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THE SUN, LONDON, THUR:)DAY EVEN(, DECEMBER, 18, 18ii2 !

IN7ERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862.

Major Elphinstone, arrived this morning from
Greenwich Park.
Earl Granville, Viscount Sydney, and the Bishop
of Oxford arrived yesterday afternoon at the Castle.
The Bishop of Oxford left this afternoon. The Dean
of Christchurch arrived to-day.

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We are informed that her Majesty's Commis-
sioners for the Exhibition or 1862 have addressed
the following letter to the Secretary to his Royal
Highness the Prince of 'Wales:—
Exhibition Building, South Kensington, W.,
Dec. 16, 1862.
Sir,—l am directed by her Majesty's Commissioners to
request that you will do them the favour to submit to his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales an expression of their
sense of the gracious intention, communicated to them in
the month of October last, of his Royal Highness's readi-
ness to mark his .interest in the success of an enterprise
which owed its origin to his illustrious and distinguished
father, by distributing, at a state ceremonial, the prizes
which have been awarded by the juries.
Such a mark of his Royal Highness's personal interest in
the Exhibition would have been highly appreciated by every
one connected with it. Although the number of successful
exhibitors would have made it impossible for them indivi-
dually to receive the rewards of their skill and industry
from the hands of his Royal Highness, the value of these
rewards would have been greatly enhanced by the fact that
his Royal Highness had presided on the occasion of their
distribution.

It is therefore with great regret that her Majesty's Com-
missioners find, on consulting various competent authorities,
that it would 14 practically impossible, for asingle occasion,
to carry out their original. design of warming and lighting
the building. The proposed distribution of the priZes can-
not, with dun regard to the interests of thn farpignennimis.
Edens, be possibly postponed beyond the end of January.
Under these circumstances, her Majesty's Commissioners
have come to the conclusion that they would not be justi-
fied in inviting his Royal Highness to preside at a cere-
mony, the success of which would have to depend in a great
measure upon the doubtful chance of a fine day occurring
in the depth of winter; neither would they be willing to
expose to the probable chance of disappointment, from the
accidents of rain, snow, or fog, the many distinguished
foreigners, and British exhibitors, who would come from
great distances to be present on the occasion. Her Majesty's
Commissioners trust that his Royal Highness will not dis-
approve of the decision at which they have most reluctantly
arrived.

I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,
F. It. SANDFORD, Secretary.

Lieut.-General Knollys.

7HE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.

(From the Court Circular.)
WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 17.
The consecration of the Royal Mausoleum at
Frogmore took place this day.
Her Majesty the Queen, previous to the cere-
mony, went from the Castle to Frogmore-house in
the most private manner, and, when the Bishop of
Oxford, the clergy, and the members of the Royal
Household, and others had assembled, walked to
the Mausoleum, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Prince of Wales, the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse, the Princess Helena, the Princess
Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and the
Princess Beatrice.

The Queen entered the Mausoleum at five minutes
past 12 o'clock. The Bishop of Oxford (Bishop of
the diocese), Archdeacon Randall (Chaplain), Sir
John Phillimore,D.C.L. (Chancellor, of the diocess),
the Dean of Windsor, the Dean of Christchurch,
Rev. Dr. Stanley, the Vicar of Windsor, the Rev.
Lord Wriothesley Russell, and the Rev. James
Blunt, Vicar of Old Windsor, then commenced the
consecration by passing round the external walls of
the building, with Dr. Elvey and the choir of St.
George's Chapel singing (Tallis's Chant) Paalm 49,
"0 hear ye this, all ye people."

Earl Granville, Lord President; Viscount Sydney,
Lord Chamberlain ; and the gentlemen of the
Household, followed in procession.

The psalm having been chanted, the Bishop,
clergy, and gentlemen entered the Mausoleum, and
the Bishop continued the ceremony, " Dearly be-
loved in the Lord" followed by the prayer " 0 God,
who halt taught ns in Thy Holy Word."
The choir sang the Amen Chant, and afterwards
a hymn from In Memoriam, commencing

" The just man's spirit shall not be
Parted from kindred spirits ;
Each one in God's blest company
A future home inherits."
The Bishop of Oxford recited the prayers :

" Grant, 0 Lord, that they who shall bring forth their
dead into this place may be so strengthened and comforted
by Thy grace that they may not be sorry as men without
hope for them that sleep in Thee."
" Grant, 0 Lord, that they who shall here lay the bodies
of Thy saints, to rest in hope of the blessed resurrection,
may evermore steadfastly believe in the fellowship and
communion of Thy saints, living and departed, through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."
" Grant, 0 Lord, that all who here shall call upon Thy
name may so be raised from the death of sin to the life of
righteousness, that they may be delivered from the bitter
pains of eternal death, and have their part in the glorious
resurrection of Thy saints, through J esus Christ our Lord.
Amen."

A hymn of four verses, from "In Memoriam,"
was sung (the Old Hundredth) by the choir :
" 0 fond and loving spirit, thou
Far, far away from me art now;
I miss the hand of friendship true,
The heart that all my feelings knew.
But, while my grief thus fills my heart,
Thou in God's bosom lying art;
Freed from the body's yoke at last,
The gentle soul to life hath past.
No, spirit I not one moment e'en
Would I recall thee to this scene.
Thou wert Lull Worthy of my love,
And God hath quicken'd thee above.

God will in turn raise me, and then
I shall rejoin thee once again;
Into thy loving arms I'll fly,
Immortal thou, immortal I."
The bishop concluded the ceremony with—
" Now unto the King Eternal Immortal, and Invisible,
the only wise sod, the Father,,
the Son, and the Holy
Ghost, honour and glory, for ever and ever. Amen."
His Lordship, sitting in his chair, directed the
Chancellor to read the sentence of consecration,
which was then signed by the bishop.
The ceremony was finished at half-past twelve
o'clock.

The Queen, with the members of her family,
quitted the Mausoleum, and, unattended by the
ladies and gentlemen in waiting, walked back to
Frogmore.

The following ladies and gentlemen were present
upon the occasion :—The Duchess of Atholl, the
Hon. Horatia Stopford, the Hon. Harriett Phipps,
Lady Augusta Bruce, the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, Lady
Caroline Barrington, Viscount Sydney, Lord
Camoys, the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, Major
General Seymour, Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat,
Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. and Mrs. Grey,
Col. the Hon. Sir Charles Phipps, the Hon. Mrs.
Wellesley, Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Biddulph,
Miss Hildyard, Madame Hocede, Mademoiselle
Bauer, Major Elphinstone, Mr. Ruland, Mr. Wood-
ward, Mr. Buff, Dr. Jenner, Sir James Clark,
Lieut.-General Knollys, Captain Grey, Baroness
von Schenck, Baroness von Grancy, Captain West-
erweller, Dr. Becker, Countess Blucher, the Duchess
Dowager of Sutherland, Earl Granville, M. Van de
Seymour, C. 8., Colonel and
:Major-General the Hon.
Mr. Brown, a portion of
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her Majesty's domestic household, and also the
servants who had been particularly attached to the
service of the Prince Consort.

The Mausoleum has a central dome, an octogon,
64 feet in height and 30 feet in diameter. The
ground plan of the building is formed of four re-
cesses, with connecting circular corridors, the space
between the opposite recesses measuring also 64
feet. There is an entrance porch projecting from
the east
portionsde a flight of steps.
Although the a
yet completed, the
central
in which the Royal sarcophagus is
ppbruoialdchinegd
is by
not
i
to be placed is entirely closed.
The exterior of the Mausoleum will be nearly
covered with granite of various colours. The inte-
rior will be finished by coloured marbles and
frescoes. _ _

The building has been designed by Mr. Humbert
and Professor Grunner. The contractor is Mr. G.

Dines.

His Royal, Highness Prince Arthur, attended by

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ing all freedom of rnovernent in the candidates, and
makes it almost, impassible for any man, however
deserving, to be elected on his own merits ;:he must
combine with others, no :natter what the character
and opinion, and is dependent on their success and
defeat. On the other hand, an eleeor who wishes
to vote for a good man is forced to give his vote to
those men whom he, perhaps, does not want, or else
kave out Ihe mon of his own elioiee.

:Councillor, and other minor municipal offices, to the
number of upwards of 300, were decided to=day.
There was very little excitement. The Republican
party seemed to know that. the contest was hopeless,
land allowed the Democrats to carry the day by
overwhelming majorities in almost every instance.
11The whole patronage of the city is thus plced in
Democratic hands; and will be used to the fullest
extent in all the political elections of the next
twelvemonth.

7HE REVOLUJION IN GREECE.

(Frain the Times' Special Correspondent.)

ATHENS, DEC. 4.
Missolonghi, Kalavrita, and Patras, the only three
places of some importance which had not declared
themselves as yet, have joined :n the Alfred move-
ment. This tardiness was not owing to a difference
of opinion, but to the circumstance that party spirit,
roused by the approaching election for the Assem-
bl3 , runs very high there, and has thrown every-
thing into the background. In all countries which
are young in political life there is a tendency in
parties which gain the ascendancy to be merciless
on their prostrate adversaries, and the Greeks are
as yet too young as a nation to understand that free
political life is a succession of compromises. This
compromise was, perhaps, easier here than any-
where else, for there was no difference of prin-
ciples. As soon as the revolution was completed,
with few exceptions, every one joined, and if possi-
ble, those who had been devoted to the old system
became more violent in their approval of the new
state of things than those who had brought about
the change. But they were almost invariably re-
jected by the victorious party, so that nothing
remained to them but opposition, in order not to be
altogether excluded from political influence. The
members of the Provisional Government were in
this respect not wiser than the rest; on the contrary,
having all the means in their hands they used them
in their respective provinces to ostracise whatever
displeased them from one or another reason.
Thus it comes that the agitation and opposition
is greatest just where some member of the Go-
vernment has been at work. It is the general
opinion that nowhere have things been so inju-
diciously managed as at Patras. The place has of
old been divided between the Rouffos-Londos and
Bigopulo-Calamogdati factions, the former repre-
senting the late Opposition, and the wealth and
intelligence of the province; the last-named the
populace, which, in a thriving commercial town like
Patras, is more numerous than in any other place in
Greece. It is but fair to say that the latter faction,
judging well of the signs of the times, turned round
immediately after the Revolution, and offered to
co-operate with the victorious faction. The offer
was peremptorily rejected, and in the combination
for the election only strict adherents of the Rouffos

Nhver were the iticonveniutecs of thin system
more apparent than on this °pct....Rion, when the num-
ber of dephties which each district hes to send has
been doubled, so that in many pieces a combination
of eight men had to be found. In the interior
wllere local, well-defined interests are opposed to
each other, this may perheps still succeed, for
the practice is that each party provides the tickets
for its own men ; but in the capital and ether more
independent communities the preaticc yeas neces-
sarily modified. Thus, at Atheus, the combina-
tion comprises only four
Ualifour-
nas, Psylas, and Dosios, and - fOr the other four
places there is to be a scramble. So many are the
competitors that not even a guess may be made.
From all this you will see that the colour of the
Assembly will be of that uncertain neutral tint
which all things wear at dawn, and it will depend
on events which colour will come out ultimately.
Today is likewise the first day of the plebiscite
for Athens as well as the majority of the provinces.
The decree fixes the third•day after its publication,
and according to, this, the plebiscite_ oneittu._Nayq:
begiiii.yesterday;bittAe intention here is to make
it as complete as possible. The Holy Synod, with
its president at its head, is first to give its vote in
favour of Prince Alfred, then the National Bank,
the officers and soldiers, National Guard, students,
&c., so as to place in the clearest possible light the
general wish of all classes.

faction were taken in. The result was that Patras
has been kept in a constant state of excitement
ever since ; both parties have mustered their adhe-
rents, have armed them, azinft-ready to fall on
each other at the first opportunity. It was in
order to avoid a collision that all demonstrations
have been discouraged, although the general feeling
is perhaps nowhere stronger in favour of Prince
Alfred.

On Saturdaylast, nevertheless, the captain of the
Hydra, one of the Greek Company's steamers, de-
termined to get up a demonstration. He dressed
his vessel with flags and inscriptions, got her under
way, and, going twice round her Majesty's ship
Shannon, which was in port, fired a salute of 21
guns. He had a band on board and many friends,
who cheered most lustily. The whole party came
on shore at dusk, with lights surrounding a picture
of Prince Alfred, the captain holdiig it and all the
crew with revolvers round him. They were joined
by all the merchants and most of the respectable
townspeople, and passed before the houses of the
English Consul and Vice-Consul. At the house of
the former a speech was made, and then the crowd
went to cheer the French and Russian Consul. The
Calamogouti faction tried to stop the demonstration
by getting up cries of " Zeto to Ethnos ;" but the
cry was quite drowned, and the whole thing
passed off quietly enough. Not so next day, when
the other faction got up a counter-demonstration
with the picture of Leuchtenberg and those of the
three protecting Sovereigns. Returning from the
French and Russian Consuls, ono of the crowd
assailed a passer-by, who would not shout
,‘ Zetor upon which the assailed man, a doctor,
drew his revolver and tried to shoot his assailant.
He was prevented, and the aggressor was arrested.
The mob tried to rescue him, but one of
them getting a severe sabre cut on the head, the
others
.withdrew, It was time, for immediately
after 60 men of the
_counter-faction, all armed,
rushed through the town, but luckily they met with
no opposition. The people of Patras are, as you
may imagine, not without apprehension about the
impending elections. Fortunately, Patras is the
only place in Greece which has been guilty of such
disgraceful conduct. In Missolonghi and Kalav-
rita, above all, the former, the demonstration on
Sunday was gone through with all the honours, the
municipal councils passing resolutions to communi-
cate the wishes of the people to the National Assem-
bly. DEC. 6 (Morning).
To-day the elections for the Assembly begin all
over the kingdom, the first free elections—at any
rate, the first which will not have been systemati-
cally falsified. This time Government, as such, has
not interfered, although of course each member of
it in his own province has tried to exercise what-

ever influence he could. But this influence was
personal, not collective ; there is the great differ-
ence, so that even in the places where the combina-
tions brought forward by the members of the Go-
vernment are carried, the representatives returned
will represent only the interest of each individual
in the Government and that of his friends, and this
as legitimate influence as any other in a country
where every man having completed his 26th year
is an elector, and where, in spite of the attempts of
the late dynasty to break down all influence bee' des
its own, there exists still a powerful territorial and
family influence in most provinces. The country
is strongly democratic in feeling, the war of inde-
pendence has ruined many wealthy families, the late
dynasty has done its best to level all distinctions,'
yet so strongly seems this influence of the old pri-
mate families rooted, that it still survives, and will,

according to all appearances, play a prominent
part in the elections. Nor can anything be more
just than this influence; it is something real and
existing, and therefore a right to be represented in
the Assembly. As for any struggle of principles,
there is and can be none. Even if no one but par-
tisans of the old system were elected, they would

unanimously approve the condemnation of the

late system by the revolution, and inscribe the
word " Constitution" on their flag. All the ad-

dresses of candidates which appeared in the papers
are synonymous, almost the only difference being,
perhaps, the greater or lesser stress laid on the

great Hellenic idea of the future. These addresses
published in the papers and distributed among the
constituents, are the only public means of canvais-
jog. There is no nomination, and there are no
hustings: the canvassing is carried on privately.
As you will recollect, the country is divided into
27 districts, which, according to their size, choose
from two to four deputies, chosen indiscriminately
by town and country. Hitherto a candidate could
only stand for the district in which he was inscribed
as an elector; although this restriction has been re-
moved, the old habit will still be adhered to aln:,79t
universally on this occasion. This old habit consists
in this,—that those Who have influence in a district
try to combine and work together One is the man
who brings the town or part of it ; the other brings
the other portion of it; the third, one or two com-
munes, and so on. There is a man for the wealthy

and intellectual portion of the district; there is

Dec. 6, Afternoon.
The elections both for the Assembly and for the
Sovereign have begun, and every thing is as quiet
as possible. The Holy Synod, as I told you, ex-
pressed the wish to be the first to sign their names
on the lists for the election of the Sovereign, so the
registers-were taken- there, and the whole Synod,
with the president at their head, have written
therein the name of Prince Alfred as the Sovereign
of their choice. The registers are open at the
Mairie, where a crowd presses to sign.

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