The Great Sobranje, having held a secret meeting on the
9th inst., during which, it is understood, the claims of Prince Alexander were strongly pressed, met again on the 10th inst., and by acclamation elected Prince Waldemar of Denmark, brother of the Princess of Wales, of the Czarina, and of the King of Greece, to the vacant throne. Information was at once forwarded to Prince Waldemar at Cannes ; but while expressing his thanks, he referred the Regents to his father, who, it is understood, will in his name decline. The election would not be acceptable to the Czar, who wants an instrument at Sofia, or to the King of Greece, who fears he may have to fight Bulgaria for his share of Macedonia. Immediately after the election, the Russian Court was asked to name its candidate, and indi- cated Nicholas of Mingrelia, a mediatised Prince of the Caucasus, sprung from alamily of great antiquity, but at present only a large proprietor in Mingrelia. He is thirty-six years of age, was bred in Russia, and is not supposed to possess special mental qualifications. It is doubtful if he will be accepted by the Sobranje, which wishes for a European Prince, and not for an Asiatic noble ; but even if he is, the Czar will demand, it is said, a "restoration of legality,"—that is, the resignation of the Regency, and a re-election of the Sobranje under a Russian Commissary. That is to say, the Czar is determined to nominate the Parliament as well as the Prince.
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