The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-10 00:00:00

SUN,

LONDON, SATURDAY

20.5
83

and above the important service which he rendered
her by his exalted intelligence, he devoted and sacri-
ficed his stores of wealth to the cause of Grecian
freedom with a rare and unstinted disinterestedness.
When the torch of national insurrection was first
kindled, CONDOURIOTTI armed and fitted out the nu-
merous merchant vessels of which he was the owner,
and with the assistance of his compatriots equipped
a fleet which long held in check all the naval forces
that the Turks could bring against them, and it may
be said of him, without hyperbole, that of his gold
he forged the arms that broke the fetters of the
Hellenic people. Frequently during that memorable
war of independence the national interests
were rescued from the extremest peril by his
courage and unconquerable resolution. In his own
country, which to a vast extent regulated the desti-
nies of Greece, CONDOURIOTTI enjoyed an absolute
sway, founded on the estimation entertained of his
character and position, and he had thus the opportu-
nity for the display of an elevated patriotism, which
secured him the eternal gratitude of his countrymen,
and transmits his name with honour, as a model of
public and private virtue. Ever since the conclusion
of the momentous war, CONDOURIOTTI lived in the
enjoyment of private life at Hydra, nor could the
honour of a seat in the Council of State and in the
Senate draw him from his domestic re-
tirement. He expired full of years and
honour, in the midst of his numerous
family, to whom he never ceased to recommend the
observance of that loyal affection to their country of
which he had set so sublime an example. A general
mourning, which the Government has ordered in his
honour, testifies the grateful recollection in which his
services were entertained in the highest quarters, but
his memory belongs
to the Greek nation,
name will ever remain inscribed in unfading charac-
terspages o
on one of the fairest f the history of mo-
dern Greece. and his

What has become of u reform compa-
nies,l—evarious
Cab
amelioration in
from the establishment of some or all of which
we were led to expect no inconsiderable degree of
a pecuniary view as touching the
vehicular conveyances of the metropolis ? Have they
died out, making
no sign, fading like an unsubstan-
tial pageant, and leaving no trace like the baseless
fabric of a vision ? At all events, we have beard or
seen nothing of them for a considerable period, and
the Jeshu runs of the stand wax fat and kick accor-
dingly. Extortion flourishes on the
high ways, and
the pockets of the nervous pay tribute continually to
the spoiler. The evil would appear to have attained
a pitch of rampancy that laughs to scorn the puny
efforts of reformers, else we should have seen ere this
some palpable reformation brought into
play. People
go on every day, grumbling, and complaining, and
paying overcharges,
but those who vaunted that they
would be the first to take up the broom that was
to cleanse the Augean stable of Cabdom, are
found to be smitten with a sudden
spirit of evapora-
tion, and leave us more than ever at the mercy of the
exulting foe.

cause
We have uplifted our voice more than once already
against the grievance, but now almost give up the
in
adequate avenger. As for those who have thus
despair of beholding the triumph of any
blighted our anticipations, and trifled with the feel-
ings of their afflicted fellow-subjects, we wish them
no worse than a succession of jaunts in cabs, the
fares being
previously unstipulated, with sturdy
charioteers, who thrive upon the maxim "might
makes right," and who are in the full use and enjoy-
ment of tongues eminently qualified to ventilate the
flowers
monstrant victims are wont to be accosted.
of that refreshing vocabulary in which re•

THE FRENCH REFUBLIC.
We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
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placefo r the reneEn-
s_lfofotnhitecußrecpounbtlaicin,
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betweenwa renewal
the 4h
tettJuly Municipal
and t
he Councils26th
September shall take
next exclusively ; another, fixing the elections for the
Councils General and the ouncils of Arrondissement,
for the 31st July and Ist August ; and the third, order-
ing that the nomination of the mayors and deputy
mayors in all the communes of the Republic shall be
effected immediately.
Marshal JEROME BONAPARTE, President of the
Senate, arrived on Thursday morning at Havre, and
took up his residence at the Hotel Frascati.
M. DE MORNY, ex-Minister of the Interior, left
Paris this week for London.
M. MArninu (de la Drome), one of the ex-repre-
sentatives expelled after the 2d December, but who
has lately obtained permission to return to France,
arrived at Romans, his usual place of residence, on
the Gth.
We read in the Moniteur—" The Sicle, in its
number of yesterday, appears to be astonished that a
certain number of political prisoners had undergone
the penalty of transportation to Guyana. We shall
confine ourselves to replying that the individuals,
designated by the Slide as political prisoners, belong
to an exceptional category. The great majority of
them have made themselves remarkable in secret so•
cieties by the most hostile and guilty
acts, and some
of them have even committed murder. They have
not, besides, been mixed up pell-mell with the con-
victs from the bagnes, as the Siecle would wish to
have it supposed. They have been kept apart in the
vessels which carried them out, and the Commis-
sioner-General at Guyana has orders to continue that
separation.
The Alvacien gives some particulars relative to the
approaching ceremony of the inauguration of the
Strasburg Railway. The PRESIDENT of the Repub-
lic will arrive at Strasburg on the morning of Sun-
day the 18tb, after having passed the night at Nancy.
The PnocE will remain two days at Strasburg,
taking up his residence for that period at the hotel of
the Preficture, and will not leave to return to Paris
until Tuesday morning.
The Patric says—
" Several French officers, principally belonging to
special branches of the service, have just obtained the
authorisation of the Minister of War to enter the Roman
army, which is now being organised."
A communication by electric telegraph has just
been established between the chateau of St. Cloud
and the hotels of the Ministers of the Interior and of
Police.

The Municipality of Paris has ascertained that it
costs about 4f. a square yard to keep the macadamised
streets in repair ; whilst the ordinary paving only
Costs 50c. Experiments have been made with dif-
ferent descriptions of bitumen in the carriage way of
certain streets, but the only one which has succeeded
is that which has been tried in the Rue de la Barillerie.
The Bourse was more firm, with not much business
doing. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. opened at
102 f. 90c., and closed at 103 f. for the end of the month;
the Three per Cents. closed at 72f. 20c.; Orleans Rail.
way Shares, 1,300 E; Rouen, 877 f. 50c.; Havre, 3421.
50e. ; Great Northern, 627 f. 50e.; Avignon, 451 f. 25c.;
Basle, 290 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 613 f. 75e.; Paris and
Lyons, 678 f. 75c.; Great Western of France, 572 f. 50c.;
the New Austrian Loan, 944.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 9.
Dutch Rhenish, s%—East Indian, 26'6—Great Indian
Peninsula, 6%-Luxembourg, 47/B—Namur and Liege, 6N—
dicanßsouanend,
Northern of France, 24743—Ditto, 201. 3 per Cent. Bonds
Blo6uilsolnpearianidaAn
dm
Lieynosnst alr;sl)4,-11,334ari—s Oanr
Sambre and Meuse, 634—West Flanders, 3h.
and Strasbourg, 245/87Rouen and, Havre, 13%
3(Bordeaux,fouea3s—Paris
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