The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-24 00:00:00

am,
noble principles, those principles may be thrown
into the back ground for years. By using
effectively his power for the next twelve
months, and then for the following year of
his Presidency, he may cripple the slave-
power for ever, whether the South secede or whether
it be coerced to reunion. The triumph, on the bat-
tle-field, of the Republicans means the emancipa-
tion of the North American Continent from the
impending curse of slavery. It is an issue worth
vigorously worth fighting for ; and if the North can
succeed in this issue, where is the Engiishman who
will not wish it success. Absolutely certain is it
that if slaveholders only gain their point of sepa-
rating with all the Border States, and the States
west of the Mississippi, we shall soon have a
power there stretching down to South America
itself, reviving the slave trade and bullying
Europe ; unless indeed Europe, England included,
consents to sell her long cherished principles for
cotton, and to wink, not only at slavery but at the
slave trade itself_
The dismissal of Al'n _LELLAN, we must confess,
looks the right way. Disobedience to orders may
have been the technical reason ; but all must per-
ceive that his strong political bias was what most
unfitted him for the command in an army which was
intended to carry emancipation to the negro. In
this cause M'CLELLAN could: not, with his strong
pro-slavery tendencies, be a hearty co-operator. We
are told here that Mr. LINCOLN will submit to the
rebuke of the Democratic majority, and withdraw
his anti-slavery proclamation. All we can say is,
that his first act does not point that way. He
cashiers, under every other inducement to retain
him, the commander who could not work the pro.
clamation heartily. He hazards displeasing the
army which M'CLELLAN had formed, and with
which at last he had conquered, rather than leave
an opponent of the proclamation in such an im-
portant command.
'Ve shall probably soon see now some decided
steps taken. Already there are flying rumours
of BURNSIDE'S defeat, and the re-occupation of
Harper's Ferry by the Confederates. They appear
to be not worthy of the least credit ; as little
probable is the statement that Confederate pickets
are on the wrong side of the Potomac between
Point of Rocks and Berlin—two places near Har-
per's Ferry, and so directly in the rear of M'CLEL-
LAN'S advance, that we may be sure that cautious
commander would allow of no such liberty being
taken with his communications. Besides, we hear
of STONEWALL JACKSON at Front Royal, some
hundred miles from Harper's Ferry. As, however,
M'CLELLAN leaves for inaction, and BURNSIDE is
put in to act, the latter can hardly delay long to
make some important movement, one which must
be followed either by a damaging defeat or by
1 driving the enemy more to the South. The wea-
ther must be unfavourable to military action, but
the Ist of January is now fast approaching, and
Mr. LINCOLN must have his armies in a position to
make his proclamation something better than waste
paper.

The telegrams coming to us from Athens—
hough terse as telegrams as can be—are, we cannot

but think it, full of significance.

" The great pro.

bability," says one, "of the election of Prince
ALFRED to the throne has caused some excitement

among the foreign Ministers." And no wonder !
" Tranquillity," it is added, nevertheless " prevails
throughout the country." There is another tele-
gram, however, that reraarlm—,, It is o.saGrtsd that
the English Minister has consulted his Government
with respect to the demonstrations taking place in
favour of Prince ALFRED." To which the next
flashes of the electric current append the intima-
tion :—" The English Government is stated to have
replied that the Minister should in no way endea-
vour to influence the election." A reply this—if

meaning anything—negatively favourably !
Election of Prince ALFRED to the throne of Greece
would, if recognised frankly by the rest of the
great European Powers, be manifestly to the advan-
tage of our own policy. The choice suggested
would not alone, we are persuaded, prove advan-
tageous to the,interests of England. Prince ALFRED'S
nomination to the Throne of Greece would be an
advantage also to the Greek people themselves. And
a disadvantage, we are perfectly satisfied of this, it
would be, to no other Power in Christendom. Greece
would beyond a doubt gain with the acceptance
of Prince ALFRED a notable increase of territory by
the absorption of the lonian Archipielago into her
dominions. England, at the same time, by that very
arrangement would be rid at last of a troublous
and most vexatious Protectorate. Far more impor-
tant to Greece than the extension of her sway geo-
graphically, would be that guarantee of her liberties
which would inevitably be secured to her upon her
acceptance of England's second son for her Sovereign,
Under her auspices, more surely than under the
auspices of any other Prince that might be selected
by her as the new occupant of her throne, Greece
might reasonably count upon the enjoyment thence.

forth of the priceless blessings of a Constitutiona

Government. As to the influence the election of
Prince ALFRED to the Throne of Greece would
have upon the interests of France especially, but of
the Western Powers of Europe generally, there
is still reason to hope that it will be on
calm reflection recognised at the Tuileries
and at other courts as in no way malifio as
in many important respects desirable to the majo-
rity of the nations of Christendom. A national
guarantee, such a decision as this would be inevita-
bly, that yonder in the East the interests, not of
England alone, not of Greece alone, but of Western
Civilization itself would be cared for.
Recognising this, we cannot induce ourselves
to atiach any serious importance to the bragga-
dociose words blurted out by La France, to the
effect that " The great Western Powers have com-
mon interests in the East, which ought to unite
and not to divide them. It is evident," says La
France, "that if one of the Powers desired to obtain
a preponderance of the other the equilibrium of their
relations would be disturbed, and a shock be given
to the principles on which their good understand-
ing rests." It is not the Illoniteur that talks thus,
remember—it is merely La France. The accents
are not those of the Emperor NAPOLEON 111., but
merely those of the Viscount DE LA GUERRONIERE.

Italy may now, in one sense, draw breath again
—in regard to her hopes. The ball has been at
length extracted from the wound of GARIBALDI.
The Chambers have again assembled at Turin. In
each instance—What a relief I After this silence of
waiting and suffering—after so very protracted a
continuance of that " hope deferred" that in the
Powerful language of Holy writ " maketh the heart
after grieving months upon months over the
precarious state of the health of the Italian Hero and
over thz lack of
any opportunity whatever of calling
the Italian 'Ministerer to account, for his (to say
the least of it) tu
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appeal
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long .wished-for
g
in the cloud suddenly
appear before the
the yearning hearts of theltalian
people,
Bide by aide, and simultaneously. -upon the mor-
row of the re-assembling of the National Legisla-
ture at Turin, the rifle bullet was successfully—
easily—withdrawn, by the skilled hand of Dr,
ZANETTI, from the wounded Ankle of General OA.