The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-14 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The National Zeitung of Bex lin publishes a decla-
ration, signed by a great number of members who
voted in favour of M. Hagen's proposition. They
justify their conduct, and appeal to the judgment
of the country.

The Prussian Gazette announces that the elec-
tions will commence immediately, so as to enable
the Chambers to meet in May. M. de Bethmann-
Hollweg's resignation is officially announced in the
Gazette. According to a letter from Berlin, of the
11th, the King entreated him, but in vain, to re-
tain office. The Gazette also publishes a Royal
deeree,appointing Prince of Hohenlohe-Inglefingen-
Oehringen (a General of Cavalry) to act as Presi-
dent of the Council of Ministers, in consequence of
the prolonged illness of the Prince of Hohen-
zollern.

GREECE.

We have advices from Athens to the sth inst.

The Journal d' A thenes publishes the following :
" There can be no longer any illusion as to the re-
sistance the insurgents are resolved, or at least ap-
pear to be resolved, to make. They understand the
advantage of tbeir position within the walls of a
fortress with every means of defence. Moreover, in
the isolated position in which they are actually
placed, they must be animated by the courage of
despair, as their leaders must know that their only
chance is to die, arms in hand, to escape an ignomi-
nious death. The struggle may be prolonged, but the
issue is certain. The number of Royal troops
concentrated at Tirynthe amounts to about 3,500
men of all arms, to which must be added a number
of volunteers led by experienced chieftains of the
War of Independence, such as Generals Gennaios,
Colocotronis, Petros, and others, who, if neces-
sary, will act in concert with General: Hahn.
Taken suddenly by surprise by the military in-
surrection at Nauplia, the central depot of all
the military stores and provisions, the Govern-
ment naturally found itself in an embarrassed posi-
tion to meet at once the urgent and indispensable
wants of the moment. Nevertheless, thanks to the
energy of the Minister of War, no time has been
lost in developing the resources at hand, and in pro-
viding for the exigency."
The same journal announces that order prevails
throughout the rest of Greece, and that loyal
addresses come in from all quarters. The King has
issued the following proclamation :
" We, Otho, &c., informed that among the insur-
gents of Nauplia there are many soldiers who, mis-
led or constrained by force, have taken part in the
insurrectional movement, and wishing to give them
a proof of our Royal clemency,on the proposal of our
Council of Ministers, we decree :

" I. We will grant an amnesty of the crime of high
treason to all those who will make their submission
to the Royal authorities before the bombardment
of Nauplia by sea and land commences.
" a. To all soldiers in general.
"b. To all officers up to the rank of sergeant-
major who can prove that they did not participate
in the conspiracy, but were either forced or induced
to join the revolutionary movement afterwards, or
against whom no proof exists that they afterwards
prevented the soldiers from taking advantage of the
present amnesty.

" 11. We reserve the right of extending our Royal
favour even to those officers and subalterns who, by
their endeavours to restore legal order, shall show
themselves deserving of the same.
" Our Minister of War is charged with the pub-
lication and execution of the present decree.
" Athens, Feb. 27, 1862."

The above proclamation is followed by another in
the shape of an appeal to the loyalty of the Greek
people. It concludes as follows :
" Greeks ! persist in the generous and patriotic
sentiments you have displayed, and which are so
worthy of you. Surround with fidelity and recip•
rocal love that throne to which you are indissolubly
bound by the oaths of 1832 and 1844, and which the
public conscience recognises as the surest guarantee
of your independence and desires. Be persuaded
that your King, wbo watches over the authority of
the laws for the sole welfare of the I eople, feels
that he is the father of all Greeks ; that if paternal
affection joyfully rewards good deeds, and punishes
bad acts with sorrow, it always restricts chastise-
ment within the extreme limits of the general in-
terests.

" Athens, March 1, 1862."

TY ES7' COAST OF AFRICA. -

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 13.
The African Mail steamer Armenian arrived
here at 10.5 p.m.

Her dates are—Bonin, January 26; Cameroons,
Jan. 29; Old Calabar, January 31 ; Bonny, Feb. 5;
Fernando Po, February 6; Brass River and Nun,
Feb. 7 ; Lagos, Feb. 10 ; Accra, Feb. 12 ; Cape
Coast Castle, Feb. 13; Cape Palmas, Feb. 16; Sierra
Leone, Feb. 21; Bathurst, Feb. 26; Teneriffe,
March 4.

The Armenian brings 2,3100 z. of gold dust,
£2,508 in gold, 3,003 dollars, and 20,500 francs in
specie, and 14 passengers.
Her news is unimportant.
Her Majesty's ship Rifleman left Teneriffe Feb.
4 for China, and her Majesty's ship Brunette had
put back 800 miles for coal, and sailed on the 24th
February.

The mail steamer Athenian had arrived at Cape
Palmas.

FORGERY BY THE ELDEST SON OF THE REV. H. S.
FLETCHER.—Yesterday Horatio Lester Fletcher, the eldest
son of the Rev. Horatio Samuel Fletcher, the incumbent of
St. Leonard's, Bilston, whose proceedings in connexion with
the Bilston Savings Bank are so notorious, was brought up
in custody, and went through his preliminary examination
before Mr, W. Partridge, the stipendiary magistrate at
Wolverhampton, charged with forging an acceptance to a
bill of exchange for £BO. The prisoner was, up to the Ist of
August last, a partner in the firm of Pitt and Fletcher, iron
merchants, of Willenhall. On the application of the solicitor
for the prosecution, the prisoner was remanded for a week,
but the stipendiary refused to accept bail for his appear-
ance on that occasion ; and he was therefore removed in
custody to the gaol of Stafford, in which town his father is
now waiting to surrender to his bail at his trial at the cur-
rent assizes for Staffordshire.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE THROUGH A DOMESTIC
QUARREL.—Yesterday Mr. John Humphreys, the Middle-
sex coroner, held an inquiry at the Wellington Tavern,
Cannon-street-road, touching the death of Henry Muller,
aged 30, who committed su'cide under peculiarly distress-
ing circumstances on Sunday last. Mrs. Anne Muller said
that the cleGoased was her husband, and had been•a sugar
refiner iu Messrs. Davis's factory, About a fortnight since
a man throw a heavy weight of sugar at him which struck
him on the foot, and his toes had to be amputated. That
made him very irritable, and on last Sunday evening wit-
ness said something that caused him to strike her, and a
violent scene ensued. He became very wild looking and
went to bed, saying nothing. During the night she missed
him from her side, and upon searching she was horrified to
find him'hanging by a handkerchief to a nail in the wall
She gave an alarm and ho was cut down, but life was quite
extinct. In her opinion the quarrel and his recent suffer-
ings had deprived him of reason. Th's evidence having
been corroborated, the jury returned a verdict of " Tempo-
rary