The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-10 00:00:00

GREECE AND HER PEOPLE.

Greece by her revolution has naturalised herself among
nations. She set up a landmark of progress by her mode-
ration, and given a pledge to futurity by her sensible repu
diation of an unreal dynasty. Greece owed no allegiance to
her late King beyond that invblvcd in the observance of a.
contract. Good government, paternal solicitude, legitimate,
ambition, and rightly-directed energies would have secured:
national advancement, filial gratitude, and enlightend:
obedience. No nation more than the Greek displays under•
an able chief the qualities of clanship. Great natural intel—

ligence and a sufficient appreciation of the good things or
life would have ensured implicit obedience to a wise leader
whose conduct indicated any chance of advancement.
Greek does not covet political power if it be employed by-
h a rulers for his benefit. He is content with his olive-
groves and his vineyard, his counting-house and his traba••
cola, so long as the ruler to whom power is de!egated Aaows
him a fair prospect that his interests are secure aril his
future promising. But a Greek wants his governors to
work for him, to discharge the duties for which they are paid..
Provided this be done ha does not care much for active
liberty and looks upon the franchise as a trouble, the advan-
iges of which are so remota as to be unmarketable. lies
does not like paying taxes, and will not do so unless com-
pelled; but when the screw is put on, the money is, some-
how or other, forthcoming, and he is not very much
annoyed with the state creditor who forces him to discharge
his state liabilities. He reverences authority, and all the
more when firmly or even severely exercised ; but authority
must be wise, farsighted, and beneficent—mild in appear-
ance, if not in reality. Where an Englishman resents
interference the Greek courts it. Nothing can be done.
without the initiation of Government. This once secured,
the Greek will faithfully and intelligently follow the lead
and even improve on it. To those who. know anything
,f Greece it is patent that the shortcomings o
that country are wholly and exclusively attribut-
able to the late King and Queen. With regard to the:
deposed, we should, if possible, follow the canon esta-
blished for the dead—chronicle their virtues and be silent
their faults. Such a course in this case would involve
absolute silence. Of their private merits we may speak in

erms of commendation. The termination of their dynasty,

is the best commentary of their public career. They have:
!net with no violence as they have created no party. They'
have left no name and they excite no sympathy.—Church
and State ,Review.

THE ROBBERY OF £B3O IN LEEDS.—CAPTURE OF
,iNornzu MAN.—On Saturday, at the Town Hall, James
Kirk, cloth dresser, Little London, was brought up, charged
with being concerted in the robbery of £B3O from the offices
of the Aire and Calder Navigation Company, in Leeds, ors
the 21st ult. The prisoner was apprehended at half-past
one o'clock on Saturday morning at the Old Globe public-
house, Bradford, by Inspector Hunt. As soon as Kirk saw
the officer he took one of his boots off and with it aimed a
blow At him. Hunt immediately knocked him down, secured
him, and brought him to Leeds. The prisoner had £lO 16s
in his possession. It is stated that the prisoner has been
in Bradford ever since the robbery. He was remanded till
to-day.--Leeds -Mercury.
METROPOLITAN BENEFIT SOCIETIES' AECTLUM.
—This building, in the Ball's Pond-road, Islington, has
been thoroughly repaired and embellished, and a handsome
iron railing erected in front. Added to which, the com-
mittee have invested £7,000 as an Endowment Fund, the"
income of which is to be paid to the inmates. To celebrate
the event of the completion of the repairs, and the start of
the institution upon a new footing, the committee and their
friends intend meeting at a dinner, to be held at the George
and Blue Boar Hotel, on Friday evening next (12th), when
Henry Campkin, Esq., F.S.A., will preside.
GERMAN ANTIQUITIES.—In the Reveu Content-
poratne we find an interesting archaeological article by Dr.
Frocebner, from which we gleam the following items. In
tyria, a great number of tumuli have been opened, called by
the people of " Pa'an cones." They are chiefly met with
in groups of from 20 to 30 in the midst of clumps of trees
and on the banks of rivers, They all conta;n long
coffins made of wicker-work ; but those tumuli that con-
tain skeletons are considered to have been graves for the
poor, on account el the few objects of value which are
found in them ; those on the contrary in which the ashes
of dead bodies are found, also contain bronze arms and
ornaments, evidently the work of native artists, but bear-
ing a strong affinity to Etruscan art. Thus, for instance,
two votive hands, skilfully made of bronze plates, have
been brought to light, as also three small shields, adorn d
with designs of animals and men executed in relief. All
these objects are chiselled after the Etruscan fashion. At
Sigmaringen on the Upper Danube, a Roman camp, sur-
rounded with ramparts, has been found, with the house of
the general, that of the treasurer, and other buildings still
discernible.

LIVING OUT or TowN.--The fatigue:of a railway'
journey, great as it is, is trifling compared with the fatigue
of a journey by coach, if the distance be considerable. The
Report dwells with iterated emphasis on the "concussions"
occasioned by the vibration of the locomotive. But as far a*
our experience goes, an hour's jolting over the street in an
omnibus is far more trying than an hour's railway journey.
People look back fondly at the good old coach days ;" but
if they will try the effect of a long journey in a diligence, in
those parts of the Continent where diligenoes still Fly, and
compare it with a journey by rail oecurying an equal number
of hours, they will be disabused, and will admit that, spar
by coach to London from Scotland, he
from the gain in time, the gain in comfort on the rail is very
considerable. We do not deny the fact of the " concus-
sions," but we are reminded that when the late Lord Camp-
bell first travelled
was advised to stay a day at York, as the rapidity of the
motion ~,ad caused several thoroughgoing passengers to
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