The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-11 00:00:00

GREECE.

Athens journals to the 27th ult. have been received.
They contain no news of interest; but th© Trieste
Gazette has the following from Athens :
" attention cf the Government is et present en-
gaged on a very serious affair; it proposes to conclude
with the Patriarch of Constantinople a treaty which will
completely change tho relations of the Greek Church,
which had declared itself independent of Constantinople
since the establishment of a kingdom, and which had for
its chiaf a Syncidchosen by theliing. By the new treaty the
Greek Church will cease to be an independent member
of the dogma of Anatolia, and will return under the full,
and entire authority of tha Patriarch. The orthodox
Degliganni, who,
Russian party have leog looked for this result. 14 was
when Greek Chargé d'Affaires
at Constantinople, succeeded in concluding this treaty
with the support of the orthodox party. The Greek
Ministers are now about to present it to the Clasnabers.''

AIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.
GREAT WESTERN.
A:special meeting of the Great Western Railway Com-
pany was held at the Paddington Station on Wednesday
afternoon, in pursuance of the standing ' orders of the
House of Lords, in order to take into consideration an
Act to authorise traffic arrangements between the Great
Western, the Shrewsbury and Birmingham, the Shrews-
bury and Chester, the Shrewsbury and Hereford, Ross,
and Gloucester Railway Companies.
Mr. RUSSELL, the chairman of the company, presided,
and, in opening Ithe proceedings, said that when the
proprietors were called together a week since, the
directors were not aware that it would be necessary
under the Wharncliife standing order to submit this
Bill to them. The Standing Orders Committee of the'
House of Lords had, however, taken a different view of
the case, and the present meeting was held in defe-
rence to their decision. It would, of course, be ncc,3s-
sary to submit to a similar ordeal the Bills of the other
companies which were required to carry out this ar-
rangement. He did not think, however, that the Com-
mittee would insist upon the strict observance of the
standing order, for if they did he feared it would be
impossible to obtain a continuous line of communication
between London and Birmingham. At the meetings
of tho two Shrewsbury companies, which had been
held within the last week or ten days, it was clearly
shown that although the directors could command a
large majority of their proprietors, in fact equal
to three:fifths, in favour of their arrangements, they
could not obtain the assent of four-fifths, as required
by the standing orders of the House of Lords; al-
though that consent was merely required to agree-
ments which had been already sanctioned by the pro-
prietors. These results the directors broadly and dis-
tinctly ascribed to the number of shares which were
held in these companies on Isehalf of the London and
North-Western Railway Company, and upon these
grounds they had prayed that the standing order should be
dispensed with upon, the present occasion. That ques-
tion was now under investigation by a Committee of the
lieu;e of Lords, and it would therefore ba extremely,
ins proper for him tel advert to it any further than by
saying that he confidently believed that they would be
able to establish the allegations in that petition, and that
%heMey had full reliance upon the justice of the decision of
'louse of Lords upon every Ci9o that was fully and
fairly laid before them.
,A resolution approving the Bill was then unanimously
a.r,ed to, and the proceedings terminated.

A ..11aEWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM.
eere;all_. lai general meeting of the proprietors of this
the put/pow:LB held at Shrewsbury on Wednesday, for
IlB3eiellsioiunt:rld,ei elidinWto o rder)
during t hteh
ef o
presenti I ow i following
'° into Parliament during %he present
thence t, at, of approving or disapproving (in obe-
hParnardiliaiffmesnt
A HU
between the ore 1 to authorise Traffic Arrangements
minghwit the tharte Western, the Shrewsbury and Biz-
and Hereford, thewliby and Chester, the Shrewsbury
shire junction,
,and
Birk.enhead, Lancashire, and Che-
shire Railways 2, Wenn Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester.
The CHAIRMAN, heforl°a• R. H. Clive, 111. P., presided.
Bill, begged to allude-irte he called for the reading of the
had taken place at the rt°o:l important meeting which
day, and which he hoped el_u of Trade on the preceding
z tate of feeling amee " the harbinger of a better I
g the .
better arrangements with
thews e.ves, as well as I
Western Company. At th London and North-
alludiii it was arrangrA that meeting to which ho
phould be opened on the 20th oft.Stour Valley line
that thirty-five hours' notice al
ti!l_e present month,
Board of Trade for its nppr„ar.° be given to the
man) had to add that Mr. Glyn'
aZild he (the chair-
f the st '
have the appointment 0 mien. himself were to
'nut
harupton. He (the chairman) hoped
th
ter at Wolver-
a better and satisfactory state of thinas,this augured
well for the future. The chairman ,:g and spoke
why they bad again been called upon totas explained
Shrewsbury that day.
i The directors had
include the present Bill in the notice iastran assemble at
by
wh.cdhed to
meeting of Thursday last was convened 1 -t
; hut the
were told by their .P•arliatnentary agents that such
a course was unnecessary, but it was subsequent]
discovered that the appioval of the shareholders
and!
Lord Wharneliffe's order was essential, and that was
the reason they wore called togetb`3r that day. The
chairman observed that the title and preamble of the
Bill gave all necessary information as to its object,
and be was Consequently not required to enter into