew their accustomed industry when the crisis
is over. We strongly urge therefore, that peace,
except by our own fault, being as certain as any
human expectation can be, the nation should con-
tribute one year's savings from a standstill naval
and military budget, as soon as Parliament meets.

When the earliest intimation was flashed to us by
telegram from the Pirreus, announcing the abrupt
collapse of King OTHO'S Government, the thought
that naturally enough sprang to mind upon the
instant had reference to what some may regard as
having been simply a coincidence, but what to our
'thinking is far more than a coincidence. Scarcely
has the tomb 'closed over the remains of the late )
liberal minded and enlightened representative of
English Majesty at the Court of Athens than the
whole fabric of administration falls into utter ruin I
The Right Hon. Sir THOMAS WYSE, during so
many years past the watchful Minister at that Court
in the name of the British Government, has hardly
disappeared from the public scene into his grave,
when the King and Queen whom he has been so
long warning and guiding by his sagacious
advice—being no longer aided and sustained by that
advice—are flying powerlessly into exile. A more
deserved tribute was never paid in our recollection
to a deceased Servant of the Crown than that con-
tained in the following reference to these events; a
reference gladly excerpted by us from a communi-
cation recently addressed to our chief morning con-
temporary by a correspondent evidently alive to the
import of the whole situation—no leas in regard to
the past than in regard to the present :—" This
may appear an exaggerated picture of Greece
under a constitutional Government," writes this
correspondent in the midst of his communica-
tion to oar contemporary, " but it will
be confirmed by many Greeks, especially by
those who recollect how firmly our lamented Mi-
nister, Sir THOMAS WYSE, asserted the rights of
freedom of election, when, in 1857, be refused to
attend the religious ceremony which preceded the
opening of the Parliament in that year, because
of the open violence which had been used by
the King's sanction to insure the election of
his nominees. There must also be many Greeks
in their own country and elsewhere who now see
realized what Sir THOMAS WYSE had disinterestedly
and emphatically foreshadowed to them—viz., a
crisis in the country, financial imbroglio, possibly
civil strife, if the Greeks were not true to them-
selves, honest about their national debt, and united
in the efforts to enforce their constitutional rights.
On these points, and on all others likely to benefit
the people or promote the interests of the Greek
nation, Sir THOMAS WYSE, himself an enlightened
and liberal statesman, took great pains to instruct
those who sought his hciasndaidd expressionvic e,no
to the late
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flinch from giving
Majesties, when called upon by duty to do so, of
his convictions as to the imprudence of their policy.
Sir T. WYSE now lies buried in Athens. His loss
to Greece at this moment will be severely felt; let
us hope, however, that his counsels may at least be
remembered and productive of good." The reason-
ableness of every syllable in which tribute to the
memory of Sir THOMAS WYSE--who is there among
our diplomatists who will not be disposed very
readily to accede ? It is a tribute in every particu-
lar nobly deserved,
According to the view of our able weekly con-
temlorary, the Spectator—while
"The candidates
for the vacant throne are believed to be numerous,
but only three have much chance. The Greeks,"
says our contemporary, " would like to choose Prince
ALFRED of England, with whom the Athenians
were much pleased a year or two since, and who
would, they think, bring back the lonian Islailds,
but the selection is forbidden by the settlement of
1831. The choice, therefore, is limited to the Duke
de LSUCHTENBERG, grandson of EUGENE BEAU-
RARNAIS, and brother-in-law of the CZAR; AMA-
b"B, second son of VICTOR EMMANUEL ; and
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