The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-30 00:00:00

GREECE.

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The monk Christoforos is causing unheard-of
trouble to the Government by his incendiary ad-
dresses. He appears, disappears, and re-appears
with- astonishing rapidity in various parts of the
kingdom; and, having raised the population of the
Magne by his discourses, is now ranging the Pelo-
ponessus. Several military columns are in pursuit
of him, and the latest dispatches of their com-
manders express the excectation of his speedy capture.
He is attended by thousands of fanatics, and when
hard pressed takes refuge in some church, where he
embraces the images, and calls vehemently for Divine
succour. The people, excited by his prayers, have
more than once fallen with sticks and stones upon
the feeble force sent to apprehend him, and made
officers and men fly for their lives. In explanation
of this strange excit-ment, it should be stated that
when Greece was made an independent state the in-
habitants considered that while they were one in doc-
trine with the rest of the Eastern church, it was im-
possible that they could continue under the spiritual
authority of the PATRIARCH of Constantinople, a
subject of their old master the SULTAN. A national
synod was then established in Greece to superintend
religious affairs, and this administrative independence
has existed until the present year, when the Govern-
ment of King OTHO concluded% convention with the
PATRIARCHa modified authority on
part,his
degree diminishing
the independence of the national church. It is against
andacknowledgingin a corresponding
this arrangement that the monk CHRISTOPHOROS has
taken the field, from which the Government finds it
so difficult to drive him.

PERSIA.
Letters from Tauris of the 26th ult. announce that
ilerat bad been definitively annexed to Persia. They
also state that a very important mercantile firm in
Persia, the chief of which Was HADJI-MIR•AGRA,
bad failed for between 80,000 and 100,000 tomans
..A.
property,ther failures,
p
(the toman is 50 francs). T_T
zADI•MIR-AGHA is stated
but not sufficient to pay
it is added, were ex-
hwei liabilities.sct e have
di
x
nep
teeu ssi
ivaoe.

PRIVY CouNciL —(Tius DAY.)—Her Majesty held
a Court and Privy Council this afternoon, at half-past two,
at Buckingham Palace. It was attended by his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, the First Lord of the Treasury, the
Lord Privy Seal the Marquis of Salisbury), the Chancellor
ot the Exchequer, the Secretaries of State for the Home,
Foreign. and Colonial Departments, the Lord Chamberlain,
the Master of the oand the Lord Steward. At the
Council her Majesty's Speech on closing the the session of
Parliament, to-morrow, was agreed on. The Queen will
proceed as usual, in state, at two o'clock, from Buckingham
Palace to the House of Lords to deliver the Royal Speech
from the Throne.

THE COMMISSIONERS FOR BUILDING CHURCHES.-
By orders in Council, dated Buckingham Palace, June 15,
1852, her Majesty hes been pleised to approve of and ratify
--lint, a representation of lila Commi-sioners for building
new churches for uniting and consolidating certain conti-
guous portions of the parishes of Sundtidge, Chevening, and
ChiPingstone, in the county of Kent, and diocese of Can-
terbury, into one elm Pe.l
rY, for the church of St. Mary, at
Ids-hill,
in the rector for,
Sundridge;i the time being of the parish of
”PtidlY, a representation of the saidt.ng Com-
missioners for uniting and consolidating certain contiguous
e-hil , and
and, fo r the right of presentation thereto to be
portions of the parishes of Newtown Lintord, Whitwich,
and Sheepsheac.l, in the county of Leicester, and diocese of
of Oaks Church, in (.11aarnwood Forest, the right of pre-
sentationp° chapelry, for the consecrated church
of Groby, Whitwicb, 'lean. Manor, Sheepshead, Ulverscroft,
in
:n the lords of the respective manors
aPnedt er
elrt°otunog:bi lvn:sot

TIIE AUSTRALIAN EL DORADO.—A poor man in
Southampton has a daughter married in Australia. Her
busband is a foreman o a tobacco manufactory situated on
the river Paterson, tha owner of which is a person named
Boy le. The daughter Las
ust written home to her father a
letter dated in Februaryj last. She states that as soon as the
gold discoveries were made, Mr. Boyle was obliged to raise
the wages of all the men working on his establishment, and
that he allows a few at a time to go to the gold diggings to
try their fortune, when they return, after a limited period,
to give others a chance. By these means he has been
enabled to keep sufficient men to carry on his business. Tne
diggings are about thirty miles from where she resides. She
speaks of a youth'of her acquaintance about 17 years of age,
who for some time by hred work got an ounce of gold a
week; that he afterwards made use of a cradle, and washed
out about three ounces of gold a week. A party she knew
had met with very bad luck, and they were about to leave
the digging=. They were. persuaded to give another trial,
when they fell in with a spot that was exceedingly rich in
gold, and they are now doing remarkably well. The writer
of the letter in question hrs been in Australia about eight
years. Sue states that the climate is much like England,
and she is desirous that her father and all her relations
should come out and bin her. Her greatest grief is that,
out of the numerous lettars she knows must have been re-
cently sent from England to her, she has never got one.
'We understand the marriage of the Right Hor.
Henry Labouchere, M.P., and Lady Mary Howard, sister of
the Earl of Carlisle and the Duchess of Sutherland, which
was to have bcen solemnised on Monday next, has been de-
ferred until the 30th proximo.
ARTICLES OF FoREIGN PRODUCTION.--There was
yesterday printed, in a return to the House of Commons, an
account of the quantities and value of artieles of foreign
production shipped from the United Kingdom to the United
States of America in British vessels in 1851. About 120
articles are enumerated in the return, giving, in some in-
stances, the quantity and in others the value of the com-
modities. Of opium 7,r,751b. were sent in British vessels to
America. The value of wool:en manufactures sent in the
year was 9,0931.
The Lord-Lieutenant has been pleased to approve
of Lord Garvagh being appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for
the county of Londonderry, in the room of Lesley Alexander,
Esq., deceased.