ARRIVAL OF THE BEHAR IN HOBSON'S BAY.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 41, 31 March 1863, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE BEHAR IN HOBSON'S BAY.

(From the Argus.) The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Behar, Capt. Dundas, arrived in liobson's Bay at an early heur yesterday morning, with the ||aniMry mails from England. The lollowiprr is tlie letter of our London correspondent : — Lgndon, Jan. 26 O The past month has been one of political dislocations almost everywhere. Ministerial crises have been as prevalent and fashionable as fevers and catarrhal affections. Governmental machinery lias got sadly out of gear. What with v.icaiit thrones, dying sovereigns, Cabi.iets breaking, Ministerial resignations, chronic antagonisms between the different powers of states, and hostile demonstrations toward neighboring Governments, the general condition of Europe, as well as of countries more distant, may be described as one of " dead lock." There may be nothing particularly alarming in these political phenomena, but they are at least extremely inconvenient, and k>ep the public mind in a state of restless anxiety. Spain, Holland, and Turkey have passed safely through all the dangerous developments of Ministerial crises, two of then being of rather a severe type, and are now doing as well as can be oxpected. The throne of Hellas is still empty, and the passionate attachment of the Greek population to tht-ir first love, Prince Alfred, shows no si^tis of abatement. No suitor can be found in all the royal halls of Europe bold enough to ask the hand of the proud, disdainful Queen of the Archipelago. Even the magnificent dower of the lonian isles, as a bridle present offered by England, fails to tempt any accept ible candidate to grasp the prize. The vacant throne has been offered to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, but hitherto without success. Meanwhile, the Na. tional Assembly has been occupying i t.seli with expelling members irregularly elected. Brigandage has reached the gates of Athens, and the country threatens to full into a state of anarchy. So angry are many of the Greeks with tke powers who have So impertinently thwarted them in their wishes, that they declare they will accept the Sultan in preference to the nominees of France and Russia. The lonians, it appears, are by no means unanimous in desiring to be severed from English protection, and in Corfu the opposition to union with Greece has taken a very decided form. Mr Gold win Smitb, Mr Bright,

and their ;disciples, think the ninienium is close' at Jiand, Delirious v/ith delight at this triumph of their views, they are trow agitating for the speedysurrender of Gibraltar-. The British Government will be severely censured by the Tories for the course they have proposed to adopt in regard to the lonian Isles.