The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-22 00:00:00

Athenian Demos of old. There is a continual ex-
change of ideas going on,—old ones are uprooted
and new ones started." Hence, in truth, that power-
ful and now dominant party in Greece, known and
recognised more clearly of late years asYoung Greece.
At every indication of a tendency, even on the event
of King OTHo to carry out his illusory project of
the grande idle, the strength of Young Greece, the
ambition, the daring of Young Greece increased,
I advanced, ascended. The time drew near when
the reed upon which King OTHo had so long been
leaning—his own cherished illusion, that is, as to
the belief of the Greek people in the grande idee—
abruptly snapped. The time came when the pear
so long ripening would grow mellow to the core
and drop—at the first breeze indicating the ap-
proach of some new storm of revolution. In this
manner, indeed, it haS actually fallen out. The
reed—bending more and more ever since 1843—
at length broke under a scarcely perceptible in-
crease of pressure. The pear—sunned from afar
off by the constitutional freedom of England,
sunned during these last two years more nearly and
more immediately by the constitutional freedom
won for the Italians by Piedmont—fell from the
bough at last at a breath. And that breath ? It
was the signal for the simultaneous rising of all
Greece, syllabled on the 18th of last October by the
veteran GRives at Voritza ! Hardly was the
standard of the revolution raised by him on that,
thenceforth, memorable day for—
" Greece, yeal living Greece once more!"
When the echo of the signal sounded by GRIVAS
was heard resounding all over the Kingdom, from
that its first starting point on the Gulf of Arta.
On the next day (the 19th) it was audible at a
spot, now doubly classic as the remembered death-
place of Lord BYRON—Missolonghi. A day later
(the 20th) and it had leaped beyond the gulf of
Corinth to Petras. By the 22d it was re-echoing
—this signal of revolution sounded by GRIVAS—
among the immortal localities lying clustered mere
or less closely in the neighbourhood of Athens. it
was heard and answered at Megara, at Corinth, at
Eleussi—throughout Attica. From the sylvan soli-
tudes of Acarnania, it had spread and grown in
volume and in resonance until it had penetrated
into the modern city built up around, and among
the ancient ruins clustered together upon the
Acropolis. Opportunely or inopportunely, accord-
ingly as these events are now regarded from the op-
posite points of view, the KING at this time was
away from his capital, 'laving started upon a tour
through the provinces on the 12th of last month.
And the Revolution began, as we have seen, at
Voritza in less than a week after the KING'S de-
parture from Athens—GßlVAS sounding the tocsin
on October the 18th. Enlarging in its dimensions as
the days sped by after then—the Revolution was
eventually completed with an absolutely brilliant
success upon the evening of Wednesday, the 23d of
October. Soldiers and civilians fraternized. A few
random shots were fired—two or three people were
killed—fourteen were wounded. Et voila tout !
When the KlNG—alarmed on his travels by the
sudden tidings brought to him of the notable events
that were in progress—steamed back hurriedly on
board the Amalia to the Pirceus : where his MA-
JESTY arrived on the morning of Thursday, October
24, awaking to the recognition of the fact that the
Revolution was un fait accompli. He awoke, in
fact, to find that he himself had been summarily
dethroned and his place occupied already by a Pro-
visional Government. Troops he had none for the
royal army had made their own cause one with that
of the-population. King OTHo and Queen AMELIA
had nothing in point of fact for it but to make their
minds up to the worst, and quietly take their de-
parture travelling—as they did forthwith—to
Munich, via Venice. The game was played out
the Revolution was sccomplished.
It was accomplished at least so far as the first
distinct recognition of its triumph was concerned.
Its responsible after-labours were still before the
Provisional Government—awaiting accomplish-
ment by its energy and patriotism. And those
labours were upon the instant recognised as three-
fold :—the maintenance of order—the clearing
away of bad elements from the offices of admini-
stration —the convocation of the National As-
sembly. Already the maintenance of order was
secured by the instinctive wisdom of the popula-
tion. As to the clean sweep made through all the
administrative offices —that may be understood
upon the instant, upon the mention of just one
simple fact, by way of illustration : to wit,
the circumstance that within a single day
fifty-nine mayors were removed and their successors
appointed. The convocation of the National As-
and, in some respects
As-
sembly
bmlyostwaiscapo the
r last,
tMatter remaining for con-
sideration at once by the nation itself and
, the members of the
And the date fixed for
PbyroviltssionteanllGP
the meeting of that Assembly is now definitively
oorraerrymnreunite.r s
marked down for the 10th (22d) of December !
After that date the rest will fellow in due course.
From the deliberations of the new Legislat are will
emerge the choice of the new Sovereign and the
final revision of the Constitution.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 2

Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses
the Princess Alexandra and the Prince and Princess Louis
of Hesse, walked and drove in the grounds this morning.
To-day is the anniversary of the birthday of her Roya
Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal).
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and the
Princess Mary visited Her Majesty to 'day.

Mr. Henry A. Bruce, M.P., transacted business yester •
day as Under-Secretary Of State for the Home Depart-
ment.
Mr. G. G. Glyn, M.P., Mr. R. W. Crawford, M.P., Mr.
H. W. Blake, Mr. Watkin, Mr. William Chapman, Mr.
Robert Benson, and Captain Glyn, R.N., had an interview
with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial office,
on the subject of communication through British territory
to the Pacific.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong-
kong, Labuan, the Australian colonies, and the North
American provinces.

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ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT BRITAIN.—At a late
hour on Thursday night the steamship Great Britain, Capt.
Gray, arrived in the Mersey from Melbourne, which port
sho left on the 18th of September. She was therefore on
the voyage a little over 62 days. The Great Brioldtainso has
s
brought 335 passengers, 100,651 ounces of g, ,
sovereigns, and a large cargo of wool and other at tides.
A BOY DROWNED IN
THE RIVER.—On Thursday
night, between the hours of six and seven, while the fire
near Blackfriars-bridge was raging, a boy, whose name is
unknown, who was sitting on the parapet of the bridge,
unfortunately fell into the river, and before any assistance
could be rendered he sank. The body has not been found
up to last night:
MUNIFICENT GIFT.—A benevolent lady has pre-
sented to the National Lifeboat Institution £340 to pay for
the new lifeboat and transporting carriage which the
society had just sent to Fleetwood, on the Lancashire coast,
in lieu of a previous small boat there, which was found un-
suitable for that dangerous station. The new lifeboat is to
be called the Edward WaSey, after Capt.Wasey,
R.N., who,
while in command of the Fleetwood Coast Guard District,
had often put off in the lifeboat, and had rescued 27 ship-
wrecked persons under the most dangerous circumstances,
and occasionally during a midnight storm.
BOLD FEAT OF CAPT. SEMMES.—The Alabama is
still at work. Capt. Semmes juts a very distinct notion re
specting the value of a peculiar property in the eyes of
planters, When he consigned to Captain Julius, now in
,
Liverpool, British seamen to be landed at this port, he cast
his eye on a little black boy—as free as Capt. Julius him-
self—seized him, and despite remonstrances, carried him on
board " 290."—Liverpool Post.
Colonel Dawson Darner MY"
and the Hon.
Mrs. Darner have left town to join Lord and Lady Rokeby
I at Nice,