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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 3, 1862.

It is curious to remark how "the powers that be"
in Europe appear to have decided that, under all
circumstances, Greece is to come off, as the phrase
is, " second best "—supposing, that is, that a new
Sovereign is to be provided for her out of one of
the reigning dynasties. Among the candidates for
the throne lately vacated by King OTHO being—
I. The second son of Queen VICTORIA.
11. The second son of King LEOPOLD.

111. The second son of King VICTOR EMMANUEL.
Several ether candidates there are no doubt still
talked of, in one direction or another, as just pos-
sibly capable of selection by preference—as, for
example, the Prince YPSILANTE, the Prince
NAPOLEON, and the Duke DE LEUTCHENBERG,
The first-mentioned representing the Greek na-
tionality itself. The second, French influence. The
third, Russian. But those other three candidates
—each of them advanced on the contrary as the
representative, guarantee, or augury of Constitu-
tional Government—are the only aspirants for
the Throne who are actually children of reign-
ing Sovereigns. Scarcely any one thinks seriously
of the claim to attention coupled in this direction
with the name of H.I.H. the Prince NA-
POLEON. It almost seems as if there were
a tacit understanding that, if a Crown
is to be found for him anywhere, it is certainly not
the Crown of Greece. Looking at the doubtful
and transitional state of things still visible in
Italy—many may look for a bauble to be found,
rather in that direction than elsewhere, for the son-
in-law of King VICTOR EMMANUEL. As to the
Due de LEUCHTENBERG, who is there that can en-
tertain the notion of his success out of the pre-
cincts of the Court of the CZAR or out of the pur-
lieus of Bedlam ? As if the rest of the Great Powers
of E'lr°Pe would consent thus meekly to hand over
to the Autocrat the future destinies of a kingdom
that, if but thus abandoned once to the recognition
of the. dominant influence of the CZAR, would be
likely to prove for him, or for his successor, but the
merest roundabout stepping-stone to C3nstanti-
nople. Supreme in the Baltic—commanding
through. Greece the Archipelago—the Russian
Autocrat, with a Prince of Russian proclivities like
the Due de LEUCHTENBERG on the throne of the
Acropolis, might regard himself as already virtually
in possession of the Gslden Horn. Threatened
thus immediately from the East and from the West,
Tux key would be prepared to succumb. The con-
tingency we are here alludimg to, indeed, is not for
an instant to be thought of. Nor, in truth, is it
likely to be thought of. The Diplomacy of Eng-
land and of France, nay, of Prussia and c f Austria,
cannot be imagined for one moment to be in any
way likely to be so easily or so egregiously hood-
winked.

Among all the " out- siders " it is the
Prince IPSILANTE who is regarded in Greece
at this moment with the greatest complacency.
He is of the blood Hellenic. He is Greek
in birth, in habits, in religion. Besides which
Greece has already tried the advantage likely to
accrue from an imported sovereign—and has not
even found it to be questionable, Unquestionably
bad is the judgment she has just pronounced upon
it after thirty years of anxious and painful delibe-

ration.

It is amusing to note how :rang the French
journals, the Monde takes
in whose behalf ? Ye—in bePhalf even of the
the cudgels_
:r Paris eon-
aiocht least)
ex King OTHO ! Not (we must do
temporary the justice to premise this
not that the Monde does this with
any
reamful
notion of the restoration of the fallen :
Monarch,
The argument advanced by the Monde in favour of
f
King Onto is put forward simply to the end, if
possible, that his reputation (such as it is) may be
in some measure vindicated. " It is said," observ( 8
the writer, " that King OTHO had entertained some
idea of abdicating, but that the Greeks anticipated
his intention ; but intairrectional proceedings are
not the most poWe mode of proceedings." The
Monde hero evidently encouraging itself to the
belief that, after all, one of these days, Revo-
lutions may yet be m a,de with rose-water! The
journalist continues, ho I 'ever, with admirable coat-
p ney_i. The
KIN U- now gives up the game ;
he did everything that he could to please the Greeks,

and went solar as to dress himself in the national
costume. Nothing succeeded. The Greek journals
will now relate innumerable instances of his
tyranny. But there is no longer any belief in people
being tyrannised over by their kings; kings tyran-
nised over by their people would be more readily
believed in." The words we have here italicised
have, surely, their significance. OTHO, says the
Monde, in order "to please the Greeks," actually
" went so far as to dress himself in the national
costume !" Implying—Could he, by possibility,
have gone further ? The adoption of the Albanian
costume (no great personal sacrifice by the way on
King OTHo's part, seeing that it is about the pret-
tiest masquerading dress any empty-headed Prince
could, with all the costumes of the world before him
to choose from, have contrived with anything like
good taste to select !) the adoption by Onto of the
Albanian custtme being, in point of fact, the one
only boon specified by the Monde as having, in a
reign of thirty years' duration, been vouchsafed to
his Greek subjects by that model Sovereign. Than
which—could anything, in the shape of an argu-
ment, be more utterly preposterous P Again, the
tyranny of nowadays, we are sententiously and most
gravely informed is—that exercised, not by Kings
over Peoples, but by Peoples over Kings ! Par
exemple—by Russian Poland over the CZAR ! By
the Hungarians over the KAISER ! By the Prussian
People and the Prussian Chambers over King WIL-
LIAM! So tyrannised over by their Peoples, by the
way, being the Sovereigns of those three constitu-
tion countries, Belgium, Italy, and England—the
second eons of which Sovereigns are now talked of
as possible successors, one or the other of them, to
the throne of Onto ! Among these, the Greeks
have bne temptation to select H. R. H. Prince
ALFRED—namely, that presented to them by the
exceeding probability that, immediately upon that
selection, the Greek dominions would be enhanced
by the absorption, within them, of the lonian
Islands, over which England, under those altered
circumstances, would rejoice no longer to have any
reason for exercising her simply vexatious and irri-
tating Protectorate.

Mr. COBDEN, in his confessedly able speech at
Rochdale, pointed to the accession of Tories to
power, next session, as the means of obtaining
greater economy of the national expenditure. If
the advanced Liberals really are of this mind, and
if the more prudent Tories, who are well aware that
Lord PALMERSTON does their work better than Mr.
DISRAELI ean, should yet join the Tory leader and
his more reckless band of office-seeking Tories, it is
quite certain that the two Tory parties, combined
with the real Liberals, could oust Lord PALMERSTON
and the old Whigs. But let us look at the case as
Mr. COBDEN puts it.
In the first place we must do the Member for
Rochdale justice. He has a strong case of enor-
mous waste of the national money. Notwithstand-
ing all that the United Service Tourna/has written,
and all the comments of hostile speakers and the
hostile press, we must candidly own that we can-
not get over the facts detailed in his " Three
Panics." He has established unanswerably the
fact that there was not the rapid and threatening
increase of the French navy which Government
authorities have led us to believe. He has shown
that, in consequence of Sir JOHN PAKINOTON sink-
ing millions in wood when the French were work
ing at iron, and only opening his eyes to this when
the millions were wasted, we seemed inferior in
iron ships for a while ; and therefore, with some
show of reason, infers that a good deal of the per-
fectly groundless hubbub about French increase was
raised to conceal from notice the wasteful folly of
our PARINGTONS and the Admiralty. He has also
shown by comparison of the increase between 1835
and 1859, both in seamen and dockyard wages,
that we had advanced out of all proportion to
France. These are his words:—

" I will give you a comparison between the first and the
last year of these two dates—the expenditure in wages in
the English and French dockyards, and the number of sea-
men in the respective navies in 1835, when Sir R. PEEL
and the Duke of WELLINGTON were in power, and in 1859
and the year preceding that, in which Lord PALMERSTON
proposed his vast scheme of fortifications. In 1835 the
English expenditure on dockyards amounted to £376,377,
the French to £343,032; in 1859 the English expenditure
was £1,582,112, and the French £772,931. Mark me, there
was £1,265,735 more spent in 1859 by us than in 1835. And
the increase in the French dockyards during the same
period was only £421,899, so that the increase in the Eng-
lish dockyards of the expenditure for the construction of
armaments, which is the real aggressive outlay, in 1859,
had increased three times as much in England as it had in
France as compared with 1835."

The comparison of seamen gives the same results.
" In 1835 the number of British seamen amounted
to 26,041, and of French to 16,628 ; in 1859 the
number of British seamen amounted to 72,400, and
of French to 38,470. It follows that the English
had increased their number by 46,359 in 1859 as
compared with 1835, while France had only in-
creased hers by 21,842 in the same time, being less
than one-half of th© increase in England." It is
impossible to see how these broad facts can be met
by those who would maintain that the French were
outstripping us in the creation of a navy, though
so persistently was that statement dinned into our
ears by the Government that we can hardly awake
to the fact that it could only have been a delusion.
As to what the two countries were actually doing
in 1859,. what can any man of business reply to the
following briefly and well-stated fact ? " I have
shown you what France has spent in her dockyards
While we spent £1,582,000 in
constructing
France spent only £772,000, or
lessi 1 tht
ehay ne
8 5
; and as we can build ships so
much cheaper than France that we can send ships
to France and pay a duty of twenty per cent. upon
them, I would ask you how could France, with
half the money, have been preparing a fleet to rival
or to equal our own."
Let us admit, then, that a man like Mr. COBDEN,
all details of the case,
cblefore the public as he
who has thoroughly ransaclkye
and brought them as clear
did the details of corn law mischiefs years ago—that
such a man is entitled to feel strongly on his main
topic. Yet still we may question whether he would
mend the case by turning out Lord PALMERSTON
and letting the Tories in. His argument
is, that the
Tories, now, use the Whigs as their tools to main-
tain that vast expenditure in which an aristocracy
naturally delights. That hence they compel the
expenditure, while they have none of responsibility.
Put them in office, make them responsible, and they
would spend, Mr. COBDEN believes, £5,000,000 a
year less, and if they did this, Mr. GLADSTONE has
told us that we might dispense with the income tax
very speedily.

Now this seems very plausible, but after all. is it
just ? Mr. COBDEN is beguiled by the DISRAELI sec-
tion of the Tories. But though Mr.WALPOLE made
his peace with Mr. DISRAELI atWyecomb the other
day—indeed, they were both ministering at the
same high altar—there is a large party of high and
dry Tories who will never be led by Mr. DISRAELI
in a battle against " bloated armaments." Lord
DERBY, and Sir BORN PAKINOTON, and Sir STAY-
FORD NORTRCOTE, the budding Tory Chancellor of
the Exchequer, certainly would not. The money-
spending section of the Tories are by far the majo-
rity; the money-saving few of them would be re-
duced to the position in which Mr. GLADSTONE,
Mr. M. GIBSON, and Mr. VILLIERS are now, and
the money-
spending Tories, aided by the money-