14 NOVEMBER 1863, Page 2

The King of the Greeks issued his first proclamation to

his people on October the 30th. " He brought," he said, " to Greeee, neither experience nor wisdom, but he came 'With confidence and sincere devotion, and promised to devote his whole life to the pros- perity of the future." "His ambition was to make Greece the model State of the East." There is something of a plea ad misericor- diem in the frank statement of the first two truths ; but, after all, modesty is an element in power, and no man can yet tell what the boy-king five years hence may prove. He may be Leopold just as well as Otho, and he has an able man at his side.