The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-29 00:00:00

THE SALE AT ATHENS.

The Hellenic government encourages whatever may
- tend to the improvement of the kingdom, either by intro-
duction of capital, or of the knowledge and arts of Western
Europe.
The laws and ordinances which have been promulgated
have this especial tendency, and amongst others, care has
been taken to establish registration of all documents re-
lating to land, so as to render the titles to it perfectly se.
cure and free from dispute and litigation.
Greece is destined by her geographical position, to ex-
ercise a great influence over the commerce of Europe,
although, at present, her share of importance is but very
secondary in that respect.
Limited by Asia, Central Europe, and Africa, almost
surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, peopled with sai-
lors, and favoured with a beautiful. climate, this country
would long since have become rich by its agricultural in-
dustry and commerce, had she not been laid waste and
depopulated by the unintelligent domination of the Turks.
Greece, formerly so flourishing, has but lately been re-
leased from bondage ; since her liberation, she has been
able only to prepare herself for a new existence. Thus
circumstanced, she has already performed much, by merely
falling into habits of order and industry, under the school-
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There is ample field to enlarge on the merits of this
classical and highly interesting country, the reminiscences
associated with which are so peculiarly calculated to inspire
the scholar, the man of genius and taste, that it may be
superfluous to expatiate further in illustration of the sub-
ject, as every gentleman, doubtless, will be so well versed
in ancient lore, and in Grecian history in particular, as to
render unnecessary any further attempt to elucidate these
matters.

The English and French Governments are now
united in their endeavour to elevate Greece into a high
position with kingdoms of importance, and by the aid of
the national Banks which are now in active progress—
will give a consequence—a
tone and character to
Athens, which in its ambitious mood it scarcely dared
to contemplate.

of coining silver into ounces, or crown pieces, would not
be
fine lad, about
be great, and large quantities could be rapidly struck
off ; the present silver coins continuing to pass as they
and
He
place.
er Otwh nae s Thursday,cAoa giscarcelytl
en t leinrms about:ttilh 1v water
the 1 oneo
waso •elo e k , a
now do. The expenses of the new gold coins, gradually ten years of age, was drowned _ on the Surrey and west side
Blackfriars Bridge.. He got on some timber that is in
recoining the old, would be amply covered by the seig- of
the water, near the stairs, and undressed himself to bathe.
when be was seen to sink,
niorage, or brassage, to be charged thereon.
The seigniorage, or brassage, to be taken by the
barges near gavecarntihmemberdild•ate
REENLAND WHALE FliNEßY.—Letters were Mint, or, perhaps more properly, the price to be paid
received in the city on Saturday from the Pentland Frith, by the Mint for standard gold, should be calculated uy pereived the occurrence, and baring taken off his coat,ge
dated July 23, bringing the first accounts of the whale the officers at the Mint, regulated by Order in Council, boots, and hat, plunged into the wate-r, and swam to the
fishery at Greenland this season. The following are ex- and published monthly or quarterly in the Gazelle' spot where the child disappeared. He soon discovered
tracts :_..4, The Whale ship Traveller, Captain Simpson, The price once properly adjusted, it might be many after repeated diving, that the boy was carried by the cur-
belonging to Peterhead, passed through the Pentland years before it would be necessary again to vary it. rent under some coal-barges, and having told the coal-
Frith this (Tuesday) morning for Peterhead, with four By the proposed regulations, as well public as pri- whippers so, they much to their praise, instantly unmoored
fish. The Traveller left Greenland on the 14th instant, vats creditors • . .•-, an tried all their to recover the
d- ' in power and Captain Simpson reports the following vessels, viz.— will be paid in money of greater intrinsic the barges
value than they would have been entitled to under the body. Finding all their efforts useless, drags were sent
Joseph Green, three fish; Gleaner, two; Resolution,
old Mint laws. From the 43d Elizabeth (1600), to for and the body was found in about 20 minutes. It is
two; Eclipse, eight; Superior, three; Union, one : Per-
severance, Ranger, and Mary, clean; Commerce, four
e t the 56th George 3d (1816), the Mint price of stan-
scarcely necessary to add that life was extinct.
fish: all these ships belong to the port of Peterhead. dard silver was ss. 2d. the ounce, , and, except for a ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LIVER.
Captain Simpson reports the Monarch of Montrose, to short period, the silver money so coined, of full weight, pool. AND MANCHESTER RA ILWA Y. —A labourer employed
have had four fish when be loft Greenland, and that all the was a legal tender to any amount. 20 shillings of such on the railway, named John Warburton, was killed near
the Chat Moss Tavern, on Tuesday night. lt apeepnevarts
vessels were preparing to make sail homewards. The Tra- silver money then contained 1,718 grains of fine silver.
IJ
yeller landed twelve of her crew at Huila, who afterwards By the system of coinage here recommended, `)0 shil- that_ the deceased, witht woothieiradmen who hadtheir b
labour,
work the line, after they finished
proceeded to Stromness in one of the fishing smacks."
f h h mselves.
lings will contain 4 ounces of standard silver 11-12ths
At Queen-square police-office, on Thursday, fine, or 1,750 grains of fine silver, being 42 grains of went to the Chat Moss Tavern to rc res t e
James Morris, a sweep, about twelve years of age, was fine silver, or nearly 2:i per cent more valuable than hours after the regular trains had passed that spot. As
They stopped there till eleven o'clock at night, some
charged with stealing that compound of lettuce-leaf and the old silver standard. The 20 shilling gold coins will is customary with the railway workmen, they were
saltpetre, denominated a " penny Cuba" cigar. He said contain 3 grains less of fine gold than the old Idprovided with a lorry, or small waggon, upon which :
he did it for a lark; and Mr. Gregorie, the magistrate, standard, but this will be go P
counterbalanced by the in- they started, intending to ~ leg" themselves ho
being inclined to believe this, discharged him, but remarked,
that if persons in his situation of life would smoke cigars, crewed_ ,
be coins.
unaccompanied by any train,'
The following may briefly stated as some of the engine from Birmingham,line ,
along the line. They had scarcely started when home
the least they could do would be to pay for them.
was seen advancing on.the same . towards them at a advantages of this plan •
At Mr. Cogan s, Hill Farm, Kingston, near a '4' • .---
A greater uniformity 'in •
y our coins and with the coins
• rapid rate. The meeting was quite unexpected to both
Taunton, a cat is now fostering a litter of five ferrets. • parties; and, although the engineers upon the engine did
of other countries.
She had very recently but one kitten, which is black, and
A fixed par of exchange instead of a fluctuating p all in their power to prevent it, a dreadful concussion was
notwithstanding the young ferrets are of the ordinary light
ar
the result. Two of the men on the lorry had time to
colour, she suckles them, and appears quite as attentive to ias is now the case. The par with France would be jump off, but the deceased remain«l. The lorry was I
them as though they were her own offspring.—Bath 1 25frs. 32cts. the pound sterling • knocked in pieces, and the deceased dreadfully mutilated.
Chronicle. I By opening the Mint to the public for the coinage He was taken up quite dead.—Liverpool Albion.

Our readers have probably seen in the public prints
,he announcement (and for the first time in England)
of a splendid chateau and demesne approaching
.the
classic City of Athens (vide Mr. Robins' advertise-
ment repeated in our Journal to-day). In addition to
this very seductive composition, which, in our humble
judgment, is his cliff crerurre, he has appended to
the descriptive particulars of stile a very enlarged and
highly interesting satement of facts, with a view to
in-
cline
the great capitalists to improve their fortunes in
Greece. The following is a brief outline :
At a time when British industry, British capital, and
British enterprise are penetrating the remotest parts of
the globe in search of employment—while we are form-
ing associations for the purchase of lands in tke frozen
regions of Canada and the more distant countOos of
Australia and New Zealand, separated by seas of long
and difficult navigation—lands, when acquired, preseCt•
ing to the settler or proprietor obstacles of the'
severest nature to their improvement and cultivation
and to the consequent return of capital and outlay,
with only a reasonable hope of increase on interest,
we seem, most unaccountably, to have overlooked A
country much nearer at hand, and rendered, by the late-
improvements in steam navigation, a 3 it were, almost at
our doors—a country possessing the finest climate, the
most fertile soil, the most varied productions, the most
commodious harbours, inhabited (although as yet but
thinly) by an ingenious, docile, and laborious people, ea-
joying a government which is mild and beneficent, and
affords ample protection to its subj,cts, with the free en-
joyment of their different religions. This country is
Greece
From the establishment of the royal government itt
1833, a short period of six years, the renovation of this
interesting portion of the globe may be dated. In that
time its amelioration has advanced with a rapidity almost
incredible. The population of Athens alone, which, at
the period of the evacuation of the Turks, was only about
2.000 souls, is now upwards of 30,000 1 The Pirmus (the
sea-port of Athens), only distant about four miles, had,
at the epoch alluded to, only a wooden shed, with two or
three individuals at the place, has now more than 10,000 1
inhabitants, and become a splendid town. Many more, as
well as villages, arc increasing in proportion. The utmost
activity prevails. Napoli di Romania, Argos, Tripolitza,
Patras, Calcbis, &c., are rising from their ruins.
Emigrations of settlers, of great respectability, and same
of large fortunes, have lately taken place.
The soil of Greece produces every thing which can con-
tribute to the wants, the comforts, and even the luxuries of
man—corn, wine, oil, silk, cotton, honey, dying stuffs, figs,
raisins, currants, and other fruits ; flax, hemp, drugs for me-
dicine, rice, tobacco, and almost all the productions of tro-
picalclimates, such as oranges, lemons, and citrons, may be
reckoned its staple commodities. Experience has proved
that the climate of Greece is propitious to the culture of
beet root; and such is the fertility of the soil, that it has
yielded in one year three crops of beet root, much larger,
much more abundant, and far more rich in saccharine
matter than those which are cultivated in France, or in
other parts of Europe; therefore a sugar manufactory may
be most advantageously established there. Stone, marble,
timber, lime, and all kinds of building materials are in the
greatest plenty in almost every part, or can readily be con-
veyed by sea from the places where they are abundant, to
those parts where they may be deficient. Coal abounds in
the Island of Negropont near the surface, and is worked
with facility ; there is also a variety of other minerals
found.
Such are the natural advantages of Greece. In this
favoured clime the natives of Great Britain enjoy an esti.
mation beyond those of any other country in the minds of
the Greeks : our free institutions, and the part we have
taken in their Hellenic, long, and arduous struggle for
independence, have secured their respect and gratitude,
and the name of an Englishman is a passport amongst
them.