The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-13 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 13, 1862

As many candidates appear to be in the field now
for the representation of the Borough of Southamp-
ton as there are candidates for the throne of Greece.
The latter we have now for some weeks known to
' be sufficiently numerous. In Russian interests—the
Duke DE LEudUTENBURO. But he has been repu-
diated, it is said, even by the CZAR himself. In
French interests—a whisper was for a moment
heard of his Imperial Highness Prince NAPOLEON.
He, again, nevertheless, being reserved, perchance,
for a contingent sovereignty nearer home, say in
Southern or Central Italy ! In Austrian interests
a momentary talk, too, was audible about the
Archduke MAXIMILIAN. He may be "saving
himself up" for a crown lying somewhere,
to be picked up out of the dust by French bayonets,
in Mexico. In English interests—there is still a
confident hope, even at Athens, that H.R.H. Prince
ALFRED may be called to the throne left vacant by
the fugitive Prince of BAVARIA, the ex-King OTHo.
In Italian interests—some yet cling to a belief that
the choice may eventually fall upon Prince AMA-
DEUS, the second son of King VICTOR EMMANUEL.
In Belgian interests—some others, on the contrary,
insist upon the likelihood that the Count de FLAN-
DRES, the second son of King LEOPOLD, may be
the one ultimately selected. In Greek interests—
many are sanguine that the sceptre now
going a-begging may fall to the lot of the
native Prince, Greek by birth, and Greek in re-
ligion, Prince v ...PSILANTE, the future son-in-law of
Count NIVA, and thus, consequently, heir to a
fortune of 60,000,000 florins. Other candidates
still—in more private interests—are cropping up
almost daily. Some among them certainly with
the most ridiculous pretensions. Quoth one ob-
server of these flying rumours—" Marshal PELIS-
BIER is in peoples' mouths, for no other reason than
that he went to Greece with his regiment some five
and thirty years ago, and he appears to have left
some memorials at Athens !" So exceedingly
probable to meet with success, this claim of the old
white headed Marshal whose name first became
famous, even as a soldier, by his smoking the
wretched Arabs to death in the Algerine cavern!
Even—it is gravely related—that " some partial
friends of the political director of the Siecle news-
paper (M. HAVIN) have proposed that the crown of
Greece should be solemnly tendered to him ! True,
the Siecle has refused the offer, but we do not know
whether it had authority to do so ; and, moreover,
the refusal was not so positive as to preclude all
chance of his complying with the w:shes of his
admirers. It was more like the coquetry of JULIUS
C.ZESAB, when ANTONY ' thrice presented him
a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse,'
than a stern refusal. Had ANTONY presented
it a fourth time, C2ESAR might have taken
it." The force of folly could, surely, no further go
than this ! The notion of M. HAVIN being seriously
put forward as the future King of Greece ! And
the still more delightful notion of the Siecle de-
clining—nay, that is not exactly the word either,
plainly and bluntly—refusing the diadem ! Had it
not so fallen out—it would have been suitable to
suggest that when M. HAVIN had gone to Athens as
King ('' which"—by the way—a slightly ungram
matical
been fain to suggest
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takes the eopy_g,
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from
Paris to Athens as thenceforth the most suita-
ble official
is even of the Sovereign. However there
yet another rumoured candidate for
of Greece
not yet been here I whose name has
mentioned. Another
Frenchmen, too, thisis—not a journalist like
M. HAVIN, however,buta
soldier, like Marshal
PELISSIER—to wit (because of his Greek descent
it is that he has been thought of) General
Balm-
BAICI. Beyond a doubt the Greeks have at any

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