The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-28 00:00:00

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 28, 1862.

Who bids for the throne of Greece ? A goodly
number, if rumour is to be credited. The Czar of
RUSSIA puts forth, as a matter of course, that ever-
lasting claimant for all the prospective crowns in
Christendom in succession—the Due DE LEUCH-
TENBERG ! Imperial France has equally, as a matter
of course, to proffer that princely panacea for every
people in search of a Sovereign, the once heir pre-
sumptive to the diadem of the BONAPARTES-11.1.H.
the Prince NAPOLEON. There is a talk of the youth-
ful second son of our beloved Monarch Queen VIC-
TORIA being advanced as an aspirant to the vacant
dignity upon that " violet-crowned" Acropolis. But
H.R.H. Prince ALFRED is already pre-engaged,
—being heir presumptive to his uncle (the elder
brother of the late lamented PRINCE CONSORT)
the reigning Duke of SAXE COBURG. Again, there
are whispers audible in the empyrean of European
Royalty, audible even to the ears of vulgar mortals
who ara not breathing that highly-rarified atmo-
sphere—to the effect that arrangements may just
possibly be entered into among the Great
Powers of Europe, according to which arrange-
ments the throne from which King OTHO the First
(and Last) has just been driven so ignominiously-
-4` frighted from his propriety" by a political Chari-
vari, called, for the sake of history and in conside-
ration of the outraged dignity of Greece, a'Revolution
—that recently vacated throne might yet be filled by
the second son, not of the Queen of ENGLAND, but
of the King of the BELGIANS ! That excellent
" Uncle LEOPOLD" who certainly makes as respect-
able a figure upon the European Continent as any
Prince has yet been enabled to do there, in the
rather novel and decidedly modern character of a
Constitutional Sovereign. The stripling Prince
YPSILANTE is the only "outsider" yet spoken of as at
all likely to become a favourite, by the aid of either
royal or imperial patronage. Whether it may
chance to be that the Emperor of the FRENCH still
clings to the notion of yet being able to carve out a
little kingdom, or a large principality, for his cousin
the Prince NAPOLEON, in the parcelling out of his
Italian Federation—(giving Tuscany and one or two
of the minor duchiEs with it to the husband of King
VICTOR EMMANUEL'S eldest daughtef, reserving the
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies for H.I.H. the Prince
MURAT, heir to the name, and glory, and preten-
!ions of Le Beau Sabreur, the Preux Chevalier, the
and knightly Paladin of NAPOLEON the
.teat)—certain it is, at any rate, that reports are
already flying
hitherabout at Paris, and have come flitting
to uacross the waters of the Channel, to the
effect that NAPOLEON 111. rather favours tha notion,
just now, of
moting the boy Prince YPSILANTE
to the throne, not
e'ff the vigorous MILTIADES, or of
the refined PERICLES, but of the variable and dege-
nerate OTHO.

Wherever a Crown Ukes this
is flagrantly going I
a-begging—does it not
eceedingly like an
outrage to common sense, listeningquietly to this
babble among the Courts abouth
put forward by the respective sovereignties rival claimants
a"ereignties p
As if Kingdoms were estimated by their
acres, and the peoples inhabiting them were thelive
cattle going with the estate! If there is to be any.
thing more than g mere pretence of this boasted
principle of modem. Diplomacy, called Non-inter-
vention—the monarchies of the earth will do well
to abstain from thru sting their pretenders forward
attention
too obtrusively upo)2 the on of the Greek
nation. The revolurgon there among that race of
modern Greeks has b een accomplished with such ex-
ceeding moderation throughout, that the population
of the country may r eitsonably be left to decide for
t tioraseives who shall henceforth be their Sovereign