The Press.
London, England, 1858-09-25 00:00:00

THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 25, 1858.

SARDINIA.
♦ NEW COLONY.

A letter from Nice st7ates that the whole coast is
mad with excitement and expectation from the new
Muscovite settlement. Laud and houses have risen
in value, roads are about to be made by the munici-
pality, a Greek church is to be provided for the new
colony, and unheard-of prosperity is to result.

GREECE.
THE OLYMPIAN GAMES.
A correspondent writing from Athens, under date
September 4, says that the Queen-Regent has just
signed a royal decree for the re-establishment of the
ancient Olympic games, after being discontinued for
nearly 1,500 years. They are to be held at Athens,
in the ancient Stadium, which is still in a very per-
fect state of preservation, and requires very little
more than a good cleaning out, and are to take place
on the three first Sundays in October, every fourth
year, commencing in 1859. The games are to include
hone races, wrestling, throwing quoits, and other
athletic sports, singing, music, and dancing, besides
which there is to be an exhibition of flowers, fruits,
cattle, and other articles of Greek produce car manu-
factures. This eccentric idea was formed by a wealthy
Peloponnesian named Evangelos Zappas, who resides
at Jassy, in Moldavia, and who has liberally endowed
the games.
UNITED STATES.
THE QUARANTINE RIOT AT STATEN ISLAND.
At Staten Island, four miles distant from New York,
on the IGwer side of the hay, a mob has enacted
scenes of violence that would seem incredible if they
were not well authenticated. Many years ago, when
New York was much smaller than now, and when
this island was almost a wilderness, the Quarantine
was established there. It has grown with the growth
of the town, until the whole eastern part of the
island is occupied with country residences, and
villages have grown up about all the ferry stations,
including that of Quarantine. The detention of all
the yellow fever patients and vessels in the midst of
such a population has created an increasing excite-
ment which has several times threatened to break out
in some form of violence. The Board of Health of
Castleton, within the limits of which the Quarantine
is situated, resolved that Quarantine was a nuisance
which the citizens might abate. This was the only
excuse wanted. On the night of the Ist, while the
police were busy in town and public attention en-
grossed there, a large mob, headed by some of the
landholders in that neighbourhood, broke into the
Quarantine grounds, oveipuwered the keepers, and
destroyed several of the hospitals. On the succeeding
night, finding that through culpable neglect no force
had been sent to protect the remainder of the
build►ngs, they broke in again and finished the work
of the night before. The sick patients that the
buildings contained were taken cut by the mob into
the cold night air, and left with no other protection
than that afforded by the lee of a wood fence. The
very bedding on which they had been lying was made
a bonfire of. After the mischief was done, and no
further destruction was possible, a police force was
sent down to take care of the ruins. There is no
attempt at concealment on the part of those who
were concerned in the riot; they say that they acted
under colour of law in obeying the requisition of the
Castleton Board of Health. It is impossible to
foresee the effect of this. A very large number of
persons have been exposed to direct contact with the
yellow fever. If the hot weather of the last few days
holds on through the month of September it is not
an impossibi:ity, though, we will hope, improbable,
that the pesti!ence may be brought into the town. A
later account says

The Staten Island rebellion begins to assume a very
important aspect. The rebels have taken a bold stand, and
declare they will not permit any one to leave the Quaran-
tine grounds to mingle with the residents of the island.
The police commissioners and Quarantine authorities are
actively preparing for war, and from present appearances
there is every probability of an immediate collision between
the belligerent forces. Several of the rebels appeared
before Justice Welsh, at the City-ball, yesterday (the 6th),
and entered into recognizances for their appearance at the
Court of Sessions. One of the number was committed to
the Tombs, but was subsequently released upon a writ of
habeas corpus.
On the 7th inst., Governor King issued a pro-
clamation declaring the county of Richmond, in which
the Quarantine station is located, in a state of insur-
rection, ordering the military of the State to protect
the Quarantine and maintain the peace, calling upon
the authorities to construct indestructible buildings
at Quarantine in place of those destroyed by the
mob, and directing the prosecution of the ringleaders
of the rebels. Five hundred members of the 7th
Regiment of New York had been ordered to the
scene of trouble.

THE CAPE.
POLITICAL DIFFICULTIES.
By the arrival of the Indiana at Plymouth we
have intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope to
the 12th ult. The principal matter of interest is the
departure of Sir George Grey from Grey Town on